East Asia

Rhoads Murphey, University of Michigan

• MapsPrefaceNote on the Spelling of Asian Names and WordsWade-Giles/Pinyin EquivalentsAbout the AuthorRegional MapTime Chart1. East Asia: Common Ground and Regional Differences   2. Prehistory, Beginnings in China, and the Shang Dynasty   3. The Zhou: Its Decline and the Age of the Philosophers   4. Qin and Han: The Making of Empire   5. Buddhism and the Cosmopolitan Tang Dynasty   6. Achievement and Disaster: The Song and Yuan Dynasties, 960—1368   7. New Imperial Splendor in China: The Ming Dynasty   8. The Qing in Prosperity and Decline   9. Early Korea   10. Premodern Vietnam   11. Beginnings in Japan: Patterns and Origins   12. Warriors, Monks, and Conflict: Medieval Japan   13. The West Arrives in Asia   14. Tokugawa Japan   15. China’s Nineteenth-Century Crises  16. Japan Remakes Itself   17. Imperialism in Korea and Vietnam   18. China, 1901—1925: End of Empire and Search for a New Order   19. China and Japan: The Road to War   20. The Second World War in Asia   21. China since 1945   22. Japan since 1945   23. Korea and Vietnam since 1945   Index