East Asia: A New History, 5th edition

Published by Pearson (July 21, 2009) © 2010

  • Rhoads Murphey University of Michigan
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This accessible text offers a comprehensive history of China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, including coverage of everyday life, women and gender-related issues, and the environment—topics often neglected in other texts.

Throughout his distinguished career, author Rhoads Murphey has inspired within students an appreciation for the rich and unique history of Asia. The 5th Edition of this text on East Asia is certain to bring this fascinating region to life for many of today’s students.

  • 1.    East Asia: Common Ground and Regional Differences
  • 2.    Prehistory, Beginnings in China, and the Shang Dynasty
  • 3.    The Zhou—Its Decline, and the Age of the Philosophers
  • 4.    Qin and Han: The Making of the Empire
  • 5.    Buddhism, Barbarians, and the Tang Dynasty
  • 6.    Achievement and Disaster: The Song and Yuan Dynasties, 960-1355
  • 7.    New Imperial Splendor in China: The Ming Dynasty
  • 8.    The Qing in Prosperity and Decline
  • 9.    Early Korea
  • 10.  Premodern Vietnam
  • 11.  Beginnings in Japan: Patterns and Origins
  • 12.  Warriors, Monks, and Conflict: Medieval Japan
  • 13.  The West Arrives in Asia
  • 14.  Tokugawa Japan
  • 15.  Aggression and Response in Nineteenth Century China
  • 16.   Japan Remakes Itself
  • 17.  Imperialism in Korea and Vietnam
  • 18.  China in Taters, 1896-1925
  • 19.  China and Japan: The Road to War
  • 20.  The Second World War in Asia
  • 21.  China Since 1945
  • 22.  Japan Since 1945
  • 23.  Korea and Vietnam
  • Index


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