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I. European Trade With China

Chap 15.4 – Encounters in East Asia. I. European Trade With China. A. Strict Limits on Trade. Portuguese traders reached China in 1514. A. Strict Limits on Trade. The Ming allowed the Portuguese to build a trading post at Macao, near Canton. A. Strict Limits on Trade.

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I. European Trade With China

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  1. Chap 15.4 – Encounters in East Asia I. European Trade With China

  2. A. Strict Limits on Trade Portuguese traders reached China in 1514

  3. A. Strict Limits on Trade The Ming allowed the Portuguese to build a trading post at Macao, near Canton

  4. A. Strict Limits on Trade European goods were inferior to Chinese products and the Chinese demanded payment in gold or silver

  5. A. Strict Limits on Trade Trade was supervised by imperial officials and Europeans had to sail away when the trading season ended

  6. B. Scholars and Missionaries A few Europeans, like Jesuit priest Matteo Ricci, made a positive impression on Ming China

  7. B. Scholars and Missionaries Ricci learned to speak Chinese and adopted Chinese dress but had little success spreading religion

  8. II. The Manchu Conquest The Ming dynasty was failing and in 1644, Manchu armies seized Beijing and made it their capital

  9. A. Qing Rule The Manchu set up a new dynasty called the Qing (“pure”) - two important rulers were Kangxi and his grandson Qianlong Emperor Kangxi Emperor Qianlong

  10. A. Qing Rule Kangxi ruled for 61 years and spread Chinese power and culture into Central Asia

  11. A. Qing Rule Qianlong ruled for 60 years, expanded China's borders, and ruled the largest area in China's history Manchu ruled China: Qing dynasty (1644-1911AD) - last imperial dynasty in China

  12. B. Prosperity The Chinese economy grew, new crops from the Americas boosted farm output, and the population boomed

  13. B. Prosperity Handicraft industries grew and European demand for Chinese goods increased

  14. C. Response to Westerners Restricting foreign trade proved disastrous - in the 1800s China learned about western advances the hard way

  15. III. Korea and Isolation Like China, Korea restricted outside contacts in the 1500s and 1600s and became known as the "Hermit Kingdom”

  16. III. Korea and Isolation A Japanese invasion in the 1590s devastated the land of Korea

  17. III. Korea and Isolation In 1636, the Manchus conquered Korea and Korea became a tributary state

  18. IV. Japan and Foreign Traders The Portuguese reached Japan in 1543, followed by the Spanish, Dutch, and English

  19. IV. Japan and Foreign Traders At first, Japan was more open to European missionaries like Francis Xavier than China

  20. IV. Japan and Foreign Traders The Tokugawa shoguns became hostile and saw foreigners as agents of an invading force

  21. IV. Japan and Foreign Traders They expelled missionaries and executed thousands of Japanese Christians

  22. IV. Japan and Foreign Traders By 1638, the Tokugawas barred all western merchants, forbid Japanese travel abroad and outlawed the building of large ships

  23. IV. Japan and Foreign Traders They permitted just one or two Dutch ships a year to trade at a small island in Nagasaki harbor

  24. IV. Japan and Foreign Traders Japan maintained a policy of strict isolation until it was forced to reopen contacts with the western world in 1853

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