East Asia: A New History

by Murphey, Rhoads

• ISBN13: 9780321421418
• ISBN10: 0321421418
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

Throughout his distinguished career, Rhoads Murphey has advocated an appreciation of the rich and unique aspects of Asian history, making his text an unparalleled success. Spanning the histories of China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, and parts of Southeast Asia, East Asia: A New History furthers students' knowledge by covering a breadth of topics, including everyday life, the environment, and women in Asian history. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

List of Maps	xiii
Preface	xiv
Note on the Spelling of Asian Names and Words	xvii
Wade-Giles/Pinyin Equivalents	xviii
About the Author	xx
Atlas	xxi
Time Chart	xxii
East Asia: Common Ground and Regional Differences	1	(18)
Boundaries and the Home Base	2	(1)
Attitudes Toward Nature	3	(1)
Agriculture	3	(4)
Rules for Society	7	(2)
Village and Town	9	(3)
The Traditional System	12	(1)
Regional Differences	12	(2)
China Proper	14	(2)
Relations with Other Areas	16	(1)
The Agarian Civilization	16	(1)
Larger Regional Differences	17	(2)
Prehistory, Beginnings in China, and the Shang Dynasty	19	(12)
The Neolithic Revolution	20	(2)
Agricultural Origins in Southeast Asia	22	(1)
Peoples and Early Kingdoms of Southeast Asia	22	(2)
Prehistoric China	24	(1)
The Origins of China	25	(6)
The Shang Dynasty	26	(2)
The Zhou Dynasty	28	(3)
The Zhou---Its Decline, and the Age of the Philosophers	31	(23)
Warring States	35	(2)
Confucius---The Sage and His Teachings	37	(6)
Mencius	38	(2)
Xunzi	40	(1)
Confucianism and ``Heaven''	41	(2)
Mozi	43	(1)
Daoism	43	(4)
The Chinese Language	47	(7)
Qin and Han: The Making of Empire	54	(20)
Qin Authoritarianism	57	(2)
The Han Dynasty	59	(15)
Expansion under Han Wu Di	60	(2)
China and Rome	62	(1)
Wider Trade Patterns	62	(1)
Han Culture	63	(4)
Cities in Ancient China	67	(1)
Han Achievements	68	(1)
Pressures on the Environment	69	(5)
Buddhism, Barbarians, and the Tang Dynasty	74	(24)
Buddhism	74	(4)
Gautama Buddha	75	(1)
Hinayana, Mahayana, and the Spread of Buddhism	76	(2)
The End of the Han	78	(1)
Northern Wei	79	(2)
The Move South	81	(1)
Reunification: Sui and Tang	82	(2)
The Tang System	84	(4)
Chang'an in an Age of Imperial Splendor	88	(3)
Buddhism in the Late Tang	91	(3)
Buddhist Sects	94	(1)
Decline and Collapse	95	(3)
Achievement and Disaster: The Song and Yuan Dynasties, 960--1355	98	(24)
Northern Song	99	(2)
The Civil Service	101	(4)
Reform	102	(2)
Culture and Conquest	104	(1)
The Southern Song Period	105	(10)
Innovation and Technological Development	106	(1)
Kaifeng and Hangzhou	107	(3)
Rise of the South	110	(3)
Neo-Confucianism	113	(1)
Painting and Porcelain	114	(1)
The Mongols	115	(7)
Yuan China	118	(2)
Dynastic Cycles and Continuity	120	(2)
New Imperial Splendor in China: The Ming Dynasty	122	(25)
The Founding of the Ming	122	(6)
The Ming Tributary System	125	(1)
Ming Maritime Expeditions	126	(2)
Prosperity and Conservatism	128	(2)
Commerce and Culture	130	(7)
Patronage and Literature	132	(1)
Popular Culture	133	(1)
