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East Asia : a new history / Rhoads Murphey.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks DS511 .M95 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Murphey, Rhoads, 1919-2012
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- East Asia--History--Textbooks.
- East Asia.
- Southeast Asia--History--Textbooks.
- Southeast Asia.
- Genre:
- History.
- Textbooks.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 485 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm
- Edition:
- 4th ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Pearson Longman, ©2007.
- Contents:
- Ch. 1. East Asia : common ground and regional differences
- Ch. 2. Prehistory, beginnings in China, and the Shang dynasty
- Ch. 3. The Zhou
- its decline, and the age of the philosophers
- Ch. 4. Qin and Han : the making of empire
- Ch. 5. Buddhism, barbarians, and the Tang dynasty
- Ch. 6. Achievement and disaster : the Song and Yuan dynasties, 960-1355
- Ch. 7. New imperial splendor in China : the Ming dynasty
- Ch. 8. The Qing in prosperity and decline
- Ch. 9. Early Korea : another version of the Chinese pattern
- Ch. 10. Premodern Vietnam
- Ch. 11. Beginnings in Japan : patterns and origins
- Ch. 12. Warriors, monks, and conflict : medieval Japan
- Ch. 13. The West arrives in Asia
- Ch. 14. Tokugawa Japan
- Ch. 15. Humiliation and response in nineteenth-century China
- Ch. 16. Japan remakes itself
- Ch. 17. Imperialism in Korea, Vietnam, and Southeast Asia
- Ch. 18. China in tatters, 1896-1925
- Ch. 19. China and Japan : the road of war
- Ch. 20. The Second World War in Asia
- Ch. 21. China since 1945
- Ch. 22. Japan since 1945
- Ch. 23. Korea and Mainland Southeast Asia.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- The Balch Ethnic Studies Collection
- Other Format:
- Online version: Murphey, Rhoads, 1919- East Asia.
- ISBN:
- 0321421418
- 9780321421418
- OCLC:
- 64487338
- Publisher Number:
- 9780321421418 (pbk.)
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