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A history of East Asia : from the origins of civilization to the twenty-first century / Charles Holcombe.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: Second editionDescription: xxiv, 470 pages : illustrations, map ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
  • cartographic image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1107118735
  • 9781107118737
  • 1107544890
  • 9781107544895
Other title:
  • History of East Asia : From the origins of civilisation to the twenty-first century
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 950 23
LOC classification:
  • DS511 .H65 2017
Contents:
Introduction: what is East Asia? -- The origins of civilization in East Asia -- The formative era -- The age of cosmopolitanism -- The creation of a community: China, Korea, and Japan (seventh to tenth centuries) -- Mature independent trajectories (tenth to sixteenth centuries) -- Early modern East Asia (sixteenth to eighteenth centuries) -- Dai Viet (Vietnam before the nineteenth century) -- The nineteenth-century encounter of civilizations -- The age of westernization (1900-1929) -- The dark valley (1930-1945) -- Japan since 1945 -- Korea since 1945 -- Vietnam since 1945 -- China since 1945.
Summary: "Charles Holcombe begins by asking the question, "What is East Asia?" In the modern age, many of the features that made the region -- now defined as including China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam -- distinct have been submerged by the effects of revolution, politics, or globalization. Yet, as an ancient civilization, the region had both a historical and cultural coherence. This shared past is at the heart of this ambitious book, which traces the story of East Asia from the dawn of history to the twenty-first century"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: what is East Asia? -- The origins of civilization in East Asia -- The formative era -- The age of cosmopolitanism -- The creation of a community: China, Korea, and Japan (seventh to tenth centuries) -- Mature independent trajectories (tenth to sixteenth centuries) -- Early modern East Asia (sixteenth to eighteenth centuries) -- Dai Viet (Vietnam before the nineteenth century) -- The nineteenth-century encounter of civilizations -- The age of westernization (1900-1929) -- The dark valley (1930-1945) -- Japan since 1945 -- Korea since 1945 -- Vietnam since 1945 -- China since 1945.

"Charles Holcombe begins by asking the question, "What is East Asia?" In the modern age, many of the features that made the region -- now defined as including China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam -- distinct have been submerged by the effects of revolution, politics, or globalization. Yet, as an ancient civilization, the region had both a historical and cultural coherence. This shared past is at the heart of this ambitious book, which traces the story of East Asia from the dawn of history to the twenty-first century"-- Provided by publisher.

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