Asia in Western and World History: A Guide for Teaching (Columbia Project on Asia in the Core Curriculum)
A major historical reference of 768 pages, Asia In Western And World History: A Guide To Teaching in it's articles on Asia in Western History surveys Eurasia, provides a syllabus of Asia in Western History, explores Asian Influences on the West, traces the interfusion of Asian and Western Cultures (Islamic civilization and Europe to 1500), covers the Mongols and the West, the Portuguese and Dutch in Asia (1498-1700), the British and their rivals in Asia (1700-1850), and much more. Then Asia In Western And World History focuses on Asia in World History including Hunting-Gathering to Sedentary Village Farming and Pastoralism; Primary Civilization in Asia, the origins of civilization in China (Zhou China and Ancient Greece, Empires East and West); Empire in East Asia, the emergence of religions and world views, the "Analects" of Confucius, trade and the contact of cultures, China 300-1200, Song China, Japan 550-838, India 100 BCE - 1500, the rise of an interdependent world (1500-1990), the expansion of Europe (1450-1700), Japan and the West (1543-1640), Europe and the World in an expanding world economy (1700-1850), China and the World 1500-1800), modern Indian economic history 1800-1947), modern asia (600-1900), Tokugawa Japan (600-1867), and more! Asia In Western And World History surveys themes in South Asian history including the Sinic world, Chinese , Japanese , Korean histories, Asia and Latin America in the context of world history. And, finally, a "postscript", Asia and the West: A Concrete Panoply of Intercultural Exchange.  --Midwest Book Review