Patterns of East Asian History
Published on 27. June 2019
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Paperback/Softback
544 pages
978-0-19-994646-4 (ISBN)
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Covering all of East Asian history from the Neolithic to the present--including Mongolia and Vietnam, alongside China, Japan, and Korea--Patterns of East Asian History uses recognizable and widely-accepted patterns of historical development as a framework around which to structure the material. This approach serves as both an organizational aid to instructors and as a tool to make complex material more comprehensible to students. The result is enhanced pedagogical flexibility. This subtly recursive format allows abundant opportunities for contrast and comparison among and within the societies under consideration. The overall aim is to simplify the immense complexities of history for beginning students without making them simplistic. Featuring nearly sixty maps and 200 photos, Patterns of East Asian History provides a rich visual history that complements its engaging narrative.
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Patterns of East Asian History offers significant features that other texts do not. Desnoyers does an excellent job of identifying and explaining patterns in East Asian civilizations; he includes the latest scholarship and places East Asia in the context of world history. * Peter Worthing, Texas Christian University* This book is well organized, includes the most important events and personalities, and sustains students with animated writing and engrossing details. Patterns of East Asian History is accurate, concise, and engaging. * Margaret B. Denning, Slippery Rock University
* Patterns of East Asian History is an engaging and accessible survey of East Asian history that attends to both local/national histories and transnational/global patterns. * Charles V. Reed, Elizabeth City State University
* This text is well organized and the chapter-opening vignettes capture students' interest. The scholarship is solid and the coverage is excellent. * Clayton D. Brown, Utah State University
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English
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New York
United States
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Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
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839 gr
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978-0-19-994646-4 (9780199946464)
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Charles A. Desnoyers is Professor of History and Director of Asian Studies at La Salle University. He is the author of several books, including Patterns of Modern Chinese History (OUP, 2016) and Patterns of World History, Third Edition (OUP, 2017), coauthored with Peter von Sivers and George B. Stow.
Content
- List of Maps
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Dates and Spelling
- About the Author
- PART I: CREATING EAST ASIA
- Chapter 1: The Region and People
- Varied Geographies
- The Chinese Landscape
- The Great Regulator: The Monsoon
- Mountains and Deserts
- Eurasia's Eastern Branch: Korea
- The Island Perimeter: Japan
- The Southern Branch: Vietnam
- East Asian Ethnicities and Languages
- China and Taiwan
- Tibet
- Mongolia
- Korea
- Japan
- Conclusion
- Chapter 2: The Middle Kingdom: China to 1280
- Opening Vignette
- China and the Neolithic Revolution
- Neolithic Origins
- Foundations of the Dynastic System
- The Three Dynasties: The Xia
- The Three Dynasties: The Shang
- The Three Dynasties: The Zhou
- Economy and Society
- New Classes: Merchants and Shi
- Family and Gender in Ancient China
- Religion Culture and Intellectual Life
- Chinese Writing
- Ritual and Religion
- The Hundred Schools: Confucianism and Daoism
- Self-Cultivation and Ritual: Confucius
- Mencius and the Politics of Human Nature
- Paradox and Transcendence: Laozi and Daoism
- The Structures of Empire
- The First Empire, 221-206 B.C.E.
- Qin Shi Huangdi
- The Imperial Model: The Han Dynasty, 202 B.C.E. to 220 C.E.
- Expanding the Empire
- Downturn of the Dynastic Cycle
- The Centuries of Fragmentation, 220-589 C.E.
