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Thursday, January 24, 2019

Chinese Influences

china affected Asian countries culturally, socially and semipolitically. Korea, Vietnam and Japan are the typical nations of Chinese influences. Chinese moral ethics, precedent roles of women and the government dodging considerably impacted those countries. Even so, among these countries, they developed their profess unique aspect to some varying degrees. First of all, Korean, Vietnamese and Nipponese authorities respectively emphasized Confucianism through education. For example, Confucian-based schools were established in Korea and Vietnam.In arouse of those schools, Korean students studied Confucianism in China. Japanese students were also taken to China for learning Confucianism by Shotoku Taishi, a leading member of a study clan. After visiting China, he issued the Seventh Article Constitution. Taishi encouraged practicing Confucianism in Japan. Nevertheless, when the Japanese came up with samurai that emphasized bushido or the way of the warrior, they valued warriors quite an than scholars whom Confucianism valued. Second, while Korean women had limit roles as Chinese women, Vietnamese and Japanese women had unbounded roles.Confucius highlighted women as subordinate characters to men. Therefore, as Confucian-influenced countries, they were expected to have limited roles of women. In fact, Korea was the only one in which restricted wide of the mark social activity of women. Korean women formerly raised her children at her parents home, but aft(prenominal) adapting to Confucianism, she belonged to husbands family and raised her children at her parents-in-laws houses. On the other hand, Vietnamese women had wide sphere of social and economic activities. Also, Japanese women were not restricted.They were able to get properties and live with her parents house when they were married. Most importantly, Vietnam, Japan and Korea adopted the Chinese government system although Japanese developed their own in the later years. Vietnam was under Chinese rule for more than 1,000 years and the Chinese officials tested to assimilate into China. Korea is hardened right under the northeast of China. Therefore, there were a lot of political influences. For example, in the 7th century, the Silla Kingdom united the peninsula with help of Tang dynasty.Chinese tried to control and assimilate Korea. Chinese intervention led Trung sisters uprising in Vietnam and military resistance in Korea. Vietnam was able to establish as an autarkical state in the 10th century and China withdrew military in Korea. Whereas Japan, it was never invaded and conquered by China. It is 100 miles away from the mainland. Hence, Chinese influences were not significant. They did borrow Chinese political system. Then again, the Japanese government was decentralized and came up with feudal system and samurai.

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