East Asia: Identities and Change in the Modern World, 1700-Present, CourseSmart eTextbook
ISBN-10: 0-13-603784-4
ISBN-13: 978-0-13-603784-2
Published by Prentice Hall
© 2008
Pub. Date: Feb 12, 2008
Format: Electronic Book
Description
For one semester/quarter undergraduate courses in the History of Modern East Asia or Modern East Asian Civilizations.
In East Asia: Identities and Change in the Modern World, accomplished historian R. Keith Schoppa uses the prism of cultural identities to examine the four countries that make up the East Asian cultural sphere—China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam—from roughly 1700 to the present. This text explores modern East Asian history through the themes of identities and change.
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“East Asia: Identities and Change in the Modern World is impressive, a great contribution to the field. It tells the story of East Asia since the seventeenth century in a lucid way that takes into account both traditional interpretations and modern scholarship. One of the strengths of the text is its willingness to take strong interpretive stands, even as it attempts a balanced portrayal. Another strength is the inclusion of Vietnam and Taiwan, regions ignored by many survey texts.” - James L. Huffman, Wittenberg University
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Table of Contents
Chapter One Basic Identities
The Chasm between the Cultures of Traditional East Asia and the Modern World
Senses of Time and Space
Basic Social Unit
Social Hierarchy
Social Goals and Patterns
State and Government
Ways of Thinking about Life and the World
Rice Culture: The World of East Asian Agriculture
Three Ways of Thought in Traditional East Asia
Confucianism
Daoism
Buddhism
Chapter Two From Multicultural Empire to Semicolony: The Qing Dynasty, 1750—1870
The Manchus
Buying into Chinese CultureThe Civil Service Examination
Rituals, Religion, and Values
Dealing with the Other
Identity and Change: The Qianlong Emperor
Identity Crisis
Emerging Problems
The Early Western Role
China and the West: Mutual Perceptions
Early-Nineteenth-Century Political and Social Instability
The Opium Tragedy and War The Unequal Treaty SystemForeign Concessions
Extraterritoriality with Consular Jurisdiction
Foreign Ambassadorial Residence
The Missionary and Cultural Imperialism
Chapter Three Rebellion and War: The Qing State in Decline, 1850—1901 The Taiping Rebellion (1851—1864): Attempts to Revolutionize Identity
The Taiping Revolution
Why the Revolution Failed
Guerrilla Warfare: The Nian Rebellion (1853—1868)
Muslims versus Chinese: Clashes in Ethnic Identity
Self-Strengthening
Russia in China
Imperialism and China's Tributary States
Loss of the Liuqin (Ry u—kyu—) Islands
Vietnam and French Colonialism
Struggling for Korea
The Sino-Chinese War, 1894—1895
The Scramble for Concessions
The Reform Movement of the 1890s
The Boxer Catastrophe
Chapter Four From Tributary Younger Brother to Colony: Vietnam, 1770s—1925
Patterns in Vietnamese History
The Tay Son Rebellion
The Nguyen Dynasty
The Reigns of the Gia-long and Mmh-mang Emperors
The Course of French Imperialism
The Nature of French Colonialism
The Vietnamese Response to French Control
Phan Boi Chau (1867—1940) and Phan Chu Trinh (1872—1926)
Key Journalists and the Identity of a Modern Vietnam
Schools and Education
Vietnamese Society in the 1920s
The Trial of Phan Boi Chau, 1925Chapter Five The Tokugawa Regime (1603—1830): Early Modern Japan
Issues of Identity
The Tokugawa System
Controlling the Daimyo
Other Measures of Control
Tokugawa Society: The Samurai
The Floating World
Tokugawa Society: Peasants
Tokugawa Political Thought
Traditional Education
Values and Attitudes in the Wider Society
Chapter Six The Last Years of Feudal Japan, 1830—1868
The Tempo Crises (1830—1844)
The Famine
The Threat from Outside
The Reforms
The Coming of Perry and Japanese Reactions
Bakumatsu
Four Narrative Structures
Revere the Emperor, Expel the Barbarian (Sonrio-jm)
Domestic Complications
Terrorism and Civil War
The Bases of Chosh u—'s and Satsuma's Power
The End Game
The Restoration's Meaning
Chapter Seven Forging a New Japanese Identity: The Meiji Revolution
The Charter Oath and Its Revolutionary Impact
The Satsuma Rebellion
The People's Rights Movement and the Turn to Representative Government
The Meiji Constitution
The Early Years of the Japanese Diet
Economic Development
Conservative Reaction
Japan's Dealing with the Outside World
Chapter Eight "A Sea in a Heavy Gale": Korea, 1724—1905
Patterns in Korean History
The Choson Dynasty: The Scourge of Factionalism
Invasion: A Sea in a Heavy Gale
Kings and Princes: The Eighteenth Century
Catholicism (Western Learning)
The State of Politics and Society in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Korea
The Tonghak MovementThe Era of the Taewon'gun
The Opening of Korea
The Independence Club and Reform
The Fall of the Choson Dynasty
Chapter Nine Chinese Identity in Turmoil: Reform, Revolution, and Reaction, 1901—1937
The Revolutionary Manchus
Educational Reform
Military Reform
Constitutionalism
The Anti-Manchu Revolutionary Movement
The 1911 Revolution
The Presidency of Yuan Shikai
The Power of the Gun
The May Fourth Movement
The New Culture Movement
The Language Revolution
The May Fourth Incident and Its Aftermath
Political Change First; Cultural Change Will Follow
