Qing China, Tokugawa Japan, and Joseon Korea - A Complete Overview

The Giants of East Asia: Harmony and Chaos, goes over the Early Modern period of East Asia, focusing on Qing China and Tokugawa Japan, but we also take a look at Joseon Korea and Vietnam's Dai Viet.

We start off where our last megadocumentary left off, with the Ming is nearing its end. While meeting with the Jesuits brought cultural exchange, the Ming soon faced economic, social, and military problems as the Jurchen coalesced into a mighty power in Manchuria, and elevated themselves as a new dynasty, the Qing. After peasant rebellions brought the end of the Ming, the Qing entered and brought stability.

We next go over the influential early Qing rulers, Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong, and the annexation of Taiwan from Ming loyalists. We then go through the 4 Dzungar-Qing Wars, which resulted in the Qing Empire seizing Mongolia, Tibet, and Xinjiang, to become one of the largest empires in history. After the White Lotus Rebellion, we then deal with culture and literature during the Late Ming and Early Qing and the empires early relations with Western powers, setting up the period of conflict which will come next series.

We then travel to Japan, which remained in the Sengoku Period. The go through the journey of Oda Nobunaga, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who ended the Sengoku and united Japan, and Tokugawa Ieyasu, who eventually set up the Tokogawa Shogunate, marking the beginning of the Edo Period, the most prosperous and long lasting in Feudal Japan. We take a look at literature and art styles as well in the new urbanized Japanese cities, all centered around Ukiyo, or the 'floating world'. We also touch on their interactions with Europeans, Christianity, and their Sakoku policy.

Joseon Korea is next, as we focus on the Imjin War and the defense of Admiral Yi Sun-Sin and his famous turtle ships, and invasions by the Jurchen and Manchu.

In Vietnam, we pick up where we left off, and go through the rise of the Le Dynasty, the Mac Dynasty, the Trinh and Nguyen Lords, and finally the Tay Son Rebellion which leads us into the 1800s.

This is the 4th episode of our Early Modern series, which goes over the history of the world from roughly 1500 to 1800. The last episode dealt with the so-called Gunpowder Empires, the Ottomans, Safavid Iran, and Mughal India.

0:00 Late Ming and Early Qing (China)
31:16 Azuchi–Momoyama period and Tokugawa Shogunate (Japan)
53:27 Joseon (Korea)
1:02:15 Dai Viet (Vietnam)

The Early Modern Series:

Welcome to Early Modern series of the World History Summarized project! The entire project is meant to summarize broad topics in history and balances political history and events, with social/daily life, and culture. If you've watched our History of the World documentary, the project is a perfect next step. The videos are standalone, but presented in a chronological fashion. This series "the Early Modern" takes place after our megadocumentaries "The Ancient World" and "The Medieval World". It will be divided into 5 videos about the Early Modern period (c. 1500 - 1800) all over the world, and will be called Phase 3. Once these 5 videos are completed, we will move onto Phase 4 of the project, but this series will be considered completed, and compiled into ONE MEGA-DOCUMENTARY containing all 5 parts.

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Music Used:
Adrian von Ziegler - Into Solitude
Adrian von Ziegler - Isan
Adrian von Ziegler - Night of the Soaring Dragon
Adrian von Ziegler - Panda Power
Alexander Nakarada - Dragonsong
Kevin Macleod - Guzheng City
Kevin Macleod - Oppressive Gloom
Kevin Macleod - Ritual

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[MadeInHistory]

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[seoul_]

If you want to see real east asian history. You have to separate China, Mongolia, and Manchuria. Then you can understane the history much more easily.

[wiseone]

Awesome channel. I do a lot of history study making captures and notes on these documentaries. Much appreciated.

[cooljeffrox]

Graphic is absolutely insane...whoever made this get my absolute two thumbs up

[aitakuya]

As a Japanese who recently moved out of the country, I have to reiterate that
Ethnic conflicts in East Asia are, to say the least, extraordinary.
There are various reasons for this, such as the invasion of the Japanese Empire in the past, the current Cold War between the U.S. and China, and the crazy nationalists in various countries.
but even considering them, the level of ethnic conflict in East Asia is extraordinary.
The Balkans seem to be closer than East Asia

[doyoungkim]

썸네일 한국 옷은 정말 근본 없네요. 😂 갓과 도포 실루엣 빼곤 전혀 맞지 않아.

