Foundations of East Asian Culture
This lesson provides an overview of the early history of East Asia and how it has helped shape the region today. The dynastic …
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February 5, 2026
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This lesson provides an overview of the early history of East Asia and how it has helped shape the region today. The dynastic …
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You are amazing. Literally getting me through my geography class currently. Thank you!
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This is why I think What if East Asia unified into one nation with Japan's or South Korea's highest democracy rating? This is why I always believe China, Mongolia, Taiwan, Korea, and Japan all must unify to Great East Asian Empire with Tokyo as the new unified national capital. I always love Japan as if I always think of East Asia as a Great Japanorea Empire.
FYI: Xia is pronounced like Shaw (George Bernard Shaw) not with the 'ow' sound you're using here.
Quality content thanks 🙏
That was fun, I really enjoyed the lesson
U are learning about the culture of east asia
Anthropology major here. Just a correction. Korean ancestors did not migrate from China. The first proto-Koreans were horseriding warriors that came from Siberia, Manchuria, and Northern Korea. The early Chinese had a culture based on the plains they lived in while the early Koreans had a culture based on mounted warfare and living on the rugged and flat terrains of Korea and Manchuria. Modern genetic evidence sees that Chinese has more genetic similarity with Vietnamese and Thai people while Korea has more similarity to the Japanese due to Yayoi migrations from Korea to Japan around the 3rd century AD. And there is also evidence for the existence Gojoseon or "Old Joseon" in anthropological terms and archeological terms due to the proliferation of mandolin shaped daggers and bronze daggers that had a design unique to Korean states prior to the Three Kingdoms period of Korea. These artifacts were ritual tools that were carbon dated to around the 3rd millenium BC. And as for the languages. Korean and Chinese have always been different. This is why even during the ancient times, Koreans tried to created new writing systems like Idu and Hyangchal because of the agglunative nature of Korean. Korean and Chinese have never been related ever. They just had close proximity to each other, but they descended from two unique groups of people. Other than that, great video!
It's sad to see the Chinese. China calls its neighbor the dog of America, but in fact, China is the dog of the United States.
US President Clinton thought that opening up to China would cause the Chinese to give up communism and protest against the government. But China's stupid 1.4 billion people have been brainwashed by the Chinese government
They claim that the culture of a neighboring country is theirs, and claim that Corona belongs to another country.
🇨🇳The ancient Chinese created a splendid history and culture, and had a great influence on the culture of neighboring countries. So the Chinese have some sort of claim on the culture of Japan, Korea and Vietnam.
🇯🇵The rise of modern Japan and the success of cultural propaganda in the world made the Japanese have cultural confidence. Japanese people readily admit that Japanese culture comes from China and take pride in preserving and developing their own relatively unique Japanese culture.
🇰🇷Korea was a vassal state of China in ancient times and a Japanese colony in modern times. Koreans feel inferior for their ancient Korean history, which was subordinated to China, and envy Japanese achievements in the modern era. Therefore, in a strong sense of nationalism, Koreans always emphasize that the independent origins of Korean culture are different from Those of China, and claim that The achievements of Japanese culture are influenced by Korea.
🇻🇳Although Vietnam is located in Southeast Asia, Vietnamese people hate southeast Asian culture and yearn for East Asian culture. The Vietnamese always emphasize the close ties between Vietnamese culture and East Asian culture. On the surface, Vietnamese hated ancient Chinese colonization and invasion, but in their hearts, they were happy that the Chinese dynasty ruled Vietnam for a thousand years and spread Han culture. Some Vietnamese consider themselves of Chinese descent and feel superior to other Southeast Asian nations.
I love it! keep it up! thank you for this video it helped me get an A+ my test
One of the best videos I've ever seen. Excellent!
Are you sure majority of koreans were migrants from china? I thought Koreans originated in northern tribes.
Hi, I know you didn't explain this, but how influential was the shinto religion in the development of Japan? Thank you
Talk about east asian culture and forget Vietnam lol ;RSEA dates back to 1946, when renowned China scholar John King Fairbank launched a full-time seminar leading to a master’s degree known as Regional Studies–China; the seminar was later expanded to include Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, and became the AM program known as Regional Studies–East Asia. Havard need to removed Vietnam lol same for sinosphere and so call other east asian culture group