East Asian Civilizations Fall 2016

HIST/AAAS 106

SECOND EXAMINATION REVIEW QUESTIONS

PART I.

You will be asked to identify and comment upon the significance of 6 out of 8 names and terms, drawn from the following list. (30 points; 5 points each)

Tributary System jinshi Matteo Ricci

Tokugawa Ieyasu Imjin War King Sejong

Bakuhan System Sankin kotai Cohong

Treaty of Nanjing Lin Zexu Extraterritoriality

Fukuzawa Yukichi Meiji Restoration Sonno joi

Self-Strengthening Movement Zongli Yamen Hong Xiuquan

King Kojong Tonghak

PART II.

The essay section of the examination will consist of three of the following questions, of which you will be asked to answer two (20 minutes each). Your answers should be well written and well organized, address the question or questions as completely as possible, and display your knowledge of the material to its fullest.

Compare and contrast the samurai of Tokugawa Japan, the yangban class of Choson Korea, and the scholar-officials of Ming-Qing China? Please consider their political functions and the ways in which they achieved and maintained their positions as ruling elites. If you wish, you can confine your comparison to two of the three. One hint: what was the role, or non-role, played by examinations in the three societies?

Describe and compare the histories of the Jesuits in 16^th-17^th century Japan and in 17^th-18^th century China.

Describe how relations with Europeans were structured in Deshima in Tokugawa Japan and Guangzhou (Canton) in eighteenth and early nineteenth century China. What were the most important differences between them?

Compare the “openings” of China and Japan by Western powers in the nineteenth century, describing both similarities and differences. If you wish, you may compare the openings of Japan and Korea instead of China and Japan. What accounts for the differences between the two experiences that you are comparing?

Compare the Meiji Restoration reforms of the 1870s-1890s with the Self-Strengthening Movement during the same period. To what extent can the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-5 be taken as a kind of referendum for the two reform programs?

Note: The 2^nd exam will be held in class on Monday, November 7.

A word of advice about the exam. It is essential that you answer two essay questions and six of the names and terms identifications. Even a completely incorrect answer with get you some minimal points, whereas if you leave an answer out entirely (for example, by only doing five identifications), you will get a 0 for the missing answer. For your information, the essays will count for 35 points each, and the identifications for 5 points each.

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Terms Identifications

Tributary System

The tributary system in China was basically a system that aimed at creating a network of trade relations and other foreign relations between China and its neighbors and tributaries. The tributary system in China played a major role in shaping trade activities as well as the East Asian Affairs.

Treaty of Nanjing

The treaty of Nanjing was a treaty of peace that was signed between the Qing Dynasty of China and the United Kingdom in 1842 with the aim of ending the first Opium War that had intensified between the two rivals. Although….

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