Chronological View of Asia History: China/Korea/Japan

China

Korea

Japan

Origins of Chinese Civilization-Yellow river

3000-800BC

Neolithic Period

4500-300BC

Zomon (Neolithic) Period

Xia: 2200-1750 BC

Neolithic Culture-Pottery

 

 

Shang: 1750-1040 BC

Bronze/Chinese Writing

 

 

Western Zhou:

1100-771 BC

Father-son successor system

Major Principality

 

 

Estern Zhou/Spring Summer/ Warring States

771-221 BC

Daoism, Confucianism, & Legalism-Massive War

 

 

 

 

 

The Early Empire

 

 

Qin: 221-206 BC

First Emperor (not kings)

Devout Legalist& Iron use

Burn all the books

Execution of late generals

Link Great Walls (masonry)

 

Yayoi: 300 BC- 300 AD

Rice/metal/potter’s wheel

Shinto (Kami)

Han: 206BC-220 AD

Major Ethic Han

Chinese history

Administrative Model-60 million & Largest country-

Confucian classics-proper behavior and loyalty to emperor-basis for all Asia

Yellow river-Yangzi

 

 

Three Kingdoms:

57 BC-668 AD

Goguryo ¬ China

Baekje ® Japan

Shilla ¬ China

Yayoi cont’d

Three Kingdom/North & South: 220-589 AD

Chaos & disunity

N. Barbarians merged

Buddhism (6th century BC in India then 1st century AD to China-after Han) ®

Three Kingdoms cont’d.

Buddhism-Goguryo 372AD

 

 

Kofun: 300-645 AD

  Powerful clans/China inf.

 Shotoku Taishi: 574-622

  Society/government

  Buddhism538,

  Confucianism

The Second Empire

 

 

Sui: 589-618 AD

Reunifying China

 

Asuka: 645-710 AD

  Emperor’s power

Tang: 618-907 AD

One of greatest dynasty

Largest territory

Korean/Japan  ®

Unified Shilla: 668-935 AD

With help of China Tang

Cultural development

Buddhism-temples

 

Goryeo: 918-1392 AD

Nara: 710-794 AD

  Imperial court

  Buddhism: peace and

  protection

Heian: 794-1185 AD

    To Kyoto

 

Song: 960-1279 AD

Agricultural technology

Economics/ Printing Press/Food supply system

But no incentive for industrialization due to surplus of human labor.

But failure politically and militarily

           Mongols invasion®

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

®Invasion by Mongols: 1231

Goryeo rule under control by Mongols: (1256-1392)

Kamakura: 1185-1333 AD

  Military (Shogun) Govn’t

  Bushi-new ruling C. 1192

 

 

 

 

 

 

®Mongol Invasion

1274, 1281 (kamikaze)

Yuan (Mongol): 1279-1368

Government of Occupation

®

Non-Chinese hires/Marco P

Beijing Opera/Conservative Neo Confucianism

 

 

 

 

 

 

Muromachi: 1333-1573

  New Shogun Govn’t

   Firearms/Christianity by

   Portuguese

Ming: 1368-1644 AD

Worst Dynasty-cruel/40,000

Move to Beijing

Fortified Great Walls

Forbidden city

Yi Dynasty: 1392-1910

(Joseon)

Confucianism

Capital: Seoul 1394

Korean Aphabet: Hangul 1446

Invasion of Japan 1592-1598

 

 

Momoyama: 1573-1603

 Nobunaka VS. Hideyoshi

¬Invasion of K. 1592-1598

   by Hideyoshi

Edo: 1603-1867 by

  Tokugawa Ieyasu

  Unity, Peace, but Isolation

The Birth of Modern China

 

 

Qing (Manchu): 1644-1911

Culture flowered

Closed foreign policy

Western contacts-failed

Emperor-son of heaven not others. China and rest of the world viewpoint. Others

Paradoxically keep china together

 

 

 

 

 

Hermit Kingdom

 

 

 

 

 Commodore Perry of USA   1853-opened Japan

 

Meiji: 1868-1912 AD

  Emperor/Nation/State

  Storing Military/Industry

Sino-Japanese W: 1895

¬Japan force trade with K.

¬Russo-JapaneseWar 1904

Republican China:

1911-1949 AD

Sun Yatsen

Chiang Kaishek

Nationalists by Chang KS

Massacre of communists fled to Taiwan and Mao Zedong claimed the victory

Not unify Hongkong/Macau

 

Japanese Invasion 1937 ¬

20 million Chinese died

 

Japanese Occupation:

1910-1945

3-1-1919 Independence Movement

 

 

Republic of Korea:

August 15, 1945-Present

¬Korea Annexed: 1910-1945

 

Taisho: 1912-1926 AD

  Expansion of econ base

  WW I Allied: 1914-1918

  Great Kanto Earthquake

Showa: 1926-1989

   WW II & Economic rec.

WW II: 1937-1945

Pearl Harbor Attack: 1941

Atomic Bombs: 1945

The People’s Republic of

China: 1949-Present

 

Mao Zedong-49-76

  GreatLeap Forward: 58-60

  30 million starved to death

  Cultural Revolution-66-69

  Students rebel against

 

Korea war (50-53) ®

 

Deng Xiaoping: 78-97

  economic Reforms

 Tianmen Square: May1989

 

Jiang Zemin-97-present

 

 

Korean War: (1950-1953)

Syngman Rhee: 1945-1960

   South & North

General Chunghee Park-Coup: 61-79

   Infrastructure, highway

General Doo Whan Chun

   Reforms from Park: 80-87

General Tae Woo, Noh:

   88- 92 Relations-China

   and Russia

Youngsam Kim: 92-96

   Civilian, Economic chaos

Daejung Kim: Civilian, 97-

   North Korea/Sunshine P

1945-1952: Allied occupation of Japan

Democratic party

1950-1970: High Growth

 

 

 

 

 

 

Heisei: 1989-present

Price Akihito

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