A history of East Asia : from the origins of civilization to the twenty-first century /
Holcombe, Charles, 1956-
A history of East Asia : from the origins of civilization to the twenty-first century / Charles Holcombe. - Second edition. - United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press., 2017 - pages 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.
9781107118737 (hardback) 9781107544895 (paperback)
East Asia--History.
East Asia--Civilization.
950 / H725h
A history of East Asia : from the origins of civilization to the twenty-first century / Charles Holcombe. - Second edition. - United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press., 2017 - pages 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.
9781107118737 (hardback) 9781107544895 (paperback)
East Asia--History.
East Asia--Civilization.
950 / H725h