Fill me up with the history of east Asia!!
Everything was fine until Japan decided to piss on China
Everything was fine until the white devils brought drugs violence and crime to China.
>>372679
Shang Zhou Jin, Han, Sui, tang, song, yuan, ming qing republic, mao zedong.
meme
>Genpai War
>Ashikaga Shogunate
>Sengoku Era
>Nobunaga, Hideyoshi, Ieyasu (The three unifiers)
>The Edo period
>The Bakumatsu
>Meiji Restoration
>The Boshin War and the Satsuma Rebellion
>Modernization like a motherfucker
>World War 1 and the Paris Peace Conference
>Imperial Japan
>Effects of drug and sex culture through China and Korea
>Post War Japan
>Mishima for context
Rough guide to most of what you need to know Japan for roughly about 1,000 years.
>>372928
ching chong ching chang chung
>>375594
jap history is pretty boring before the modernization, i almost fell asleep while reading it.
>>376065
the sengoku era is pretty fun desu senpai
It was LGBT friendly.
Shang Dynasty (c. 1600 BC - 1046 BC)
Preceded by the only vaguely known (and semi legendary) Xia Dynasty (c. 2100 BC - 1600 BC) and the legendary 3 Sovereigns and 5 Emperors. A relatively small state centered on the Yellow River valley, this was a bronze age culture mostly known today for the workmanship of its artifacts and its position in the development of Chinese culture. And also oracle bones. Lots of oracle bones.
Zhou Dynasty (Western period 1046 BC - 771 BC, Eastern period 770 BC - 256 BC)
Perhaps better remembered for events and people towards the end of the period and their influence on later Chinese culture than for anything the dynasty actually did. Generally characterised as feudal since the Zhou emperors were nominally rulers of a pretty large territory, but only directly ruled a relatively small royal domain, which everything else farmed out to de facto independent feudal dukes. On 771 BC, the capital moved from Haojing to Chengzhou, which demarcates the Western and Eastern periods. The Eastern period is further subdivided into 2 periods:
Spring And Autumn Period (722 BC - 481 BC)
The supremacy of the central Zhou government goes into terminal decline. Being golden age of Chinese philosophy, the period gave us Confucius, allegedly Laozi (founder of Taoism), Sunzi (author of The Art of War), and many other thinkers. A turbulent period when 148 regional rulers (many connected to the imperial family) and their petty dukedoms (mostly city states) contested with one another for influence and hegemony.
Warring States Period (403 BC - 221 BC)
The feudal system broke down entirely and, as the name indicates, the seven resulting states went to war. Eventually, the state of Qin united the land and a new dynasty began. Many historians believe that Laozi really lived at this time, if he existed at all. Zhuangzi definitely did.
Qin Dynasty (221 BC - 206 BC)
Only two emperors, but the first one was Qin Shi Huangdi and that one was really enough for at least two dynasties in any lesser country. Among other things, he unified the country (perhaps a quarter to a third the size of modern China) in a swift 9 year campaign; built the Great Wall of China (later rebuilt by the Ming); created that famous Terracotta Army as part of his burial complex; and standardized the laws, coinage, and writing system. He is also known for being rather authoritarian, especially in his later years. Being a fan of the harsh legalist philosophy of jurisprudence, many of his more bloody actions (especially those against the Confucians, who later came to power and wrote all the history books) sealed his legacy as THE tyrant of China. Qin Shi Huang's successor was not nearly as capable and the dynasty soon ended.
The Qin dynasty created a model that the later dynasties followed. Their influence was such that the name the West still uses for the country "China" is derived from the word Qin, which was originally rendered into western languages as Chin. (The Chinese themselves mostly call the country Zhongguo, meaning central country, although it has other names).
Han Dynasty (Western period 206 BC - AD 9, Xin Dynasty AD 9 - AD 25, Eastern 25-220)
The big one. So famous that the dominant ethnic group in China still refers itself as Han Chinese. So big that the Chinese most commonly call their language(s) Hanyu (meaning "Han Speech") and the most widely used system of romanizing Chinese is called Hanyu Pinyin. So big that the Chinese word for "Chinese characters" is "hanzi", literally "Han characters", and was exported to other cultures as the Japanese word "kanji", Korean "hanja", and Vietnamese "Hán tự". You have one guess which part of their writing system it refers to.note
The Han Dynasty was founded by Liu Bang, a Boisterous Bruiser of humble birth from what is now Xuzhou in Jiangsu Province. He was a good politician, so likable that bartenders gave him free booze because people would buy more drinks just to hang around him longer. He fought his way to the throne in the turmoil after the fall of the Qin, and although he was a bit crude and uncouth, he knew how power worked and could take advice, even criticism, and so developed policies that helped his line rule all China almost uninterrupted for 400 years.
Confucianism became solidly entrenched as the official philosophy. This was also the time when many Chinese inventions came forward: paper (a must for bureaucrats), advances in metallurgy (mostly in casting iron and producing steel), and other stuff.
The Han Dynasty was contemporary with the Roman Empire in the West and there was some trade contact via intermediaries—the Romans had to pass laws restricting the silk trade because Rome's gold reserves were being emptied by its ravenous demand for Chinese silk. The Han Chinese for their part did rather like Roman glassware, particularly glass beads (sophisticated glassmaking was as unknown in China as silk was in Rome), but never enough to seriously affect monetary policy.
There is some debate about whether Roman and Chinese soldiers ever met in combat there have been claims that the Persians captured some Roman soldiers, then moved them to their other frontier and paid them to fight for them, where they then fought Han troops in the area of modern Afghanistan. In any case, Rome was greatly respected by the Chinese, who saw it as a sort of mirror of themselves at the other end of the world: the Chinese name for the Roman Empire is Daqin, meaning 'Great China''.
The Han Dynasty was briefly overthrown by Wang Mang (who had already been ruling as regent of three different child emperors for several years) in 9 AD, but his self-proclaimed Xin Dynasty lasted only 14 years before he was killed in a peasant rebellion and the Han Dynasty was restored. As the restored Han Dynasty moved its capital to the east from Chang'an to Luoyang, historians divide it into the Western Han (prior to overthrow) and Eastern Han (after restoration) periods.
Three Kingdoms Era (AD 220-280)
Wei, Shu, Wu. Wei is often referred to as Cao Wei after its founder Cao Pi, son of Cao Cao; Shu was founded by Liu Bei, a kinsman of the Han emperors and called itself Shu Han as successors to the Han; Wu was also called Eastern Wu or Dong Wu after its location to the east. Very famous period, the setting of a major Chinese novel (well, one very famous one and presumably others), many Chinese operas, movies, TV series, and all those games from Koei.
Came about due to the collapse of the power of the Han emperors. Some date the beginning of the period to the Yellow Turban Rebellion of 184AD. From 190AD on, China was divided among feuding warlords before the three kingdoms around 220. Wei conquered Shu in 263 and the period ended with the overthrow of Wei by the Jin dynasty (265) and the subsequent conquest of Wu (280).
>>376059
What about cheng?
Reminder that Yuan Shikai did nothing wrong
>>372679
Greatest time to be Korean
>450 AD
