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Asia past and present : a brief history / Peter P. Wan and Thomas D. Reins

Author
Wan, Peter P.
Published
Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2021.
Copyright Date
©2021
Physical Description
xii, 516 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Additional Creators
Reins, Thomas D. (Thomas David)

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Contents
Part 1. Asian and non-Asian cultures interact to circa 1850 CE. Cultures and the development of core Asian civilizations -- The land and the people of ancient China to 221 BCE: Xia, Shang, and Zhou Dynasties -- China's first empire: the Qin and Han Dynasties, 221 BCE-220 CE -- The golden age of imperial China: the Sui and Tang Dynasties, 581-960 -- The peaking of traditional Chinese civilization: the Song and Yuan Dynasties, 960-1368 -- The decline of imperial China: the Ming and early Qing Dynasties, 1368-1840 -- Premodern Japan and Korea -- The formation of Indian civilization: 1200 BCE-185 BCE -- The Hindu synthesis at home: 185 BCE-1200 CE -- The Indianization of south, central, southeast, and east Asia: 185 BCE-1200 CE -- India under Islamic rule: the Delhi Sultanate and Mughal Empire, 1206-1707 -- On the Indian and Chinese northern frontiers: Asian empires and kingdoms on the central and inner Asian steppe, circa 1100-1850 -- On the Indian and Chinese southern frontiers: Asian empires and kingdoms in southeast Asia, circa 1100-1850 -- European empires in Asia: the foundations for revolutionary transformation, circa 1500-1850 -- Part 2. The age of transformations: nationalism and modernization in the era of global wars and the search for new social arrangements, circa 1800 to present. Foreign incursions, domestic challenges, and late Qing Dynastic decline: China's long road to modernization, 1840-1911 -- The birth of republicanism in China, 1911-1949 -- The People's Republic of China, 1949- -- Japan's rapid modernization, 1868-1918 -- Japan goes from liberalism to militarism, 1918-1945 -- Japan since World War II -- Korea in modern times -- The European struggle for India and the emergence of Indian resistance, 1707-1914 -- The impact of World Wars, revolution, and nationalism in India and south Asia, 1914-1945 -- India since 1945 -- In India's orbit: south Asian nations in the Cold War setting and the rise of China -- Mainland southeast Asia since 1945 -- Insular southeast Asia since 1945 -- Colonialism, independence, and nation building on the northern frontiers of India and China, 1850-2019: Afghanistan, central and inner Asia, and the Russian far east -- Asia in the twenty-first century: the problems of progress.
Summary
"Asia Past and Present is an expansive survey of the social, political, and economic history of the continent from the Paleolithic era to the early 21st century. As there is no physically discrete continent, rather an arbitrary division of the Eurasian landmass, this book focuses on terrain that encompasses India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Central Asia, China, Korea, Japan, Mongolia, the Russian Far East, and Southeast Asia--the area which most modern scholars identify as Asia. Offering broad chronological and topical coverage of Asia, this book examines subjects including written languages, religions and philosophies, concepts of monarchy, militarism, independence and nation building, and more. Particular focus is placed on the varying levels of influence the core cultures of India and China have had on the continent in a multitude of socio-political areas. Historical dialogues of how colonies, later emerging nations, blended traditional Asian culture and Western political and economic models of modernization complement contemporary discussions of globalization, nuclear tensions, and growing demands for greater individual freedom."--
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ISBN
9781118955185 paperback
1118955188 paperback
9781118955192 paperback
1118955196 paperback
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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