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 from a
global perspective. 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. Chapter 1 describes East Asia's
geographical, human, cultural, economic, social, and political
setting as it has evolved over the past several millennia, and the
three major belief systems - Confucianism, Buddhism, and Islam.
Chapter 2 presents a panoramic view of the region ca. 1800. The
chapter introduces the "dramatis personae" - the Chinese, Japanese,
Koreans, Vietnamese, Thai, Burmese, Indonesians, Filipinos, and
others - and describes their interactions with each other and with
Imperial China.The following three chapters deal with European
expansionism and East Asians' responses to the civilizational
challenge; the stirrings of nationalism in reaction to European
colonial rule; and the remarkable rise of Imperial Japan. Chapters
6 and 7 trace Japan's bid to lead a pan-Asianist revolt against the
twin threats of Western liberalism and Soviet communism, and the
ensuing Pacific War. Chapters 8 and 9 span the cold war era, from
postwar U.S. hopes for a "Pax Americana" to the division of East
Asia into communist and anti-communist blocs. The Sino-Soviet split
and the Sino-American rapprochement of the early 1970s open the way
to the "East Asian miracle" and a resurgence of East Asian
regionalism, surveyed in Chapter 10. A concluding chapter considers
the prospects for continued economic dynamism and the balance of
nationalism and pan-Asian trends in shaping the future.
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