At the Crossroads of Empire: Vietnam, India, China (Volume E)

Map

Vietnam

• Chinese rule• Tây So’n peasant

uprising• Gia Long, emperor• French Indochina• Imperial Japan,

World War II

India

• Hindu and Muslim leaders

• repressive measures

• British-born administrators

• English language• Indian National

Congress (1885)• swaraj

1857 Revolt

China

• population growth• peasant rebellion• British opium trade• Hong Xiuquan,

“Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace”

• Qing Dynasty• international

imperialism

The Boxer Rebellion

“Heaven appoints each human to a place. If doomed to roll in dust, we’ll roll in dust; we’ll sit on high when destined for high seats. Does Heaven favor anyone, bestowing both rare talent and good luck? …Our karma we must carry as our lot—” (lines 3242–52).

Nguyên Du (1765–1820)

Ghalib (1797–1869)

• minor noble family• arranged marriage• Urdu and Persian

poet• failure to secure a

patron or pension• ghazal

Liu E (1857–1909)“Spiritual nature gives birth to feeling; feeling gives birth to weeping. One kind is strong; one kind is weak. When an addlepated boy loses a piece of fruit, he cries; when a silly girl loses a hairpin, she weeps…if weeping takes the form of tears, its strength is small. If weeping does not take the form of tears, its strength is great: it reaches farther” (p. 605).

Pandita Ramabai (1858–1922)

“Although no law has ever said so, the popular belief is that a woman can have no salvation unless she be formally married” (p. 616).

Parts of South, Southeast & East Asia

Which of the following had, for most of ancient history, been the superpower in East Asia?

a. the Mughal Empireb. Europec. Indiad. China

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Which empire took control of India by the middle of the nineteenth century, displacing the long-ruling Mughal Empire?

a. the Britishb. the Dutchc. the Frenchd. the Chinese

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The Vietnamese writer Nguyên Du is a good example of a writer who ________ .

a. disavowed imperial traditions completelyb. embraced imperial traditions completelyc. embraced local traditions completelyd. embraced both local and imperial traditions

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British presence in India was initially motivated primarily by which of the following?

a. commerceb. religionc. politicsd. exploration

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The British began smuggling which of the following into China from India?

a. coalb. ricec. tead. opium

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