EAST 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Anthony C. Yu, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Taoism
Yuan Dynasty
Outline for Next Two Weeks
The Yuan and Ming Dynasties: Encounters with the Other
1. Yuan Dynasty: China and its Neighbors
o Relationship with 'barbarians' (aka Not-Chinese)
2. Ming Dynasty: Exploration and First European Encounters
o How Chinese saw the Europeans and how the Europeans understood the Ming. And how
this informs our understandings of Chinese culture
3. Woe, Geder, ad Literature i the Mig ad Qig Dorothy Ko, Talet, Virtue, ad Beauty:
Rewritig Woahood,
o Women's writings, which became more important in the Ming and Qing
o Inner and outer sphere
o Foot-binding practices
4. Ming Novel: Journey to the West
o Anthony Yu, trans., The Monkey and the Monk, Ch. 14
The Song Dynasty and Border States
• Northern Song 北宋, 960-1127
• Southern Song 南宋, 1127-1279
• Non-Chinese Empires:
o Liao Empire (Khitan), 907-1125
o Jin Dynasty (Jurchen), 1115-1234
o Yuan Dynasty (Mongol), 1279-1368
• Look at how the non-Chinese perceived the Chinese dynasty, as well as the other way around
• How were these nomadic groups able to conquer the Chinese?
Northern Song (960-1127): Liao Empire (Khitan, 907-1125)
• Nomadic, lived in grasslands
• Powerful militarily
Jin Dynasty (Jurchen, 1115-1234) Fall of the Northern Song (1129)
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• Defeated Khitan and took over Northern Song
• Took over Northern region of the Song, as well as the Northern capital (center of Chinese culture,
population, politics and military). Starts to look more Chinese and adapt Chinese institutions
Yuan Dynasty (Mongol, 1271-1368)
• Expand over Eurasia
• Take over Chinese empire, and most of what is modern Chinese today, and Mongolia
• Mongol rulers took particular care to maintain rule over China because it was the wealthiest area
The Mongol Empire, 1294
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Document Summary
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