East Asia : a new history
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East Asia : a new history
Longman, c2001
2nd ed
Available at 2 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
East Asia: A New History provides a comprehensive history of China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. The new edition has been completely updated and contains new material on Korea and Vietnam. This accessible and richly illustrated text includes coverage of the common people, the environment, and the experiences of women-topics that are often neglected in other books.
Table of Contents
List of Maps.
Preface.
A Note on the Spelling of Asian Names and Words.
About the Author.
Atlas.
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, Barbarians, and the Tang Dynasty.
6. Achievement and Disaster: The Song and Yuan Dynasties, 960- 1355.
7. New Imperial Splendor in China: The Ming Dynasty.
8. The Qing in Prosperity and Decline.
9. Premodern Vietnam and Korea.
10 Beginnings in Japan: Patterns and Origins.
11 Warriors, Monks, and Conflict: Medieval Japan.
12 The West Arrives in Asia.
13 Tokugawa Japan.
14 Humiliation and Response in Nineteenth-Century China.
15 Japan's Response to New Challenges.
16 Imperialism in Korea, Vietnam, and Southeast Asia.
17 China in Tatters, 1896-1925.
18 China and Japan: The Road to War.
19 The Second World War in Asia.
20 China Since 1945.
21 Japan Since 1945.
22 Korea, Mainland Southeast Asia, and the U. S. in East Asia.
Acknowledgments.
Index.
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