Elite Culture and Traditionalism	134	(3)
Imperial Beijing: Axis of the Ming World	137	(2)
Complacency and Decline	139	(5)
The Manchu Conquest	144	(3)
The Qing in Prosperity and Decline	147	(23)
Prosperity and Population Increases	151	(6)
Traditional Society in East Asia	157	(5)
Family and Marriage	157	(1)
Child Rearing	158	(1)
The Status of Women	159	(1)
Sexual Customs	160	(1)
Law, Crime, and Punishment	160	(2)
The Later Qing: Decline and Inertia	162	(2)
New Barbarian Pressure	163	(1)
Qing Glory and Technological Backwardness	164	(1)
Opium, and War with Britain	165	(5)
Early Korea: Another Version of the Chinese Pattern	170	(17)
The Korean Tradition	170	(10)
Han Conquest and After	172	(1)
Three Kingdoms	173	(3)
Silla Victorious	176	(1)
Koryo	177	(2)
Mongol Conquest and After	179	(1)
Yi Korea	180	(7)
Premodern Vietnam	187	(16)
Ancient Times	189	(2)
Belonging to the Empire	191	(2)
The Buddhist Dynasties	193	(4)
Southward Expansion, Regionalism, Civil Wars	197	(3)
Cultural Development and Relations with the West	200	(3)
Beginnings in Japan: Patterns and Origins	203	(23)
Ties with Korea and Tomb Builders	207	(2)
Mythical Histories	209	(1)
The Uji	210	(1)
Shinto	210	(2)
The Link with China	212	(1)
Taika, Nara, and Heian	213	(2)
Buddhism and Literacy	215	(4)
The Shoen System	217	(1)
Heian Culture	217	(2)
Art and Gardens	219	(2)
Kana and Monastic Armies	221	(1)
Pressures on the Environment	222	(4)
Warriors, Monks, and Conflict: Medieval Japan	226	(19)
The Collapse of Heian	226	(3)
The Kamakura Period	229	(1)
The Mongol Invasion	230	(3)
Warriors and Monks	231	(2)
Literature and the Arts	233	(1)
The End of the Kamakura Shogunate and the Rise of the Ashikaga	234	(7)
The Onin War and Economic Growth	236	(1)
Trade and Piracy	237	(4)
Renewed Civil War	241	(4)
The West Arrives in Asia	245	(20)
Independent Development	245	(1)
The European Context	246	(6)
The Portuguese Reach Asia	248	(2)
The Portuguese Commercial Enterprise	250	(1)
The Spanish in the Philippines	251	(1)
``Christians and Spices''	252	(1)
Strategy and Bases	253	(3)
The Russian Advance in Asia	256	(1)
Japan's Christian Century	256	(2)
The Dutch in Asia	258	(7)
The English in Asia	261	(4)
Tokugawa Japan	265	(21)
The Tokugawa Order	266	(3)
Exclusion of Westerners	269	(10)
Economic Growth	270	(1)
Edo and Urban Culture	271	(3)
The Rural Sector	274	(1)
Literature, Art, and Society	275	(2)
Strains in the Tokugawa System	277	(2)
Dutch Learning	279	(4)
The New Western Challenge	280	(1)
Impact and Response	281	(2)
The End of the Tokugawa	283	(3)
Achievements	284	(2)
Humiliation and Response in Nineteenth-Century China	286	(20)
The Threat of Imperialism	286	(2)
Economics and Illusion	288	(1)
China Besieged	289	(5)
Traders and Missionaries	294	(1)
The Taiping Rebellion	294	(2)
Self-Strengthening	295	(1)
Treaty Ports and Mission Schools	296	(1)
Overseas Chinese	297	(1)
Subjugation, Nationalism, and Humiliation	298	(5)
``Self-Strengthening'' and Restoration	300	(2)
New Humiliations	302	(1)
Efforts at Reform	303	(1)
The Boxer Uprising	303	(3)
Japan Remakes Itself	306	(19)
Throne and Political Leaders	306	(2)
The New Order	308	(5)
Financial Problems	309	(1)
