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List of Maps | p. xiii |
Preface to the Third Edition | p. xv |
Acknowledgments | p. xvii |
Acronyms | p. xix |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Pacific Centuries Past and Present | p. 1 |
Pacific Asia: Concepts, Definitions, Rationale | p. 2 |
East Asia | p. 3 |
Southeast Asia | p. 5 |
Oceania | p. 6 |
North America | p. 7 |
Continent and Ocean: The Two Frontiers | p. 8 |
Dynasties, Empires, and Ages of Commerce: Pacific Asia to the Nineteenth Century | p. 9 |
Qin: The First Chinese Empire | p. 9 |
The Han Dynasty and the Chinese Language | p. 13 |
The Buddhist Age in Pacific Asia | p. 22 |
The Song Dynasty and Pacific Commerce | p. 27 |
The Mongol Empire and the Great Khan | p. 30 |
The Ming Dynasty | p. 34 |
The Rise of the Tokugawa Shogunate | p. 40 |
The Qing (Manchu) Dynasty | p. 43 |
Southeast Asia | p. 47 |
The Lands Below the Winds | p. 47 |
The Classical World | p. 49 |
The Srivijayan Empire and Relations with China | p. 53 |
An "Age of Commerce" in Southeast Asia | p. 62 |
Seaborne Barbarians: Incursions by the West | p. 69 |
Overview | p. 69 |
Early European Advances | p. 70 |
Nineteenth-Century Commercial Capitalism in Pacific Asia | p. 80 |
The Growing European Presence in Southeast Asia | p. 90 |
Meiji: Japan in the Age of Imperialism | p. 109 |
Introduction: Arrival of the Black Ships | p. 109 |
The Meiji Restoration | p. 117 |
Regional Dynamics: The New Japan and Its Asian Neighbors | p. 130 |
Meiji Japan: An Assessment | p. 145 |
Conclusion | p. 148 |
The Rise of Nationalism and Communism | p. 151 |
Overview | p. 151 |
The Philippines | p. 153 |
Philippine Nationalism to World War II | p. 154 |
Indonesia | p. 159 |
Social Change and Nationalism | p. 159 |
Political Leadership | p. 161 |
China | p. 162 |
The New Culture Movement | p. 175 |
Lu Xun | p. 177 |
A Golden Age of Chinese Capitalism | p. 178 |
Vietnam | p. 180 |
Korea | p. 183 |
Philip Jaisohn and the Independence Club | p. 184 |
The New Korean Enlightenment | p. 186 |
Japan | p. 191 |
Maelstrom: The Pacific War and Its Aftermath | p. 203 |
Overview | p. 203 |
Japan and the United States at War | p. 204 |
Japan's American Interlude | p. 214 |
Indonesia | p. 220 |
The Philippines | p. 223 |
Vietnam | p. 225 |
The Bandung Conference in the Postwar Setting | p. 227 |
Miracle by Design: The Postwar Resurgence of Japan | p. 231 |
Overview | p. 231 |
The Early Postwar Period | p. 231 |
The Fast-Growth Decades | p. 237 |
The 1980s: Rethinking Foreign Policy | p. 242 |
Puzzles in the Japanese "Miracle," | p. 243 |
Japanese Democracy and Political Stability | p. 251 |
The Modern Japanese Economy | p. 255 |
The New Asian Capitalists | p. 265 |
Overview | p. 265 |
Developing Economies of the Asia-Pacific Region | p. 267 |
Korea's Economic Development, 1945-1990 | p. 277 |
International Factors | p. 277 |
Internal Social and Political Factors | p. 284 |
The Role of Culture and Timing | p. 288 |
Confucianism and Economic Growth | p. 296 |
The Confucian Faces of Capitalism | p. 297 |
The "Overseas" Ethnic Chinese | p. 306 |
From "Miracle" to "Crisis," | p. 309 |
Power, Authority, and the-Advent of Democracy | p. 317 |
Overview | p. 317 |
Power and Authority in Pacific Asia | p. 317 |
Trials of Democracy in Southeast Asia | p. 319 |
Malaysia: The Trial of Parliamentary Democracy, 1957-1969 | p. 325 |
Indonesia: From "Democracy" to "Guided Democracy," 1950-1966 | p. 331 |
Sukarno and Guided Democracy | p. 333 |
Descent into Chaos | p. 335 |
Brave New Order | p. 336 |
The Philippines: From Independence to Martial Law, 1946-1972 | p. 340 |
The Marcos Era | p. 340 |
The Legacy of "Pork Barrel Democracy," | p. 343 |
Democracy in Southeast Asia | p. 347 |
Democratization in South Korea | p. 348 |
Democratization in Taiwan | p. 355 |
The Status of Hong Kong | p. 357 |
Migration and Democracy | p. 358 |
Determinants of Democratic Change in Asia | p. 358 |
Sentimental Imperialists: America's Cold War in Asia | p. 365 |
Overview | p. 365 |
Americans and the "Loss" of China | p. 366 |
Korea: Liberation, Division, and War, 1945-1953 | p. 376 |
Vietnam and the Americans | p. 387 |
Strategies of Containment in Asia | p. 393 |
Reversal of Fortune: U.S.-China Rapprochement | p. 398 |
End of the Cold War in Asia | p. 400 |
The Cold War Legacy and North Korea | p. 401 |
Lonely Hegemony | p. 404 |
China's Long March Toward Modernization | p. 407 |
Overview | p. 407 |
Four Decades of Chinese Communism: A Chronology | p. 409 |
The Chinese Amnesia | p. 420 |
Political Reforms in the 1980s | p. 422 |
The Chinese Economic System in Transition | p. 431 |
Postscript: Risks in the Investment Boom | p. 436 |
Demographic and Social Change | p. 438 |
China's Environmental Crisis | p. 449 |
Realities and Aspirations | p. 449 |
Mao's Revolution and Chinese Culture | p. 453 |
The End of the Chinese Revolution | p. 461 |
Unresolved Issues from the Deng Era | p. 466 |
China's Economic Future: Pessimists Versus Optimists | p. 468 |
China's Military Modernization | p. 470 |
Beyond the Revolution: Indonesia and Vietnam | p. 473 |
Overview | p. 473 |
Vietnam, 1965-1975 | p. 479 |
Indonesia, 1968-1976 | p. 480 |
Vietnam, 1975-1990 | p. 483 |
Indonesia in Transition | p. 490 |
Concluding Remarks | p. 494 |
Siberian Salient: Russia in Pacific Asia | p. 501 |
Editor's Introduction | p. 501 |
Russia in Pacific Asia | p. 505 |
Editor's Postscript | p. 520 |
Asia s Resurgence and Its Global Implications | p. 523 |
Overview | p. 523 |
Regional Dynamics Before 2000 | p. 523 |
Japan's Role in the Pacific Asian Economy | p. 528 |
China's Role in the Pacific Asian Economy | p. 535 |
Regional Economic Dynamics Since 2000 | p. 539 |
The Revival of East Asian Regionalism | p. 542 |
Pacific Asia Indicators | p. 553 |
Competition, Openness, and Globalization | p. 560 |
Time Chart: Chronology and Geography in Pacific Asia | p. 563 |
Representation of Foreign Words and Names | p. 569 |
About the Book and Author | p. 573 |
Index | p. 575 |
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