JESUITS, MANDARINS, SAMURAI, AND A FEW TURTLE BOATS

I. Some key dates

A. China

Ming dynasty, 1368-1644

Qing dynasty, 1644-1911

the Manchus

B. Japan

Warring states era, 1477-1603

Tokugawa bakufu, 1603-1867

C. Korea

Yi dynasty, 1392-1910

the Japanese invasion, 1592-1599

the Manchu invasion, 1624-1636

II. Jesuits and Samurai

A. Western contacts

China and Rome

the Silk Road

the Mongols and Marco Polo, 1234-1368

Spain and Portugal

the search for spices, gold and slaves

the search for souls

the Treaty of Saragossa [1529] and the division of the world

Ignatius Loyola and the Jesuits

B. Guns and God

Tanegashima, 1543

Francis Xavier and the Nagasaki mission, 1549

guns and translation

the high conversion rate

3 daimyo and a nightingale

Oda Nobunaga

[Toyotomi] Hideyoshi

Tokugawa Ieyasu

C. Sakoku [closed country] and the ban on Christianity

Nobunaga's "religious war" against Buddhism

Hideyoshi's ban, 1597

madness? syphilis? senility?

the Franciscan arrival, 1587

slavery?

the invasion of Korea, 1592

too many samurai?

who won?

The Tokugawa ban on Christianity and the West

the Dutch and the British

Ieyasu and Will Adams

Adams and the Spanish Armada

Christianity declared illegal, 1606

voluntary departure of the British, 1623

expulsion of the Spanish, 1624

the ban on going abroad, 1630

the Shimabara uprising, 1637-1638

expulsion of the Portuguese

the Dutch at Deshima

III. Jesuits and Mandarins

A. Matteo Ricci [Ma Tolu], 1551-1610

arrival at Macao, 1583

maps and other gifts

Beijing, 1601

journal and translations

B. Adam Schall von Bell, 1591-1666

arrival, 1622

the exam system and the scholar-gentry

astronomer, cannon maker and general

from Ming to Qing, 1644

C. The rites controversy

the Dominican investigation, 1634

Confucianism and "ancestor worship"

Christianity banned, 1724

D. The rest of the Jesuits

makers of clocks and toys

translators and artists

China and the Enlightenment

no political influence, less access

some overlooked trifles

Peter the Great and the Northern border

the Dutch Empire

the British East India Trading Co.

Break

IV. Namban [Southern Barbarian] art

V. Due dates for papers:

Second paper: Feb. 9

Third paper: Feb. 23

Fourth paper: Mar. 4

Final paper: Mar. 15