Chapter 21 Video and Web Links

Regulating the “Inner” and “Outer” Domains: China and Japan, 1500–1800

Audio / Video / Film

  1. Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire: The Way of the Samurai(55:18)

The first episode in PBS’ series about Japanese history looks at the Momoyama period of civil war through Nobunaga to Hideyoshi and tells of the rise of Tokugawa Ieasu and ends with the siege of Osaka castle in 1615. (Account Required)

  1. Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire: The Will of the Shogun(55:17)

The second episode in PBS’ series about Japanese history covers the Tokugawa Shogunate from 1603 to the Shimabara rebellion in 1638, which led to the closure of Japan under Ieasu’s grandson. (Account Required)

  1. Anthony Ucerle Lecture on Matteo Ricci (1:15:47)

Historian Anthony Ucerle from Oxford University looks at the life and influence of the Jesuit missionary, Matteo Ricci who sought to convert the Chinese people to Christianity.

Web Links

  1. Track the voyages made by Zheng He to Southeast Asia, India, Arabia and
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