1. Please describe commercial expansion and networks with dual centers at Edo (today's Tokyo) and the Qing Empire.
2. What was the global significance of the rise of the Manchus? What was its regional significance in East Asia?
3. Describe the "Confucian revolution" in Choson Korea from the 15th Century to 18th Century.
4. How did Qing China expand to Central Asia in the eighteenth century? According to Ge Zhaoguang, what does the territorial expansion mean in Chinese history?
5. How did the arrival of the industrial West dramatically changed China in the nineteenth-century?
6. How did the arrival of the industrial West dramatically changed Japan in the nineteenth-century?
7. How did the East Asian societies develop a form of early modernity? Provide at least THREE examples to illustrate your point: Territory, trade and commerce, urbanization, communication and transportation, etc.
8. How devastating was the Taiping uprising in Qing China? Please describe specifically the destruction of the middle and lower Yangzi regions.