East Asia at the center : four thousand years of engagement with the world /
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
2000.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Maps; List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. The Emergence of an International System in East Asia; In the Beginning There Was China; Other Rooms, Other Voices; Empire of the Han, Challenge of the Xiongnu; The Diffusion of Power; China; Korea; Japan; Southeast Asia; Conclusion; 2. Shadows Over Tang Splendor; The Sui; The Years of Tang Ascendance; Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asia; Conclusion; 3. East Asia Uncentered; Late Tang; The Tibetan Factor; The Demise of the Tang Dynasty; Northeast Asia; Southeast Asia.
- The Song Reunify ChinaKoryo; Japan; Southeast Asia in Turmoil; Conclusion; 4. The Mongol Ascendancy; Chinggis Khan and his sons; Khubilai Khan and the Chinese; Asian Resistance to Khubilai as Universal Ruler; The Last Days of the Yuan; Conclusion; 5. The Resurgence of Chinese Power and the Coming of Islam; Rise of the Ming; Koreans, Japanese, and Ryukyu Islanders; Southeast Asia and the Spread of Islam; Ming China on the Eve of the Portuguese Intrusion; Conclusion; 6. Europe and Japan Disrupt the East Asian International Order; Arrival of the Portuguese; The Ming Under Siege.
- The Rise of Japanese PowerOther Europeans: The Arrival of the Dutch and the English; Southeast Asia: Magnet for the West; Last Days of the Ming; Conclusion; 7. The Great Qing Empire; Rebuilding of the "Chinese" Empire; Japan and Korea; Southeast Asia in Flux; The Approach of the British Empire; Conclusion; 8. Triumph of the West; The British Are Coming; The Yanks Are Coming; France's Quest for Glory; Russia as a Pacific Power; And Then There Were the Dutch; Conclusion; 9. The Ascendance of Japan; Restoration and Self-strengthening in China; The Meiji Restoration; Japan Ascendant.
- The United States as an East Asian PowerThe Boxer War; In the Light of the Rising Sun; Conclusion; 10. Challenge to the West; Development of the Japanese Empire; The Rise of Chinese Nationalism; Nationalism Elsewhere in East Asia; Washington and Moscow Look to East Asia; Nationalist Revolution in China; Crisis in Manchuria; 11. War and Decolonization, 1932-1949; In The beginning It Was Manchuria; China Imperiled; War Comes to Asia; Japan's Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere; The War Ends in East Asia; Decolonization in Southeast Asia; Conclusion; 12. The Cold War In Asia.
- The Occupation of JapanRevolution in China; War in Korea; Southeast Asia and the Cold War; China, Taiwan, and the United States; Conclusion; 13. The Resurgence of East Asian Economic Power; Japan as Number 1; Little Dragons; Southeast Asia; China Joins the World Market Economy; The Japan That Can Say No; Conclusion; 14. On the Eve of the 21st Century; Disaster at Tiananmen; Democracy Comes to Taiwan; The Korean Peninsula: Democracy and Nuclear Weapons; Red Star Over Hong Kong; Crisis in Southeast Asia; Conclusion; Closing Thoughts; Notes; Further Reading; Index.