HIST175 - Modern East Asian History
Unit I Study Guide (Fall 2008)

Part I:  Matching (50 pts)

"Asia"
Asian riff
Canton System
Commissioner Lin Zexu
Daimyo
Dalai Lama
Ethnographic Tibet
Fukuzawa Yukichi
George Macartney
Matthew Perry
MIddle Kingdom
Orientalism
Panchen Lama
Qianlong Emperor
Reincarnation
Russo-Japanese War (1904-05)
sakoku
Sino-Japanese War (1894-95)
Sonno Joi
Treaty of Nanjing (1842)

Nakano Chūhachi VII
bekke [ 别家 ] (41)
Manzō
dōzoku [ 同族 ]
Yukiko
kaigai yūhi [ 海外雄飛 ] (p.21)
Mine
ie [ 家 ] (40)
Moriguchi Seizaburō
honke [ 本家 ] (41)
Nijō
bunke [ 分家 ] (41)
Meiji 明治
oku (43)
Tokugawa Shogunate ( 徳川幕府 )
mise (43)
Manchuria
Setsubun (83)
Korea
"Dog Days" (156)


Part II: Potential Essay Topics (75 pts) : All answers should include examples from the readings (including Makiko's Diary) and lectures.

1)  The notion of an "isolated and closed" Asia is present in almost all Western portrayals of 19th (and early 20th) century Japan, China and Tibet. In what ways is such a description limited (or inaccurate)? As part of your answer include specific details (and examples from Makiko's Diary) ?

2)    Discuss the manner in which the Japan, China, and Tibet sought to maintain political control and order during the 19th to early 20th centuries? What tactics succeeded and why?

3)   In what ways can we speak of a common "East Asian" culture, political system, and society existing in Japan, China and Tibet in the 19th and early 20th centuries? Does their earlier experiences (in the 18th centuries and earlier) have any impact?