Maps

Preface

Note on the Spelling of Asian Names and Words

Wade-Giles/Pinyin Equivalents

About the Author

Regional Map

Time Chart

1. East Asia: Common Ground and Regional Differences
2. Prehistory, Beginnings in China, and the Shang Dynasty
3. The Zhou: Its Decline and the Age of the Philosophers
4. Qin and Han: The Making of Empire
5. Buddhism and the Cosmopolitan Tang Dynasty
6. Achievement and Disaster: The Song and Yuan Dynasties, 960—1368
7. New Imperial Splendor in China: The Ming Dynasty
8. The Qing in Prosperity and Decline
9. Early Korea
10. Premodern Vietnam
11. Beginnings in Japan: Patterns and Origins
12. Warriors, Monks, and Conflict: Medieval Japan
13. The West Arrives in Asia
14. Tokugawa Japan
15. China’s Nineteenth-Century Crises
16. Japan Remakes Itself
17. Imperialism in Korea and Vietnam
18. China, 1901—1925: End of Empire and Search for a New Order
19. China and Japan: The Road to War
20. The Second World War in Asia
21. China since 1945
22. Japan since 1945
23. Korea and Vietnam since 1945

Index

East Asia: A New History, 5th edition

Details

Explore

Products & Services

Support

Extend Your Learning

About us