Pacific Century

by Borthwick, Mark

• ISBN13: 9780813343556
• ISBN10: 0813343550
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-01
• Publisher: Westview Pr

Summary

The Asia-Pacific region is rapidly emerging as the global economic and political powerhouse of the twenty-first century. Looking at both Southeast and East Asia, this richly illustrated volume stresses broad, cross-cutting themes of regional history, with an emphasis on the interactions between cultures and nations. In this updated third edition, Mark Borthwick provides a significantly revised introduction, which places the contemporary rise of China within the context of the political, cultural, and economic evolution of the region since ancient times. He then considers more recent developments in their historical context, balancing national and international factors underlying Asia-Pacific economic growth and political change. New areas receiving attention in the third edition include Japan's recovery from economic stagnation, Japan's new political landscape, China's economic transformation and leadership in East Asian regionalism, the North Korean crisis, and the Asia-Pacific impact on the global economic system. The book also provides chronological updates for Cambodia, Vietnam, and Indonesia. Borthwick concludes with an examination of the key domestic and international issues facing the nations of Pacific Asia and the growing influence of these nations on North America and the world economy. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Mark Borthwick is director of the United States Asia Pacific Council at the East-West Center in Washington, DC, and has served on staff of the subcommittee of Asian and Pacific Affairs in the US House of Representatives.

Table of Contents

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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