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East Asia: A New History

by: Murphey, Rhoads

East Asia: A New History

by: Murphey, Rhoads

ISBN 13:
9780321421418
ISBN 10:
0321421418
Edition: 4th
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 01/01/2007
Publisher: Longman
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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 students' knowledge by covering a breadth of topics, including everyday life, the environment, and women in Asian history. Book jacket.

List of Maps

xiii

Preface

xiv

Note on the Spelling of Asian Names and Words

xvii

Wade-Giles/Pinyin Equivalents

xviii

About the Author

Atlas

xxi

Time Chart

xxii

East Asia: Common Ground and Regional Differences

(18)

Boundaries and the Home Base

(1)

Attitudes Toward Nature

(1)

Agriculture

(4)

Rules for Society

(2)

Village and Town

(3)

The Traditional System

(1)

Regional Differences

(2)

China Proper

(2)

Relations with Other Areas

(1)

The Agarian Civilization

(1)

Larger Regional Differences

(2)

Prehistory, Beginnings in China, and the Shang Dynasty

(12)

The Neolithic Revolution

(2)

Agricultural Origins in Southeast Asia

(1)

Peoples and Early Kingdoms of Southeast Asia

(2)

Prehistoric China

(1)

The Origins of China

(6)

The Shang Dynasty

(2)

The Zhou Dynasty

(3)

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

(23)

Warring States

(2)

Confucius---The Sage and His Teachings

(6)

Mencius

(2)

Xunzi

(1)

Confucianism and ``Heaven''

(2)

Mozi

(1)

Daoism

(4)

The Chinese Language

(7)

Qin and Han: The Making of Empire

(20)

Qin Authoritarianism

(2)

The Han Dynasty

(15)

Expansion under Han Wu Di

(2)

China and Rome

(1)

Wider Trade Patterns

(1)

Han Culture

(4)

Cities in Ancient China

(1)

Han Achievements

(1)

Pressures on the Environment

(5)

Buddhism, Barbarians, and the Tang Dynasty

(24)

Buddhism

(4)

Gautama Buddha

(1)

Hinayana, Mahayana, and the Spread of Buddhism

(2)

The End of the Han

(1)

Northern Wei

(2)

The Move South

(1)

Reunification: Sui and Tang

(2)

The Tang System

(4)

Chang'an in an Age of Imperial Splendor

(3)

Buddhism in the Late Tang

(3)

Buddhist Sects

(1)

Decline and Collapse

(3)

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

(24)

Northern Song

(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)

Credits

477

(2)

Index

479

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