Japan,+Korea,+and+Vietnam

1. ESPIRIT Chart: Japan 2. Summary: Comparing Feudalisms 3. Sinification of Korea 4. Summary of Chinese Influence in Japan, Korea, and Vietnam: The Chinese influence in Japan, Korea, and Vietnam were dominantly strong at the beginning of the three emerging civilizations. In all of the cases, when the civilizations were emerging and developing, Chinese influence was particularly strong. Japan, Korea, and Vietnam all attempted to imitate Chinese bureaucracy and language. Japan, Korea, and Vietnam went even further to adopt Buddhism and Chinese poetry. However, as times progressed, each country got more and more independent from the Chinese influences. Japan completely discarded the Taika reforms, which were the major attempts at imitating the Chinese, and entered the Feudal Age. Their scripts and even Buddhism was changed to accommodate their lifestyles. Chinese influence in Korea lessened as Koreans abandoned Chinese innovations and better improved the technologies and ideas that the Koreans once borrowed from the Chinese such as their artwork and printing. In Vietnam, independence ideas arose as the Vietnamese were afraid to become “mini China” and began to resist Chinese dominance and literature. Vietnam avoided ideas of a monarchy, and from this point on Vietnam lingered further and further away from China’ influence. Though each country had used China as a model, this only went so far to start each region off and further transition into a developed nation. Chinese influence in Japan, Korea, and Vietnam helped each nation develop, but as they developed, each country utilized China’s influence into their own unique way, syncretising China’s ideas and innovations into their own until Chinese influence gradually decreased.