History of Asia, A

by Murphey, Rhoads

• ISBN13: 9780321104960
• ISBN10: 032110496X
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

Written by a leading scholar, "A History of Asia" is the only text to cover the area known as Monsoon Asia India, China, Southeast Asia, Korea, and Japan from the earliest of times to the present. Its extensive analysis integrates the complex and diverse political, social, intellectual, and economic histories of this area with an engaging and lively style. Popular because of its scope and coverage, the fifth edition of A History of Asia contains new, boxed features that emphasize cross-cultural comparisons and expanded treatment of Southeast Asia. Additionally, a timeline and discussion questions have been added to each chapter, thereby making the book even more student friendly.

Table of Contents

Contents by Country or Region	ix
List of Maps	xi
Preface	xiii
Author's Note to the Reader	xvii
A Note on the Spelling of Asian Names and Words	xix
Wade-Giles/Pinyin Equivalents	xx
About the Author	xxi
Atlas	xxii
Time Chart	xxiv
Introduction Monsoon Asia as a Unit of Study	1	(1)
Geography	1	(2)
Population Densities	3	(1)
Common Cultural Patterns	4	(3)
The Study of Monsoon Asia	7	(3)
Prehistoric Asia	10	(12)
Early and Paleolithic Cultures	10	(1)
The Neolithic Revolution	11	(2)
Agricultural Origins in Southeast Asia	13	(1)
Peoples and Early Kingdoms of Southeast Asia	14	(1)
Malaya, Indonesia, and the Philippines	15	(1)
Prehistoric China	16	(2)
Korea and Japan	18	(4)
Asian Religions and Their Cultures	22	(21)
Hinduism	22	(4)
Buddhism in India and Its Spread Eastward	26	(1)
Gautama Buddha	27	(3)
Confucianism	30	(4)
Daoism	34	(1)
Judaism in Asia	35	(2)
Islam in Asia	37	(2)
Shinto	39	(1)
Asian Religions: Some Reflections	40	(3)
The Traditional Societies of Asia	43	(21)
Social Hierarchies	44	(4)
The Family	48	(4)
The Status of Women	52	(1)
Sexual Customs	53	(2)
Education, Lieracy, and the Printed Word	55	(2)
Material Welfare	57	(7)
The Civilization of Ancient India	64	(24)
Origins of Civilization in India	64	(1)
The Indus Civilization	65	(5)
The Aryans	70	(2)
The Rise of Empire: Mauryan India	72	(1)
The Maurya Dynasty	73	(1)
Pataliputra and the Glory of Mauryan India	74	(1)
The Emperor Ashoka, ``Beloved of the Gods''	75	(1)
Kushans and Greeks	76	(2)
Southern India and the City of Madurai	78	(1)
Ceylon	79	(2)
The Guptas and the Empire of Harsha	81	(2)
Women in Ancient India	83	(2)
The Indian Heritage	85	(3)
The Civilization of Ancient China	88	(22)
The Origins of China	88	(2)
The Shang Dynasty	90	(1)
The Zhou Dynasty	91	(3)
Confucius, The Sage	94	(1)
The Qin Conquest	95	(2)
Qin Authoritarianism	97	(2)
The Han Dynasty	99	(8)
Cities in Ancient China	107	(1)
Han Achievements	108	(2)
Medieval India and Southeast Asia	110	(24)
Early Islamic Influence in India	110	(1)
The Islamic Advance into India	111	(2)
The Delhi Sultanate	113	(2)
Notable Sultans: Ala-ud-din Khalji	115	(3)
South India	118	(2)
The Cholas	120	(2)
The Eastward Spread of Islam	122	(3)
Non-Muslim Southeast Asia	125	(1)
Medieval Burma and Thailand	125	(2)
Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam	127	(1)
Angkor: City of Monumental Splendor	127	(3)
Malaya, Indonesia, and the Philippines	130	(4)
China: A Golden Age	134	(20)
Reunification in China	134	(1)
The Splendor of the Tang	135	(3)
Chang'an in an Age of Imperial Splendor	138	(1)
Cultural Brilliance and Political Decay	139	(1)
The Song Achievement	140	(6)
The Southern Song Period	146	(2)
The Mongol Conquest and the Yuan Dynasty	148	(3)
Chinese Culture and the Empire	151	(3)
Early, Classical, and Medieval Japan and Korea	154	(22)
Japan	154	(2)
Ties with Korea and Tomb Builders	156	(2)
The Link with China	158	(5)
Heian Culture	163	(1)
Murasaki Shikibu (Lady Murasaki)	164	(2)
Pressures on the Environment	166	(2)
The Kamakura Period	168	(1)
Ashikaga Japan	169	(2)
Korea	171	(5)
Mughal India and Central Asia	176	(20)
The Mughals in India	176	(4)
Akbar, the Man	180	(3)
