Foundations, Traditions, Commonalities

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Foundations, Traditions, Commonalities

• Chapter 1
• Modern East Asia

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Chinese World Order

• Zhong Guo (Central Kingdom)
• Son of Heaven
• Offer up Tribute
• Ko-Tou (Kowtow)
• Bestow gifts

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Rice

• More nutrition per land unit
• Grown in almost any condition
• Little need for fertilizer
• Multiple crops
• Multiple varieties
• Labor Intensive influenced political structure

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Oriental Despotism

• Karl Wittfogel Oriental Despotism
• Hydraulic Society centered around the need to
  manipulate water
• Irrigation
• Canals
• Mobilize labor

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Material Culture

• Medicine, food production, printing press, paper,
  gun powder, etc.
• Mark Elvin Pattern of Chinese Past
• High Level Equilibrium Trap

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Theories of Natural Order

• Qi
• Yin/Yang
• Five Phases
• The Classic of Changes (Yi Jing/I Ching)

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Language and Writing
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Confucianism
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Daoism
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Buddhism
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Syncretism