Modern East Asia : an integrated history
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Modern East Asia : an integrated history
Laurence King Pub., 2011
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Bibliography: p. 469-471
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This new integrated history discusses the development of China, Japan and Korea from the dawn of the modern age to the present, bringing together the threads that tie these neighbours together and narrating clearly how they have arrived where they are on the world stage.
Each chapter covers parallel political, social, economic and cultural developments in the region, beginning by setting the world context for the period and
ending by tying together the developments in China, Japan and Korea, showing how they resembled and influenced
each other.Boxes feature the lives of individual East Asians, adding their personal stories.
By placing the histories of China, Japan and Korea in parallel, this book revolutionizes the way East Asian history is taught, providing a clear vision of both the common bonds and distinct characteristics of these three great cultures.
Table of Contents
Chapter One Lands and Languages of East Asia Chapter Two Ming China, Choson Korea, and Warring States Japan in 1600 Chapter Three The Seventeenth Century Chapter Four The Eighteenth Century Chapter Five Internal Contradictions, External Pressures (1800-1860s) Chapter Six Traditionalist Reforms and the Origins of Modernity (1860s-1895) Chapter Seven Meiji Japan Rises, Qing and Choson Fall, 1895-1912 Chapter Eight Triumphs, Revolutions, and Hard Times (1910-1931) Chapter Nine The Fifteen-Year War and Anti-Japanese War of Resistance (1931-1945) Chapter Ten Occupations, Settlements, and Divisions (1945-1953) Chapter Eleven Reconstruction and Divergent Development (1953-late 1970s) Chapter Twelve Social Transformations and Economic Growth (mid-1970s-early 1990s) Chapter 13 Globalization with East Asian Characteristics (early 1990s-2010) Notes / Glossary / Further Reading
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