[hracekk]

Is it possible for future videos to include sources? I would love to use something said here, but I can’t really cite videos

[letskculture]

🟥[Fact Check - History of KOREA(KOGURYEO or KORYEO or SHILLA)] After Gojoseon, there were 3 Dynasties divided on Korean peninsula: Koguryeo, Baekje, and Shilla. Koguryeo was destroyed by Shilla on the Korean Peninsula: By Shilla Dynasty's suggestion, Tang Dynasty of the central China sent reinforcements, and Koguryeo was perished by the Shilla-Tang allied forces, so then Koguryeo was absorbed by Shilla. In the end, Shilla ultimately unified the 3 Dynasties and the Korean Peninsula was ruled by the Unified Shilla. The capital of Koguryeo was Pyongyang, and afterwards, Pyongyang was the territory of the Unified Shilla.
The Unified Shilla Empire used the term "Khan" for emperor like the Mongolian’s Yuan Dynasty used the same term and the emperor of Shilla called himself "Marip-Khan" and it was an empire on equal status to Tang Dynasty of China.
Following Unified Shilla Empire, there was internal Dynasty transition and Koryeo Empire emerged, and as its name implies, Koryeo(KOREA in English) was a country that succeeded Koguryeo.
Following Balhae Dynasty in the northeast was founded by part of the Koguryeo refugees, afterwards the so-called Manchurians (former Koguryeo people) established the Qing Empire in the northeast, and the Koryeo people established the Koryeo Empire in the southeast.
The Qing Dynasty, the empire of the Manchurians invaded and destroyed the Ming Dynasty of the Han Chinese in the central China and established the Qing Dynasty on the heart of China.
Manchurians, Mongolians, and Koreans are originally the same ethnicity of the northeast(Dongyi), called the Altai-Mongolian, using the Altai-Mongolian transformed languages, which is totally different language to the Chinese language.

[Engel-olrm]

I like that you included Dai Viet, I haven’t seen this in a while! Most people seem to skip over anything pre Vietnam war

[ExploreAnswer]

You are a very profound researcher of world history, through this video I can understand a part of the history of East Asia, thank you!

[ThrE-GeS]

chinas age of the three kingdoms deserves a video on it’s own. should you think about covering it as well.

[AL-yuvi]

I have a request to modify the video. Korea's costumes are made of armor like gat and Japanese, but most of the costumes in Korea are hanbok with gat and jeogori. If you want armor, it would be a good idea to use a head armor and a Korean-style helmet, one of Korea's traditional armor.

[linshitaolst]

The national strength of the Ming Dynasty had already declined during the Wanli period, but even so, the unified Japan was still not a match for the Ming Dynasty. Japan truly surpassed China during the Qing Dynasty after 1894, when Japan completed industrialization and China remained a semi agricultural country

[seoul_]

Lol Qing is not Chinese. Qing is Manchurian

[thachnguyen]

This video is so poorly made. AI photos and videos aren't accurate. Photos of Vietnamese part are so wrong. I'm sure at least some of the other parts are wrong as well

[mrnancy]

This was very educational, I do hope you guy will get around to do the stories of four great West African empires, Wagadu aka Ghana, Mali, Songhay and Kenam Bornu which although great and long lasting with wide international contacts is none the less unknown to most.

[Healing_media]

국가별 역사를 통해, 시대별로 어떤 발전과 성장을 이루었는지를 비교해볼 수 있어 유익했습니다.
훌륭한 컨텐츠를 제공해주셔서 감사드립니다.

[matthewbryson]

This was incredible. Ill re-watch this multiple times. thanks!

[Norr]

Yay! Top of my feed, I love your channel and "new" history is fun . You do an especially good job on Asia vs most western-cento history

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