Asian Business Essay! (Looking for a professional business major writer ONLY)
TWO QUOTES FOR TODAY….
The 21st century has opened and will close with two puzzles about the rise of Asia. Today, the puzzle is why Asian societies, long in the doldrums, are now successful. At the century's close, by contrast, historians will want to know why Asian societies succeeded so late, taking centuries to catch up with a Europe that they had outperformed for millenniums…. Centuries of European colonial rule had progressively reduced Asian self-confidence. -- Mahbubani, TIME
[T]he Asian bureaucracy, notably in China and India, remained the bastion of intellectual culture, civilization, and tradition. But it was also the inward-looking, self- satisfied complacency of Asian bureaucracy, combined with the corruption and profligacy of the ruling elites, that grossly underestimated the technological ascendancy of the West…. More than anything else, it was the humiliation caused by colonization and war that drove home the realization that Asian institutions had to change everything even down to the core values.
-- “The Asian Network Economy in the 21st Century”, by Andrew Sheng http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTEASTASIAPACIFIC/Resources/226262-1158262834989/EA_Visions_15.pdf
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IS THE PAST PROLOGUE?
NORTHEAST ASIA:
The Chinese Heartland
China as the “mother ship”: culture, rice
SOUTHEAST ASIA
Sino-Indic collision in Vietnam
Indian reach
Ethnic shatterbelt
OLD TRADITIONS, NEW STATES
Problems Of History, Problems Of Colonialism
“History never repeats itself, but it rhymes”
CHINA: THREE PHILOSOPHICAL TRADITIONS
CONFUCIANISM
LEGALISM
DAOISM
POLITICAL
WARRING STATES ORIGIN
CONFUCIAN/MENCIAN DISCOURSE
BUT
LEGALIST PRACTICE
CONFUCIANISM - SELF-CULTIVATION and “REN”
“The 4 Books”
Benevolent Rule
Attention to “Rites”
If things properly ordered, peace and harmony
Filial piety - family as key
“5 Relationships” - based on “Ren”
Ruler/Subject
Husband/Wife
Parent/child (son)
Elder brother/younger brother
Friends
NEO-CONFUCIANISM : METAPHYSICS
DAOISM
Mystical
Non-linear
Dao De Jing
Lao Zi
Zhuang Zi
“Wu-Wei”
Yin-yang
And the search for immortality
LEGALISM:
Punitive law
Low trust
Hobbesian
The First Emperor
Li Ssu
The basis of Chinese concepts of power
RELIGION & WORLD VIEW
Cyclical change the only constant: the yin & the yang
Syncretism
NATURE-BASED
SHINTO
POPULAR DAOISM: local gods and festivals
ANIMISM
BUDDHISM - A LATE ARRIVAL
HINAYANA - “LESSER VEHICLE”
MAHAYANA - “GREATER VEHICLE”
ISLAM - AN EVEN LATER ARRIVAL
CHRISTIANITY - AN INTERESTING HISTORY
EAST ASIA - A HIERARCHY
CHINA: AT THE CENTER
Son Of Heaven, Tian-Xia Tradition
JAPAN: POOR, FRACTURED AND ISOLATED
KOREA: BUFFETED BUT PROUD
SOUTHEAST ASIA: TRIBUTARY STATES
THE SWINGS OF HISTORY
MID-18TH CENTURY: GROWING CONNECTIONS
CANTON SYSTEM
MID-19TH CENTURY: THE BEGINNING OF THE END
OPIUM WAR, TAIPINGS, SELF-STRENGTHENERS, MEIJI
LATE 19TH CENTURY: CHINA COLLAPSES, JAPAN RISES, COLONIALISM IN SEA
EARLY 20TH CENTURY: CONFLICT
CHINA MISERY: 1911, WARLORDS, KMT, CCP
JAPAN ADVANCES: MANCHUKUO, “GEACPS”
WWII
MID 20TH CENTURY: REMAKING THE ASIAN ORDER
TAIWAN, COLD WAR/KOREA,”TIGERS”
LATE 20TH CENTURY: ASIAN GROWTH
MING-QING CHINA
Dynastic cycle
The gentry
Clans
The Qing as non-Han rulers
The Qing as a high point of traditional China:
Extent of territory, size of population
Strong state
Strong economy: trade with the world
EARLY WESTERN CONTACT!
(but don’t forget the Silk Road!)
A large demand for Asian goods
But little demand for Western goods
The Portuguese
Maritime trade
1557 – Macau
The Dutch – VOC – Indonesia, Japan
Missionaries: Jesuits in Japan, China
Xavier in Japan
Ricci in China
The Spanish - Philippines (1571)
Portugeuse (blue) and Spanish (white) trade routes
And then the Dutch and the English….
REACTION:
CLOSING OF JAPAN
Persecution of Christians
THE RITES CONTROVERSY IN CHINA
Jesuits vs Dominicans
At issue: Confucianism
At larger issue: who rules - the Pope or the Emperor
1724 - Christianity (Catholicism) proscribed
Modern echoes…..
Schirokauer, Brief History of Chinese & Japanese Civilizations
AAIIYAA! GUEI!!!
