Middle Imperial Era

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China

• Middle Imperial Era

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China and Japan

• Quiz Friday, December 6
• China, Chapter 12 p. 263-276
• Japan, Chapter 13, 278-290
• Chapter 13 hint P 286-287
• Due Four pages of notes total
• Two pages for each Chapter

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China Reunification Renaissance

• Recall Political Developments
• Sui Dynasty (589-618)
• Reunification
• Completion of Grand Canal connecting northern
  southern China
• Tang Dynasty (618-907) expansion

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China during the Tang Song Dynasties
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Song Dynasty (960-1279)

• Confucian Civil Service System
• Reintroduced during Sui Dynasty expanded in Tang
  Song era, especially
• Exams based on Confucian classics

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Economic Revolution

• Population doubled during Song era
• Agricultural prosperity
• New variety of rice
• New cash crops e.g. tea, sugar
• Dikes, reservoirs, dams
• Water pumps
• P. 269

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Terraced rice paddies in southern China
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Economic Revolution Cont.

• Commercial growth
• Manufacturing expands during this period
  1000-1450
• Internal trade, facilitated by canals paper
• Overseas maritime trade facilitated by magnetic
  compass junks
• Growth in industry
• Esp. silk fabric, porcelain paper
• Water powered mills bellows
• Iron steel

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Chinese Junks
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• Urbanization (growth of cities)
• E.g. Kaifeng Hangzhou (p. 268)

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Other Technological Achievements

• Gunpowder
• Mechanical clock
• Moveable type (printing)

Thunderbolt ball
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Social Developments

• Growth of scholar-elite
• Declining status of women
• Increasing legal restrictions
• Demand in cities for domestic servants
  concubines
• Foot binding

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• Ideal womans foot 3 long!

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FOOT BINDING
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Lotus Shoes

• The role of Women further diminishes during and
  after the Song Dynasty

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FOOT BINDING Q A!

• When did foot binding begin?
• Tang Dynasty (618-907) among upper class
• Why?
• Its beautiful. Right?
• Another q Would men find the deformed feet
  attractive?
• Was it always the same?
• NoIt got much more debilitating (and widespread)
  during the later Qing Dynasty. (When was the
  Qing Dynasty?)
• Last one 1636-1911
• The ideal foot approx. 3 inches long!

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Cultural Developments

• Women poets as exception
• Refined pastimes of the elite
• Landscape painting

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P. 273-275
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