East Asia : a new history / Rhoads Murphey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murphey, Rhoads, 1919-2012, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

East Asia--History--Textbooks.

East Asia.

Southeast Asia--History--Textbooks.

Southeast Asia.

Genre:

Textbooks.

Physical Description:

xvii, 478 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm

Edition:

5th ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston [Mass.] : Longman, ©2010.

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 and the cosmopolitan Tang Dynasty

Ch. 6. Achievement and disaster : the Song and Yuan Dynasties, 960-1368

Ch. 7. New imperial splendor in China : the Ming Dynasty

Ch. 8. The Qing in prosperity and decline

Ch. 9. Early Korea

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. China's nineteenth-century crises

Ch. 16. Japan remakes itself

Ch. 17. Imperialism in Korea and Vietnam

Ch. 18. China, 1901-1925 : end of empire and search for a new order

Ch. 19. China and Japan : the road to war

Ch. 20. The Second World War in Asia

Ch. 21. China since 1945

Ch. 22. Japan since 1945

Ch. 23. Korea and Vietnam since 1945.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

The Balch Institute Ethnic Studies Collection

ISBN:

9780205695225

0205695221

OCLC:

297146357