A History of East Asia

Höfundur: Charles Holcombe (Útgáfa: 3)
A History of East Asia

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The third edition of this ambitious book begins by asking: What is East Asia? Today, many of the features that made the region distinct have been submerged under revolution, politics, or globalization. Yet in ancient times, what we now think of as China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam had both historical and cultural coherence. Thoroughly revised and updated to include recent developments in East Asian politics, with new illustrations and suggestions for further reading, this book traces the story of East Asia from the dawn of history to the modern age.

New discussion questions at the end of each chapter encourage readers to reflect, while a glossary, pronunciation guide, and parallel timeline enable a closer engagement with this complex subject. Charles Holcombe is an experienced and sure-footed guide who encapsulates, in a fast-moving and colorful narrative, the connections, commonalities, and differences of one of the most remarkable regions on earth.

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Útgefandi
Cambridge University Press
ISBN
9781009504805
Print ISBN
9781009504782
Format
ePub
Útgáfa
3
Höfundar
Charles Holcombe
Tungumál
English
Útgefið
2025-06-05
Prent takmörkun á líftíma
10
Prent takmörkun
2
Afritunar takmörkun
2
Efnisflokkar
Saga › Almennt

Kaflar

  • Cover
  • Half title
  • Reviews
  • Title page
  • Imprints page
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Maps
  • Preface to the Third Edition
  • Pronunciation Guide
  • Chinese
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Vietnamese
  • Timeline: Dynasties and Major Historical Periods
  • Glossary
  • Introduction
  • Questions for Discussion
  • For Further Reading
  • 1 The Origins of Civilization in East Asia
  • 1.1 The First East Asians
  • 1.2 East Asian Languages and Writing Systems
  • 1.3 Bronze Age China
  • Questions for Discussion
  • For Further Reading
  • 2 The Formative Era
  • 2.1 Zhou Dynasty China (ca. 1045–256 bce)
  • The Hundred Schools of Thought
  • Confucianism
  • Daoism
  • Legalism
  • The Art of War
  • 2.2 First Empire: “The Faults of Qin” (221–207 bce)
  • 2.3 The Han Empire (202 bce–220 ce)
  • The Romance of the Three Kingdoms (220–280 ce)
  • Questions for Discussion
  • For Further Reading
  • 3 The Age of Cosmopolitanism
  • 3.1 China in Division
  • The Sixteen Kingdoms (North China, 304–439)
  • The Southern Dynasties (South China, 317–589)
  • Northern Wei (North China, 386–534)
  • Cosmopolitan Elite International Culture
  • 3.2 Buddhism Comes to East Asia
  • Indian Origins
  • Buddhism’s Spread to China
  • Buddhism and the Birth of East Asia
  • 3.3 The Emergence of Korean Kingdoms (ca. 2000 bce–313 ce)
  • Three Kingdoms Korea (313–668)
  • 3.4 Yamato Japan (ca. 300–645)
  • Questions for Discussion
  • For Further Reading
  • 4 The Creation of a Community
  • 4.1 Chinese Imperial Restoration: The Sui (581–618) and Tang (618–907) Dynasties
  • The Consolidation of Tang Rule
  • The Harmonization of Diversity
  • Domesticating Chinese Buddhism
  • Watershed: The Mid-Tang Crisis
  • The “Transmission of the Way,” and Growing Commercialization
  • 4.2 The Birth of Korea: Unified Silla (668–935)
  • The Unification of the Korean Peninsula (668)
  • Silla
  • 4.3 Imperial Japan: Nara (710–784) and Early Heian (794–ca. Tenth Century [–1185])
  • The Taika Coup (645)
  • Nara (710–784)
  • Early Heian (794–ca. Tenth Century [–1185])
  • Questions for Discussion
  • For Further Reading
  • 5 Mature Independent Trajectories (Tenth–Sixteenth Centuries)
  • 5.1 Late Imperial China: The Song (960–1279), Yuan (1271–1368), and Early Ming Dynasties (1368–ca. Sixteenth Century [–1644])
  • The Song Dynasty Situation
  • Economic and Social Change
  • Neo-Confucianism
  • Mongol Tempest: Chinggis Khan (ca. 1162–1227)
  • The Yuan Dynasty (1271–1368)
  • The Early Ming (1368–ca. Sixteenth Century [–1644])
  • 5.2 Confucian Korea: Koryŏ (918–1392) and Early Chosŏn (1392–ca. Sixteenth Century [–1910])
  • Koryŏ (918–1392)
