Ancient Japan And China

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Ming Dynasty

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The Ming dynasty was the ruling dynasty of China—then known as the Empire of the Great Ming—for 276 years following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty.

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Qing Dynasty

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The Qing Dynasty , officially the great Qing, also called the empire of the Great Qing or the Manchu Dynasty was the last imperial Dynasty of China ruling from 1644-1912 with brief, abortive restoration.

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Examination System

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The imperial examination were civil service examination system in imperial China to select candidates for the state bureaucracy

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Opium

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A brownish reddish addictive drug

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Taiping rebellion

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Was a massive civil war in China that lasted from 1850 to 1864

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Beijing

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The capital of the peoples republic of China and the world's third most popular city proper

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Treaty of Nanjink

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Formally known as the treaty of friendship and peace, friendship and commerce between her Majesty the Queen of great Britain and the emperor of china

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Taiwan

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Officially the republic of china, is a state in East Asia

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Empress

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Female equivalent to male monarch emperor

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Ci Xi

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A Chinese empress dowager's and regent who effectively controlled the Chinese government

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The self strengthening movement

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The Self-Strengthening Movement (Chinese: 洋務運動/自強運動/同治維新), c. 1861 – 1895, was a period of institutional reforms initiated in China during the late Qing dynasty following a series of military defeats and concessions to foreign powers.

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Imperial city

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The Imperial City, also known as Cyrodiil City, is the capital of the Imperial Empires, ancient capital of the Ayleids, and home of the White-Gold Tower. It is located on City Isle in Lake Rumare, in the Heartlands region of Cyrodiil.

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Porcelain

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a white vitrified translucent ceramic; china.

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Boxer rebellion

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In 1900, in what became known as the Boxer Rebellion (or the Boxer Uprising), a Chinese secret organization called the Society of the Righteous and Harmonious Fists led an uprising in northern China against the spread of Western and Japanese influence there.

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Tokugawa shogunates

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The Tokugawa shogunate, also known as the Tokugawa bakufu (徳川幕府 ?) and the Edo bakufu (江戸幕府 ?), was the last feudal Japanese military government, which existed between 1603 and 1867.

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Commodore Matthew Perry

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Matthew Calbraith Perry was a Commodore of the United States Navy and commanded a number of ships. He served in several wars, most notably in the Mexican–American War and the War of 1812

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Meiji Restoration

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The Meiji Restoration (明治維新 Meiji Ishin ?), also known as the Meiji Ishin, Renovation, Revolution, Reform, or Renewal, was a chain of events that restored practical imperial rule to Japan in 1868 under Emperor Meiji.

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Consulate

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1.the place or building in which a consul's duties are carried out.2.historicalthe period of office of a Roman consul.

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Eta

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the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet ( Η, η), transliterated as ‘e’ or ‘ē.’

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Edo

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Edo, also romanized as Jedo, Yedo or Yeddo, is the former name of Tokyo. It was the seat of power for the Tokugawa shogunate, which ruled Japan from 1603 to 1868

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The hermit kingdom

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Hermit kingdom is a term applied to any country, organization or society which willfully walls itself off, either metaphorically or physically, from the rest of the world.

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Isolation

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the process or fact of isolating or being isolated."the isolation of older people"

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Dutch learning

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Rangaku is a body of knowledge developed by Japan through its contacts with ... 3.1 Commodore Perry; 3.2 Last phase of "Dutch" learning;

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Junks

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old or discarded articles that are considered useless or of little value.

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Queue

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BRITISHa line or sequence of people or vehicles awaiting their turn to be attended to or to proceed.synonyms: lineup, line, row, column, file, chain, string; More2.COMPUTINGa list of data items, commands, etc., stored so as to be retrievable in a definite order, usually the order of insertion.verb1.BRITISHtake one's place in a queue."in the war they had queued for food"synonyms: line up, wait in line, form a line, fall in, form a queue, queue up"we queued for ice cream"2.COMPUTINGarrange in a queue.Feedback

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Hsuan-yeh

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May 4, 1654- 1722, Dec. 20, second Emperor of the Ch'ing dynasty, who ruled during the years 1661- 1722 ...

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Philology

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the branch of knowledge that deals with the structure, historical development, and relationships of a language or languages.NORTH AMERICAN

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Extraterritoriality

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Extraterritoriality, also called exterritoriality, or diplomatic immunity , in international law, the immunities enjoyed by foreign states or international organizations and their official representatives from the jurisdiction of the country in which they are present.

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Unequal treaties

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Unequal treaty is a term applied to any of a series of treaties signed with Western powers during the 19th and early 20th centuries by Qing dynasty China and late Tokugawa Japan after suffering military defeat by the foreign powers or when there was a threat of military action by those powers.

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Yangtze valley

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The Yangtze River known in China as the Cháng Jiāng or the Yángzǐ Jiāng ..... Later on it was the earliest part of the Yangtze valley to be integrated into the North Chinese cultural ...

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Toyotomi Hideyoshi

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Toyotomi Hideyoshi was a preeminent daimyo, warrior, general, samurai, and politician of the Sengoku period who is regarded as Japan's second "great unifier".

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Tokugama Leyasi

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Tokugawa Ieyasu was the founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan; which effectively ruled Japan from the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868

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Treaty of Kanagawe

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After giving Japan time to consider the establishment of external relations, Perry returned to Tokyo in March 1854, and on March 31 signed the Treaty of Kanagawa, which opened Japan to trade with the United States, and thus the West.

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Consulate

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1.the place or building in which a consul's duties are carried out.2.historicalthe period of office of a Roman consul.