East Asia Identities and Change in the Modern World (1700 to Present)

by Schoppa, R. Keith

• ISBN13: 9780132431460
• ISBN10: 0132431467
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-09-07
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

InEast Asia: Identities and Change in the Modern World, accomplished historian R. Keith Schoppa uses the prism of cultural identities to examine the four countries that make up the East Asian cultural sphere-China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam-from roughly 1700 to the present. This book explores modern East Asian history through the themes of identities and change.

Table of Contents

Basic Identities

The Chasm between the Cultures of Traditional East Asia and the Modern World

Senses of Time and Space

Basic Social Unit

Social Hierarchy

Social Goals and Patterns

State and Government

Ways of Thinking about Life and the World

Rice Culture: The World of East Asian Agriculture

Three Ways of Thought in Traditional East Asia

Confucianism

Daoism

Buddhism

From Multicultural Empire to Semicolony: The Qing Dynasty, 1750-1870

The Manchus

Buying into Chinese Culture

The Civil Service Examination

Rituals, Religion, and Values

Dealing with the Other

Identity and Change: The Qianlong Emperor

Identity Crisis

Emerging Problems

The Early Western Role

China and the West: Mutual Perceptions

Early-Nineteenth-Century Political and Social Instability

The Opium Tragedy and War

The Unequal Treaty System

Foreign Concessions

Extraterritoriality with Consular Jurisdiction

Foreign Ambassadorial Residence

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