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InEast Asia: Identities and Change in the Modern World, accomplished historian R. Keith Schoppa uses the prism of cultural identities to examine the four countries that make up the East Asian cultural sphere-China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam-from roughly 1700 to the present. This book explores modern East Asian history through the themes of identities and change.

Basic Identities
The Chasm between the Cultures of Traditional East Asia and the Modern World
Senses of Time and Space
Basic Social Unit
Social Hierarchy
Social Goals and Patterns
State and Government
Ways of Thinking about Life and the World
Rice Culture: The World of East Asian Agriculture
Three Ways of Thought in Traditional East Asia
Confucianism
Daoism
Buddhism
From Multicultural Empire to Semicolony: The Qing Dynasty, 1750-1870
The Manchus
Buying into Chinese Culture
The Civil Service Examination
Rituals, Religion, and Values
Dealing with the Other
Identity and Change: The Qianlong Emperor
Identity Crisis
Emerging Problems
The Early Western Role
China and the West: Mutual Perceptions
Early-Nineteenth-Century Political and Social Instability
The Opium Tragedy and War
The Unequal Treaty System
Foreign Concessions
Extraterritoriality with Consular Jurisdiction
Foreign Ambassadorial Residence
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East Asia Identities and Change in the Modern World (1700 to Present)

East Asia Identities and Change in the Modern World (1700 to Present)

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