Schoppa, R. Keith

East Asia : identities and change in the modern world, 1700-present / R. Keith Schoppa - 1st ed. - Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson/Prentice Hall, c2008 - xxix, 561 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index

Basic Identities -- From Multicultural Empire to Semicolony: The Qing Dynasty, 1750/1870 -- Rebellion and War: The Qing state in Decline, 1850/1901 -- From Tributary Younger Brother to Colony: Vietnam, 1770s/1925 -- The Tokugawa Regime (1603/1830): Early Modern Japan -- The Last Years of Feudal Japan, 1830/1868 -- Forging a New Japanese Identity: The Meiji Revolution -- "A Sea in a Heavy Gale": Korea, 1724/1905 -- Chinese Identity in Turmoil: Reform, Revolution, and Reaction, 1901/1937 -- "Grown, But Not Grown Up": Japan, 1912/1937 -- Under the Imperialist Gun: Vietnam, Korea, and Taiwan -- Cataclysm: East Asia in World War II -- From Success to Tragedy: The Chinese Communist Revolution, 1931/1976 -- The Phoenix: Japan, 1945/1973 -- The Korean Tragedy: War and Identity, 1945/1979 -- The Vietnam Wars, 1941/1975 -- Socialism with a Chinese and a Vietnamese Face, 1980s to the Present -- Whither Japan? From the 1970s to the Present -- A "Democracy" in the South, a "Hermit Kingdom" in the North: Korea, 1980s to the Present -- Contemporary East Asian Identities: Commonalities and Differences

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East Asia--History