- Reconstituting the Empire: The Sui, Tang, and Song Dynasties, 589-1280
- China's Cosmopolitan Age: The Tang Dynasty, 618-907
- Buddhism in China
- Patterns Up Close: Creating an East Asian Buddhist Culture
- The Period of Expansion: Emperor Taizong
- "Emperor" Wu
- Cosmopolitan Autumn
- An Early Modern Period? The Song
- The Southern Song Remnant
- The Mongol Conquest
- Economics, Society, and Gender in Early Imperial China
- Industry and Commerce
- Agricultural Productivity
- Gender and Family
- Thought, Science, and Technology
- The Legacy of the Han Historians
- Neo-Confucianism
- Poetry, Painting, and Calligraphy
- Technological Leadership
- Conclusion
- Chapter 3: Interaction and Adaptation on the Sinitic Rim: Korea, Japan, and Vietnam to the Mongol Era
- Opening Vignette
- From Three Kingdoms to One: Korea to 1231
- The "Three Kingdoms"
- Korea to the Mongol Invasion
- Economy and Society
- Religion, Culture and Intellectual Life
- Isolation, Interaction, and Adaptation: Japan to 1281
- Jomon and Yayoi
- Early State Building
- Imperial Rule
- Economy and Society
- Family Structure
- Religion, Culture, and Intellectual Life
- Buddhism in Japan
- Patterns Up Close: From Periphery to Center: Nichiren, Buddhism, and Japan
- Forging a New Japanese Culture
- Borders of Influence and Agency: Vietnam
- Neolithic Cultures
- Village Society and Buddhism
- The "Far South"
- Independence and State Building
- Economics and Society
- Officials, Peasants, and Merchants
- Women and Family
- Religion, Culture, and Intellectual Life
- Chu Nom
- Conclusion
- Chapter 4: The Mongol Super-Empire
- Opening Vignette
- Genghis Khan and the Mongol Conquest
- Strategies of the Steppes
- Clashing Codes of Combat
- Assimilating Military Technologies
- The Mongol Conquest: The Initial Phase
- The Drive to the West
- Patterns Up Close: Pax Mongolica
- Subduing China
- From Victory to Disunity
- Overthrow and Retreat
- The Mongol Commercial Revolution
- Rebuilding Agriculture and Infrastructure
- Role Reversal: Artisans and Merchants
- Family, Gender, Religion, and Culture
- Egalitarian Patriarchy?
- Religion: Toleration and Support
- Conclusion
- PART II: RECASTING EAST ASIA TO THE PRESENT
- Chapter 5: From Superpower to Semi-Colony: China from the Ming to 1895
- Opening Vignette
- Remaking the Empire: The Ming
- Centralizing Government and Projecting Power
- Toward a Regulated Society: Foreign Relations
- The End of the Ming
- The Era of Dominance: The Qing to 1795
- The Banner System
- Universal Empire
- Pacification and Expansion
- Encounters With Europeans
- Regulating Maritime Trade
- The Struggle for Agency in "The Century of Humiliation"
- The Horizon of Decline: The White Lotus Rebellion
- Interactions with Maritime Powers
- The Coming of the Unequal Treaties
- The Taiping and Nian Eras
- The Origins of Taiping Ideology
- Defeating the Taipings
- The Nian Rebellion, 1853-1868
- Reform Through Self-Strengthening
- Patterns Up Close: The Cooperative Era and Modernization
- Nineteenth-Century Qing Expansion
- The Limits of Self-Strengthening, 1860-1895
- The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95
- Society and Economics in Ming and Qing Times
- Organizing the Countryside
- Population and Sustainability
- The "High-Level Equilibrium Trap" Debate
- Technology and Intellectual Life
- Philosophy and Literature
- Poetry, Travel Accounts, and Newspapers
- Conclusion
- Chapter 6: Becoming "The Hermit Kingdom": Korea from the Mongol Invasions to 1895
- Opening Vignette
- Toward Semi-Seclusion
- The Mongol Era and the Founding of the Yi Dynasty
- The Japanese Invasion
- Recovery and the Drive for Stability
- The Shadow of the Qing
- Strangers at the Gates
- The Hermit Kingdom
- Korea and the Sino-Japanese War
- Economy, Society, and Family
- Land Reform
- Social Organization
- The New Economy
- Family and Gender Roles
- Culture and Intellectual Life
- Patterns Up Close: The Development of Han Gul
- Neo-Confucianism and Pragmatic Studies
- Conclusion
- Chapter 7: From "Lesser Dragon" to "Indochina": Vietnam to 1885
- Opening Vignette
- The Lesser Dragon
- Southward Expansion
- Perils of Growth
- Rebellion and Consolidation
- Patterns Up Close: The French as Allies of the Imperial Court
- Creating Indochina
- First Footholds
- Colonization by Protectorate
- The Sino-French War
- Conflict and Compromise: Economy and Society
- The New Commercial Development
- Neo-Confucianism in Imperial Vietnam
- Toward "Modernity?" Culture, Science, and Intellectual Life
- Asserting Incipient Nationalism
- Struggles of Modernization
- Conclusion
- Chapter 8: Becoming Imperial: Japan to 1895
