Modern East Asia
ISBN: 9780618920709 | 0618920706
Edition: 2ndFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 3/26/2007
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This compelling text explores the development of China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam from their traditions and commonalties in 1600, through industrialization and state building, to each country's response to modernization in a global environment. This author team combines strong research with extensive classroom teaching experience to offer a clear, consistent, and highly readable text that is accessible to students with no previous knowledge of the history of East Asia.
| EarlyModern/Late Traditional | |
| Foundations, Traditions, Commonalities Geographical Parameters | |
| Rice Material Culture | |
| Theories of the Natural Order | |
| Language and Writing Confucianism Daoism Buddhism Syncretism | |
| Qing China Society and the State | |
| The Fall of the Ming | |
| The Founding of the Qing | |
| Early Qing Thinkers and Painters | ... MORE |
| The Reign of Kangxi Yongzheng | |
| Qianlong Eighteenth-Century Governance | |
| Eighteenth-Century Literati Culture Fiction | |
| A Buoyant Economy Dynastic Decline | |
| Choson Korea | |
| The Choson Dynasty: Foundations | |
| The Enlightened Reign of King Sejong (r. 1418-1450) | |
| Choson Society | |
| The Problem of Legitimacy Intellectual Flowering in the Sixteenth Century | |
| The Imjin War and the Manchu Invasions | |
| Struggles within the Yangban Class | |
| Korea in the Eighteenth Century | |
| The Cultural Environment of Late Choson | |
| The Crisis of the Nineteenth Century | |
| Tokugawa Japan: Background, Establishment, and Middle Years Unification (1573-1600) | |
| Consolidation of the Tokugawa Order (1600-1651) | |
| Bakufu-Han Relations Economic and Social Change | |
| Classes and Values | |
| The Aesthetic Culture of the Aristocracy | |
| Genroku Urban Culture | |
| The Print Theater and Literature Intellectual Currents: Confucianism | |
| Historiography and Nativism | |
| Dutch Learning Eighteenth-Century | |
| Art and Literature | |
| Reform and Its Limits | |
| East Asia and Modern Europe: First Encounters | |
| The Portuguese in East Asia | |
| The Jesuits in Japan | |
| The Impact of Other Europeans | |
| The "Closing" of Japan | |
| The Jesuits in Vietnam | |
| The Jesuits in China | |
| The Rites Controversy | |
| The Decline of Christianity in China Trade with the West and the Canton System | |
| The Nineteenth Century | |
| Vietnam and China: Internal Crises and Western Intrusion | |
| Vietnam Historical Background | |
| The Later Le Dynasty (1428-1788) | |
| The Tay Son Uprising (1771-1802) | |
| The Nguyen as Rulers of All Vietnam (1802-1867) | |
| Scholarship and Literature | |
| The Loss of Independence | |
| China | |
| The Opium War (1839-1841) and Its Causes | |
| The Treaty of Nanjing and the Treaty System Internal Crisis | |
| The Taiping Rebellion (1850-1864) | |
| Zeng Guofan and the Defeat of the Taipings | |
| China and the World from the Treaty of Nanjing to the End of the Taiping Rebellion | |
| Japan from Tokugawa to Meiji: 1787-1873 | |
| Economy and Society: Pressures and Strains | |
| The Bakufu: 1787-1841 | |
| The Bakufu: Mizuno Tadakuni's Reforms | |
| The Domains Intellectual Currents | |
| The Opening of Japan Domestic Politics | |
| Sonno-Joi Mixed Responses to the West Last Years of the Shogunate: 1860-1867 | |
| Formation of a New Government: The Meiji Restoration | |
| The Charter Oath Dismantling the Old Order | |
| Disaffection and Opposition | |
| The Crisis of 1873 | |
| The Meaning of the Restoration | |
| The Emergence of Modern Japan: 1874-1894 | |
| Political Developments Formation of Parties | |
| The Emperor and the Constitution Western Influences on Values and Ideas | |
| "Civilization and Enlightenment" Social Darwinism | |
| The Arts Conservatism and Nationalism Education | |
| Modernizing the Economy | |
| The Zaibatsu | |
| The Military | |
| China and Korea: 1870-1894 | |
| China | |
| The Post-Taiping Revival Self-Strengthening and the Empress Dowager Education | |
| Economic Self-Strengthening | |
| The Traditional Economic Sector | |
| Missionary Efforts and Christian Influences Self-Strengthening | |
| The Theory Old and New Wine in Old Bottles | |
| Korea | |
| The Politics of Reform | |
| The Incursion of the Powers Gradualists versus Advocates of "Enlightenment" | |
| Christianity and Western Thought | |
| The Tonghak Rebellion and the Sino-Japanese War | |
| The Treaty of Shimonoseki (1895) | |
| Continental East Asia and Imperial Japan: 1895-1945 | |
| China: Endings and Beginnings, 1895-1927 | |
| The Last Years of the Last Dynasty | |
| The New Reformers | |
