Charles Holcombe: A History of East Asia

Cover: 9781009504799 | A History of East Asia | Charles Holcombe | Taschenbuch | Englisch

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A concise and comprehensive introduction to China, Korea, Japan and Vietnam from the dawn of history to the present day, emphasizing connections, commonalities, and differences. The third edition includes important developments over the last decade, restructured post-World War II material, new illustrations and references, and discussion questions.

Über den Autor

Charles Holcombe is Professor of History at the University of Northern Iowa. Having spent a year researching Six Dynasties China at Kyto University in Japan, his awakening interest in East Asian interconnections led him to write The Genesis of East Asia, 221 BC-AD 907 (2001). He won the Regents' Award for Faculty Excellence at the University of Northern Iowa (2007).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of illustrations; List of maps; Pronunciation guide; Timeline; Glossary; Preface to the third edition; Introduction: what is East Asia?; 1. The origins of civilization in East Asia; 2. The formative era; 3. The age of cosmopolitanism; 4. The creation of a community: China, Korea, and Japan (seventh-tenth centuries); 5. Mature independent trajectories (tenth-sixteenth centuries); 6. Early modern East Asia (sixteenth-eighteenth centuries); 7. Dai Viet (Vietnam before the nineteenth centuries); 8. The nineteenth-century encounter of civilizations; 9. The age of Westernization (1900-1929); 10: The dark valley (1930-1945); 11. Cold War East Asia; 12. Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Overseas Chinese; 13. Globalization, and the resurgence of East Asia; Character list; Notes; Index.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2026
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9781009504799
ISBN-10:	1009504797
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Holcombe, Charles
Auflage:	3 Revised edition
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	José Abascal, 561°, E-28003 Madrid, eugpsr@cambridge.org
Maße:	253 x 177 x 24 mm
Von/Mit:	Charles Holcombe
Erscheinungsdatum:	13.05.2026
Gewicht:	1,168 kg