East Asia
Subtitle: a new history
By: Rhoads Murphey
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Longman
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9780321078018
Subjects: History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: East Asia: common ground and regional differences; title: Prehistory, beginnings in China, and the Shang Dynasty; title: The Zhou; title: its decline, and the age of the philosophers; title: Qin and Han: the making of empire; title: Buddhism, barbarians, and the Tang Dynasty; title: Achievement and disaster: the Song and Yuan Dynasties, 960-1355; title: New imperial splendor in China: the Ming Dynasty; title: The Qing in prosperity and decline; title: Premodern Vietnam and Korea; title: Beginnings in Japan: patterns and origins; title: Warriors, monks, and conflict: medieval Japan; title: The West arrives in Asia; title: Tokugawa Japan; title: Humiliation and response in Nineteenth Century China; title: Japan's response to new challenges; title: Imperialsim in Korea, Vietnam, and Southeast Asia; title: China in tatters, 1896-1925; title: China and Japan: the road to war; title: The second World War in Asia; title: China since 1945; title: Japan since 1945; title: Korea, mainland Southeast Asia, and the United States in East Asia.