Charles Holcombe

History of East Asia (eBook, ePUB)

From the Origins of Civilization to the Twenty-First Century

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Charles Holcombe begins by asking the question 'what is East Asia?' In the modern age, many of the features that made the region - now defined as including China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam - distinct have been submerged by the effects of revolution, politics or globalization. Yet, as an ancient civilization, the region had both an historical and cultural coherence. This shared past is at the heart of this ambitious book, which traces the story of East Asia from the dawn of history to the twenty-first century. The second edition has been imaginatively revised and expanded to place emphasis on cross-cultural interactions and connections, both within East Asia and beyond, with new material on Vietnam and modern pop culture. The second edition also features a Chinese character list, additional maps and new illustrations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108105736
• Artikelnr.: 52979654

Autorenporträt

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.

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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.

Rezensionen

'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'