"A concise and comprehensive introduction to China, Korea, Japan and Vietnam from the dawn of history to the present day, emphasizing connections, commonalities, and differences. The third edition includes important developments over the last decade, restructured post-World War II material, new illustrations and references, and discussion questions"--
"A concise and comprehensive introduction to China, Korea, Japan and Vietnam from the dawn of history to the present day, emphasizing connections, commonalities, and differences. The third edition includes important developments over the last decade, restructured post-World War II material, new illustrations and references, and discussion questions"--
Charles Holcombe is Professor of History at the University of Northern Iowa. Having spent a year researching Six Dynasties China at Ky¿to University in Japan, his awakening interest in East Asian interconnections led him to write The Genesis of East Asia, 221 BC-AD 907 (2001). He won the Regents' Award for Faculty Excellence at the University of Northern Iowa (2007).
Inhaltsangabe
List of illustrations List of maps Pronunciation guide Timeline Glossary Preface to the third edition Introduction: what is East Asia? 1. The origins of civilization in East Asia 2. The formative era 3. The age of cosmopolitanism 4. The creation of a community: China, Korea, and Japan (seventh-tenth centuries) 5. Mature independent trajectories (tenth-sixteenth centuries) 6. Early modern East Asia (sixteenth-eighteenth centuries) 7. Dai Viet (Vietnam before the nineteenth centuries) 8. The nineteenth-century encounter of civilizations 9. The age of Westernization (1900-1929) 10: The dark valley (1930-1945) 11. Cold War East Asia 12. Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Overseas Chinese 13. Globalization, and the resurgence of East Asia Character list Notes Index.
List of illustrations; List of maps; Pronunciation guide; Timeline; Glossary; Introduction: what is East Asia?; 1. The origins of civilization in East Asia; 2. The formative era; 3. The age of cosmopolitanism; 4. The creation of a community: China, Korea, and Japan (seventh-tenth centuries); 5. Mature independent trajectories (tenth-sixteenth centuries); 6. Early modern East Asia (sixteenth-eighteenth centuries); 7. Dai Viet (Vietnam before the nineteenth century); 8. The nineteenth-century encounter of civilizations; 9. The age of Westernization (1900-29); 10. The Dark Valley (1930-45); 11. Japan since 1945; 12. Korea since 1945; 13. Vietnam since 1945; 14. China since 1945; Afterword; Character list; Notes; Index.
List of illustrations List of maps Pronunciation guide Timeline Glossary Preface to the third edition Introduction: what is East Asia? 1. The origins of civilization in East Asia 2. The formative era 3. The age of cosmopolitanism 4. The creation of a community: China, Korea, and Japan (seventh-tenth centuries) 5. Mature independent trajectories (tenth-sixteenth centuries) 6. Early modern East Asia (sixteenth-eighteenth centuries) 7. Dai Viet (Vietnam before the nineteenth centuries) 8. The nineteenth-century encounter of civilizations 9. The age of Westernization (1900-1929) 10: The dark valley (1930-1945) 11. Cold War East Asia 12. Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Overseas Chinese 13. Globalization, and the resurgence of East Asia Character list Notes Index.
List of illustrations; List of maps; Pronunciation guide; Timeline; Glossary; Introduction: what is East Asia?; 1. The origins of civilization in East Asia; 2. The formative era; 3. The age of cosmopolitanism; 4. The creation of a community: China, Korea, and Japan (seventh-tenth centuries); 5. Mature independent trajectories (tenth-sixteenth centuries); 6. Early modern East Asia (sixteenth-eighteenth centuries); 7. Dai Viet (Vietnam before the nineteenth century); 8. The nineteenth-century encounter of civilizations; 9. The age of Westernization (1900-29); 10. The Dark Valley (1930-45); 11. Japan since 1945; 12. Korea since 1945; 13. Vietnam since 1945; 14. China since 1945; Afterword; Character list; Notes; Index.
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'Holcombe's book is a precious guide to the histories of East Asia. It is clear and incisive, as any textbook should be, but it also offers and alternative and specialist reading.' Noemi Lanna, University of Naples 'L'Orientale'
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