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East Asia : A New History

ISBN: 9780321421418 | 0321421418
Edition: 4th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/1/2007

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SummaryTable of Contents
Provides a comprehensive history of the Near East while also incorporating the most recent scholarship. Ancient China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. Readers interested in learning about the history and development of East Asia.
Throughout his distinguished career, Rhoads Murphey has advocated an appreciation of the rich and unique aspects of Asian history, making his text an unparalleled success. Spanning the histories of China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, and parts of Southeast Asia, East Asia: A New History furthers stud... MORE
List of Maps
xiii
Prefacexiv
Note on the Spelling of Asian Names and Wordsxvii
Wade-Giles/Pinyin Equivalentsxviii
About the Author... MORExx
Atlasxxi
Time Chartxxii
East Asia: Common Ground and Regional Differences
1(18)
Boundaries and the Home Base
2(1)
Attitudes Toward Nature
3(1)
Agriculture
3(4)
Rules for Society
7(2)
Village and Town
9(3)
The Traditional System
12(1)
Regional Differences
12(2)
China Proper
14(2)
Relations with Other Areas
16(1)
The Agarian Civilization
16(1)
Larger Regional Differences
17(2)
Prehistory, Beginnings in China, and the Shang Dynasty
19(12)
The Neolithic Revolution
20(2)
Agricultural Origins in Southeast Asia
22(1)
Peoples and Early Kingdoms of Southeast Asia
22(2)
Prehistoric China
24(1)
The Origins of China
25(6)
The Shang Dynasty
26(2)
The Zhou Dynasty
28(3)
The Zhou---Its Decline, and the Age of the Philosophers
31(23)
Warring States
35(2)
Confucius---The Sage and His Teachings
37(6)
Mencius
38(2)
Xunzi
40(1)
Confucianism and ``Heaven''
41(2)
Mozi
43(1)
Daoism
43(4)
The Chinese Language
47(7)
Qin and Han: The Making of Empire
54(20)
Qin Authoritarianism
57(2)
The Han Dynasty
59(15)
Expansion under Han Wu Di
60(2)
China and Rome
62(1)
Wider Trade Patterns
62(1)
Han Culture
63(4)
Cities in Ancient China
67(1)
Han Achievements
68(1)
Pressures on the Environment
69(5)
Buddhism, Barbarians, and the Tang Dynasty
74(24)
Buddhism
74(4)
Gautama Buddha
75(1)
Hinayana, Mahayana, and the Spread of Buddhism
76(2)
The End of the Han
78(1)
Northern Wei
79(2)
The Move South
81(1)
Reunification: Sui and Tang
82(2)
The Tang System
84(4)
Chang'an in an Age of Imperial Splendor
88(3)
Buddhism in the Late Tang
91(3)
Buddhist Sects
94(1)
Decline and Collapse
95(3)
Achievement and Disaster: The Song and Yuan Dynasties, 960--1355
98(24)
Northern Song
99(2)
The Civil Service
101(4)
Reform
102(2)
Culture and Conquest
104(1)
The Southern Song Period
105(10)
Innovation and Technological Development
106(1)
Kaifeng and Hangzhou
107(3)
Rise of the South
110(3)
Neo-Confucianism
113(1)
Painting and Porcelain
114(1)
The Mongols
115(7)
Yuan China
118(2)
Dynastic Cycles and Continuity
120(2)
New Imperial Splendor in China: The Ming Dynasty
122(25)
The Founding of the Ming
122(6)
The Ming Tributary System
125(1)
Ming Maritime Expeditions
126(2)
Prosperity and Conservatism
128(2)
Commerce and Culture
130(7)
Patronage and Literature
132(1)
Popular Culture
133(1)
Elite Culture and Traditionalism
134(3)
Imperial Beijing: Axis of the Ming World
137(2)
Complacency and Decline
139(5)
The Manchu Conquest
144(3)
The Qing in Prosperity and Decline
147(23)
Prosperity and Population Increases
151(6)
Traditional Society in East Asia
157(5)
Family and Marriage
157(1)
Child Rearing
158(1)
The Status of Women
159(1)
Sexual Customs
160(1)
Law, Crime, and Punishment
160(2)
The Later Qing: Decline and Inertia
162(2)
New Barbarian Pressure
163(1)
Qing Glory and Technological Backwardness
164(1)
Opium, and War with Britain
165(5)
Early Korea: Another Version of the Chinese Pattern
170(17)
The Korean Tradition
170(10)
Han Conquest and After
172(1)
Three Kingdoms
173(3)
Silla Victorious
176(1)
Koryo
177(2)
Mongol Conquest and After
179(1)
Yi Korea
180(7)
Premodern Vietnam
187(16)
Ancient Times
189(2)
Belonging to the Empire
191(2)
The Buddhist Dynasties
193(4)
Southward Expansion, Regionalism, Civil Wars
197(3)
Cultural Development and Relations with the West
200(3)
Beginnings in Japan: Patterns and Origins
203(23)
Ties with Korea and Tomb Builders
207(2)
Mythical Histories
209(1)
The Uji
210(1)
Shinto
210(2)
The Link with China
212(1)
Taika, Nara, and Heian
213(2)
Buddhism and Literacy
215(4)
The Shoen System
217(1)
Heian Culture
217(2)
Art and Gardens
219(2)
Kana and Monastic Armies
221(1)
Pressures on the Environment
222(4)
Warriors, Monks, and Conflict: Medieval Japan
226(19)
The Collapse of Heian
