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East Asia : A New History

by: Murphey, Rhoads

East Asia : A New History

by: Murphey, Rhoads

ISBN 13:
9780321163363
ISBN 10:
0321163362
Edition: 3rd
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 01/01/2004
Publisher: Longman
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This accessible text provides a comprehensive history of China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam and includes coverage of the common people, the environment, and women topics often neglected in other texts.

List of Maps

viii

Preface

A Note on the Spelling of Asian Names and Words

xii

Wade-Giles/Pinyin Equivalents

xiii

About the Author

Atlas

xvi

Time Chart

xvii

CHAPTER 1 East Asia: Common Ground and Regional Differences

(19)

Boundaries and the Home Baser

(1)

Attitudes Toward Nature

(1)

Agriculture

(5)

Rules for Society

(1)

Village and Town

(1)

East-West Contrasts

(3)

The Traditional System

(1)

Regional Differences

(1)

China Proper

(1)

Relations with Other Areas

(1)

The Vegetable Civilization

(1)

Larger Regional Differences

(2)

CHAPTER 2 Prehistory, Beginnings in China, and the Shang Dynasty

(15)

The Neolithic Revolution

(1)

Agricultural Origins in Southeast Asia

(1)

Peoples and Early Kingdoms of Southeast Asia

(2)

Prehistoric China

(2)

Korea and Japan

(3)

The Origins of China

(1)

The Shang Dynasty

(2)

The Zhou Dynasty

(2)

CHAPTER 3 The Zhou-Its Decline, and the Age of the Philosophers

(21)

Warring States

(1)

Confucius, the Sage

(1)

Xunzi

(1)

Confucianism

(1)

Confucius and Mencius

(2)

Confucianism and "Heaven"

(2)

Mozi

(1)

Daoism

(4)

The Chinese Language

(6)

CHAPTER 4 Qin and Han: The Making of Empire

(20)

Qin Authoritarianism

(1)

The Han Dynasty

(2)

Expansion Under Han Wu Di

(1)

China and Rome

(1)

Wider Trade Patterns

(1)

Han Culture

(4)

Cities in Ancient China

(1)

Han Achievements

(1)

Pressures on the Environment

(5)

CHAPTER 5 Buddhism, Barbarians, and the Tang Dynasty

(23)

Buddhism

(1)

Gautama Buddha

(1)

Hinayana, Mahayana, and the Spread of Buddhism

(1)

The End of the Han

(1)

Northern Wei

(2)

The Move South

(1)

Reunification: Sui and Tang

(1)

The Tang System

(4)

Chang An in an Age of Imperial Splendor

(2)

Decline

(2)

Buddhism and the Tang

(2)

Buddhist Sects

(2)

Collapse

(3)

CHAPTER 6 Achievement and Disaster: The Song and Yuan Dynasties, 960-1355

(23)

Northern Song

101

(1)

The Civil Service

102

(1)

Reform

103

(1)

Culture and Conquest

104

(1)

The Southern Song Period

105

(2)

Innovation and Technological Development

107

(1)

Kaifeng and Hangzhou

107

(4)

Rise of the South

111

(2)

Neo-Confucianism

113

(2)

Painting and Porcelain

115

(1)

The Mongols

116

(3)

Yuan China

119

(1)

Dynastic Cycles and Continuity

120

(2)

CHAPTER 7 New Imperial Splendor in China: The Ming Dynasty

122

(26)

The Founding of the Ming

123

(2)

Hongwu: The Rebel Emperor

125

(1)

The Ming Tributary System

126

(1)

Ming Maritime Expeditions

127

(2)

Prosperity and Conservatism

129

(2)

Commerce and Culture

131

(2)

Patronage and Literature

133

(2)

Popular Culture

135

(1)

Elite Culture and Traditionalism

135

(3)

Imperial Beijing: Axis of the Ming World

138

(1)

Complacency and Decline

139

(6)

The Manchu Conquest

145

(3)

CHAPTER 8 The Qing in Prosperity and Decline

148

(20)

Prosperity and Population Increases

152

(3)

Kangxi and Qianlong

155

(3)

