A history of East Asia from the origins of civilization to the twenty-first century

Charles Holcombe begins by asking the question 'what is East Asia?' In the modern age, many of the features that made the region - now defined as including China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam - distinct have been submerged by the effects of revolution, politics or globalization. Yet, as an anc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Holcombe, Charles, 1956- autor (autor)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 2017
Edición:2end ed
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: what is East Asia?
  • The origins of civilization in East Asia
  • The formative era
  • The age of cosmopolitanism
  • The creation of a community: China, Korea, and Japan (seventh to tenth centuries)
  • Mature independent trajectories (tenth to sixteenth centuries)
  • Early modern East Asia (sixteenth to eighteenth centuries)
  • Dai Viet (Vietnam before the nineteenth century)
  • The nineteenth-century encounter of civilizations
  • The age of westernization (1900-1929)
  • The dark valley (1930-1945)
  • Japan since 1945
  • Korea since 1945
  • Vietnam since 1945
  • China since 1945.