Due Feburary 20th: Paper #1

Additional Readings:

• China in the Early Modern World: Shortcuts, Myths and Realities
  
• Chapter 16: Russia, Central Eurasia, China, Japan, 1500- 1700: Centralization and Commercialization
  
• Chapter 21: Expansion, Reform, and Communication in the Agrarian Empires of Asia

Images from class:

New: Korean Missions to Early-modern Japan

Commercial and Urban Centers
China: Wealth and Unrest
Ming China's contact with the outside world (color)
Ming China's contact with the outside world (b&w)
Ming China: 1364-1644
World Population
Blank Map
Ming Courier Routes
Sex ratio

Comments and questions to helenjt@mit.edu