A history of East Asia : from the origins of civilization to the twenty-first century /
History of East Asia : From the origins of civilisation to the twenty-first century
Charles Holcombe.
- Second edition.
- xxiv, 470 pages : illustrations, map ; 26 cm
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"--