What Western ideas were generally sought after in Asian countries? Why were those ideas important, but not others?
What will be an ideal response?
A. Desired Western ideas
1. China
a. Chinese were still highly selective in their receptivity to Western
ideas
b. Jesuits were already installed as the emperors' favorite
astronomers, mapmakers, and technicians
c. Jesuits did extend their activities at court
1. lecturing on Euclid's geometry, or on physics, astronomy
d. commissioned Jesuits to map inner Asia
e. translation of a collection of Western mathematical works
f. Western technology made its biggest impact, perhaps, on war
1. design and manufacture artillery
2. Japan
a. admiration for the West penetrated deeper
b. allowed Chinese translations of Western books to circulate
c. recognized that Western astronomy had revolutionized knowledge of
the universe
d. hard to find ways to promote Western knowledge due to language
barriers
e. discovered principles similar to those philosophical radicals in
Europe and America advocated
3. Korea and Vietnam
a. acquired some knowledge of Western technology by way of China
b. model world maps on Western example
c. introduce Catholicism into Korea
d. new ideas about women and marriage in Vietnam
4. other Asian cultures were less hospitable to Western thought
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