A History of East Asia
- 492pagine
- 18 ore di lettura
List of illustrations; List of maps; Pronunciation guide; Timeline; Glossary; Introduction: what is East Asia?; 1. The origins of civilization in East Asia; 2. The formative era; 3. The age of cosmopolitanism; 4. The creation of a community: China, Korea, and Japan (seventh-tenth centuries); 5. Mature independent trajectories (tenth-sixteenth centuries); 6. Early modern East Asia (sixteenth-eighteenth centuries); 7. Dai Viet (Vietnam before the nineteenth century); 8. The nineteenth-century encounter of civilizations; 9. The age of Westernization (1900-1929); 10. The Dark Valley (1930-1945); 11. Japan since 1945; 12. Korea since 1945; 13. Vietnam since 1945; 14. China since 1945; Afterword; Character list; Notes; Index.
