A History of East Asia : From the Origins of Civilization to the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)

Introduction: what is East Asia?; 1. The origins of civilization in East Asia; 2. The formative era; 3. The age of cosmopolitanism; 4. The creation of a community: China, Korea, and Japan (7th?10th centuries); 5. Mature independent trajectories (10th?16th centuries); 6. Early-modern East Asia (16th?18th centuries); 7. The nineteenth-century encounter of civilizations; 8. The age of Westernization (1900?29); 9. The dark valley (1930?45); 10. Japan since 1945; 11. Korea since 1945; 12. China since 1945; Afterword.