- Opening Vignette
- The Era of the Shoguns, 1192 to 1867
- Kamakura and Ashikaga Shogunates, and Mongol Attacks
- Dissolution and Reunification
- The Tokugawa Bakufu
- "Tent Government"
- Freezing Society
- Securing the Place of the Samurai
- Tokugawa Seclusion
- Reunifying Rule
- The Coming of the "Black Ships"
- Restoring the Emperor
- From Feudalism to Nationalism
- The Meiji Constitution and Political Life
- Becoming An Imperial Power
- Economy, Family, and Society
- Agriculture, Population, and Commerce
- Late Tokugawa and Early Meiji Economics and Society
- Patterns Up Close: Japan's Transformation Through East Asian Eyes
- Railroads and Telegraphs
- Family Structure
- "Civilization and Enlightenment"
- Religion, Culture, and Intellectual Life
- Zen, Tea, and Aesthetics
- The Arts and Literature
- Bunraku, Noh, Kabuki, and Ukiyo-e
- Intellectual Developments
- Science, Culture, and the Arts in the Meiji Period
- Conclusion
- Chapter 9: From Reform to Revolution: China from 1895 to the Present, Part I
- Opening Vignette
- The Republican Revolution
- The Last Stand of the Old Order: The Boxer Rebellion and War
- The Twilight of Reform
- Sun Yat-sen and the Ideology of Revolution
- The New Warring States Era (1916-1926)
- Creating Nationalism
- The First United Front
- Civil War, World War, and People's Republic
- The Nationalist Interval
- The Long March and Xi'an Incident
- East Asia At War
- From Coalition Government to the Gate of Heavenly Peace
- A New Society and Culture
- The New Culture Movement
- City and Country
- Conclusion
- Chapter 10: From Continuous Revolution to Authoritarian Modernity: China from 1895 to the Present, Part II
- The Maoist Years, 1949 to 1976
- Early Mass Mobilization Campaigns
- Land Reform
- The Great Leap Forward
- The Hundred Flowers and Anti-Rightist Campaigns
- Taking a Breath in the Revolution
- Becoming Proletarian: The Cultural Revolution
- The End of the Maoist Era
- A U-Turn on the Socialist Road
- China's Four Modernizations
- Modernizing National Defense
- "The Fifth Modernization"
- Tiananmen Square and the New Authoritarianism
- Ending the Colonial Era
- Tiananmen Square
- "Confucian Capitalism"
- Growth and Its Discontents
- Tibet and Minorities
- Toward Harmony and Stability?
- The Olympic Moment
- Xi Jinping and "The Four Comprehensives"
- Patterns Up Close: Confucius Institutes and China's Soft Power
- Society, Science, and Culture
- Recasting Urban Life
- Modernization and Society
- The New Technology
- Art and Literature
- The Media
- Conclusion
- Chapter 11: A House Divided: Korea to the Present
- Opening Vignette
- The Ebb and Flow of Colonialism
- Military Rule
- Relative Restraint: The Cultural Policy
- Militarism, Colonialism, and War
- Patterns Up Close: Nationalism, Empire, and Athletics
- Cold War, Hot War, and Cold War
- A Korean Civil War?
- From Seesaw to Stalemate
- Political and Economic Developments South and North
- Republics and Coups
- Land Reform and the Export Economy
- From Authoritarian Rule to Democracy
- The Democratic Era, 1993 to the Present
- The New Hermit Kingdom of the North
- War by Other Means
- Juche and the Cult of Personality
- The Kim Dynasty
- Conclusion
- Chapter 12: Colonized, Divided, and Reunited: Vietnam to the Present
- Opening Vignette
- The First Colonial Era: 1885 to 1945
- "The Civilizing Mission" and Rebellion
- Reform and Republicanism
- Ho Chi Minh and Revolution
- Patterns Up Close: Parsing the Language of Independence
- The War for Independence
- The American War
- Tearing Two Nations Apart
- "Peace With Honor" and National Unification
- From Reunification to Regional Power
- Building the New Socialist State
- Politics and Genocide: Fighting the Khmer Rouge
- Recovery and Prosperity
- Conclusion
- Chapter 13: Becoming the Model of Modernity: Japan to the Present
- Opening Vignette
- "A Wonderfully Clever and Progressive People"
- The Russo-Japanese War
- The Limits of Power Politics
- The Great War and the Five Requests
- Intervention and Versailles
- Taisho Democracy
- Militarism and Co-Prosperity: The War Years
- Creating Manchukuo
- State Shinto and Militarism
- The "China Incident"
- World War II in the Pacific
- Allied Counterattack
- Co-Prosperity and Conditional Independence
- Endgame
- The Model of Modernity: From Occupation to the Present
- The New Order: Reform and Constitution
- The Reverse Course: Japan and the Cold War
- Moving Toward the 21st Century
- Patterns Up Close: Japan's History Problem
- Economy, Society and Culture
- From Made in Japan to Total Quality Management
- The Dominance of the Middle Class
- Women and Family: A Half-Step Behind?
