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Encounters in East Asia

European Trade With China(1400):

  • Begins with the Chinese Economy
  • The Chinese rulers welcomed the chance to learn the chinese arts.
  • European scholars made an impression on China.

Japan:

  • Welcomed people from the west unlike china
  • In 1543 Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch & English

people reached Japan

  • They arrived in Japan when it was struggling for power
  • They adapted the western weponry which helped them

gain power and restore order.

  • Some of the Japanese didnt like the foreiners and saw them as

threats

  • The Tokugawa persecuted the christians by killing them off
  • After that they blocked all trade routes except 2 Dutch ships a year

to hear about world events

  • They remained this way (in isolation) for more then 200 years!

What happened in the Isolation:

  • internal trade
  • art
  • literature
  • cities grew (in size & importance)
  • gained wealth & status

Matteo Ricci:

  • Studied Chinese
  • Impressed the Chinese rulers with his knowledge

of European science

  • 30 years of being in China he translated 5 European books

into Chinese

  • Died in 1610
  • Much of Europes knowledge came from Matteo's writtings

Kangxi: (1661-1722)

  • He was a Leader
  • He was an administrator/ military leader
  • Extended Chinese power into central Asia
  • Promoted Chinese culture
  • He had the longest throne (61 years)

Qianlong: (1736-1796)

  • Expanded China's borders to

rule the largest area in the nations history

  • Retired after 60 years because he didnt

want to rule longer then his father.

  • This period was called: Kang Qian Sheng Shi.

Crops :

  • New crops from the Americans had been introduced to China(potatoes nd corn)
  • They boosted farm output
  • The result of this was population boom that had rose from 140 million in 1740 to over 300 million in the 1800's
  • Silk and cotton industries expanded
  • As the internal trade grew so did the demand for chinese goods all over the world!

Government:

  • They adopted the confucian system of government
  • For each government position there was 2 people,one Manchu and one Chinese
  • This period was called the T-peiod
  • this was a period o 100% Japanism, extreme conservatism in social policy

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