L3 - End of Choson & Colonial Encounters

Question 1

How does Conservatism of Choson affect its society?

Answer 1

• Leads to instability
• The vested interests of Choson elites contributes to the government’s inability to adapt to changing geopolitical conditions

Question 2

What are some revolutionary ideas?

Answer 2

• enlightenment thought? (group of Yangbang, who may be younger to see the future of the gov )
• Universalism: against the notion of innate social hierarchies

Question 3

When does Japan opened to trade + diplomacy with the West?

Answer 3

1854

Question 4

When does Korea forced to open by Japan? What treaty established? What does it say?

Answer 4

1876
Kanghwa Treaty
- Open trade to Japan,
-satisfied Japanese demands for recognition of its government
-Disruption relationship to China + adopting new diplomatic strategies with the West

Question 5

Which 2 wars happened in response to rivalry over Korean in the end of Choson?

Answer 5

• Japan and China (Sino-Japanese war 1894-95)

- Japan and Russia (1904-05).

Question 6

When does international forces/internal forces/cultural changes happens?

Answer 6

in the end of Choson dynasty

Question 7

What is International Forces?

Answer 7

• between Japan & China

Rivalry竞争 of Korea’s neighbors and Western powers: crises of sovereignty主权

Question 8

What is Internal Forces?

Answer 8

-Revolutionary faction within Yangban and scholar

Political reform movement, competing interests between establishment and reformers

Question 9

What is Cultural Changes?

Answer 9

• More trades–>population increase–>bring in new ideas

resulting from transformative action of global markets, reform, new ideologies

Question 10

What is the driving force of regaining Korean independence?

Answer 10

Korean Nationalism

- also as a reform movement

Question 11

What does “decentering China” affect the relationship between Korea + China?

Answer 11

• Gradual rupture of this special relationship

- transformation of Korea’s traditional worldview

Question 12

What does Kapsin Coup do?

Answer 12

• They want to reform Choson + seize power

Question 13

Outcomes of Kapsin Coup?

Answer 13

• Progressives are discredited by association with Japan military forces
• strengthened Chinese influence in Korea and brought conservative factions back
• Beginning of decade-long Chinese intrusion 入侵 and military rivalry竞争 with Japan

Question 14

Time table of phases of dominant foreign influence in Korea?

Answer 14

China (1884-1894)

Japan (following Sino-Japanese war of 1894-95)

Japanese-Russian rivalry (1896-1904)

Japanese ascendency (1904-5)

Question 15

What does Dismantling the old order mean?

Answer 15

• Choson foreign relationship with China: ritually subordinate position to China and not any other emperor in ease-Asia
• refuse to recognize Meiji state –>invites punitive惩罚性的 military action by Japan

Question 16

What is Japan’s Ascendancy 优势，支配地位？

Answer 16

• After defeated Russia (1905)

- Earlier defect of China in 1894-1895–>Korea accepts J’s “advice”

Question 17

What is Kabo? What do they do?

Answer 17

• Create new gov, targeted at confusion organization, they want to re-define the Choson order
• Pro-Japanese
• Young scholars switch to focus to foreign language, western history
• Kabo reforms effectively cut old class system (in Choson period, people showed a lot to show their class)

Question 18

What are some effects of Kabo reforms?

Answer 18

effectively destroy the mechanisms of reproducing and maintaining the old class system:

• eliminate civil exam system –>remove traditional status distinctions
• reform of visible differences in social class

Question 19

Which 2 people are responsive of decisive end of Choson dynasty?

Answer 19

• Assassination of Queen Min (killed by anti-Janp)
• King Kojong
  (last Choson King, flees to Russian embassy; admitting Choson’s inability to maintain sovereignty)

Question 20

What is modernity? How is modernization used to justify colonialism?

Answer 20

-Modernity: civilized project, used for justification for colonial progression and conquest, is much the case in Korea and North Africa

Question 21

How does colonialism affect the colonizer as well as the colonized?

Answer 21

-Civilization and colonial–>as a gift for colonizer

Question 22

What are the stakes of national history, language, and culture in a colonized space?

Answer 22

-Contemporary knowledge (if you are threatened, it become much more important), partialism