• Two Golden Ages of China

• The Mongol and Ming

Empires

• Korea and Its Traditions

• The Emergence of Japan

• Japan’s Feudal Age

INTRODUCTION

Introduction: After 400 years of fragmentation, a unitedChina expanded and prospered under the Sui, Tang andSong Dynasties. During the 1200s and 1300s, the Mongols,conquered, destroyed and then united much of Asia. Afterthis brief conquest and subsequent collapse of the MongolEmpire, the Ming dynasty restored Chinese culture. WhileKorea and Japan were heavily influenced by Chinesecivilization, each maintained its own identity, though todiffering degrees.

Connecting Previous KnowledgeWhat significant facts do we remember from our previous lessons involving China and East Asia?

(Middle Kingdom)

– most isolated ancient civ

• Around and RVs

/ dynastic cycle

– (Xia), Shang, Zhou, Qin and Han

– (Qin Shi Huangdi) – –

– Civil Service Examination System / competent bureaucracy

& Pastoral Nomads

: paper, printing press, compass, machines, gunpowder, suspension bridges, acupuncture, etc…

A. B. C.•Which philosophers’

teachings are

represented in

A)

B)

C)

COMPARING MAPS

COMPARING MAPS

COMPARING MAPS

Using the same

map, we can see

that the Japanese

were influenced

by China, just like

Vietnam, Korea

and Central Asia.

However, Japan

was never actually

conquered by the

Chinese. Make a

prediction as to

why.

RELIGIOUS DIFFUSION / SYNCRETISM• What Indian religion entered China after the fall of the Han? Why would this religion

begin challenging the previous ideology of Confucianism?

WHAT IS A GOLDEN AGE?• What is a civilization’s “Golden Age?”

• How does Europe compare to China (Sui, Tang and Song

Dynasties) between the years of 600 to 1200 CE?

THE GRAND CANAL AND CHAMPA RICE• Connected Huange He and Yangtze rivers

• Created easier trade / producing for a distant market

• Drought-resistant strain of rice introduced from Vietnam

THE GRAND CANAL

CHINESE TRIBUTE SYSTEM• Describe the Chinese Tribute System: who gets what? Who has the “power?”

SOCIETY in Tang & Song DynastyKey Concepts:

– Aristocrats + “Graduates”

– form

• perform functions and

duties of central

government

– Despised in China and Japan

• Comp to Islam!

– Much less…but still there

C

H

I

N

E

S

E

F

O

O

T

B

I

N

D

I

N

G

An obvious

example of

patriarchy

• Veiling from

Mesopotamia

EX AMPLES OF THE GOLDEN AGE OF ARTS IN TANG AND SONG CHINA

• Landscape paintings from the Daoist traditions

• Statuary and pagodas

• Porcelain…“fine china”

• Philosophy, religion and history works in literature

• Poetry – the shortness of life and the immensity of the universe