cultural borrowing notes
Brief Introduction to East Asia
- To have an idea of the different periods in China and Japan
- CE (Common Era)
China: Overview
Zhou 1045 BCE - 256 BCE
Qin 221 BCE - 206 BCE
Han 206 BCE - 220 CE
Six Dynasties 220 - 589
Sui 581 - 618
Tang 618 - 907
Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms 907 - 960
Song (Northern Southern) 960 - 1279
Yuan 1271 - 1368
Ming 1368 - 1644
Qing 1644 - 1911
Republic 1912 - 1949 - present (Taiwan)
People's Republic 1949 – present
Zhou Dynasty 1045 BCE - 256 BCE
- Southern China, little outside contact
- Contact between two regions minimal, if at all
- Established characteristics of Chinese empire
- Much of what is established during this period becomes a vital part of cultural borrowing (formative years)
- Cultural Flowering:
→ Confucius 551-479 leads to Confucianism (NEO-CONFUCIANISM as one of Japan’s eventual first national ideology)
→ Laozi 6th century BCE Daoism
Qin 221 BCE - 206 BCE/Han 206 BCE - 220 CE
- First great empire (Qin unified China)
- Standardization, unification (allows easier understanding of Han dynasty writing, compared to Zhou)
- Without this Qin standardisation of writing, there would be multiple writing systems in China → Korea/Japan/Vietnam borrowing would be from any of these multiple systems (non-unified writing system in East Asia)
- Han = Hanzi (Chinese character), etc.
- First known contact: embassy by a king from Japan → brings back Kyushu golden seal (after switch to common era), artefacts, mirrors
Six Dynasties 220 - 589
- Important part of China history (e.g. Cao Cao)
- Japan begins to unify during this period (Hokkaido only 19th C)
- Japanese envoys, envoys to Japan (Japan treated as babaric, Han-centric version of history, to be treated with care in terms of perspective)
- Writing, poetic styles very influential
- Japan begins full-fledged importation of Chinese technologies
Sui 581 - 618/Tang 618 - 907
- Xi’an, capital of Tang China – centrality of Chinese culture,
- To have an idea of the different periods in China and Japan
- CE (Common Era)
China: Overview
Zhou 1045 BCE - 256 BCE
Qin 221 BCE - 206 BCE
Han 206 BCE - 220 CE
Six Dynasties 220 - 589
Sui 581 - 618
Tang 618 - 907
Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms 907 - 960
Song (Northern Southern) 960 - 1279
Yuan 1271 - 1368
Ming 1368 - 1644
Qing 1644 - 1911
Republic 1912 - 1949 - present (Taiwan)
People's Republic 1949 – present
Zhou Dynasty 1045 BCE - 256 BCE
- Southern China, little outside contact
- Contact between two regions minimal, if at all
- Established characteristics of Chinese empire
- Much of what is established during this period becomes a vital part of cultural borrowing (formative years)
- Cultural Flowering:
→ Confucius 551-479 leads to Confucianism (NEO-CONFUCIANISM as one of Japan’s eventual first national ideology)
→ Laozi 6th century BCE Daoism
Qin 221 BCE - 206 BCE/Han 206 BCE - 220 CE
- First great empire (Qin unified China)
- Standardization, unification (allows easier understanding of Han dynasty writing, compared to Zhou)
- Without this Qin standardisation of writing, there would be multiple writing systems in China → Korea/Japan/Vietnam borrowing would be from any of these multiple systems (non-unified writing system in East Asia)
- Han = Hanzi (Chinese character), etc.
- First known contact: embassy by a king from Japan → brings back Kyushu golden seal (after switch to common era), artefacts, mirrors
Six Dynasties 220 - 589
- Important part of China history (e.g. Cao Cao)
- Japan begins to unify during this period (Hokkaido only 19th C)
- Japanese envoys, envoys to Japan (Japan treated as babaric, Han-centric version of history, to be treated with care in terms of perspective)
- Writing, poetic styles very influential
- Japan begins full-fledged importation of Chinese technologies
Sui 581 - 618/Tang 618 - 907
- Xi’an, capital of Tang China – centrality of Chinese culture,