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.



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