History East Asia Compilation
Document
Contents
History East Asia Tutorial 1 27-2............................................................................................................2
History East Asia Tutorial 2 12-3............................................................................................................5
History East Asia Tutorial 3 2-4..............................................................................................................8
History East Asia Tutorial 4 16-4..........................................................................................................11
History East Asia Tutorial 5 30-4..........................................................................................................13
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, History East Asia Tutorial 1 27-2
Imperialism and self-determination
Source: constitutions
- Sovereignty: The emperor is the most powerful person in a state
o Not with the people
o This is enshrined in the constitution
- This has implications for japan domestically and for east Asia
- Japanese people are not citizens, but subjects
o More focused on duties of subjects than rights of subjects
o Duties towards the emperor and the empire
- Military
o Both parties contribute a minister
o The military takes control of the government
o Prime ministers, and other political leaders are after a while all militarists
o These militarists have a different interpretation of how an empire should be run
- Political ranking
o Emperor
o Japanese people
o Colonized subjects
- Japanese, meiji, and Korean constitutions are all very different
1896-1898: Korea
- The independecy club and the independent
- Large publication written in Hungal to create a community that
- The everyday people of korea are the masters, and the officials should work for them, not
for their own interests
- The officials limit/shut down the independency club and the independent
- Korea was not seen as a national entity/community foreign influences
- The Japanese colonial rule has been rather harsh
- In the text: appeal towards recent events
o Conscious/spirit of the times
- This document is important because it kicks off the march 1 st movement
- Gives insight in how the Korean peninsula got split into two polities
LuXun – mad man’s diary
- He wrote a book and used a diary of his mad friend to convey a message
- Luxun thought his country was backwards
- Written in vernacular Chinese (reach most people)
- The diary is in vernacular Chinese, whereas the parts written by luxan were written in
- Iron house = metaphor for changing the chinese state
- Cannibalism stands for the nature of Confucianism
- Madman
- Cannibalistic children
o Save the children: he wants the children not to be trapped in a Confucian system as
well
2
Document
Contents
History East Asia Tutorial 1 27-2............................................................................................................2
History East Asia Tutorial 2 12-3............................................................................................................5
History East Asia Tutorial 3 2-4..............................................................................................................8
History East Asia Tutorial 4 16-4..........................................................................................................11
History East Asia Tutorial 5 30-4..........................................................................................................13
1
, History East Asia Tutorial 1 27-2
Imperialism and self-determination
Source: constitutions
- Sovereignty: The emperor is the most powerful person in a state
o Not with the people
o This is enshrined in the constitution
- This has implications for japan domestically and for east Asia
- Japanese people are not citizens, but subjects
o More focused on duties of subjects than rights of subjects
o Duties towards the emperor and the empire
- Military
o Both parties contribute a minister
o The military takes control of the government
o Prime ministers, and other political leaders are after a while all militarists
o These militarists have a different interpretation of how an empire should be run
- Political ranking
o Emperor
o Japanese people
o Colonized subjects
- Japanese, meiji, and Korean constitutions are all very different
1896-1898: Korea
- The independecy club and the independent
- Large publication written in Hungal to create a community that
- The everyday people of korea are the masters, and the officials should work for them, not
for their own interests
- The officials limit/shut down the independency club and the independent
- Korea was not seen as a national entity/community foreign influences
- The Japanese colonial rule has been rather harsh
- In the text: appeal towards recent events
o Conscious/spirit of the times
- This document is important because it kicks off the march 1 st movement
- Gives insight in how the Korean peninsula got split into two polities
LuXun – mad man’s diary
- He wrote a book and used a diary of his mad friend to convey a message
- Luxun thought his country was backwards
- Written in vernacular Chinese (reach most people)
- The diary is in vernacular Chinese, whereas the parts written by luxan were written in
- Iron house = metaphor for changing the chinese state
- Cannibalism stands for the nature of Confucianism
- Madman
- Cannibalistic children
o Save the children: he wants the children not to be trapped in a Confucian system as
well
2
