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East Asia : a new history / Rhoads Murphey.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks DS511 .M95 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Murphey, Rhoads, 1919-2012
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- East Asia--History.
- East Asia.
- Southeast Asia--History.
- Southeast Asia.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 456 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
- illustration
- map
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Longman, ©2001.
- Contents:
- East Asia: common ground and regional differences
- Prehistory, beginnings in China, and the Shang Dynasty
- The Zhou
- its decline, and the age of the philosophers
- Qin and Han: the making of empire
- Buddhism, barbarians, and the Tang Dynasty
- Achievement and disaster: the Song and Yuan Dynasties, 960-1355
- New imperial splendor in China: the Ming Dynasty
- The Qing in prosperity and decline
- Premodern Vietnam and Korea
- Beginnings in Japan: patterns and origins
- Warriors, monks, and conflict: medieval Japan
- The West arrives in Asia
- Tokugawa Japan
- Humiliation and response in Nineteenth Century China
- Japan's response to new challenges
- Imperialsim in Korea, Vietnam, and Southeast Asia
- China in tatters, 1896-1925
- China and Japan: the road to war
- The second World War in Asia
- China since 1945
- Japan since 1945
- Korea, mainland Southeast Asia, and the United States in East Asia.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Balch Ethnic Stuides Collection
- ISBN:
- 0321078012
- 9780321078018
- OCLC:
- 44090591
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