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PublisherCengage Learning

ISBN-100618914943

ISBN-139780618914944

eBay Product ID (ePID)59955079

Product Key Features

Number of Pages736 Pages

Publication NameBrief History of Chinese and Japanese Civilizations

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2006

SubjectAsia / Japan, General, Asia / China

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaHistory

AuthorDavid Lurie, Conrad Schirokauer, Miranda Brown, Suzanne Gay

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight29.3 Oz

Item Length9.1 in

Item Width6.3 in

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Edition Number3

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

TitleLeadingA

ReviewsI. The Classical Civilization of China1. "China" in Antiquity2. Turbulent Times and Classical Thought3. The Early Imperial PeriodThe QinThe HanII. China and Japan in a Buddhist Age4. China during the Period of Disunity5. The Cosmopolitan Civilization of the Sui and Tang: 581-9076. Early Japan to 794PrehistoryThe Emergency of the Japanese State and Elite Culture7. Heian JapanIII. A New and Crucial Phase8. China during the Song: 960-12799. The Mongol Empire and The Yuan Dynasty10. The Ming Dynasty: 1368-164411. The Kamakura Period in Japan12. Muromachi Japan13. East Asia and Modern Europe: First EncountersIV. Last Dynasties14. Tokugawa: Background, Establishment, and Middle YearsThe Legacy of WarUnification and Consolidation (1573-1651)The Tokugawa Political Consolidation (1600-1653)The Middle Years (1653-1787)15. The Qing DynastyV. China and Japan in the Modern World16. China: The Troubled Nineteenth CenturyThe Opium War and Taiping Rebellion1870-1894Foreign Relations17. Japan: Endings and Beginnings: From Tokugawa to Meiji, 1787-1873Late TokugawaThe Meiji Restoration18. The Emergence of Modern Japan: 1874-189419. China: Endings and Beginnings, 1894-1927The Last Years of the Last DynastyFrom Yuan Shikai to Chiang Kai-shek20. Imperial Japan: 1895-1931Late Meiji (1895-1912)The Taisho Period (1912-1926) and the 1920s21. The 1930s and World War IIVI. East Asia Since World War II22. The Aftermath of the War and Unfinished BusinessToward a New Order in China and JapanUnfinished Business: Korea and Vietnam23. China under MaoConsolidation and Construction Soviet Style, 1949-1958The Revolution Continued, 1958-197624. The Chinese World Since Mao25. The New JapanThe New Japan (1952-1989)Society, Thought, and the ArtsFrom 1989 into the New CenturyAfterwordInternational TensionsEconomic GlobalizationContending TrendsCultural Globalization

Table Of ContentI. The Classical Civilization of China1. China" in Antiquity2. Turbulent Times and Classical Thought3. The Early Imperial PeriodThe QinThe HanII. China and Japan in a Buddhist Age4. China during the Period of Disunity5. The Cosmopolitan Civilization of the Sui and Tang: 581-9076. Early Japan to 794PrehistoryThe Emergency of the Japanese State and Elite Culture7. Heian JapanIII. A New and Crucial Phase8. China during the Song: 960-12799. The Mongol Empire and The Yuan Dynasty10. The Ming Dynasty: 1368-164411. The Kamakura Period in Japan12. Muromachi Japan13. East Asia and Modern Europe: First EncountersIV. Last Dynasties14. Tokugawa: Background, Establishment, and Middle YearsThe Legacy of WarUnification and Consolidation (1573-1651)The Tokugawa Political Consolidation (1600-1653)The Middle Years (1653-1787)15. The Qing DynastyV. China and Japan in the Modern World16. China: The Troubled Nineteenth CenturyThe Opium War and Taiping Rebellion1870-1894Foreign Relations17. Japan: Endings and Beginnings: From Tokugawa to Meiji, 1787-1873Late TokugawaThe Meiji Restoration18. The Emergence of Modern Japan: 1874-189419. China: Endings and Beginnings, 1894-1927The Last Years of the Last DynastyFrom Yuan Shikai to Chiang Kai-shek20. Imperial Japan: 1895-1931Late Meiji (1895-1912)The Taisho Period (1912-1926) and the 1920s21. The 1930s and World War IIVI. East Asia Since World War II22. The Aftermath of the War and Unfinished BusinessToward a New Order in China and JapanUnfinished Business: Korea and Vietnam23. China under MaoConsolidation and Construction Soviet Style, 1949-1958The Revolution Continued, 1958-197624. The Chinese World Since Mao25. The New JapanThe New Japan (1952-1989)Society, Thought, and the ArtsFrom 1989 into the New CenturyAfterwordInternational TensionsEconomic GlobalizationContending TrendsCultural Globalization"

SynopsisThis compelling text explores the development of China and Japan through their art, religion, literature, and thought as well as through their economic, political, and social history. This author team combines strong research with extensive classroom teaching experience to offer a clear, consistent, and highly readable text that is accessible to students with no previous knowledge of the history of East Asia.