Creating ChinaX

Creating ChinaX

Feb 20 2013

The Northern BorderSteppe vs. sownForest vs. steppeThe Northern states and peoples

western steppe central steppe eastern steppeMerkits "Mongols"

Naimans KereitsTatars

Central Asia Northwestern China North China and ManchuriaUighurs Tanguts (Xia/Hsia Dynasty) Jurchens (Jin/Chin Dynasty)

Southern ChinaSouthern Song/Sung Dynasty

Mongol Empire

• The Saga of Temüjin, Chinggis Khan, 1167-1227

• The Empire

The World Empire of the Mongols

Mongol Empire as of 1259

Khubilai (r. 1260-1294)

Social Policy and Social Practice in Ming and Qing

• Ming dynasty (1368-1644), capital at Nanjing, moved to Beijing in 1421

• 1. Views of the early Ming dynasty:• 2. the Ming founding in historical perspective• 3. What made the Ming founding unique:

social policy

Social Policy and Social Practice in

Ming and Qing

Chinese and European trading routes in 15th century

Zheng He’s (1371-1435 AD) 7 major expeditions between 1405 AD and 1430 AD. A fleet might have as many as 28,000 people on 300 ships. The largest of the ships had a length of 440 Chinese feet and a width of 180 (dwarfing Columbus' Santa Maria (75 ft x 25 ft) more than 6-fold), it took 1000 passengers and crew.

Silver and Social Change in Late Ming (1550-1644)

• I Foreign Silver and New Wealth: Ming in the Emerging World Economy

• New Wealth and Social Change • Social Change and Cultural Reassessment

Social Change and Cultural Reassessment

• Literature• Literary theory and literature of entertainment• Philosophy and Ethics• The spread of Wang Yang-ming's ideas about sagehood• Ethics for everyone: the "Ledgers of Merit and Demerit"• Education• Religion• The "Three Teachings are One" Movement• Buddhist lay societies• Jesuits • Charity• A case of changing attitudes: women as poets and as moral exemplars•

Achievements and Limits of Manchu Rule (=Qing foreign relations on two fronts)

• Manchu Origins• Conquering• Ruling • Presiding

The Scholars

• A novel from 1750• About Chinese novels