East Asia a new history
Engaging, integrated, and analytical, East Asia: A New History provides a comprehensive history of the East Asian countries and addresses a diverse range of social, economic, and intellectual histories. Several unique features of the text [are] a concluding section on the "Pacific century"...
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New York
Addison Wesley Longman, Inc.
1996
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Table of Contents:
- 1. East Asia: Common Ground and Regional Differences
- 2. Prehistory. Beginnings in China, and the Shang Dynasty
- 3. The Chou. Its Decline, and the Age of the Philosophers
- 4. Ch'in and Han: The Making of Empire
- 5. Buddhism, Barbarians, and the T'ang Dynasty
- 6. Achievement and Disaster: The Sung and Yuan Dynasties, 960-1355
- 7. New Imperial Splendor in China: The Ming Dynasty
- 8. The Ch'ing in Prosperity and Decline
- 9. Premodern Vietnam and Korea
- 10. Beginnings in Japan: Patterns and Origins
- 11. Warriors, Monks, and Conflict: Medieval Japan
- 12. The West and Arrives in Asia
- 13. Tokugawa Japan
- 14. Humiliation and Response in Nineteenth Century China
- 15. Japan's Response to New Challenges
- 16. Imperialism in Korea, Vietnam, and Southern Asia
- 17. China in Tatters, 1896-1925
- 18. China and Japan: The Road to War
- 19. The Second World War in Asia.