226(3)
The Kamakura Period
229(1)
The Mongol Invasion
230(3)
Warriors and Monks
231(2)
Literature and the Arts
233(1)
The End of the Kamakura Shogunate and the Rise of the Ashikaga
234(7)
The Onin War and Economic Growth
236(1)
Trade and Piracy
237(4)
Renewed Civil War
241(4)
The West Arrives in Asia
245(20)
Independent Development
245(1)
The European Context
246(6)
The Portuguese Reach Asia
248(2)
The Portuguese Commercial Enterprise
250(1)
The Spanish in the Philippines
251(1)
``Christians and Spices''
252(1)
Strategy and Bases
253(3)
The Russian Advance in Asia
256(1)
Japan's Christian Century
256(2)
The Dutch in Asia
258(7)
The English in Asia
261(4)
Tokugawa Japan
265(21)
The Tokugawa Order
266(3)
Exclusion of Westerners
269(10)
Economic Growth
270(1)
Edo and Urban Culture
271(3)
The Rural Sector
274(1)
Literature, Art, and Society
275(2)
Strains in the Tokugawa System
277(2)
Dutch Learning
279(4)
The New Western Challenge
280(1)
Impact and Response
281(2)
The End of the Tokugawa
283(3)
Achievements
284(2)
Humiliation and Response in Nineteenth-Century China
286(20)
The Threat of Imperialism
286(2)
Economics and Illusion
288(1)
China Besieged
289(5)
Traders and Missionaries
294(1)
The Taiping Rebellion
294(2)
Self-Strengthening
295(1)
Treaty Ports and Mission Schools
296(1)
Overseas Chinese
297(1)
Subjugation, Nationalism, and Humiliation
298(5)
``Self-Strengthening'' and Restoration
300(2)
New Humiliations
302(1)
Efforts at Reform
303(1)
The Boxer Uprising
303(3)
Japan Remakes Itself
306(19)
Throne and Political Leaders
306(2)
The New Order
308(5)
Financial Problems
309(1)
Overseas Aggression and the Satsuma Rebellion
310(1)
Economic Development
310(1)
National Effort
311(1)
Industrialization
311(2)
Westernization
313(3)
The Meiji Constitution
315(1)
Japanese Imperialism
316(5)
Conflict with Russia
318(1)
Japan in Korea
319(1)
World War I
320(1)
The New Japanese Empire
321(1)
Meiji Culture and Accomplishments
321(4)
Imperialism in Korea, Vietnam, and Southeast Asia
325(21)
Rejection of Foreign Ideas
325(4)
Foreign Contention for Korea
326(2)
Korea under Japanese Rule
328(1)
Imperialism and Colonialism in Southeast Asia
329(4)
The British in Burma and Malaya
330(1)
French, Dutch, and American Colonialism
331(2)
Independent Siam
333(1)
Overseas Chinese
333(1)
Plural Societies
333(5)
The Plantation System
335(2)
Pluralism and Problems of Nationalism
337(1)
The Rise of Southeast Asian Nationalism
338(2)
Vietnam
340(6)
China in Tatters, 1896--1925
346(19)
New Foreign Plundering
346(6)
The Open Door Notes
347(2)
The Rise of Chinese Nationalism
349(1)
The Last Years of the Qing
350(2)
Constitutionalism and Revolution
352(1)
Sun Yat-sen and 1911
353(3)
Enter Yuan Shikai
354(2)
The Warlords
356(1)
New Social Mobility and the New Culture Movement
357(3)
Lu Xun
359(1)
The May Fourth Movement
360(2)
Russia and the Building of Party Organization
362(3)
China and Japan: The Road to War
365(21)
Chinese Nationalism
365(8)
The Northern Expedition
366(1)
The Nanjing Decade
367(1)
Failures and Successes
368(3)
The Long March and the United Front
371(2)
Shanghai: The Model Treaty Poret
373(1)
Japan in the 1920s: Taisho Democracy and Its Fate
374(12)
Rise of the Militarists
376(2)
Aggression in Manchuria
378(1)
Militarists in Command
379(2)
Background of the ``China Incident''
381(5)
The Second World War in Asia
386(21)
The Japanese Attack on China
386(7)
Retreat and Resistance
387(3)
The GMD Side
390(1)
Refugees and Communists
391(2)
Chiang and the Americans
393(1)
Chongqing: Beleaguered Wartime Capital
394(3)
The Coming of the Pacific War
397(7)
The Road to Pearl Harbor
399(5)
Burma---and the End of the War
404(3)
China Since 1945
407(27)
The Civil War
407(7)
Mao and the Mass Line
410(1)
The Outer Areas
411(3)
The Great Leap Forward
414(6)
The Sino-Soviet Split
414(1)
The Cultural Revolution Decade
415(5)
China after Mao
420(7)
Achievements and the Future
423(2)
Renewed Demands for Liberalization
425(2)
Taiwan
427(2)
Hong Kong
429(5)
Japan Since 1945
434(18)
The Revival of Japan
434(10)
Occupation and Americanization
435(3)
Economic and Social Development
438(6)
Japan's Global Role
444(8)
Tokyo and the Modern World
446(1)
Japan's Relations with Its Former Enemies
447(5)
Korea and Mainland Southeast Asia
452(25)
Divided Korea
452(4)
Korea Since 1960
456(4)
Southeast Asia Since World War II
460(11)
Vietnam Since 1945
461(7)
Bloody Cambodia
468(2)
Laos: The Forgotten Country
470(1)
Burma, Thailand, Malaya, and Singapore
471(3)
Burma
471(1)
Thailand
472(1)
Malaysia and Singapore
473(1)
East Asia and the Future: A ``Pacific Century''?
474(3)
Credits477(2)
Index479

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