Cultural Change First; Political Change Will Follow
The Historical Significance of the May Fourth Movement
The Birth of the Communist Party
Giving the Guomindang a New Identity
Things Fall Apart
The Beginning of Mass Mobilization
The Northern Expedition
A Failed Revolution: The Nanjing Years
Chapter Ten "Grown, But Not Grown Up": Japan, 1912—1937
The Taisho-Era Political System
The Heyday of Political Parties
Taisho Society
Japan and the Wider World, 1912—1928
The Waning of Party Dominance
Manchuria
The Military and the Revolutionary Right
Politics and Society in the 1930s
Japanese Aggression on the March
The Xi'an IncidentThe Marco Polo Bridge Incident
Chapter Eleven Under the Imperialist Gun: Vietnam, Korea, and Taiwan
Vietnam: France's Colony
The Beginning of the Revolution, 1925—1941
Searching for New Communities in a Period of Malaise
The Communist Movement in the 1930s: Like a Yo-Yo
Korea: Japan's Colony
The Elimination of a Nation: Korea Becomes Chosen
Under the Black Umbrella
Taiwan: Japan's Colony
Resistance and Suppression
The Beginning of Modernization
A More Liberal Colonialism
Colonial Policies during the War (1937—1945)
Chapter Twelve Cataclysm: East Asia in World War II The Course of the War in China
The War in Central China
The War hi North China
Keeping the Pressure on Jiang
The Ichigo Offensive
The Exodus
Soldiers and the Military
Collaboration
Wartime Guomindang China
The United States and China during the War
Japan's Greater East Asia Co- Prosperity Sphere
The Pacific War
The Japanese Home Front
Wartime Experiences in Korea and Taiwan
The Firebombmgs
The End Game
Chapter Thirteen From Success to Tragedy: The Chinese Communist Revolution, 1931—1976
Years in the Wilderness: Incipient Revolution
The Communists at Yan'an, 1937—1945The Civil War
The People's Republic: Successes, 1949—1957
Land Reform
Revolution in the Family
Urban Revolution
The First Five-Year Plan
The War in Korea, 1950—1953The Hundred Flowers Movement and the Antirightist Campaign
The Great Leap Forward (and Backward)
The Great Famine, 1959—1961
The Sino-Soviet Split
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, 1966—1976
Mao in Retrospect
Chapter Fourteen The Phoenix: Japan, 1945—1973
The Occupation
Japanese Political Developments, 1952—1973: "The More Things Change . . ."
The Yoshida Years
Conservatism and Polarization, 1954—1960
The Era of Good Feelings: Ikeda's Plan
Sato Eisaku (1964—1972): Economic Growth and Healing the Scars of War
Why the Economic "Miracle"?
The New Activism
Chapter Fifteen The Korean Tragedy: War and Identity, 1945—1979
The Korean People's Republic and Its Demise
Laying the Groundwork for Disaster, 1945—1948
Emergence of the States of North Korea and South Korea
The Korean War, 1950—1953
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), 1953—1979
The Supreme Brain of the Nation"
Economic Developments
Emphasizing and Expanding the Military
The Republic of Korea (ROK): Autocrats, 1953—1979
The Years of Park Chung-hee (1961—1979)
Relations between North and South
Chapter Sixteen The Vietnam Wars, 1941—1975
The Viet Minh and the August Revolution
The French War, 1946—1954
The Geneva Accords, 1954
The Republic of Vietnam, 1954—1968
Ngo Dinh Diem and "Nation-Building"
The Insurgency: The National Liberation Front
Changing Civil War into an American War
The Democratic Republic of Vietnam, 1954—1968
War, 1968—1975The End Game
Chapter Seventeen Socialism with a Chinese and a Vietnamese Face, 1980s to the Present
China: Reform and Reaction
Opening the Window to the World
Political Authoritarianism
Democracy Wall (1978—1979)
Exit Hu Yaobang (1986—1987)
The Democracy Movement (Beijing Spring, 1989)
The Aftermath: Sino-American Relations
Economics in Command
Chinese International Relations: An Overview
Greater China: Issues of Identity
Special Administrative Regions: Hong Kong and Macao
Autonomous Regions: Tibet and Xingjiang
China and the East Asian Region
Dealing with the Soviet Union (Russia After 1991)
The Socialist Republic of Vietnam
Chapter Eighteen Whither Japan? From the 1970s to the Present
LDP Hegemony, 1972—1987
Japan and the United States: Trade, Mutual Perceptions, and Culture Clash
The New Affluence
The End of the Showa Era
After Nakasone
Scandals
Economic Collapse
Dysfunctional Japanese Politics
The Process of Political Decision Making
Japan in the World
The United States
China
The Koreas
Southeast Asia
The Soviet Union (Russia After 1991)
The Middle East
Europe
Chapter Nineteen A "Democracy" in the South, a "Hermit Kingdom" in the North: Korea, 1980s to the Present
The South
Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Chun's "Fifth Republic," 1981—1987
The Presidency of Roh Tae-woo (1988—1993)
The Presidency of Kim Young-sam (1993—1998)
Economic Crisis of the Late 1990s
The Presidency of Kim Dae-jung (1998—2003)
The NorthRelations Between North and South Korea from the 1980s On
North Korea, the United States, Japan, and Nuclear Weapons
Chapter Twenty Contemporary East Asian Identities: Commonalities and Differences
Consumerism and the Culture of ConsumptionChina
Taiwan
Vietnam
Japan
The Koreas
Environmental Crises
The Family and Gender Relations
China
Taiwan
Vietnam
Japan
The Koreas
Political Culture at Century's Beginning
China
Taiwan
Vietnam
Japan
North Korea
South Korea
Endnotes
Phonetic Spelling of Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and Vietnamese Words
Index