Traditional Society in East Asia

158

(1)

Family and Marriage

158

(1)

Child Rearing

159

(1)

The Status of Women

160

(1)

Sexual Customs

161

(1)

Law, Crime, and Punishment

161

(2)

The Later Qing: Decline and Inertia

163

(1)

New Barbarian Pressure

164

(1)

Qing Glory and Technological Backwardness

165

(2)

Opium, and War with Britain

167

(1)

CHAPTER 9 Premodern Vietnam and Korea

168

(22)

Early Vietnam

170

(2)

The Chinese Connection

172

(2)

Southward Expansion

174

(2)

Korea

176

(2)

Han Conquest and After

178

(1)

Three Kingdoms

179

(2)

Silla Victorious

181

(1)

Koryo

182

(1)

Mongol Conquest and After

183

(1)

Yi Korea

184

(6)

CHAPTER 10 Beginnings in Japan: Patterns and Origins

190

(21)

Ties with Korea and Tomb Builders

192

(2)

Mythical Histories

194

(1)

The Uji

195

Shinto

175

(22)

The Link with China

197

(1)

Taika, Nara, and Heian

198

(2)

Chinese and Buddhist Art

200

(1)

Buddhism and Literacy

200

(2)

The Shoen System

202

(1)

Heian Culture

202

(1)

Murasaki Shikibu (Lady Murasaki)

203

(1)

Art and Gardens

204

(2)

Kana Monastic Armies

206

(1)

Pressures on the Environment

207

(4)

CHAPTER 11 Warriors, Monks, and Conflict: Medieval Japan

211

(19)

The Collapse of Heian

211

(3)

The Kamakura Period

214

(1)

The Mongol Invasion

215

(1)

Warriors and Monks

216

(1)

Literature and the Arts

217

(2)

The End of the Kamakura Shogunate and the Rise of the Ashikaga

219

(2)

The Onin War, and Economic Growth

221

(1)

Trade and Piracy

222

(1)

Muromachi Culture

223

(2)

Renewed Civil War

225

(5)

CHAPTER 12 The West Arrives in Asia

230

(20)

Independent Development

230

(2)

The European Context

232

(1)

The Portuguese Reach Asia

233

(2)

The Portuguese Commercial Empire

235

(1)

The Spanish in the Philippines

236

(1)

"Christians and Spices"

237

(1)

Strategy and Bases

237

(2)

Matteo Ricci: Missionary to the Ming Court

239

(1)

The Russian Advance in Asia

240

(1)

Japan's Christian Century

241

(2)

The Dutch and English in Asia

243

(3)

The English in Asia

246

(4)

CHAPTER 13 Tokugawa Japan

250

(20)

The Tokugawa Order

251

(3)

Exclusion of Westerners

254

(1)

Economic Growth

255

(1)

Edo and Urban Culture

256

(3)

The Rural Sector

259

(1)

Literature, Art, and Society

259

(2)

Wood-Block Prints and Hokusai

261

(1)

Strains in the Tokugawa System

262

(2)

Dutch Learning

264

(1)

The New Western Challenge

265

(1)

Impact and Response

266

(1)

The End of the Tokugawa

267

(1)

Achievements

268

(2)

CHAPTER 14 Humiliation and Response in Nineteenth-Century China

270

(20)

Economics and Illusion

272

(1)

China Besieged

273

(5)

Traders and Missionaries

278

(1)

The Taiping Rebellion

278

(1)

Self Strengthening

279

(1)

Treaty Ports and Mission Schools

280

(1)

Overseas Chinese

281

(1)

Subjugation, Nationalism, and Humiliation

281

(2)

"Self Strengthening" and Restoration

283

(3)

New Humiliations

286

(1)

Efforts at Reform

286

(1)

The Boxer Rebellion

287

(3)

CHAPTER 15 Japan's Response to New Challenges

290

(4)

Throne and Political Leaders

290

(2)

The New Order

292

(1)

Financial Problems

293

(1)

Overseas Aggression and the Satsuma Rebellion

293

(1)

Economic Development

294

(1)

National Effort

294

(15)

