HISTORY 1DD3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Northeast Asia, Extraterritoriality, Isolationism
25 Jul 2018
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Exporting/challenging modernity in asia: china in the 18th century. The chinese empire during the 1600s and 1700s, was the largest unified political unit in the (cid:449)orld, (cid:449)ith eco(cid:374)o(cid:373)y/tech>europe"s. I(cid:373)ilar to japa(cid:374): their fleets travelled very far, from 15th-18th century china was centre of global luxury trade (i. e. ceramics) European traders since before marco polo in the 13th century longed to bring back luxury. Europeans were very interested in eastern asian good markets. In 18th century, china was ruled by qing dynasty originally from manchuria: multi-cultural empire. Confucian classical texts: emperor all powerful: strict hierarchy, taxes low and high population growth. Confucianism: confucianism may be understood as an all-encompassing way of thinking and living that entails ancestor reverence and a profound human-centred religiousness. In second half of 18th century qing emperor quinlong controlled european trade by using the. Europeans traders could only meet merchants (aka hongs) at the port city of.
