Historical Perspectives on Contemporary East Asia / / ed. by Merle Goldman, Andrew Gordon.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Cohen, Warren I.,; Eckert, Carter J.,; Garon, Sheldon,; Goldman, Merle,; Gordon, Andrew,; Howell, David L.,; Kirby, William C.,; Nathan, Andrew J.,; Rankin, Mary Backus,; Schoppa, R. Keith,; Young, Ernest P.,
• HerausgeberIn: Goldman, Merle,; Gordon, Andrew,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2000]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2000
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (382 p.)

Historical Perspectives on Contemporary East Asiaaddresses provocative themes concerning the experience of particular nations and of East Asia as a whole. It explores the turbulent process of integrating Asian societies and political systems into a global order dominated by the West over the past tw...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Maps
• 1 The Foreign Impact on East Asia
• 2 Social and Political Change in Nineteenth-Century China
• 3 Visions of the Future in Meiji Japan
• 4 Korea’s Transition to Modernity: At Will to Greatness
• 5 State and Society in Interwar Japan
• 6 China in the Early Twentieth Century: Tasks for a New World
• 7 The Nationalist Regime and the Chinese Party-State, 1928–1958
• 8 The Search for Social Cohesion in China, 1921–1958
• 9 Society and Politics from Transwar through Postwar Japan
• 10 Searching for the Appropriate Model for the People’s Republic of China
• Chronologies
• Notes
• Contributors
• Index