History of Asia, A

by Murphey, Rhoads

• ISBN13: 9780321340542
• ISBN10: 032134054X
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

Written by a leading scholar, A History of Asiais 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	x
List of Maps	xi
List of Documents	xii
Preface	xiii
Author's Note to the Reader	xvii
About the Author	xix
A Note on the Spelling of Asian Names and Words	xx
Wade-Giles/Pinyin Equivalents	xxi
Map: Monsoon Asia	xxii
Chronology	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	(11)
Early and Paleolithic Cultures	10	(2)
The Neolithic Revolution	12	(1)
Agricultural Origins in Southeast Asia	13	(1)
Peoples and Early Kingdoms of Southeast Asia	14	(1)
Prehistoric China	15	(2)
Korea and Japan	17	(2)
Early Asian Commercial and Cultural Networking	19	(2)
Asian Religions and Their Cultures	21	(22)
Hinduism	21	(4)
Buddhism in India and Its Spread Eastward	25	(1)
A Closer Look: Gautama Buddha	26	(4)
Confucianism	30	(3)
Daoism	33	(2)
Judaism in Asia	35	(1)
Islam in Asia	35	(1)
Reading Across Cultures: The Divine Couple and the Human Family	36	(2)
Shinto	38	(1)
Asian Religions: Some Reflections	39	(4)
The Traditional Societies of Asia	43	(21)
Social Hierarchies	44	(3)
The Family	47	(3)
The Status of Women	50	(2)
Sexual Customs	52	(1)
Education, Literacy, and the Printed Word	53	(3)
Material Welfare	56	(8)
The Civilization of Ancient India	64	(25)
Origins of Civilization in India	64	(1)
The Indus Civilization	65	(6)
The Aryans	71	(1)
The Rise of Empire: Mauryan India	72	(2)
The Maurya Dynasty	74	(1)
Pataliputra and the Glory of Mauryan India	74	(1)
A Closer Look: 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	(1)
The Gupta Legacy in the Bay of Bengal Region	86	(3)
The Civilization of Ancient China	89	(23)
The Origins of China	89	(2)
The Shang Dynasty	91	(2)
The Zhou Dynasty	93	(2)
A Closer Look: Confucius, the Sage	95	(2)
The Qin Conquest	97	(1)
Qin Authoritarianism	98	(2)
The Han Dynasty	100	(7)
A Closer Look: Cities in Ancient China	107	(1)
Reading Across Cultures: Han Civilization in Vietnam	108	(1)
Han Achievements	109	(3)
Medieval India	112	(14)
Early Islamic Influence in India	112	(1)
The Islamic Advance into Northern India	113	(1)
The Delhi Sultanate	114	(3)
A Closer Look: Notable Sultans: Ala-ud-din Khalji	117	(4)
Southern India	121	(2)
The Cholas	123	(3)
Early and Medieval Southeast Asia	126	(15)
The Setting	126	(1)
Origin of Peoples	126	(2)
The Eastward Spread of Islam	128	(1)
Reading Across Cultures: Conversions to Islam	129	(1)
Indianized Southeast Asia	130	(1)
Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam	131	(1)
A Closer Look: Angkor: City of Monumental Splendor	132	(2)
Medieval Pagan and Thai Ayudhya	134	(1)
Malaya, Indonesia, and the Philippines	135	(1)
Reading Across Cultures: Borobudur	136	(3)
Melaka and the Entry of the West	139	(2)
China: A Golden Age	141	(21)
Reunification in China	141	(1)
The Splendor of the Tang	142	(3)
A Closer Look: Chang'an in an Age of Imperial Splendor	145	(1)
Cultural Brilliance and Political Decay	146	(1)
The Song Achievement	147	(5)
The Southern Song Period	152	(1)
Reading Across Cultures: Piracy in Southeast Asia	153	(2)
The Mongol Conquest and the Yuan Dynasty	155	(3)
Chinese Culture and the Empire	158	(4)
Early, Classical, and Medieval Japan and Korea	162	(23)
Japan	162	(2)
Ties with Korea and the Tomb Builders	164	(2)
The Link with China	166	(6)
Heian Culture	172	(1)
A Closer Look: Murasaki Shikibu (Lady Murasaki)	172	(3)
Pressures on the Environment	175	(1)
The Kamakura Period	176	(1)
Ashikaga Japan	177	(2)
Maritime Contacts Between Medieval Japan and the Continent	179	(1)
Korea	180	(5)
Mughal India and Central Asia	185	(21)
The Mughals in India	185	(3)
A Closer Look: Akbar, the Man	188	(4)
The Reign of Aurangzeb: Repression and Revolt	192	(3)
A Closer Look: Commerce at the Mughal Port of Surat	195	(3)
Central Asia	198	(8)
New Imperial Splendor in China: The Ming Dynasty	206	(23)
The Founding of the Ming	206	(1)
A Closer Look: Hongwu: The Rebel Emperor	207	(2)
The Ming Tributary System	209	(1)
Ming Maritime Expeditions	210	(3)
Prosperity and Conservatism	213	(1)
Commerce and Culture	214	(6)
A Closer Look: Imperial Beijing: Axis of the Ming World	220	(1)