| The Scramble for Concessions | |
| The Boxer Rising Winds of Change | |
| Stirrings of Protest and Revolution Eleventh-Hour Reform | |
| The Revolution of 1911 | |
| From Yuan Shikai to Chiang Kai-Shek Yuan Shikai | |
| The Warlord Era Intellectual Ferment | |
| Intellectual Alternatives | |
| Cultural Alternatives Marxism in China | |
| The Early Years | |
| The Guomindang and Sun Yat-sen (1913-1923) | |
| GMD and CCP Cooperation (1923-1927) | |
| The Break Establishment of the Nationalist Government | |
| Imperial Japan: 1895-1931 | |
| LateMeiji: 1895-1912 Foreign Policy and Empire Building Economic and Social Developments Politics Literature and the Arts | |
| The Taisho Period (1912-1926) and the Twenties | |
| The Taisho Political Crisis: 1912-1913 | |
| Japan during World War I Parliamentary Government: 1918-1924 | |
| Parliamentary Government: 1924-1931 | |
| Popular Culture Fine Arts Mingei Literature Intellectual Trends | |
| Vietnam, Korea, and Taiwan under Colonial Rule | |
| Vietnamunder the French Economic Policy | |
| Social Change Education | |
| New Stirrings of Opposition Ferment Intensified | |
| The Twenties and Thirties | |
| The Rise of Ho Chi Minh | |
| Korea under Japanese Colonial Rule | |
| Setting the Stage for Conquest | |
| The Japanese Takeover Japanese Colonial Rule | |
| The Independence Movement | |
| The Origins of Korean Communism | |
| The Nineteen-Thirties World War II in Korea | |
| Effects and Legacies of Japanese Rule | |
| Taiwan | |
| East Asia: The Thirties and World War II | |
| The Manchurian Incident and Its Consequences | |
| Japanese Politics and the Road to War | |
| China: The Nanjing Decade--An Uneasy Peace | |
| The Nanjing Decade--Domestic Policies | |
| The Chinese Communists, 1927-1934 | |
| The Long March United Front and War | |
| Expansion of the War into a Pacific War | |
| The Course of the War China at War Japan at War | |
| Colonial East Asia during the War | |
| The End of the War | |
| East Asia in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century | |
| The Aftermath of World War II | |
| China: Civil War and Communist Triumph, 1946-1949 | |
| Japan: The Occupation, 1945-1952 | |
| Ends and Means Social Policies Economic Policy | |
| The End of the Occupation | |
| Korea: Liberation, Division, and War, 1945-1953 | |
| Liberation and Division | |
| The Birth of Rival Republics | |
| The North-South Civil War | |
| International Intervention in the Korean Civil War | |
| The Korean Armistice | |
| The Vietnamese Struggle for Independence, 1939-1956 | |
| Vietnam during World War II | |
| The 1945-1950 Period | |
| The Defeat of France in Indochina | |
| The Geneva Conference on Indochina | |
| The United States and Ngo Dinh Diem | |
| China under Mao | |
| Consolidation and Construction Soviet Style, 1949-1958 | |
| Government and Politics | |
| Foreign Relations and the Korean War Economic Policies | |
| Thought Reform and Intellectuals | |
| The Revolution Continued, 1958-1976 | |
| The Great Leap Forward | |
| The Sino-Soviet Split "Back from the Brink," 1961-1965 | |
| The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution | |
| The Radical Phase, 1966-1969 | |
| The Winding Down, 1969-1976 | |
| The Chinese World since Mao Deng Xiaoping and the Four Modernizations | |
| The Four Cardinal Principles | |
| Intellectual Life and the Arts in the Eighties Tiananmen (The June 4th Movement) | |
| State, Economy, and Society in the Nineties and Beyond | |
| The Environment | |
| The Revival of Religion | |
| Foreign Relations and Hong Kong Intellectuals and Artists in the Nineties and Beyond Taiwan | |
| The New Japan | |
| The New Japan, 1952-1989 | |
| The Economy Government and Politics | |
| The Seventies and Eighties | |
| Society, Thought, and the Arts Social Change and Quality of Life | |
| Film Intellectual Life and Literature | |
| The Visual Arts | |
| The Nineties and Beyond, 1989-2006 | |
| The Two Koreas and Vietnam | |
| Korea Aftermath of the Korean War in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) | |
| Military Rule and Economic Development in the Republic of Korea | |
| The Republic of Korea since 1987 | |
| The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) under Kim Il-sung | |
| The Problem of North-South Relations | |
| Vietnam | |
| The Regime of Ngo Dinh Diem | |
| The Fall of Diem and American Escalation, 1963-1968 | |
| Maintaining a Society at War | |
| South Vietnam Maintaining a Society at War | |
| The D.R.V. The Vietnam War | |
| The Final Phase | |
| The Socialist Republic of Vietnam | |
| The First Decade, 1976-1986 | |
| Doi Moi, 1986-Present Afterword Nationalist Tensions Economic Globalization Cultural Globalization | |
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