A History of East Asia

From the Origins of Civilization to the Twenty-First Century

Charles Holcombe (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

492 Seiten

2017 | 2nd Revised edition
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-107-54489-5 (ISBN)

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This imaginatively revised new edition, which traces the story of East Asia from the dawn of history to the twenty-first century, features new material on Vietnam and modern pop culture, an emphasis on cross-cultural connections, and a Chinese character list. It is essential reading for students of East Asia and international history.

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 an 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. The second edition has been imaginatively revised and expanded to place emphasis on cross-cultural interactions and connections, both within East Asia and beyond, with new material on Vietnam and modern pop culture. The second edition also features a Chinese character list, additional maps and new illustrations.

Charles Holcombe is Professor of History at the University of Northern Iowa. His publications include The Genesis of East Asia, 221 BC–AD 907 (2001) and In the Shadow of the Han: Literati Thought and Society at the Start of the Southern Dynasties (1994).

List of illustrations; List of maps; Pronunciation guide; Timeline; Glossary; Introduction: what is East Asia?; 1. The origins of civilization in East Asia; 2. The formative era; 3. The age of cosmopolitanism; 4. The creation of a community: China, Korea, and Japan (seventh–tenth centuries); 5. Mature independent trajectories (tenth–sixteenth centuries); 6. Early modern East Asia (sixteenth–eighteenth centuries); 7. Dai Viet (Vietnam before the nineteenth century); 8. The nineteenth-century encounter of civilizations; 9. The age of Westernization (1900–29); 10. The Dark Valley (1930–45); 11. Japan since 1945; 12. Korea since 1945; 13. Vietnam since 1945; 14. China since 1945; Afterword; Character list; Notes; Index.

Erscheinungsdatum	18.04.2017
Zusatzinfo	22 Maps; 55 Halftones, black and white; 1 Line drawings, black and white
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	1030 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	1-107-54489-0 / 1107544890
ISBN-13	978-1-107-54489-5 / 9781107544895
Zustand	Neuware