Contact With Europeans
What was the motive that early Europeans had in establishing themselves in China
Conversion, doing mission work, accumulating knowledge of China
What is the ethnocentric belief emphasizing European values and ideas as the basis for global progress
Eurocentrism
Which major power did China have to formalize their frontiers with in the late 17th and early 18th centuries?
Russia
Which Chinese emperor is credited with both expanding the Qing Dynasty as well as accepting western missionaries into the country?
Kangxi emperor
Flag of the Qing Dynasty, Chinese flag, blue dragon with a yellow background
What is one of the two treaties signed between the Russian and Chinese governments defining their northern frontier?
Treaty of Nerchinsk, Treaty of Kyakhta
What are the three things identified in the reading that create problems with the Eurocentric model?
Contingency, historical accident, and Conjecture
Name a region where China saw significant expansion
Mongolia, central Asia (Xinjiang or Turkistan), Tibet
Matteo Ricci
Who wrote our readings for the week?
Robert Marks, Ji Yun, Peter Perdue
What are 3 things that the western missionaries introduced or re-introduced to China?
Euclidean mathematics, corrections to the agricultural calendar, cartography, surveying, architecture, instrument making, artillery manufacturing
Based on the presentation and reading, name 3 alternative forms of analysis which have been used to understand or interpret history
Teleology, Moral Evaluation, Natural Frontiers, Essentialized Identities, Eurasian Similarity Thesis, Altaic School
How did the Chinese integrate newly conquered regions in the west?
groups of nomadic people given 20 year tax exemptions, private land given to soldiers, areas subdivided into prefectures and subprefectures, places renamed with Chinese names....
What is the name of the main catholic order which first started interacting with the Qing
Jesuits
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