HST 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Mahayana, Honshu, Vairocana
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Sometimes korea was accepted into the chinese state, the han armies were stationed there. Other times it was under it"s own king, by tributary systems to china like vietnam. Under both circumstances, korea and vietnamese borrowed many things from china, and were part of the great chinese civilization even though they were still korean and vietnamese. Part of chinese civilization, but not chinese - sinification. Migrations into korean peninsula from manchuria, north china, and eastern siberia begins 1,000s. Han dynasty (china) 206 bce -220 ce: occupation of korea. Nearly 2,000 years free of outsiders, although a chinese tributary state (exception: Rejecting (for many centuries): scholar officials and examinations. Integrated with an entrenched aristocracy that provided all civil and military leaders. Migrations of wet-rice farmers from korea c400 ce. 1630-1638 - started to close japan off, let no foreigners in. Let us in and forced japan to open. From korea: rice, bronze working, iron working, potter"s wheel, above-ground tombs, royal regalia.
