Table of Contents

List of Maps.

Preface.

A Note on the Spelling of Asian Names and Words.

About the Author.

Atlas.

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, 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. Premodern Vietnam and Korea.

10 Beginnings in Japan: Patterns and Origins.

11 Warriors, Monks, and Conflict: Medieval Japan.

12 The West Arrives in Asia.

13 Tokugawa Japan.

14 Humiliation and Response in Nineteenth-Century China.

15 Japan's Response to New Challenges.

16 Imperialism in Korea, Vietnam, and Southeast Asia.

17 China in Tatters, 1896-1925.

18 China and Japan: The Road to War.

19 The Second World War in Asia.

20 China Since 1945.

21 Japan Since 1945.

22 Korea, Mainland Southeast Asia, and the U. S. in East Asia.

Acknowledgments.

Index.