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Asian Transitions in an age of Global Change

Notes ~ Asian Trading world and the coming of the Europeans









REACTIONS OF JAPAN AND CHINA TO THE WEST

China
 * Christian missionaries infiltrated Chinese coastal areas and tries to gain access to court
 * Franciscans and Dominicans ~ win converts among the common people and made modest progress-> counted in the tens of thousands~ Jesuits adopted strategy that di Nobili has brought upon.
 * Ming emperor~ top of social hierarchy~ rulers and chief advisors were prime targets of Jesuit mission.
 * Jesuits scholars such as **Matteo Ricci**  and **Adam Schall**  spent time in imperial city correcting calendars, forging cannons, fixing clocks imported from the European.
 * scholar-officials ~ humiliated by foreigners’ corrections to their calendars were openly hostile to Jesuits.

 Japan
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Nobunaga** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - not afraid of launching a surprise attack on Portuguese ~1540s
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Nobunaga** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> armies drove against powerful western daimyo in 1582~ was caught off by guard by one vessel generals and was killed when Kyoto temple was burned to the ground.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">impressed with European firearms and pugnacity of European and didn’t take threat of invasion lightly.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Japanese ships were forbidden and trade or sail overseas.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Elites follow developments of west.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">fair of Europeans conquering islands.