- Godzilla and Sailor Moon: Postwar Culture
- Conclusion
- Epilogue: Breakneck Change and the Challenge of Tradition
- One Region, Three Systems?
- Colonialism and Imperialism
- Twentieth Century Conflict and Political Configuration
- 1. China and Vietnam: Authoritarian Capitalism
- · China
- · Vietnam
- 2. Japan, Taiwan, South Korea: Representative Government and Capitalism
- · Japan
- · South Korea
- · Taiwan
- 3. North Korea: Stalinist Self-Sufficiency
- The "Chinese Dream" as the East Asian Dream?
- Glossary
- Credits
- Index
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Dates and Spelling
- About the Author
- PART I: CREATING EAST ASIA
- Chapter 1: The Region and People
- Varied Geographies
- The Chinese Landscape
- The Great Regulator: The Monsoon
- Mountains and Deserts
- Eurasia's Eastern Branch: Korea
- The Island Perimeter: Japan
- The Southern Branch: Vietnam
- East Asian Ethnicities and Languages
- China and Taiwan
- Tibet
- Mongolia
- Korea
- Japan
- Conclusion
- Chapter 2: The Middle Kingdom: China to 1280
- Opening Vignette
- China and the Neolithic Revolution
- Neolithic Origins
- Foundations of the Dynastic System
- The Three Dynasties: The Xia
- The Three Dynasties: The Shang
- The Three Dynasties: The Zhou
- Economy and Society
- New Classes: Merchants and Shi
- Family and Gender in Ancient China
- Religion Culture and Intellectual Life
- Chinese Writing
- Ritual and Religion
- The Hundred Schools: Confucianism and Daoism
- Self-Cultivation and Ritual: Confucius
- Mencius and the Politics of Human Nature
- Paradox and Transcendence: Laozi and Daoism
- The Structures of Empire
- The First Empire, 221-206 B.C.E.
- Qin Shi Huangdi
- The Imperial Model: The Han Dynasty, 202 B.C.E. to 220 C.E.
- Expanding the Empire
- Downturn of the Dynastic Cycle
- The Centuries of Fragmentation, 220-589 C.E.
- Reconstituting the Empire: The Sui, Tang, and Song Dynasties, 589-1280
- China's Cosmopolitan Age: The Tang Dynasty, 618-907
- Buddhism in China
- Patterns Up Close: Creating an East Asian Buddhist Culture
- The Period of Expansion: Emperor Taizong
- "Emperor" Wu
- Cosmopolitan Autumn
- An Early Modern Period? The Song
- The Southern Song Remnant
- The Mongol Conquest
- Economics, Society, and Gender in Early Imperial China
- Industry and Commerce
- Agricultural Productivity
- Gender and Family
- Thought, Science, and Technology
- The Legacy of the Han Historians
- Neo-Confucianism
- Poetry, Painting, and Calligraphy
- Technological Leadership
- Conclusion
- Chapter 3: Interaction and Adaptation on the Sinitic Rim: Korea, Japan, and Vietnam to the Mongol Era
- Opening Vignette
- From Three Kingdoms to One: Korea to 1231
- The "Three Kingdoms"
- Korea to the Mongol Invasion
- Economy and Society
- Religion, Culture and Intellectual Life
- Isolation, Interaction, and Adaptation: Japan to 1281
- Jomon and Yayoi
- Early State Building
- Imperial Rule
- Economy and Society
- Family Structure
- Religion, Culture, and Intellectual Life
- Buddhism in Japan
- Patterns Up Close: From Periphery to Center: Nichiren, Buddhism, and Japan
- Forging a New Japanese Culture
- Borders of Influence and Agency: Vietnam
- Neolithic Cultures
- Village Society and Buddhism
- The "Far South"
- Independence and State Building
- Economics and Society
- Officials, Peasants, and Merchants
- Women and Family
- Religion, Culture, and Intellectual Life
- Chu Nom
- Conclusion
- Chapter 4: The Mongol Super-Empire
- Opening Vignette
- Genghis Khan and the Mongol Conquest
- Strategies of the Steppes
- Clashing Codes of Combat
- Assimilating Military Technologies
- The Mongol Conquest: The Initial Phase
- The Drive to the West
- Patterns Up Close: Pax Mongolica
- Subduing China
- From Victory to Disunity
- Overthrow and Retreat
- The Mongol Commercial Revolution
- Rebuilding Agriculture and Infrastructure
- Role Reversal: Artisans and Merchants
- Family, Gender, Religion, and Culture
- Egalitarian Patriarchy?
