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East Asia : A New History

ISBN: 9780321163363 | 0321163362
Edition: 3rd
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/1/2004

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SummaryTable of Contents
This accessible text provides a comprehensive history of China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam and includes coverage of the common people, the environment, and womentopics often neglected in other texts.
List of Mapsviii
Prefaceix
A Note on the Spelling of Asian Names and Wordsxii
Wade-Giles/Pinyin Equivalentsxiii
About the Authorxv
Atlas... MORE
Time Chartxvii
CHAPTER 1 East Asia: Common Ground and Regional Differences1(19)
Boundaries and the Home Baser
2(1)
Attitudes Toward Nature
3(1)
Agriculture
3(5)
Rules for Society
8(1)
Village and Town
9(1)
East-West Contrasts
10(3)
The Traditional System
13(1)
Regional Differences
14(1)
China Proper
15(1)
Relations with Other Areas
16(1)
The Vegetable Civilization
17(1)
Larger Regional Differences
18(2)
CHAPTER 2 Prehistory, Beginnings in China, and the Shang Dynasty20(15)
The Neolithic Revolution
21(1)
Agricultural Origins in Southeast Asia
22(1)
Peoples and Early Kingdoms of Southeast Asia
23(2)
Prehistoric China
25(2)
Korea and Japan
27(3)
The Origins of China
30(1)
The Shang Dynasty
31(2)
The Zhou Dynasty
33(2)
CHAPTER 3 The Zhou-Its Decline, and the Age of the Philosophers35(21)
Warring States
39(1)
Confucius, the Sage
40(1)
Xunzi
41(1)
Confucianism
42(1)
Confucius and Mencius
42(2)
Confucianism and "Heaven"
44(2)
Mozi
46(1)
Daoism
46(4)
The Chinese Language
50(6)
CHAPTER 4 Qin and Han: The Making of Empire56(20)
Qin Authoritarianism
59(1)
The Han Dynasty
60(2)
Expansion Under Han Wu Di
62(1)
China and Rome
63(1)
Wider Trade Patterns
64(1)
Han Culture
65(4)
Cities in Ancient China
69(1)
Han Achievements
70(1)
Pressures on the Environment
71(5)
CHAPTER 5 Buddhism, Barbarians, and the Tang Dynasty76(23)
Buddhism
76(1)
Gautama Buddha
77(1)
Hinayana, Mahayana, and the Spread of Buddhism
78(1)
The End of the Han
79(1)
Northern Wei
80(2)
The Move South
82(1)
Reunification: Sui and Tang
83(1)
The Tang System
84(4)
Chang An in an Age of Imperial Splendor
88(2)
Decline
90(2)
Buddhism and the Tang
92(2)
Buddhist Sects
94(2)
Collapse
96(3)
CHAPTER 6 Achievement and Disaster: The Song and Yuan Dynasties, 960-135599(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 Dynasty122(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 Decline148(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 Korea168(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 Origins190(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 Japan211(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 Asia230(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 Japan250(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 China270(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 Challenges290(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 Effort294(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 Asia309(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, 1896-1925328(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 War347(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 Asia368(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 1945389(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 1945415(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 Asia432(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)
Credits455(2)
Index457

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