East Asia At The Center : Four Thousand Years Of Engagement With The World - 00 edition

Cohen, Warren I. : University of Maryland Baltimore County

Warren I. Cohen is Distinguished University Professor of History at University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) and Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. His publications include The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations: America in the Age of Soviet Power, 1945-1991, East Asian Art in American Culture (Columbia), and America´s Response to China: A History of Sino-American Relations (Columbia).

"Warren I. Cohen is one of the most perceptive, knowledgeable and prolific historians in the world today on the subjects of China and East Asia. He writes with the clarity of a journalist and the wide-ranging authority of a scholar."

--James Mann, foreign-affairs columnist for the Los Angeles Times, author of About Face

"An ambitious project that takes much courage, stamina, and intellectual acumen to undertake. It is evident that Cohen has all three."

--Akira Iriye, Harvard University

"This is, in all respects, a truly amazing study! . . . Only a seasoned, talented -and audacious -writer would attempt what Warren I. Cohen has."

--Robert J. McMahon, University of Florida

"[Cohen] has attempted the impossible with East Asia at the Center and largely succeeded. His book is an absorbing corrective to the Eurocentric view that dominates most thinking about the world."

--The Japan Times

"A detailed, general-reader overview of everything below Siberia and above the Himalayas, plus the offshore archipelagos and the march of Islam. With maps, time-lines and celebrity lists; without partisanship....East Asia at the Center is an intellectual feat."

--James H. Bready, Baltimore Sun

"A superb and readable introduction to the region's history."

--Foreign Affairs

"Stimulating and informative."

--Library Journal

Columbia University Press Web Site, January, 2002

Preface

1. The Emergence of an International System in East Asia

In the beginning there was China
Other rooms, other voices
Empire of the Han, challenge of the Xiongnu
The diffusion of power
China
Korea
Japan
Southeast Asia
Conclusion

2. Shadows over Tang Splendor

The Sui
The Years of Tang Ascendance
Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asia

3. East Asia Uncentered

Late Tang
The Tibetan Factor
The demise of the Tang Dynasty
Northeast Asia
Southeast Asia
The Song reunify China
Koryo
Japan
Southeast Asia in Turmoil
Conclusion

4. The Mongol Ascendancy

Chinggis Khan and his sons
Khubilai Khan and the Chinese
Asian Resistance to Khubilai as Universal Ruler
The last days of the Yuan
Conclusion

5. The Resurgence of Chinese Power and the Coming of Islam

Rise of the Ming
Koreans, Japanese, and Ryukyu Islanders
Southeast Asia and the spread of Islam
Ming China on the eve of the Portuguese intrusion
Conclusion

6. Europe and Japan Disrupt the East Asian International Order

Arrival of the Portuguese
The Ming under Siege
The Rise of Japanese Power
Other Europeans: The Arrival of the Dutch and the English
Southeast Asia: Magnet for the West
Last Days of the Ming
Conclusion

7. The Great Qing Empire

Rebuilding of the "Chinese" empire
Japan and Korea
Southeast Asia in flux
Approach of the British empire
Conclusion

8. Triumph of the West

The British are coming
The Yanks are coming
France's quest for glory
Russia as a Pacific power
And then there were the Dutch
Conclusion

9. The Ascendance of Japan

Restoration and self-strengthening in China
The Meiji Restoration
Japan ascendant
The United States as an East Asian Power
The Boxer War
In the light of the Rising Sun
Conclusion

10. Challenge to the West

Development of the Japanese empire
The Rise of Chinese nationalism
Nationalism elsewhere in East Asia
Washington and Moscow look to East Asia
Nationalist revolution in China
Crisis in Manchuria

11. War and Decolonization, 1932-1949

In the beginning it was Manchuria
China imperiled
War comes to Asia
Japan's Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere
The war ends in East Asia
Decolonization in Southeast Asia
Conclusion

12. The Cold War in Asia

The occupation of Japan
Revolution in China
War in Korea
Southeast Asia and the Cold War
China, Taiwan, and the United States
Conclusion

13. The Resurgence of East Asian Economic Power

Japan as # 1
Little Dragons
Southeast Asia
China joins the world market economy
The Japan that can say no
Conclusion

14. On the Eve of the 21st Century

Disaster at Tiananmen
Democracy comes to Taiwan
The Korean peninsula: democracy and nuclear weapons
Red star over Hong Kong
Crisis in Southeast Asia

Conclusion
Closing Thoughts
Further Reading
Index