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Index
Half title
Title page
Imprints page
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Pronunciation Guide
Chinese
Japanese
Korean
Vietnamese
Timeline: Dynasties and Major Historical Periods
Glossary
Introduction
For Further Reading
1 The Origins of Civilization in East Asia
“Out of Africa”: The First East Asians
East Asian Languages and Writing Systems
Bronze Age China
For Further Reading
2 The Formative Era
The Age of the Classics
Zhou Dynasty China (1045–256 BCE)
The Hundred Schools of Thought
Confucianism
Daoism
Legalism
The Art of War
First Empire
“The Faults of Qin” (221–207 BCE)
The Han Empire (202 BCE–220 CE)
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms (220–280 CE)
For Further Reading
3 The Age of Cosmopolitanism
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
Buddhism Comes to East Asia
Indian Origins
Buddhism’s Spread to China
Buddhism and the Birth of East Asia
The Emergence of Korean Kingdoms
Early Korea (ca. 2000 BCE–313 CE)
Three Kingdoms Korea (313–668)
Yamato Japan (ca. 300–645)
For Further Reading
4 The Creation of a Community
Chinese Imperial Restoration: The Sui (581–618) and Tang (618–907) Dynasties
The Sui Reunification (589) and the Founding of the Tang
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
The Birth of Korea: Unified Silla (668–935)
Unification of the Korean Peninsula (668)
Silla
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])
For Further Reading
5 Mature Independent Trajectories (Tenth–Sixteenth Centuries)
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])
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])
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)
For Further Reading
6 Early Modern East Asia (Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries)
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])
The Hermit Kingdom: Late Chosŏn Korea ([1392–] Sixteenth–Nineteenth Centuries [–1910])
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
For Further Reading
7 Dai Viet (Vietnam before the Nineteenth Century)
The Origins of Civilization in Vietnam
Chinese Imperial Frontier
Dai Viet
Champa
Vietnam Reaches the Mekong
The Last Dynasty
For Further Reading
8 The Nineteenth-Century Encounter of Civilizations
Industrialization and the Rise of New Great Powers
The Nineteenth-Century Impact on China
The Opium Wars
Domestic Rebellions
The Tongzhi Restoration (1862–1874)
The Treaty Ports
The Boxer Rebellion (1898–1900)
The Nineteenth-Century Opening of Korea
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
The French Colonization of Vietnam
For Further Reading
9 The Age of Westernization (1900–1929)
Empire’s End: Republican Revolution in China
The 1911 Revolution
The May Fourth Movement: Science and Democracy
The Warlord Era, 1916–1928
Korea under Japanese Rule, 1905–1945
Japan: Taishō Democracy
“Our Ancestors the Gauls”: French Colonial Indochina
For Further Reading
10 The Dark Valley (1930–1945)
The Rise of Japanese Ultranationalism
Manchukuo
Nationalist China
The Rise of Mao Zedong
World War II in China
World War II in the Pacific
For Further Reading
11 Japan since 1945
The Postwar Allied Occupation
Economic Recovery and the “Developmental State”
Trade Wars, and the End of the Japanese Miracle
Japan and Globalization
For Further Reading
12 Korea since 1945
The Korean War
North Korea
South Korea: Syngman Rhee and the First Republic (1948–1960)
Park Chung Hee and the Industrialization of South Korea
Democratization and Globalization
For Further Reading
13 Vietnam since 1945
The French Withdrawal, and America’s War
The Socialist Republic of Vietnam
Vietnam, East Asia, and the World
For Further Reading
14 China since 1945
The Chinese Civil War
Chairman Mao’s New China
The Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution
Nixon and Mao
Deng Xiaoping and Market-Based Economic Reform
Tiananmen
Greater China
Singapore
Hong Kong
Taiwan
China and Globalization
For Further Reading
Afterword
Character List
Notes
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
Chapter 14
Afterword
Index
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