Designed for the East Asian history course, this text features the latest scholarship on the region and offers a range of cultural, political, economic, and intellectual history.
"A comprehensive history of East Asia, including extensive coverage of the region's cultural, political, economic, and social history.
The text takes into consideration the radical changes in the field of history in the past 40 years, as the authors have incorporated scholarship in areas such as gender studies, social history and minority histories.
Focusing on the civilizations--the art and religion as well as the political and social--this compelling history explores the four countries of modern East Asia: China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam.
This book describes East Asia's geographical, human, cultural, economic, social, and political setting as it has evolved, and the three major belief systems - Confucianism, Buddhism, and Islam.
Written with rare mastery and a sure sense of the essential, this concise general history of modern East Asia offers students and general readers an understanding of this dynamic region...
Modern East Asia: A Brief History.
It is the ideal introductory text for college survey courses in Asian and international studies.Following an introductory discussion of the regional concept, the first two chapters lay the foundations.
Romanization Table. Part I: EARLY MODERN/LATE TRADITIONAL. 1. Foundations, Traditions, Commonalties. 2. Qing China. 3. Choson Korea. 4. Tokugawa Japan. 5. East Asia and Modern Europe: First Encounters. Part II: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 6.
The book begins with an introduction to cultural foundations and a brief history of East Asia in the seventeenth century. The volume progresses chronologically, beginning in 1830 with a discussion of th