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Creating ChinaX

Creating ChinaX. Feb 20 2013. The Northern Border Steppe vs. sown Forest vs. steppe The Northern states and peoples. western steppe central steppe eastern steppe Merkits "Mongols" Naimans Kereits Tatars . Central Asia Northwestern China North China and Manchuria

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Creating ChinaX

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  1. Creating ChinaX Feb 20 2013

  2. The Northern Border Steppe vs. sown Forest vs. steppe The Northern states and peoples western steppecentral steppeeastern steppe Merkits "Mongols" NaimansKereits Tatars Central AsiaNorthwestern ChinaNorth China and Manchuria Uighurs Tanguts(Xia/Hsia Dynasty) Jurchens (Jin/Chin Dynasty) Southern China Southern Song/Sung Dynasty

  3. Mongol Empire • The Saga of Temüjin, Chinggis Khan, 1167-1227 • The Empire

  4. The World Empire of the Mongols

  5. Mongol Empire as of 1259 Khubilai (r. 1260-1294)

  6. Social Policy and Social Practice in Ming and Qing • Ming dynasty (1368-1644), capital at Nanjing, moved to Beijing in 1421 • 1. Views of the early Ming dynasty: • 2. the Ming founding in historical perspective • 3. What made the Ming founding unique: social policy

  7. Social Policy and Social Practice in Ming and Qing

  8. Chinese and European trading routes in 15th century

  9. Zheng He’s (1371-1435 AD) 7 major expeditions between 1405 AD and 1430 AD. A fleet might have as many as 28,000 people on 300 ships. The largest of the ships had a length of 440 Chinese feet and a width of 180 (dwarfing Columbus' Santa Maria (75 ft x 25 ft) more than 6-fold), it took 1000 passengers and crew.

  10. Silver and Social Change in Late Ming (1550-1644) • I Foreign Silver and New Wealth: Ming in the Emerging World Economy • New Wealth and Social Change • Social Change and Cultural Reassessment

  11. Social Change and Cultural Reassessment • Literature • Literary theory and literature of entertainment • Philosophy and Ethics • The spread of Wang Yang-ming's ideas about sagehood • Ethics for everyone: the "Ledgers of Merit and Demerit" • Education • Religion • The "Three Teachings are One" Movement • Buddhist lay societies • Jesuits • Charity • A case of changing attitudes: women as poets and as moral exemplars

  12. Achievements and Limits of Manchu Rule (=Qing foreign relations on two fronts) • Manchu Origins • Conquering • Ruling • Presiding

  13. The Scholars • A novel from 1750 • About Chinese novels

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