2019-2020 READING LIST Social studies SOCIAL TOPIC STUDIES East Asia: The Middle Kingdom, the Rising Sun, the Land of the Morning Calm, CONTEST and Beyond
The Social PRIMARY READING SELECTION Studies Contest Everlasting Flower: A History of Korea, by Keith Pratt consists of Reaktion Books; (2007) ISBN: 978-1861893352! 45 objective questions and Available from Texas Educational Paperbacks, Inc -- 800-443-2078 an essay. www.tepbooks.com Students List price: $27.00, TEP UIL price: $17.55 plus shipping are expected Also available from most online book sellers. to master primary SUPPLEMENTAL READING MATERIAL reading Country Profiles selections, as (from the CIA’s The World Factbook, BBC News Country Profiles and Info- well as specific documents, please) and to be familiar with • China • Japan general- • Hong Kong • South Korea knowledge • Macau • North Korea social studies • Taiwan • Mongolia concepts and terms. • Tibet
Each year, the contest focuses Links on a different https://www.ancient.eu topic area and https://www.britannica.com/ a reading list https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/asia-and-africa is provided by https://www.infoplease.com/ UIL. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/docs/profileguide.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/country_profiles/default.stm https://www.history.com/topics/china https://www.history.com/topics/china/china-timeline https://www.history.com/topics/japan https://www.history.com/topics/korea/south-korea https://www.history.com/topics/korea/north-korea-history
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Last Updated: August 12, 2019 2019-2020 READING LIST Social studies Key Terms / General Knowledge of East Asia: The Middle Kingdom, the Rising Sun, the Land of the Morning Calm, and Beyond
People Hu Jintao Queen Seondeok / Sondok Huangdi Qin Shi Huang Bogd Khan Inukai Tsuyoshi Roh Tae-woo Cao Cao Itō Hirobumi Saigo Takamori Chiang Kai-shek Jiang Zemin Sejong the Great Chinggis Khan Kim Dae-jung Shang Yang Chun Doo-hwan Kim Il-sung Shinzo Abe Cixi Empress Dowager Kim Jong-il Sima Qian Confucius Kim Jong-un Sun Tzu Deng Xiaoping Kim Young-sam Sun Yat-Sen Emperor Gaozu of Han King Tangun Syngman Rhee Emperor Anko Koizumi Junichiro Tojo Hideki Emperor Hirohito Kublai Khan Tokugawa Ieyasu Emperor Qianlong Laozi Toyotomi Hideyoshi Emperor Hongwu Li Bai Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj Emperor Kanmu Lin Zexu Wang Kon Emperor Meiji Mao Zedong William Adams Emperor Shotoku Marco Polo Xi Jinping Emperor Taizong of Tang Matthew C. Perry Yamagata Aritomo Emperor Wen of Han Mengzi Yangdi Empress Myeongseong Minamoto no Yoritomo Yi Seong-gye Empress Koken Mongke Yi Sun-Shin Empress Wu Zetian Nurhachi Yu the Great Fu Hao Ogedai Zheng He Giovanni da Pian del Carpine Park Chung-hee Zhuangzi Himiko Park Geun-hye Zheng He Hong Xiuquan Pu Yi Zhuangzi
General Terms Bone Rank System Daimyo Book of Changes (I Ching) Duolun Ainu people Boshin War Dynasty Amaterasu Boxer Rebellion Dzungars An Lushan Rebellion British East India Company East China Sea Analects buddhism economic miracle Anyang bushido Edo Period Article 9 celadon eunuch Asia for the Asiatics Chang’an feng shui Asuka Period Chongqing Filial Piety Azuchi-Momoyama Period Choson Dynasty Five Classics Baekje Kingdom comfort women foot binding bakufu Constitution of Seventeen Forbidden City Ballad of Mulan Articles Fukushima Disaster banner system Cultural Revolution Goguryeo (Koguryo) Kingdom Battle of Talas Dalai Lama Gojoseon Kingdom Battles of Khalkhin Gol Daodejing Goryeo (Koryo) Kingdom Be Daoism Grand Canal Beijing Diamond Sutra Great Leap Forward Last Updated: August 12, 2019 2019-2020 READING LIST, CONTINUED Social studies Great Wall May 15th Incident Shanghai Guangzhou May 4th Movement Shikoku gun powder Meiji Constitution Shintoism Gwangju Uprising Meiji Restoration shogun Han (ethnicity) Middle Kingdom Silk Road Han (Korean culture) Ming Dynasty Silla Kingdom Han Dynasty mound tomb period Sino-Japanese War (First and Second) Hangul script Mount Fuji Sirhak movement Haniwa figures moveable type sohei Heian Period Mukden Incident Song Dynasty Heihe–Tengchong Line Mumun Period South Manchuria Railway Hokkaido Muromachi Period Soviet Japanese Neutrality Pact Honshu Nagasaki Sui Dynasty Huang He River Nanjing Massacre Taika Reforms Hundred Days Reform Nara Period Taiping Rebellion Ikko ikki National Diet of Japan Taisho democracy Imjin War Northern Expedition Tang Dynasty Inner Mongolia Autonomous Okinawa The Kojiki Region one child policy The Tale of Genji Ise Grand Shrine Opium Wars (1st and 2nd) Three Gorges Dam Iwakura Mission Oracle Bones Tiananmen Square protests jaebol otaku Tianjin Japanese Occupation P’yongyang Tibetan plateau Jin Dynasty Paektu Mountain Todaiji temple Jindandao incident pagoda Tokyo Jomon pottery Parhae Kingdom Treaties of San Francisco (1952) Jurchen Pax Mongolica Treaty of Kanagawa Kabuki Pearl River Delta Treaty of Nanjing Kamakura Period People’s Republic of China treaty ports Kamikaze Pinyin tsunami kempeitai Qin Dynasty Tsushima Island Khalkha Qing Dynasty Tumen River Khitan Rangoon Bombing Turkic Khaganate (First and Second) Kofun Period Republic (Korea; First-Sixth) unequal treaties Korean Empire Republic of China Uyghurs Korean Three Kingdoms Period Rice Riots of 1918 Wade-Giles Korean War Ring of Fire wako/wokou kowtow Ritsuryo Warring States Period Kunlun Mountains Romance of the Three Kingdoms Xia Dynasty Kuomintang Russo-Japanese War Xiongnu Kyoto Ryukyu Islands Yalu River Kyushu sadae Yamatai Kingdom Land of Morning Calm sakoku yangban Legalism salaryman Yangtze River Liao Dynasty samurai Yayoi culture Liaodong Peninsula Satsuma Rebellion Yellow Turban rebellion Little Red Book Sea of Japan Yin and yang Long March Security Treaty Between the Yuan Dynasty Luoyang United States and Japan (1951) Zaibatsu Manchuria Seoul Zen Buddhism Mandate of Heaven seppuku Zhou Dynasty Marco Polo Bridge Incident Shang Dynasty Last Updated: August 12, 2019