Overseas Aggression and the Satsuma Rebellion	310	(1)
Economic Development	310	(1)
National Effort	311	(1)
Industrialization	311	(2)
Westernization	313	(3)
The Meiji Constitution	315	(1)
Japanese Imperialism	316	(5)
Conflict with Russia	318	(1)
Japan in Korea	319	(1)
World War I	320	(1)
The New Japanese Empire	321	(1)
Meiji Culture and Accomplishments	321	(4)
Imperialism in Korea, Vietnam, and Southeast Asia	325	(21)
Rejection of Foreign Ideas	325	(4)
Foreign Contention for Korea	326	(2)
Korea under Japanese Rule	328	(1)
Imperialism and Colonialism in Southeast Asia	329	(4)
The British in Burma and Malaya	330	(1)
French, Dutch, and American Colonialism	331	(2)
Independent Siam	333	(1)
Overseas Chinese	333	(1)
Plural Societies	333	(5)
The Plantation System	335	(2)
Pluralism and Problems of Nationalism	337	(1)
The Rise of Southeast Asian Nationalism	338	(2)
Vietnam	340	(6)
China in Tatters, 1896--1925	346	(19)
New Foreign Plundering	346	(6)
The Open Door Notes	347	(2)
The Rise of Chinese Nationalism	349	(1)
The Last Years of the Qing	350	(2)
Constitutionalism and Revolution	352	(1)
Sun Yat-sen and 1911	353	(3)
Enter Yuan Shikai	354	(2)
The Warlords	356	(1)
New Social Mobility and the New Culture Movement	357	(3)
Lu Xun	359	(1)
The May Fourth Movement	360	(2)
Russia and the Building of Party Organization	362	(3)
China and Japan: The Road to War	365	(21)
Chinese Nationalism	365	(8)
The Northern Expedition	366	(1)
The Nanjing Decade	367	(1)
Failures and Successes	368	(3)
The Long March and the United Front	371	(2)
Shanghai: The Model Treaty Poret	373	(1)
Japan in the 1920s: Taisho Democracy and Its Fate	374	(12)
Rise of the Militarists	376	(2)
Aggression in Manchuria	378	(1)
Militarists in Command	379	(2)
Background of the ``China Incident''	381	(5)
The Second World War in Asia	386	(21)
The Japanese Attack on China	386	(7)
Retreat and Resistance	387	(3)
The GMD Side	390	(1)
Refugees and Communists	391	(2)
Chiang and the Americans	393	(1)
Chongqing: Beleaguered Wartime Capital	394	(3)
The Coming of the Pacific War	397	(7)
The Road to Pearl Harbor	399	(5)
Burma---and the End of the War	404	(3)
China Since 1945	407	(27)
The Civil War	407	(7)
Mao and the Mass Line	410	(1)
The Outer Areas	411	(3)
The Great Leap Forward	414	(6)
The Sino-Soviet Split	414	(1)
The Cultural Revolution Decade	415	(5)
China after Mao	420	(7)
Achievements and the Future	423	(2)
Renewed Demands for Liberalization	425	(2)
Taiwan	427	(2)
Hong Kong	429	(5)
Japan Since 1945	434	(18)
The Revival of Japan	434	(10)
Occupation and Americanization	435	(3)
Economic and Social Development	438	(6)
Japan's Global Role	444	(8)
Tokyo and the Modern World	446	(1)
Japan's Relations with Its Former Enemies	447	(5)
Korea and Mainland Southeast Asia	452	(25)
Divided Korea	452	(4)
Korea Since 1960	456	(4)
Southeast Asia Since World War II	460	(11)
Vietnam Since 1945	461	(7)
Bloody Cambodia	468	(2)
Laos: The Forgotten Country	470	(1)
Burma, Thailand, Malaya, and Singapore	471	(3)
Burma	471	(1)
Thailand	472	(1)
Malaysia and Singapore	473	(1)
East Asia and the Future: A ``Pacific Century''?	474	(3)
Credits	477	(2)
Index	479