TY - BOOK AU - Holcombe,Charles TI - A history of East Asia: from the origins of civilization to the twenty-first century SN - 9781107118737 (hardback) U1 - 950 23 PY - 2017/// CY - United Kingdom PB - Cambridge University Press. KW - East Asia KW - History KW - Civilization N1 - 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; SLAS; gsg ER -