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An Outline History of East Asia to 1200
This is the second edition of the open access textbook that arose out of a course at the University of California, San Diego, called HILD 10: East Asia: The Great Tradition. The course covers what have become two Chinas, Japan, and two Koreas from roughly 1200 BC to about AD 1200. As we say every Fall in HILD 10: “2400 years, three countries, ten weeks, no problem.”
- Author
- Sarah Schneewind
- Publisher
- University of California San Diego
- Source
- LibreTexts
- License
- CC BY-NC
- Language
- EN
Contents· 98 sections
- 01: East Asia to 1045 BC
- 1.01: Myths and Nations
- 1.02: Food and Progress
- 1.03: Cultural Variety and Teleology
- 1.04: Jewelry Trade and Hierarchy
- 1.05: Three Bronze Age Imports
- 1.06: Was There a Xia Dynasty
- 1.07: The Shang Period (1554-1045 BC)
- 1.08: Shang State and Society
- 1.09: Violence and Ritual
- 1.10: Oracle Bone Divination
- 1.11: Sources
- 1.12: Section 1.1 Figures
- 02: The Zhou Period (1045 256 BC)
- 2.01: A Violent Transition
- 2.02: The Feudal State
- 2.03: The Zhou Aristocracy
- 2.04: Did Kija Move Eastwards to Found Old Choson
- 2.05: Relations with Other Peoples
- 2.06: The Hegemon System of the Spring and Autumn Period (771-476 BC)
- 2.07: Ritual Changes in the Spring and Autumn Period
- 2.08: Confucius
- 2.09: Sources
- 03: From Warring States Two Empire (480 BC -207 BC)
- 3.01: From Bronze to Iron
- 3.02: Horses and Walls
- 3.03: The Feudal State of Qin Edit section
- 3.04: Shang Yangs Legalist Policies in Qin
- 3.05: Iron and Water
- 3.06: Meritocracy and Bureaucracy
- 3.07: Taxation
- 3.08: Earned Social Rank
- 3.09: Surveillance and Law
- 3.10: Inventing Empire
- 3.11: The Information State
- 3.12: Sources
- 04: The Han Empire and Its Neighbors
- 4.01: The Fall of Qin
- 4.02: From Commoner to Emperor
- 4.03: Empresses
- 4.04: The Bureaucracy
- 4.05: Commoners
- 4.06: Enslaved People
- 4.07: The Silk Roads and the Xiongnu War
- 4.08: Outflanking the Xiongnu on the East
- 4.09: The Han Commanderies
- 4.10: Early Proto-states in the Peninsula Manchuria
- 4.11: The Yayoi Period on the Archipelago
- 4.12: Source
- 05: Religion and Society in Han (206 BC AD 220)
- 5.01: The Queen Mother of the West
- 5.02: Rivals to the Confucians at Court
- 5.03: Confucians at the Han Imperial Court
- 5.04: Confucius- Sage and Mage
- 5.05: Han Marriage and Family
- 5.06: The Rise of the Clans
- 5.07: Wang Mangs New Dynasty AD 9-23
- 5.08: Han Clan Ideology and Organization
- 5.09: Daoism and the Fall of Han
- 5.10: Sources
- 06: A World of Many Powers (AD 200 AD 580)
- 6.01: Dividing and Uniting
- 6.02: Koguryos East Asia
- 6.03: The Mainland- Aristocracy Returns
- 6.04: The Peninsula and Archipelago Before Writing
- 6.05: From Chiefs to Queen and Kings in the Archipelago
- 6.06: Buddhism in Diplomacy
- 6.07: Sources
- 07: Consolidating Unified Regimes (c. 500-780)
- 7.01: Written Chinese and Government
- 7.02: The New Sui Order
- 7.03: Reunification through Pluralism- Sui and Tang
- 7.04: The War Against Koguryo
- 7.05: Yamato Centralization
- 7.06: Sources
- 08: Tang and Silla
- 8.01: Ethnicity
- 8.02: Tang Social Structure
- 8.03: Tang Government Structure
- 8.04: The Tang Civil Service Examinations
- 8.05: Silla Villagers and their Farms
- 8.06: Poetry in Aristocratic Society
- 8.07: Buddhism
- 8.08: The Queen Mother of the West
- 8.09: The Fall of Tang
- 8.10: Sources
- 09: Heian Japan
- 9.01: Heian Government 794-1185
- 9.02: The Balance of Weakness in the Economy and the Fisc
- 9.03: An Isolated Aristocracy
- 9.04: Whence Came the Samurai
- 9.05: Warriors or Lawyers
- 9.06: Sources
- 10: The Commercial Revolution
- 10.01: From Silla to Koryo
- 10.02: Hybrid States in Northern China and the Steppe
- 10.03: Song Economy State and Society (960-1276)
- 10.04: Sources