Historical Perspectives on Contemporary East Asia

Contents
	Preface
1. The Foreign Impact on East Asia
	Nationalist Challenges to Imperialism
	Conferences in Washington and Moscow
	The Guomindang “Revolution” and the
	Selected Readings
2. Social and Political Change in Nineteenth-Century China
	A Changing Traditional Society
	The Two-Pronged Midcentury Crisis
	The Emergence of New Contexts and Political
	Selected Readings
3. Visions of the Future in Meiji Japan
	Selected Readings
4. Korea’s Transition to Modernity: A Will to Greatness
	The Premodem Tradition
	The Western Impact and Korean Response
	Korea under Japanese Rule
	Korea Divided
	North Korea
	Selected Readings
5. State and Society in Interwar Japan
	Democratic Challenges
	Contending Elite Responses
	The 1930s: Fascism, Japanism, or Democracy
	Selected Readings
6. China in the Early Twentieth Century: Tasks for a New World
	The New Reform Program
	The Revolution against the Qing
	The Republic under Yuan Shikai
	Selected Readings
7. The Nationalist Regime and the Chinese Party-State, 1928-1958
	Engineering China: The Developmental State, 1927-1933
	Two Party-States, 1949-1958
	Selected Readings
8. The Search for Social Cohesion in China, 1921-1958
	Searching for the Sociopolitical Keys for Nation-
	The Period of the Resistance War: Crucible of
	Revolutionary Tidal Waves: Collectivization
	Selected Readings
9. Society and Politics from Transwar through Postwar Japan
	Transwar Society through the 1950s
	A Newly Divided Political Culture
	Social Transformations from the 1960s
	Political Accommodation and a Transformed
	Selected Readings
10. Searching for the Appropriate Model for the People’s Republic of China
	Post-Mao Reforms with Chinese Characteristics, 1978 to the Present
	Selected Readings
	Notes
	Contributors
	Index