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A history of East Asia : from the origins of civilization to the twenty-first century

Holcombe, Charles, author.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

"Charles Holcombe begins by asking the question 'what is East Asia?' In the modern age, many of the features that made the region - now defined as including China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam - distinct have been submerged by the effects of revolution, politics or globalization. Yet, as an ancient civilization, the region had both an historical and cultural coherence. This shared past is at the heart of this ambitious book, which traces the story of East Asia from the dawn of history to the twenty-first century. " --

Bibliographic Information


Format: Book
Author: Holcombe, Charles, 1956-
Publication Year:2017
Language:English
Published:Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
ISBN:9781107118737
1107118735
9781107544895
1107544890
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: what is East Asia? -- The origins of civilization in East Asia -- The formative era -- The age of cosmopolitanism -- The creation of a community: China, Korea, and Japan (seventh to tenth centuries) -- Mature independent trajectories (tenth to sixteenth centuries) -- Early modern East Asia (sixteenth to eighteenth centuries) -- Dai Viet (Vietnam before the nineteenth century) -- The nineteenth-century encounter of civilizations -- The age of westernization (1900-1929) -- The dark valley (1930-1945) -- Japan since 1945 -- Korea since 1945 -- Vietnam since 1945 -- China since 1945.
Course: HIST256

Availability at HKSYU Library


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English Book (5/F) 950 HOL 2017 Available