Asia in Western and World History: A Guide for Teaching: A Guide for Teaching

by Embree,Ainslie T.

• ISBN13: 9781563242649
• ISBN10: 1563242648
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-03-31
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The 1980s witnessed the introduction of Asia into the core curriculum of undergraduate institutions throughout the United States. The Columbia Project on Asia in the Core Curriculum, involving over one hundred scholars from 75 undergraduate institutions, has produced three seminal books: Asia: Case Studies in the Social Sciences, Masterworks of Asian Literature in Comparative Perspective, and this, the final volume, Asia in Western and World History. With contributions by over fifty leading scholars, the book is divided into four major sections: I. Asia in Western History, II. Asia in World History, III. Modern Asia: 1600 to 1990, IV. Themes in Asian History. The introductions, essays, essay summaries, and historical timelines of India, China, and Japan make this volume the most comprehensive and accessible guide to Asian history ever produced in English.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi	(2)
Guide to the Reader	xiii	(2)
Introduction	xv
Ainslie T. Embree
Carol Gluck
I. Asia in Western History	3	(196)
Introductions	3	(28)
Asia in Western History	3	(4)
Ainslie T. Embree
The Shape of the World: Eurasia	7	(7)
Rhoads Murphey
Brief Syllabus of Asia in Western History	14	(8)
Michael Marme
Asian Influences on the West	22	(9)
Cho-yun Hsu
Essays	31	(168)
The Beginnings of Contact and Interdependence: Western Asia and the West	31	(9)
Marc Van De Mieroop
Interfusion of Asian and Western Cultures: Islamic Civilization and Europe to 1500	40	(15)
George Saliba
The Mongols and the West	55	(8)
Morris Rossabi
Asia and the West in the New World Economy--The Limited Thalassocracies: The Portuguese and the Dutch in Asia, 1498-1700	63	(20)
Derek S. Linton
Asia and the West in the New World Order--From Trading Companies to Free Trade Imperialism: The British and Their Rivals in Asia, 1700-1850	83	(34)
Derek S. Linton
Asia in Western Thought	117	(55)
Some Suggested Readings	117	(10)
Leonard A. Gordon
Asia in Enlightenment and Early British Imperial Views	127	(19)
Leonard A. Gordon
Images of the Other: Asia in Nineteenth-Century Western Thought--Hegel, Marx, and Weber	146	(26)
Harvey Goldman
The Rise and Fall of Western Empire in Asia: 1500-1975	172	(18)
Edward Malefakis
Asia and the West in the Twentieth-Century World Order	190	(9)
Marilyn B. Young
II. Asia in World History	199	(306)
Introduction	199	(18)
Asia in World History	199	(18)
Carol Gluck
Essays	217	(288)
The Neolithic Transition: Hunting-Gathering to Sedentary Village Farming and Pastoralism	217	(19)
Walter A. Fairservis
Primary Civilization in Asia	236	(15)
Walter A. Fairservis
The Origins of Civilization in China	251	(6)
Cho-yun Hsu
Some Contrasts and Comparisons of Zhou China and Ancient Greece	257	(8)
Cho-yun Hsu
The Spread of Power: Empires East and West	265	(15)
Richard A. Billows
Empire in East Asia	280	(5)
Cho-yun Hsu
Systematizing the Transcendental	285	(31)
The Emergence of Major Religions and World Views	285	(10)
Peter J. Awn
The Analects of Confucius, Then and Now	295	(14)
Irene T. Bloom
Religions and World Views in Asian and World History	309	(7)
Julia Ching
Willard G. Oxtoby
The Era of Asian Discovery: Trade and the Contact of Cultures	316	(55)
Richard W. Bulliet
China, 300-1200	330	(6)
Michael Marme
Song China, 960-1279	336	(16)
Robert Hymes
Japan, 550-838	352	(5)
H. Paul Varley
India, 100 B.C.E.-1500	357	(14)
Hermann Kulke
Dietmar Rothermund
Separate Spheres and New Links: A New Stage in World History, 1000-1500	371	(26)
Peter N. Stearns
The Case of China, 1000-1500	383	(7)
Michael Marme
The Case of Japan, 1000-1500	390	(7)
H. Paul Varley
The Rise of an Interdependent World, 1500-1990	397	(27)
Loyd E. Lee
The Expansion of Europe, 1450-1700	424	(21)
John W. Cell
Japan and the West, 1543-1640	438	(7)
Michael Cooper
Europe and the World in an Expanding World Economy, 1700-1850	445	(60)
John W. Cell
China and the World, 1500-1800	466	(8)
William T. Rowe
China's Economy in Comparative Perspective, 1500 Onward	474	(20)
Madeleine Zelin
An Approach to Modern Indian Economic History	494	(11)
Morris David Morris
III. Modern Asia, 1600-1990	505	(126)
Tokugawa Japan, 1600-1867	505	(9)
William B. Hauser
Five Myths about Early Modern Japan	514	(9)
Henry D. Smith, II
State and Society During the Qing Dynasty, 1644-1911	523	(38)
Myron L. Cohen
Japan's Modernities, 1850s-1990s	561	(33)
Carol Gluck
Modern China, 1840-1990	594	(14)
Madeleine Zelin
Modern India, 1885-1990	608	(10)
David Lelyveld
Modern Korea, 1860-1990	618	(13)
Michael E. Robinson
IV. Themes in Asian History	631	(236)
South Asian History: A Cursory Review	631	(32)
Ainslie T. Embree
Themes in Southeast Asian History	663	(20)
David J. Steinberg
The Sinic World	683	(7)
Joshua A. Fogel
Themes in Chinese History	690	(20)
Madeleine Zelin
China in the Context of World History	710	(8)
Frederic Wakeman, Jr.
Some Misconceptions About Chinese History	718	(5)
Cho-yun Hsu
Patterns of the Past: Themes in Japanese History	723	(50)
Carol Gluck
Themes in Korean History	773	(9)
Michael E. Robinson
Asia and Latin America in the Context of World History	782	(16)
Theopolis Fair
Japan and America: A Tale of Two Civilizations	798	(12)
Carol Gluck
A Concrete Panoply of Intercultural Exchange: Asia in World History	810	(57)
Lynda Norene Shaffer
Postscript	867
Summaries of the Essays	867	(24)
Historical Timelines	891	(21)
Indian History	893	(3)
Chinese History	896	(3)
Japanese History	899	(2)
Korean History	901	(1)
Southeast Asian History	902	(10)
East Asia in the National Standards for World History	912	(43)
Carol Gluck
Index	955	(36)
Contributors	991