HIST 3760 Lecture : HIST 3760A Modern Japan- Diplomacy and Trade in Seventeenth-Century East Asia
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Japan is luckier than korea because japan is separated from china by water, but. Korea is connected to china by land: if china decides that they do not like korea, it is very easy to take action. 2: korean king refers to the chinese emperor as the big boss , but the seal he has claimed makes him the big boss to the nation. If you wished to have investiture in this system, you had to comply. Japan escaped the chinese world order by refusing to use their titles: insisted on using their titles domestically, a big step that japan took. It took a long time to travel than modern times: the fear was that you start out small, and then pretty soon, they are praying to. Seclusion meant citizenship: control over customs, control over trading partners and trade items.
