A History of East Asia: From the Origins of Civilization to the Twenty-First Century

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
Index