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Imperial China vs. Feudal Japan

Imperial China vs. Feudal Japan. Compare/Contrast. Political. Ming: centralized bureaucracy; revived the civil service exam Qing: foreign rulers; continued civil service system Confucian ideas present throughout both dynasties. Selective borrowing DID NOT include the civil service system

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Imperial China vs. Feudal Japan

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  1. Imperial China vs. Feudal Japan Compare/Contrast

  2. Political • Ming: centralized bureaucracy; revived the civil service exam • Qing: foreign rulers; continued civil service system • Confucian ideas present throughout both dynasties • Selective borrowing DID NOT include the civil service system • Hostage system • Feudal political system set up under the shoguns

  3. Religious • Neo-Confucianism – we start to see the veneration of Confucius as a godlike figure • Zen Buddhism • Reinforced the Bushido values of mental discipline and self discipline • Christianity threatens shogun rule/feudal system

  4. Intellectual • European influences enter Chinese thinking • contradict Confucian ideals • Communism begins to enter Chinese thinking in late 1800s • Qing - “the self strengthening movement” • Feared western expansion throughout feudal era – became the reason for the Meiji Restoration at the end of the Tokugawa shogunate

  5. Cultural • Renovations of Great Wall & Grand Canal • Imperial Palace • Porcelain ceramics • Ming most famous • Qing is imitative • Literature – social fiction • Beijing Opera • Literature • Heian period novels • Selective borrowing of art & architecture from China • Haiku pottery • No and Kabuki theater

  6. Economic • Zheng He voyages of exploration • Portuguese traders • Peasant unrest due to high taxes, poor crop yield due to harsh climate, & disease led to downfall of the Ming • Qing lowered taxes to appease people & expanded trade along the Silk Road • Trade with Japan and Europe • Merchants at the bottom of the social hierarchy, but they become rich during the Tokugawa shogunate due to lack of internal struggles

  7. Social • Confucian social norms • Ming saw outsiders as barbarians • Chinese were discriminated against by the Manchu during the Qing • Women were kept inferior through social practices (binding of feet) • Elaborate court life helped develop the feudal system • Feudal social system – rigid class system • Bushido defined samurai way of life • Eta were discriminated against

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