The Reign of Aurangzeb: Repression and Revolt	183	(5)
Central Asia	188	(8)
New Imperial Splendor in China: The Ming Dynasty	196	(23)
The Founding of the Ming	196	(2)
Hongwu: The Rebel Emperor	198	(1)
The Ming Tributary System	199	(1)
Ming Maritime Expeditions	200	(3)
Prosperity and Conservatism	203	(1)
Commerce and Culture	204	(6)
Imperial Beijing: Axis of the Ming World	210	(1)
Complacency and Decline	211	(5)
The Manchu Conquest	216	(3)
The West Arrives in Asia	219	(22)
Independent Development	219	(1)
The Crusades: Europe Begins to Push Eastward	220	(1)
Europe at the End of the Middle Ages	221	(2)
The Portuguese in Asia	223	(2)
The Spanish in the Philippines	225	(1)
Trading Bases in Asia	226	(3)
``Christians and Spices''	229	(2)
Matteo Ricci: Missionary to the Ming Court	231	(1)
The Russian Advance in Asia	232	(1)
Japan's Christian Century	233	(1)
The Dutch in Asia	234	(2)
The English in Asia	236	(2)
The English in Seventeenth-Century India	238	(3)
Manchu China and Tokugawa Japan	241	(27)
China Under the Manchus	242	(2)
Prosperity and Population Increases	244	(7)
Qing Glory and Technological Backwardness	251	(3)
The Opium War	254	(1)
Reunification and the Tokugawa Shogunate in Japan	255	(6)
Edo and the ``Floating World''	261	(1)
Hokusai, Master Artist	262	(1)
Foreign Pressures for Change	263	(5)
The Rise of British Power in India	268	(25)
The Mughal Collapse	268	(3)
Westerners in India	271	(1)
The Early English Presence	272	(2)
The Mughal and Post-Mughal Contexts	274	(1)
Anglo-French Rivalry and the Conquest of Bengal	275	(2)
Robert Clive and the Beginnings of British India	277	(4)
The Orientalists and the bengal Renaissance	281	(2)
Calcutta, Colonial Capital	283	(1)
From Tolerance to Arrogance	284	(2)
The Revolt of 1857	286	(1)
The Consolidation of the British Empire in India	287	(6)
The Triumph of Imperialism in Asia	293	(28)
The New Imperialism	293	(4)
Imperialism in Asia and Asian Responses	297	(1)
British Imperial India	298	(4)
New Delhi: Indian Summer of the Raj	302	(4)
Colonial Regimes in Southeast Asia	306	(2)
China Besieged	308	(4)
Japan Among the Powers	312	(4)
Ito Hirobumi: Meiji Statesman	316	(1)
Imperialism and Americans in Asia	316	(5)
Subjugation, Nationalism, and Revolution in China and India	321	(25)
China in Decay	322	(7)
Chaos and Warlordism	329	(3)
Prominent Figures in the May Fourth Movement	332	(2)
India Under Colonial Rule	334	(5)
The Beginnings of Indian Nationalism	339	(3)
Enter Gandhi	342	(4)
The Struggle for Asia, 1920-1945	346	(30)
Colonialism in Southeast Asia	346	(6)
India Moves Toward Independence	352	(3)
China in the 1920s and 1930s	355	(4)
Shanghai: The Model Treaty Port	359	(1)
Japan from 1920 to 1941	360	(5)
The War in China	365	(4)
Chongqing: Beleaguered Wartime Capital	369	(1)
Japan in the Pacific and Southeast Asia	370	(2)
Burma and India	372	(4)
Revival and Revolution in Japan and China	376	(28)
The Revival of Japan	376	(7)
Tokyo and the Modern World	383	(3)
China in Revolution	386	(9)
Jiang Qing and the Gang of Four	395	(5)
Taiwan	400	(1)
Hong Kong	401	(3)
Korea and Southeast Asia in the Modern World	404	(27)
Yi Dynasty Korea in Decline	404	(3)
Korea Under Japanese Rule	407	(1)
Division and War	408	(2)
Korea Since 1960	410	(2)
Southeast Asia Since World War II	412	(2)
Vietnam	414	(5)
Bloody Cambodia	419	(1)
Laos: The Forgotten Country	420	(1)
Burma, Thailand, Malaya, and Singapore	421	(3)
Indonesia	424	(3)
The Philippines	427	(4)
South Asia: Independence, Political Division, and Development	431	(27)
Partition and Independence	431	(6)
Bangladesh and Pakistan	437	(2)
Afghanistan	439	(1)
Sri Lanka	440	(1)
Nepal	441	(1)
India After Independence	442	(7)
Female Leaders of South Asia	449	(2)
Indian and South Asian Achievements and Shortcomings	451	(7)
Asia at the Start of the Twenty-First Century	458
Population Growth	461	(1)
Pollution	462	(2)
Urbanization	464	(3)
Economic Growth Rates	467	(1)
Tradition in Modern Asia	468	(2)
A Country-by-Country Survey	470
Acknowledgments	1	(1)
Index	1