East Asia : A New History
ISBN: 9780205695225 | 0205695221
Edition: 5thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Pearson
Pub. Date: 7/21/2009
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This accessible text offers a comprehensive history of China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, including coverage of everyday life, women and gender-related issues, and the environmenttopics often neglected in other texts.Throughout his distinguished career, author Rhoads Murphey has inspired within students an appreciation for the rich and unique history of Asia. The Fifth Edition of this text on East Asia is certain to bring this fascinating region to life for many of today's students.
Provides a comprehensive history ... MORE
Provides a comprehensive history ... MORE
| Brief Contents | |
| Contents | |
| List of Maps | |
| Preface | |
| A Note on the Spelling of Asian Names and Words | |
| Wade-Giles/Pinyin Equivalents | |
| About the Author | |
| Regional Map | |
| Time Chart | |
| East Asia: Common Ground and Regional Differences | |
| Prehistory, Beginnings in China, and the Shang Dynasty | ... MORE |
| The Zhou-Its Decline, and the Age of the Philosophers | |
| Qin and Han: The Making of the Empire | |
| Buddhism, Barbarians, and the Tang Dynasty | |
| Achievement and Disaster: The Song and Yuan Dynasties, 960-1355 | |
| New Imperial Splendor in China: The Ming Dynasty | |
| The Qing in Prosperity and Decline | |
| Early Korea | |
| Premodern Vietnam | |
| Beginnings in Japan: Patterns and Origins | |
| Warriors, Monks, and Conflict: Medieval Japan | |
| The West Arrives in Asia | |
| Tokugawa Japan | |
| Aggression and Response in Nineteenth Century China | |
| Japan Remakes Itself | |
| Imperialism in Korea and Vietnam | |
| China in Taters, 1896-1925 | |
| China and Japan: The Road to War | |
| The Second World War in Asia | |
| China Since 1945 | |
| Japan Since 1945 | |
| Korea and Vietnam | |
| Index | |
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Rhoads Murphey, University of Michigan
