Both late Ming China and late Sengoku/Tokugawa Japan dealt with a combination of external and internal pressures. Compare and contrast how these two centralized/centralizing states did in response to their individual issues?
Cite at least 2 specific examples form this weeks short readings. Your response should be ~300 words.
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ps/japan/tokugawa_edicts_swords.pdf
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ps/japan/tokugawa_edicts_swords.pdf
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ps/japan/tokugawa_edicts_foreigners.pdf
https://www.ndl.go.jp/nichiran/e/s1/s1_2.html
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ps/cup/twentyfour_exemplars.pdf
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ps/cup/yang_guangxian_cannot_otherwise.p
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