“OPENING CHINA” - PART I
The Macartney Mission - 1793
Qianlong: “As your Ambassador can see for himself, we possess all things. I set no value on objects strange or ingenious, and have no use for your country’s manufactures”
COMING UP? - A “CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS”?
BUT TRADE IN CHINA CONTINUED….
The Canton system (1760-1842)
Follows an earlier pattern
Sequester the foreigners,
require dealings through co-hongs
Unequal tax system
It worked well enough but
was unsustainable….
OPENING CHINA - PART II
The Opium War - still an issue in Asia
Lin Zexiu
Hong Kong
Treaty of Nanking (Nanjing) 1842
THE TREATY SYSTEM
(Nanjing & The Bogue)
“Unequal”
Indemnities
Treaty Ports -MFN -
Guangzhou, Xiamen, Fuzhou, Ningbo, Shanghai
Freedom for missionaries
Extra-territoriality
ALL THIS COINCIDES WITH ONE CRISIS
AND CAUSES ANOTHER
INTERNAL DECAY -
Over population
Corruption
Peasant rebellions
CULTURAL -
“How could this happen to us?”
Impact of foreign ideas
THE TAIPING REBELLION - 1850-1864
Hong Xiuquan
Proto-Nationalist?
Proto-Communist?
Anti-Confucian
Capital: Nanjing
Defeat by The Self-Strengtheners
Schirokauer, Brief History of Chinese & Japanese Civilizations
THE SELF-STRENGTHENING MOVEMENT
WESTERN TOOLS, CHINESE THOUGHT
“TI-YONG”
“CHINESE LEARNING AS THE BASE
WESTERN LEARNING FOR USE”
First “modern” militaries - had consequences
FOCUS ON INTERNAL AFFAIRS
THE “SELF-STRENGTHENERS”
“The situation today [is like the diseases of the human body]…Both the Taipings and Nien bandits…constitute an organic disease. Russia…aiming to nibble away our territory like a silk worm, may be considered a threat to our bosom. As to England, her purpose is to trade, but she acts violently without regard to human decency…she [is] an affliction of our limbs. Therefore, we should suppress the Taipings and Nien bandits first, get the Russians under control next, and attend to the British last.”
Schirokauer, p. 170
Schirokauer, Brief History of Chinese & Japanese Civilizations
CONTINUED WESTERN AGGRESSION
Treaty of Tianjin
Destruction of the Summer Palace
Russian gains along the Amur
CONTINUED IMPERIAL DECAY
CiXi
ATTEMPTS TO DEAL WITH THE CRISIS
Education reform
“State capitalism”
MEANWHILE…
JAPAN IS FORCED TO OPEN ITS BORDERS
THE OPIUM WAR
JAPAN A WAY STATION
PERRY – THE BLACK SHIPS – 1853
IMPOSITION OF UNEQUAL TREATIES
REACTION:
THE SHOGONATE LEANS TOWARD
ACCOMMODATION
SAMURAI IN THE REGIONS OPPOSE,
URGE RESISTANCE
“SONNO JOI” - 1860
“REVERE THE EMPEROR, EXPEL THE FOREIGNERS”
THUS, THE MEIJI RESTORATION - 1868
AN ATTEMPT TO RESTORE “TRADITION”,
LEADS TO MODERNIZATION
WHY? LEADERS REALIZE THAT WITHOUT
MODERNIZATION, JAPAN WILL GO
THE WAY OF CHINA
“THE CHARTER OATH”
GOVERNMENT CENTRALIZATION
“NEW” JAPANESE ARMY
FOREIGN VISITS
THE ROOTS OF “TECHNO-NATIONALISM”?
INTENSE INTEREST IN “THE WEST”
“PROGRESS”
“REASON”
“SOCIAL DARWINISM”
“REALISM” IN FOREIGN AFFAIRS
CONCERN OVER “JAPANESE UNIQUENESS”,
“NATIONAL ESSENCE”
JAPAN’S “ASIAN MISSION”
RISE OF JAPAN
MEIJI
1895 - SINO-JAPANESE WAR
KOREA, TAIWAN
1905 - RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR
KOREA AS JAPANESE COLONY
MILITARISM (THE WESTERN MODEL)
EYES ON MANCHURIA
MILITARISTS IN CONTROL
THE WAR TO COME
“Asia for Asians”
“Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere”
BUT CONTINUED FAILURE IN CHINA
Continued defeats - Sino-Japanese War of 1895
Shimonoseki
“Scramble for concessions”
Yan Fu - “Wealth and Power”
“We thought that of all the human race none was nobler than we. And then one day from tens and thousands of miles away came island barbarians…they attacked our coasts…and alarmed our Emperor. …the only reason we did not devour their flesh and sleep on their hides was that we had not the power”
--- Schirakauer 195
“THE OPENING” OF CHINA BROUGHT
Economic disruption
Political difficulties
Opium War, unequal treaties, Taipings
Rise of anti-Manchu “nationalism”
Crisis of confidence
Half-way measures
Self-Strengthening - “Ti-Yong”
Modernization steps
Aim: To save the regime
Result: Undermined the regime
CHINA AS VICTIM: THE CENTURY OF HUMILIATION