CHAPTER 11

The East Asian Rimlands:

Early Japan, Korea, and Vietnam

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CHAPTER OUTLINE

I. Japan: Land of the Rising Sun

A. A Gift from the Gods: Prehistoric Japan

B. The Rise of the Japanese State

1. Emulating the Chinese Model

2. The Nara Period

3. The Heian Period

4. The Kamakura Shogunate and After

5. Was Japan a Feudal Society?

C. Economic and Social Structures

1. Trade and Manufacturing

2. Daily Life

3. The Role of Women

D. In Search of the Pure Land: Religion in Early Japan

E. Sources of Traditional Japanese Culture

1. Literature

2. Art and Architecture

F. Japan and the Chinese Model

II. Korea: Bridge to the East

A. The Three Kingdoms

B. The Rise of the Koryo Dynasty

C. Under the Mongols

III. Vietnam: The Smaller Dragon

A. The Rise of Great Viet

1. The Chinese Legacy

B. Society and Family Life

Study help:

1. How geography affects the Japanese islands

2. Japan's people- various parts of Asia

3. Japanese creation myth

4. How agr. in Japan changed

5. How Japan resisted Chinese power

6. essence of the "shogunate system"

7. vocab

8. samurai role during Ashikaga shogunate

9. Why Japan's struggles between central authority and local aristocracies endured

10. Trade during Kamakura period

11. Women's status in medieval Japan

12. Characteristics of Japanese culture

13. Facets of Japanese state religion

14. Three kingdoms of Korea

15. China's influence on Korea

16. women's rights in Vietnam

17. Chinese influence on Vietnam