A History of East Asia

From the Origins of Civilization to the Twenty-First Century

AvCharles Holcombe

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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The third edition of this ambitious book begins by asking: What is East Asia? Today, many of the features that made the region distinct have been submerged under revolution, politics, or globalization. Yet in ancient times, what we now think of as China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam had both historical and cultural coherence. Thoroughly revised and updated to include recent developments in East Asian politics, with new illustrations and suggestions for further reading, this book traces the story of East Asia from the dawn of history to the modern age. New discussion questions at the end of each chapter encourage readers to reflect, while a glossary, pronunciation guide, and parallel timeline enable a closer engagement with this complex subject. Charles Holcombe is an experienced and sure-footed guide who encapsulates, in a fast-moving and colorful narrative, the connections, commonalities, and differences of one of the most remarkable regions on earth.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-06-05
Mått:250 x 10 x 180 mm
Vikt:557 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:529
Upplaga:3
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781009504799

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Charles Holcombe is Professor of History at the University of Northern Iowa. Having spent a year researching Six Dynasties China at Kyōto University in Japan, his awakening interest in East Asian interconnections led him to write The Genesis of East Asia, 221 BC–AD 907 (2001). He won the Regents' Award for Faculty Excellence at the University of Northern Iowa (2007).

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'Finally, a textbook that makes sense of 2,000 years of East Asian history in a coherent, comprehensive, and easy-to-read narrative. This finely written book is the ideal introduction to the complex history of the peoples, religions, civilizations, and countries that make up today's dynamic region of East Asia.' Patrick Jory, University of Queensland, Australia

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List of illustrations; List of maps; Pronunciation guide; Timeline; Glossary; Preface to the third edition; 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 centuries); 8. The nineteenth-century encounter of civilizations; 9. The age of Westernization (1900–1929); 10: The dark valley (1930–1945); 11. Cold War East Asia; 12. Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Overseas Chinese; 13. Globalization, and the resurgence of East Asia; Character list; Notes; Index.