Rhoads Murphey, University of Michigan
MURPHEY
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For one- or two-semester courses on the history of East Asia.
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 Fifth Edition of this text on East Asia is certain to bring this fascinating region to life for many of today’s students.
Introduce students to the rich and varied history of East Asia:
Pedagogical Features
Chapter 15 has been extended to 1901 in the Fifth Edition, concluding with the Boxer Uprising and the events surrounding it.
Chapter 18 now begins in the wake of the Boxer Uprising.
Coverage of Overseas Chinese has been consolidated into a single chapter--Chapter 18--rather than several different chapters as in earlier editions.
Chapter 10 now deals solely with Vietnam.
Chapters 17 and 23 focus exclusively on Korea and Vietnam.
Chapters 21, 22, and 23 detail events in China, Japan, and Korea through early 2009.
Place names throughout the text have been updated to reflect current conventions.
Maps
Preface
Note on the Spelling of Asian Names and Words
Wade-Giles/Pinyin Equivalents
About the Author
Regional Map
Time Chart
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 Empire
5. Buddhism and the Cosmopolitan Tang Dynasty
6. Achievement and Disaster: The Song and Yuan Dynasties, 960—1368
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. China’s Nineteenth-Century Crises
16. Japan Remakes Itself
17. Imperialism in Korea and Vietnam
18. China, 1901—1925: End of Empire and Search for a New Order
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 since 1945
Index
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Murphey & MURPHEY
©2010 | Pearson | 504 pp
Rhoads Murphey, University of Michigan
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