- Religion: Toleration and Support
- Conclusion
- PART II: RECASTING EAST ASIA TO THE PRESENT
- Chapter 5: From Superpower to Semi-Colony: China from the Ming to 1895
- Opening Vignette
- Remaking the Empire: The Ming
- Centralizing Government and Projecting Power
- Toward a Regulated Society: Foreign Relations
- The End of the Ming
- The Era of Dominance: The Qing to 1795
- The Banner System
- Universal Empire
- Pacification and Expansion
- Encounters With Europeans
- Regulating Maritime Trade
- The Struggle for Agency in "The Century of Humiliation"
- The Horizon of Decline: The White Lotus Rebellion
- Interactions with Maritime Powers
- The Coming of the Unequal Treaties
- The Taiping and Nian Eras
- The Origins of Taiping Ideology
- Defeating the Taipings
- The Nian Rebellion, 1853-1868
- Reform Through Self-Strengthening
- Patterns Up Close: The Cooperative Era and Modernization
- Nineteenth-Century Qing Expansion
- The Limits of Self-Strengthening, 1860-1895
- The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95
- Society and Economics in Ming and Qing Times
- Organizing the Countryside
- Population and Sustainability
- The "High-Level Equilibrium Trap" Debate
- Technology and Intellectual Life
- Philosophy and Literature
- Poetry, Travel Accounts, and Newspapers
- Conclusion
- Chapter 6: Becoming "The Hermit Kingdom": Korea from the Mongol Invasions to 1895
- Opening Vignette
- Toward Semi-Seclusion
- The Mongol Era and the Founding of the Yi Dynasty
- The Japanese Invasion
- Recovery and the Drive for Stability
- The Shadow of the Qing
- Strangers at the Gates
- The Hermit Kingdom
- Korea and the Sino-Japanese War
- Economy, Society, and Family
- Land Reform
- Social Organization
- The New Economy
- Family and Gender Roles
- Culture and Intellectual Life
- Patterns Up Close: The Development of Han Gul
- Neo-Confucianism and Pragmatic Studies
- Conclusion
- Chapter 7: From "Lesser Dragon" to "Indochina": Vietnam to 1885
- Opening Vignette
- The Lesser Dragon
- Southward Expansion
- Perils of Growth
- Rebellion and Consolidation
- Patterns Up Close: The French as Allies of the Imperial Court
- Creating Indochina
- First Footholds
- Colonization by Protectorate
- The Sino-French War
- Conflict and Compromise: Economy and Society
- The New Commercial Development
- Neo-Confucianism in Imperial Vietnam
- Toward "Modernity?" Culture, Science, and Intellectual Life
- Asserting Incipient Nationalism
- Struggles of Modernization
- Conclusion
- Chapter 8: Becoming Imperial: Japan to 1895
- Opening Vignette
- The Era of the Shoguns, 1192 to 1867
- Kamakura and Ashikaga Shogunates, and Mongol Attacks
- Dissolution and Reunification
- The Tokugawa Bakufu
- "Tent Government"
- Freezing Society
- Securing the Place of the Samurai
- Tokugawa Seclusion
- Reunifying Rule
- The Coming of the "Black Ships"
- Restoring the Emperor
- From Feudalism to Nationalism
- The Meiji Constitution and Political Life
- Becoming An Imperial Power
- Economy, Family, and Society
- Agriculture, Population, and Commerce
- Late Tokugawa and Early Meiji Economics and Society
- Patterns Up Close: Japan's Transformation Through East Asian Eyes
- Railroads and Telegraphs
- Family Structure
- "Civilization and Enlightenment"
- Religion, Culture, and Intellectual Life
- Zen, Tea, and Aesthetics
- The Arts and Literature
- Bunraku, Noh, Kabuki, and Ukiyo-e
- Intellectual Developments
- Science, Culture, and the Arts in the Meiji Period
- Conclusion
- Chapter 9: From Reform to Revolution: China from 1895 to the Present, Part I
- Opening Vignette
- The Republican Revolution
- The Last Stand of the Old Order: The Boxer Rebellion and War
- The Twilight of Reform
- Sun Yat-sen and the Ideology of Revolution
- The New Warring States Era (1916-1926)
- Creating Nationalism
- The First United Front
- Civil War, World War, and People's Republic
- The Nationalist Interval
- The Long March and Xi'an Incident
- East Asia At War
- From Coalition Government to the Gate of Heavenly Peace
- A New Society and Culture
- The New Culture Movement
- City and Country
- Conclusion
- Chapter 10: From Continuous Revolution to Authoritarian Modernity: China from 1895 to the Present, Part II
- The Maoist Years, 1949 to 1976
- Early Mass Mobilization Campaigns
- Land Reform
- The Great Leap Forward
- The Hundred Flowers and Anti-Rightist Campaigns
- Taking a Breath in the Revolution
- Becoming Proletarian: The Cultural Revolution
- The End of the Maoist Era
- A U-Turn on the Socialist Road
- China's Four Modernizations
- Modernizing National Defense
- "The Fifth Modernization"
- Tiananmen Square and the New Authoritarianism
- Ending the Colonial Era
- Tiananmen Square
- "Confucian Capitalism"
- Growth and Its Discontents
- Tibet and Minorities
- Toward Harmony and Stability?
