A History of East Asia

From the Origins of Civilization to the Twenty-First Century
3rd Auflage
ISBN: 978-1-009-50478-2
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 529 Seiten, Format (B × H): 184 mm x 256 mm, Gewicht: 1315 g

The third edition of this ambitious book begins by asking: What is East Asia? Today, many of the features that made the region distinct have been submerged under revolution, politics, or globalization. Yet in ancient times, what we now think of as China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam had both historical and cultural coherence. Thoroughly revised and updated to include recent developments in East Asian politics, with new illustrations and suggestions for further reading, this book traces the story of East Asia from the dawn of history to the modern age. New discussion questions at the end of each chapter encourage readers to reflect, while a glossary, pronunciation guide, and parallel timeline enable a closer engagement with this complex subject. Charles Holcombe is an experienced and sure-footed guide who encapsulates, in a fast-moving and colorful narrative, the connections, commonalities, and differences of one of the most remarkable regions on earth.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Holcombe, Charles

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of illustrations; List of maps; Pronunciation guide; Timeline; Glossary; Preface to the third edition; 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 centuries); 8. The nineteenth-century encounter of civilizations; 9. The age of Westernization (1900–1929); 10: The dark valley (1930–1945); 11. Cold War East Asia; 12. Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Overseas Chinese; 13. Globalization, and the resurgence of East Asia; Character list; Notes; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Holcombe, Charles
Charles Holcombe is Professor of History at the University of Northern Iowa. Having spent a year researching Six Dynasties China at Kyoto University in Japan, his awakening interest in East Asian interconnections led him to write The Genesis of East Asia, 221 BC–AD 907 (2001). He won the Regents' Award for Faculty Excellence at the University of Northern Iowa (2007).