HIST 2910 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: History Of East Asia, Sima Qian, Qing Dynasty

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 2910
• Professor: Norman Smith

Document Summary

Lecture 1: east asian history and confucian culture. This course will discuss mongolia, china, tibet, korea, japan and other east asian countries. Nine specific regions in china and all have different ways of living, speaking etc. There is a saying in korea that behind every mountain is a mountain . There is an important mountain that forms part of the border between china and. Is very mountainous and these mountains are very important north korea called changbaishan that is sacred to koreans. Is also very mountainous and these mountains play a huge role in the people"s self-identities lots of islands and sea, very much variety of life here, very challenging geography. Chinese writing dominated in asia and still does even today. The characters and language have very symbolic meanings (ex. For wife the characters for women and broom are combined)