- The Olympic Moment
- Xi Jinping and "The Four Comprehensives"
- Patterns Up Close: Confucius Institutes and China's Soft Power
- Society, Science, and Culture
- Recasting Urban Life
- Modernization and Society
- The New Technology
- Art and Literature
- The Media
- Conclusion
- Chapter 11: A House Divided: Korea to the Present
- Opening Vignette
- The Ebb and Flow of Colonialism
- Military Rule
- Relative Restraint: The Cultural Policy
- Militarism, Colonialism, and War
- Patterns Up Close: Nationalism, Empire, and Athletics
- Cold War, Hot War, and Cold War
- A Korean Civil War?
- From Seesaw to Stalemate
- Political and Economic Developments South and North
- Republics and Coups
- Land Reform and the Export Economy
- From Authoritarian Rule to Democracy
- The Democratic Era, 1993 to the Present
- The New Hermit Kingdom of the North
- War by Other Means
- Juche and the Cult of Personality
- The Kim Dynasty
- Conclusion
- Chapter 12: Colonized, Divided, and Reunited: Vietnam to the Present
- Opening Vignette
- The First Colonial Era: 1885 to 1945
- "The Civilizing Mission" and Rebellion
- Reform and Republicanism
- Ho Chi Minh and Revolution
- Patterns Up Close: Parsing the Language of Independence
- The War for Independence
- The American War
- Tearing Two Nations Apart
- "Peace With Honor" and National Unification
- From Reunification to Regional Power
- Building the New Socialist State
- Politics and Genocide: Fighting the Khmer Rouge
- Recovery and Prosperity
- Conclusion
- Chapter 13: Becoming the Model of Modernity: Japan to the Present
- Opening Vignette
- "A Wonderfully Clever and Progressive People"
- The Russo-Japanese War
- The Limits of Power Politics
- The Great War and the Five Requests
- Intervention and Versailles
- Taisho Democracy
- Militarism and Co-Prosperity: The War Years
- Creating Manchukuo
- State Shinto and Militarism
- The "China Incident"
- World War II in the Pacific
- Allied Counterattack
- Co-Prosperity and Conditional Independence
- Endgame
- The Model of Modernity: From Occupation to the Present
- The New Order: Reform and Constitution
- The Reverse Course: Japan and the Cold War
- Moving Toward the 21st Century
- Patterns Up Close: Japan's History Problem
- Economy, Society and Culture
- From Made in Japan to Total Quality Management
- The Dominance of the Middle Class
- Women and Family: A Half-Step Behind?
- Godzilla and Sailor Moon: Postwar Culture
- Conclusion
- Epilogue: Breakneck Change and the Challenge of Tradition
- One Region, Three Systems?
- Colonialism and Imperialism
- Twentieth Century Conflict and Political Configuration
- 1. China and Vietnam: Authoritarian Capitalism
- · China
- · Vietnam
- 2. Japan, Taiwan, South Korea: Representative Government and Capitalism
- · Japan
- · South Korea
- · Taiwan
- 3. North Korea: Stalinist Self-Sufficiency
- The "Chinese Dream" as the East Asian Dream?
- Glossary
- Credits
- Index