Complacency and Decline	221	(5)
The Manchu Conquest	226	(3)
The West Arrives in Asia	229	(20)
Independent Development	229	(1)
The Portuguese in Asia	229	(2)
Motives for Expansion	231	(2)
The Spanish in the Philippines	233	(1)
Trading Bases in Asia	233	(1)
Reading Across Cultures: The Manila Galleon Trade	234	(2)
``Christians and Spices''	236	(3)
A Closer Look: Matteo Ricci: Missionary to the Ming Court	239	(1)
The Russian Advance in Asia	240	(1)
Japan's Christian Century	241	(1)
The Dutch in Asia	242	(2)
The English in Asia	244	(2)
The English in Seventeenth-Century India	246	(3)
Manchu China and Tokugawa Japan	249	(28)
China Under the Manchus	250	(1)
Prosperity and Population Increases	251	(8)
Qing Glory and Technological Backwardness	259	(3)
The Opium War	262	(1)
Reunification and the Tokugawa Shogunate in Japan	263	(5)
Reading Across Cultures: Japanese Overseas Trade in the Tokugawa Era	268	(2)
A Closer Look: Edo and the ``Floating World''	270	(1)
A Closer Look: Hokusai, Master Artist	271	(1)
Foreign Pressures for Change	272	(5)
The Rise of British Power in India	277	(25)
The Mughal Collapse	277	(2)
Westerners in India	279	(2)
The Early English Presence	281	(2)
The Mughal and Post-Mughal Contexts	283	(1)
Anglo-French Rivalry and the Conquest of Bengal	284	(1)
A Closer Look: Robert Clive and the Beginnings of British India	285	(5)
The Orientalists and the Bengal Renaissance	290	(2)
A Closer Look: Calcutta, Colonial Capital	292	(1)
From Tolerance to Arrogance	293	(2)
The Revolt of 1857	295	(1)
The Consolidation of the British Empire in India	296	(6)
The Triumph of Imperialism in Asia	302	(28)
The New Imperialism	302	(4)
Imperialism in Asia and Asian Responses	306	(1)
British Imperial India	306	(5)
A Closer Look: New Delhi: Indian Summer of the Raj	311	(3)
Colonial Regimes in Southeast Asia	314	(3)
China Besieged	317	(4)
Japan Among the Powers	321	(3)
A Closer Look: Ito Hirobumi: Meiji Statesman	324	(1)
Imperialism and Americans in Asia	325	(2)
Asian Women in the New Imperialist Age	327	(1)
The Legacy of Western Control	328	(2)
Subjugation, Nationalism, and Revolution in China and India	330	(27)
China in Decay	331	(8)
Chaos and Warlordism	339	(3)
A Closer Look: Prominent Figures in the May Fourth Movement	342	(1)
India Under Colonial Rule	343	(6)
The Beginnings of Indian Nationalism	349	(3)
Enter Gandhi	352	(5)
The Struggle for Asia, 1920--1945	357	(31)
Colonialism in Southeast Asia	357	(7)
India Moves Toward Independence	364	(3)
China in the 1920s and 1930s	367	(4)
A Closer Look: Shanghai: The Model Treaty Port	371	(1)
Japan from 1920 to 1941	372	(3)
The War in China	375	(4)
A Closer Look: Chongqing: Beleaguered Wartime Capital	379	(2)
Japan in the Pacific and Southeast Asia	381	(2)
Burma and India	383	(5)
Revival and Revolution in Japan and China	388	(30)
The Revival of Japan	388	(8)
A Closer Look: Tokyo and the Modern World	396	(2)
China in Revolution	398	(9)
A Closer Look: Jiang Qing and the Gang of Four	407	(5)
Taiwan	412	(2)
Hong Kong	414	(1)
China, Taiwan, and Overseas Chinese	415	(3)
Korea and Southeast Asia in the Modern World	418	(31)
Yi Dynasty Korea in Decline	418	(4)
Korea Under Japanese Rule	422	(1)
Division and War	423	(1)
Korea Since 1960	424	(4)
Southeast Asia Since World War II	428	(1)
Vietnam	429	(5)
Bloody Cambodia	434	(1)
Reading Across Cultures: The Rediscovery and Restoration of Angkor	435	(2)
Laos: The Forgotten Country	437	(1)
Burma, Thailand, Malaya, and Singapore	437	(4)
Indonesia	441	(3)
The Philippines	444	(2)
Regional Cooperation in ASEAN	446	(3)
South Asia: Independence, Political Division, and Development	449	(28)
Partition and Independence	449	(4)
Bangladesh and Pakistan	453	(4)
Afghanistan	457	(1)
Sri Lanka	458	(1)
Nepal	459	(2)
India After Independence	461	(7)
A Closer Look: Female Leaders of South Asia	468	(1)
Indian and South Asian Achievements and Shortcomings	468	(2)
Reading Across Cultures: India in the Global Marketplace: Bollywood and Outsourcing	470	(7)
Asia at the Start of the Twenty-First Century	477
Population Growth	480	(2)
Pollution	482	(1)
Urbanization	483	(4)
Economic Growth Rates	487	(1)
Tradition in Modern Asia	488	(2)
A Country-by-Country Survey	490	(4)
The Nation-State in Contemporary Asia	494
Acknowledgments	1	(1)
Index	1