The document discusses East Asian history and culture from the Ming to Qing dynasties in China and the Tokugawa period in Japan. It covers major political developments like the reigns of Chinese emperors Kangxi and Qianlong who led periods of greatness and stability. It also examines social changes like population growth, the rise of industry and commerce, and daily life in families and villages. Culturally, it highlights the development of the Chinese novel and arts like architecture, lacquerware, and enamelwork. In Japan, it summarizes the unification under three leaders, relations with the West including Christianity, the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate and "Great Peace",

1. The East Asian World
• From Ming to Qing
-First contacts with the West
-Portuguese arrive in 1514
-Christian missionaries in China
• Greatness of the Qing
-Reign of Kangxi (1661-1772)
-Reign of Qianlong (1736-1795)
-Qing politics
-Dyarchy: shared administrative powers
between the Chinese and Manchus

2. Changing China
• The population explosion
-role of climatic change and nomads
-70 million in 1390; 300 million in 1800
• Seeds of industrialization
-growth of manufacturing and production
-long era of peace brings commerce networks;
interstate and international trade
• Daily life in Qing China
-the family: labor intensive society, cultivation of rice
-Emperor Kangxi Sacred Edict:
-filial piety and loyalty to family
-role of women: legal status to hold property?

3. Chinese Cultural Developments
• Rise of the Chinese novel
-major departure in the form of literature
-popular in middle class urban areas
-The Golden Lotus: an exposé of the decadent
aspects of late Ming society
• Art of the Ming and Qing
-technical perfection and breathtaking quantity
-Architecture: Imperial City in Beijing
-decorative arts: carved lacquerware/enamelwork

4. Imperial City in Beijing

5. Tokugawa Japan
• The Three Great Unifiers
-what differences can we find in them?
• Opening to the West
-expulsion of the Christians
-role of Jesuits in Japan?
• The Tokugawa “Great Peace”
-Daimyo & Samurai
-Seeds of Capitalism
-land problems in the late Tokugawa period
• The Tokugawa village and culture
-the role of women: comparisons to Qing China?
-literature of the new middle class

6. Festival in the Pleasure District of
Kyoto

7. The Tokaido Road

8. 53 stations of the Tokaido Road