  • The Era of Mongol Domination (1270–1356)
  • Early Chosŏn (1392–ca. Sixteenth Century [–1910])
  • 5.3 Warrior Japan: Late Heian ([794–] Tenth Century–1185), Kamakura (1185–1333), and Muromachi (1333–1568)
  • The Rise of the Warriors
  • The Gempei War (1180–1185)
  • The Kamakura Shogunate (1185–1333)
  • Muromachi (1333–1568)
  • Questions for Discussion
  • For Further Reading
  • 6 Early Modern East Asia (Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries)
  • 6.1 Late Ming ([1368–] Sixteenth Century–1644) and Qing (1644–Eighteenth Century [–1912]) Dynasty China
  • Late Ming Consumer Culture
  • The Manchu, Qing, “Gunpowder Empire” (1644–Eighteenth Century [–1912])
  • 6.2 The Hermit Kingdom: Late Chosŏn Korea ([1392–] Sixteenth–Nineteenth Centuries [–1910])
  • 6.3 The Reunification of Japan (1568–1600) and the Tokugawa Shogunate (1603–1868)
  • Three Reunifiers
  • The Tokugawa Shogunate (1603–1868)
  • The World Turned Upside Down: Early Modern Economic Development
  • Questions for Discussion
  • For Further Reading
  • 7 Dai Viet (Vietnam before the Nineteenth Century)
  • 7.1 The Origins of Civilization in Vietnam
  • 7.2 Chinese Imperial Frontier
  • 7.3 Dai Viet
  • 7.4 Champa
  • 7.5 Vietnam Reaches the Mekong
  • 7.6 The Last Dynasty
  • Questions for Discussion
  • For Further Reading
  • 8 The Nineteenth-Century Encounter of Civilizations
  • 8.1 Industrialization and the Rise of New Great Powers
  • 8.2 The Nineteenth-Century Impact on China
  • The Opium Wars
  • Domestic Rebellions
  • The Tongzhi Restoration (1862–1874)
  • The Treaty Ports
  • The Boxer Rebellion (1898–1900)
  • 8.3 The Nineteenth-Century Opening of Korea
  • 8.4 The Meiji Restoration (1868–1912): Japan “Leaves Asia”
  • Commodore Perry and the Opening of Japan (1853–1854)
  • The Meiji Restoration (1868)
  • Meiji Modernization
  • The Meiji Constitution
  • Industrialization
  • 8.5 The French Colonization of Vietnam
  • Questions for Discussion
  • For Further Reading
  • 9 The Age of Westernization (1900–1929)
  • 9.1 Empire’s End: Republican Revolution in China
  • The 1911 Revolution
  • The May Fourth Movement: Science and Democracy
  • The Warlord Era, 1916–1928
  • 9.2 Korea under Japanese Rule, 1905–1945
  • 9.3 Japan: Taishō Democracy
  • 9.4 “Our Ancestors the Gauls”: French Colonial Indochina
  • Questions for Discussion
  • For Further Reading
  • 10 The Dark Valley (1930–1945)
  • 10.1 The Rise of Japanese Ultranationalism
  • 10.2 Manchukuo
  • 10.3 Nationalist China
  • 10.4 The Rise of Mao Zedong
  • 10.5 World War II in China
  • 10.6 World War II in the Pacific
  • Questions for Discussion
  • For Further Reading
  • 11 Cold War East Asia
  • 11.1 The People’s Republic of China
  • Chairman Mao’s New China
  • Nixon and Mao
  • Deng Xiaoping and Market-Based Economic Reform
  • Tiananmen
  • 11.2 Korea Divided
  • The Korean War
  • North Korea
  • South Korea: Syngman Rhee and the First Republic (1948–1960)
  • Park Chung Hee and the Industrialization of South Korea
  • 11.3 Postwar Japan
  • The Allied Occupation
  • Economic Recovery and the “Developmental State”
  • Trade Wars, and the End of the Japanese Miracle
  • 11.4 Vietnam
  • The French Withdrawal
  • American Intervention
  • 11.5 The End of the Cold War
  • Questions for Discussion
  • For Further Reading
  • 12 Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Overseas Chinese
  • 12.1 Hong Kong
  • 12.2 Taiwan
  • Questions for Discussion
  • For Further Reading
  • 13 Globalization, and the Resurgence of East Asia
  • 13.1 China in the Age of Globalization
  • Xi Jinping
  • 13.2 South Korea: Democratization and Globalization
  • 13.3 Japan
  • Japanese Globalization
  • Twenty-First Century Japanese History
  • 13.4 Socialist Republic of Vietnam
  • 13.5 Concluding Thoughts
  • Questions for Discussion
  • For Further Reading
  • Character List
  • Notes
  • Preface to the Third Editon
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1
  • Chapter 2
  • Chapter 3
  • Chapter 4
  • Chapter 5
  • Chapter 6
  • Chapter 7
  • Chapter 8
  • Chapter 9
  • Chapter 10
  • Chapter 11
  • Chapter 12
  • Chapter 13
  • Index