East Asia at the Center Four Thousand Years of Engagement with the World

Name: East Asia at the Center Four Thousand Years of Engagement with the World
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ISBN: 9780231101097

ISBN-10: 0231101090

ISBN-13: 9780231101097

Edition: 2000

Authors: Warren I. Cohen

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A common misconception holds that Marco Polo "opened up" a closed and recalcitrant "Orient" to the West. However, this sweeping history covering 4,000 years of international relations from the perspective of China, Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia shows that the region's extensive involvement in world affairs began thousands of years ago. In a time when the writing of history is increasingly specialized, Warren I. Cohen has made a bold move against the grain. In broad but revealing brushstrokes, he paints a huge canvas of East Asia's place in world affairs throughout four millennia. Just as Cohen thinks broadly across time, so too, he defines the boundaries of East Asia liberally, looking…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 9/18/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 528
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

Warren I. Cohen is Distinguished University Professor of History at University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) and Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. His publications include The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations: America in the Age of Soviet Power, 1945-1991, East Asian Art in American Culture(Columbia), and America's Response to China: A History of Sino-American Relations(Columbia).



Maps


Tables


Preface


Acknowledgments



The Emergence of an International System in East Asia


In the Beginning There Was China


Other Rooms, Other Voices


Empire of the Han, Challenge of the Xiongnu


The Diffusion of Power


China


Korea


Japan


Southeast Asia


Conclusion



Shadows Over Tang Splendor


The Sui


The Years of Tang Ascendance


Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asia


Conclusion



East Asia Uncentered


Late Tang


The Tibetan Factor


The Demise of the Tang Dynasty


Northeast Asia


Southeast Asia


The Song reunify China


Koryo


Japan


Southeast Asia in Turmoil


Conclusion



The Mongol Ascendancy


Chinggis Khan and his sons


Khubilai Khan and the Chinese


Asian Resistance to Khubilai as Universal Ruler


The last days of the Yuan


Conclusion



The Resurgence of Chinese Power and the Coming of Islam


Rise of the Ming


Koreans, Japanese, and Ryukyu Islanders


Southeast Asia and the Spread of Islam


Ming China on the Eve of the Portuguese intrusion


Conclusion



Europe and Japan Disrupt the East Asian International Order


Arrival of the Portuguese


The Ming Under Siege


The Rise of Japanese Power


Other Europeans: The Arrival of the Dutch and the English


Southeast Asia: Magnet for the West


Last Days of the Ming


Conclusion



The Great Qing Empire


Rebuilding of the "Chinese" empire


Japan and Korea


Southeast Asia in flux


The Approach of the British empire


Conclusion



Triumph of the West


The British Are Coming


The Yanks Are Coming


France's Quest for Glory


Russia as a Pacific Power


And Then There Were the Dutch


Conclusion



The Ascendance of Japan


Restoration and Self-strengthening in China


The Meiji Restoration


Japan Ascendant


The United States as an East Asian Power


The Boxer War


In the Light of the Rising Sun


Conclusion



Challenge to the West


Development of the Japanese Empire


The Rise of Chinese Nationalism


Nationalism Elsewhere in East Asia


Washington and Moscow Look to East Asia


Nationalist Revolution in China


Crisis in Manchuria



War and Decolonization, 1932-1949


In the beginning It Was Manchuria


China Imperiled


War comes to Asia


Japan's Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere


The War Ends in East Asia


Decolonization in Southeast Asia


Conclusion



The Cold War in East Asia


The Occupation of Japan


Revolution in China


War in Korea


Southeast Asia and the Cold War


China, Taiwan, and the United States


Conclusion



The Resurgence of East Asian Economic Power


Japan as #1


Little Dragons


Southeast Asia


China Joins the World Market Economy


The Japan That Can Say No


Conclusion



On the Eve of the 21st Century


Disaster at Tiananmen


Democracy Comes to Taiwan


The Korean Peninsula: Democracy and Nuclear Weapons


Red Star Over Hong Kong


Crisis in Southeast Asia


Conclusion


Closing Thoughts


Notes


Further Reading


Index