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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Fairbank, John King, 1907-1991. East Asia. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., c1989 (OCoLC)604828165 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
John King Fairbank; Edwin O Reischauer; Albert M Craig |
| ISBN: | 0395450233 9780395450239 |
| OCLC Number: | 20392160 |
| Description: | xv, 1027 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | The setting of East Asian history -- Early China : the birth of a civilization -- Classic China : the golden age of Chinese thought -- The first Chinese Empire : the Ch'in and Han Dynasties -- The regeneration of the Empire -- The late T'ang and Sung : the flowering of Chinese culture -- China and the "barbarians" : the Mongol Empire -- State and society under the Ming -- Traditional China at its height under the Ch'ing -- Vietnam : a variant of the Chinese pattern -- Early Korea : the emergence of a Chinese type of state -- Yi Dynasty Korea : a model Confucian society -- Early Japan : the absorption of Chinese civilization -- Feudal Japan : a departure from the Chinese pattern -- Tokugawa Japan : a centralized feudal state -- Invasion and rebellion in nineteenth-century China -- Japan's response to the West -- Modernization in Meiji Japan -- China's response to the West -- Imperialist encroachments on China, Vietnam, and Korea -- The heyday of Imperialism in China -- Imperial Japan : economy and society -- Imperial Japan : democracy and militarism -- China : from monarchy to warlordism -- The rise and decline of nationalist China -- The new Japan -- The rim nations of East Asia : Vietnam, Taiwan, Korea, Hong Kong, and Singapore -- The People's Republic. |
| Responsibility: | John K. Fairbank, Edwin O. Reischauer, Albert M. Craig. |
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