CHAPTER 17: Asia in Transition

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World History
CHAPTER 17
Asia in Transition
Section 1: The Ming and Qing Dynasties
Section 2: China and Europeans
Section 3: The Tokugawa Shoguns in Japan
World History
Section 1:
The Ming and Qing Dynasties
Objectives:
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 Explain why the Chinese showed little interest
in overseas trade during the Ming dynasty.
 Describe how the Qing dynasty came to rule
China.
 Discuss changes that occurred in the Chinese
economy under Qing rule.
 Analyze reasons for the decline of the Qing
dynasty.
World History
Section 1:
The Ming and Qing Dynasties
Ming Foreign Policy
 Attitudes toward trade –
 wanted to be selfsufficient;
 refused to rely on foreign
trade
 The northern frontier –
 strengthened Great Wall
of China
 chose frontier defense
over trade and sea travel
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World History
Section 1:
The Ming and Qing Dynasties
Founding the Qing Dynasty
 Nurhachi unified
tribes in Manchu
 Adopted Chinese
culture
 Emperor Hsuan Yeh
 Kept Manchu people
separate and distinct
from Chinese
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World History
Section 1:
The Ming and Qing Dynasties
The Queue
 The Qing rulers had
all men keep their
hair in a queue or
tail.
 This was Manchurian
Style
 Showed obedience to
the Manchurians, by
the Chinese
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World History
Section 1:
The Ming and Qing Dynasties
Economy, Culture, and Society
 Economy
 trade and
manufacturing
specialization grew
 Popular culture and
society
 novels and plays in
everyday language
 family was center of
society
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World History
Section 1:
The Ming and Qing Dynasties
Decline of the Qing Dynasty
 Population growth
 Government inefficiency and increases in
taxes
 White Lotus Rebellion
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World History
Section 2:
China and Europeans
Objectives:
 Characterize early contact between
Portugal and China.
 Explain why China and Great Britain
went to war in the mid-1800s.
 Describe how internal rebellions
contributed to the decline of the Qing
dynasty.
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World History
Section 2:
China and Europeans
The Portuguese
 Trade ties with China
 Jesuit missionaries helped emperors
revise calendar, gained great power with
imperial court
 Qing rulers became suspicious, fearful of
Jesuits’ intentions
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World History
Section 2:
China and Europeans
The British
 Free trade ideas
 Great Britain abolished British East India
Company’s monopoly on trade with China
 The opium trade
 Chinese demand for cotton didn’t match
British demand for tea
 British India exported opium to China, which
caused trade imbalance
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World History
Section 2:
China and Europeans
The British
 The Opium War
 Chinese tried to forcibly stop opium trade
 Hong Kong went to British rule
 More concessions
 unequal treaties with France and United
States
 foreign embassies in Beijing
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World History
Section 2:
China and Europeans
Rebellions
 Taiping Rebellion
 caused terrible destruction
 Christian and Muslim teachings
motivated more revolts
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