Ming Dynasty (part 2)

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Ming Dynasty(part 2)
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Ming Achievements

• Current Great Wall Constructed

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Ming PorcelainChinas finest china
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Ming Ceramics with Arabic Script?
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Naval AdvancesEarly 1400s

• Ming Navigation Sextant and Star Charts
• Exploration 1400 Visit Persian Gulf
• Return with souvenirs
• Some knowledge of outside world
• Colonization?
• Why dont we speak Chinese?

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Wang YangmingPhilosopher (1472-1529)

• Proponent of Neo-Confucian thought
• Government official
• Focused on agricultural problems

• Solution Communitarian arrangement (communal
  living)
• Correct bad behavior through public criticism and
  social pressure
• This idea gets reprised under Mao as struggle
  meetings

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Ming Meets West

• Jesuits arrive in China 1600
• Matteo Ricci
• Who are the Jesuits
• Priestly Brotherhood
• Society of Jesus
• Scholarly -- Educators
• Worldly
• Wealthy
• Focus on converting ruling class

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Jesuits in Ming China

• Jesuits work with Gentry and Confucian Scholars
• Learn Chinese and create dictionaries
• Adopt robes and habits of Confucian Scholars
• Recognize Chinas high and admirable culture
• Conclude that Ancestor Veneration is a secular
  form of respect and honor
• NOT worship of ancestors
• NOT a violation of the first 2 Commandments

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Jesuits in Ming China

• Adapt well to China
• Have very little success in converting Chinese
• Introduce Western cartography, astronomy, and
  science
• Serve as effective ambassadors of Western society
  for Chinas ruling class

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Ming Collapse 1664 CE

• Dynasty weakened by
• Factions
• Corruption
• Eunuch problems
• Natural disasters
• Manchu nation in Manchuria put pressure on China

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Ming Collapse1664 CE

• Invading Manchu armies are resisted
• by Chinese forces for a while
• Chinese general decides to switch sides and
  allies with Manchu forces, surrendering all of
  Northern China
• Alternating explanations
• Emperor had violated the Generals wife
• Emperor ordered generals family killed,
  mistakenly believing the general was disloyal,
  and this drove the general to betrayal

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New Manchurian Dynasty

• Qing Dynasty Established
• 1664 CE
• Manchu Dynasty