Industrialization

295

(2)

Westernization

297

(2)

The Meiji Constitution

299

(1)

Japanese Imperialism

300

(1)

Conflict with Russia

301

(2)

Japan in Korea

303

(1)

World War I

303

(2)

The New Japanese Empire

305

(1)

Meiji Culture and Accomplishments

305

(4)

CHAPTER 16 Imperialism in Korea, Vietnam, and Southeast Asia

309

(19)

Rejection of Foreign Ideas

309

(2)

Foreign Contention for Korea

311

(1)

Korea Under Japanese Rule

312

(1)

Imperialism and Colonialism in Southeast Asia

313

(1)

The British in Burma and Malaya

313

(2)

French, Dutch, and American Colonialism

315

(1)

Independent Siam

316

(1)

Overseas Chinese

316

(1)

Plural Societies

316

(3)

The Plantation System

319

(2)

Pluralism and Problems of Nationalism

321

(1)

The Rise of Southeast Asian Nationalism

321

(3)

Vietnam

324

(4)

CHAPTER 17 China in Tatters, 1896-1925

328

(19)

New Foreign Plundering

328

(1)

The Open Door Notes

329

(1)

The Rise of Chinese Nationalism

330

(1)

The Last Years of the Qing

331

(2)

Constitutionalism and Revolution

333

(1)

Sun Yat-sen and 1911

334

(2)

Enter Yuan Shikai

336

(1)

The Warlords

337

(1)

New Social Mobility, and the New Culture Movement

338

(2)

Lu Xun

340

(1)

The May Fourth Movement

341

(3)

Russia and the Building of Party Organization

344

(3)

CHAPTER 18 China and Japan: The Road to War

347

(21)

Chinese Nationalism

347

(1)

The Northern Expedition

348

(1)

The Nanjing Decade

349

(1)

Failures and Successes

350

(3)

The Long March and the United Front

353

(1)

Shanghai: The Model Treaty Port

354

(2)

Japan in the 1920's: Taisho Democracy and Its Fate

356

(2)

Rise of the Militarists

358

(2)

Aggression in Manchuria

360

(1)

Militarists in Command

361

(2)

Background of the "China Incident"

363

(5)

CHAPTER 19 The Second World War in Asia

368

(21)

The Japanese Attack on China

368

(3)

Retreat and Resistance

371

(1)

The GMD Side

372

(1)

Refugees and Communists

373

(1)

Chiang and the Americans

374

(1)

Chongging: Beleaguered Wartime Capital

375

(4)

The Coming of the Pacific War

379

(1)

The Road to Pearl Harbor

380

(5)

Burma, and the End of the War

385

(4)

CHAPTER 20 China Since 1945

389

(26)

The Civil War

389

(3)

Mao and the Mass Line

392

(1)

The Outer Areas

393

(3)

The Great Leap Forward

396

(1)

The Sino-Soviet Split

396

(1)

The Cultural Revolution Decade

396

(6)

China After Mao

402

(2)

Achievements, and the Future

404

(2)

Renewed Demands for Liberalization

406

(4)

Taiwan

410

(1)

Hong Kong

411

(4)

CHAPTER 21 Japan Since 1945

415

(17)

The Revival of Japan

415

(1)

Occupation and Americanization

416

(3)

Economic and Social Development

419

(6)

Japan's Global Role

425

(2)

Tokyo and the Modern World

427

(1)

Japan's Relations with Its Former Enemies

428

(4)

CHAPTER 22 Korea, Mainland Southeast Asia, and the United States in East Asia

432

(23)

Divided Korea

432

(3)

Korea Since 1960

435

(2)

Southeast Asia Since World War II

437

(3)

Vietnam's 30 Years of War

440

(4)

Bloody Cambodia

444

(2)

Laos: The Forgotten Country

446

(1)

Burma, Thailand, Malaya, and Singapore

446

(1)

Burma

446

(1)

Thailand

447

(1)

Malaysia and Singapore

448

(1)

The United States and East Asia

449

(2)

East Asia and the Future: A "Pacific Century?"

451

(4)

Credits

455

(2)

Index

457

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