1.NE Asia: Ancient-Pre-modern
China
Korea
Japan
Spr-Fall/Warring States
(771BC-221BC)
Confucianism/Daoism
Qin-Han (221BC-220)
Buddhism from India (1st C)
Animism/Shamanism
Shinto
Kogryo, Paekche, Silla
Silla (356-935)
Buddhism from China (4th C)
Exam (788-1910) Yanban only
Yamato (250-710)
Sui-Tang (581-917)
Buddhist Monk Jian Zhen 鑑真
(683-763) to Japan
Imperial Exam (598-1905)
Confucianism (5th C)
Buddhism from Paekche (538)
Nara-Heian (710-1192)
Monk En-nin 円人(794-864) to
Tang China
Koryo (932-1392)
Song (960-1279)
Zhu Xi & Neo Confucianism
Yuan (1260-1368) Mongol
Dynasty
Ming (1368-1644)
Zheng He’s voyages (14-15th C)
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Mongol Invasion (13 C)
Neo-Confucianism (13th C)
Choson (1392-1910) Yi
Dynasty
Hangul (1443)
Hideyoshi’s Invasion:
Imjin War (1592-98)
Qing (1636-1912) Manchu
Dynasty
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Influence of Chinese Culture in
Red
Maritime Events in Blue
Creating a sense of integrity as
a region based on Chinese
civilization
Kamakura-Muromachi (11921573)
Mongol Invasion (13th C)
Japanese Pirates (13-16th C)
Warring States (1477-1573)
Edo (1603-1868) Tokugawa
Shogunate
Neo-Confucianism
--------------------------------------Regional differences:
Egalitarian vs hereditary (exam
system, Yanban, samurai)
Confucianism, Shamanism,
Buddhism/Shinto
2. NE Asia: Age of Imperialism
China
Opium War (1839-42)
Wanghia Treaty (1844)
Self-strengthening movement
(1861-1895)
Sino-French War (1884-85)
Boxer Rebellion (1900)
Open Door policy (1900)
Korea
Treaty of Amity and Commerce
(1871)
Japan’s gunboat diplomacy
(1878)
Sino-Japanese War over Korea
(1894-95)
Russian-German-French
Intervention (1898)
Russo-Japanese War over
Korea and Manchuria (1904-05)
Revolution (1911)
May 4th Movement (1919)
CCP (1923)
Japanese Colonialism (19101945)
March 1st Movement (1919)
Perry’s gunboat diplomacy
(1853)
Meiji Restoration (1868)
Anglo-Japanese alliance (1902)
Portsmouth Treaty (1905)
Taft-Katsura Agreement (1905)
Root-Takahira Agreement
(1908)
Washington Naval Conference
(1921-22)
Bank Crisis and Great
Depression (1926-29)
Manchurian Incident (1931)
Japanese invasion of Manchuria
(1931)
Sino-Japanese War (1937-45)
--------------------------------------U.S. Involved Events in Red
Japan
New colonial repression (‘40s)
Liberation (1945)
--------------------------------------Sense of region through
Western Impact; especially U.S.
involvement
Rape of Naking (1937)
War with US/UK (1941-45)
--------------------------------------Different reactions to Western
Impact: rejection through wars;
borrowing and learning to be
like one; between tradition
(China) and modernization
(Japan or the West, and the
West leaves)
3. Post World War II Era
China
Korea
Japan
Civil War (1945-1949)
PRC and ROC
DPRK and ROK
Korean War (1950)
Armistice (1953)
Student Revolution (1960)
Park Chung-hee ‘s coup (1961)
US Occupation (1945-52)
-Article 9 of the Constitution
(Pacifism)
Economic growth w/o military
spending
Olympics (1964)
Taiwan Strait Crises (1954, ‘58)
Great Leap “Forward” (195860)
Border War with India (1962)
Cultural Revolution (1966-78)
Border War with USSR (1969)
Nixon’s visit (1972)
Deng’s Econ Policy (1978-92)
War with Vietnam (1979)
PRC-US normalization (1979)
Tiananmen Sq. Massacre (1989)
Entry into WTO (2001)
Beijing Olympics (2008)
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Normalization of relations with
Japan (1965)
Economic growth under
Authoritarian rule
Assassination of Park (1979)
Kwangju Massacre (1980)
Olympics (1988)
Kim Yong-sam, civilian
President (1993)
Asian Economic Crisis (1997)
Kim Dae-jung’s visit to
Pyongyang (2000)
--------------------------------------Big Question: Can Northeast
Asia create a regional
community similar to EU?
Economic integration? Political
integration?
What’s the U.S. role in
northeast Asia?
Normalization of relations with
PRC (1972)
Oil Crises (1973,’78)
“Bubble Economy” (1986-91)
Kobe Earthquake/Dooms Day
Cult’s sarin gas Attack (1995)
“Lost decades” of economic
recessions
World Cup Soccer Korea/Japan
(2002)
Earthquake/Tsunami disaster
(2011)
--------------------------------------Problem #1: reconciliation of
historical (WW2) issues
between Korea/Japan;
China/Japan; North/South
Korea
Problem #2: different political
systems (is the Cold War really
over in East Asia?)
Problem #3: different economic
development level—quickly
improving