HIST 80a Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: White Lotus, Hongwu Emperor, Yongle Emperor
13 Dec 2016
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The red turban society were a subset of a larger group, the white lotus society. White lotus society was a religious group that tried to popularize mahayana by combining it with dualist iranian philosophies. The red turbans were a militant group of the white lotus society. The red turbans succeeded in establishing hongwu as emperor of the new ming. Emperor hongwu was ruthless, he allied with the confucian scholars and white lotus society, but humiliated the confucians. 4th son at dadu (beijing), and was succeeded by his grandson who was quickly overthrown by the 4th son. Wakou pirates from japan resulted in a sea ban policy , known as haijin. The punishment for trade with foreigners was death. Yet, zheng he (an ally of the emperor back to his succession) was given by the state several treasure ships which would become the basis for the design of european ships (ex.
