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3.2: China Limits
European Contact
Yuan to Ming
• Yuan – What do you remember??
• Hongwu – 1st Ming emporer
– Led rebels against Mongol rule
• Mandate of Heaven
Tribute System
• Vassal states and other nations paid
– Why??
• Respect, acknowledge submission to
China
• Exclusive trading rights
Hongwu – Policy/Leadership
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Erase past connected to Yuan
Revitalize agriculture
Return to Confucian ideals
Merit-based civil service exam
• Death power struggle  son (Yonglo)
takes over
Yonglo – Policy/Leadership
• Forbidden City
• Continued eradication of anything
Mongol
• Sponsored voyages
– Zheng He
– Gifts given, tributes in return
“Isolation”
• Official policy vs. reality
• Christian missionaries
– Matteo Ricci
• Contributions to China
• Gains in return
Qing Dynasty
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Manchu
Invaded, conquered Ming
Upheld Chinese tradititions
Strengthen policy of isolation
– Kowtow – Dutch vs. British
“There is nothing we lack,
as your principal envoy and
others have themselves
observed. We have never
set much store on strange
or ingenious objects, nor do
we need any more of your
country’s manufactures.”
Qing Dynasty
• Updated agriculture
• Population boom
– Implications for females**