Table of Contents

I: Asia in Western History; Asia in Western History: Introductions; The Shape of the World: Eurasia; Brief Syllabus of Asia in Western History; Asian Influences on the West; The Beginnings of Contact and Interdependence: Western Asia and the West; Interfusion of Asian and Western Cultures: Islamic Civilization and Europe to 1500; The Mongols and the West; Asia and the West in the New World Economy—the Limited Thalassocracies: The Portuguese and the Dutch in Asia, 1498–1700; Asia and the West in the New World Order—From Trading Companies to Free Trade Imperialism: the British and Their Rivals in Asia, 1700–1850; Some Suggested Readings; Asia in Enlightenment and Early British Imperial Views; Images of the Other: Asia in Nineteenth-Century Western Thought—Hegel, Marx, and Weber; The Rise and Fall of Western Empire in Asia: 1500–1975; Asia and the West in the Twentieth-Century World Order; II: Asia in World History; Asia in World History: Introduction; Asia in World History: Essays; Primary Civilization in Asia; The Origins of Civilization in China; Some Contrasts and Comparisons of Zhou China and Ancient Greece; The Spread of Power: Empires East and West; Empire in East Asia; Systematizing the Transcendental; The Analects of Confucius, Then and Now; Religions and World Views in Asian And World History; The ERA of Asian Discovery: Trade and the Contact of Cultures; China, 300–1200; Song China, 960–1279; Japan, 550–638; India, 100 B.C.E.–1500; Separate Spheres and New Links: A New Stage in World History, 1000–1500; The Case of China, 1000–1500; The Case of Japan, 1000–1500; The Rise of an Interdependent World, 1500–1990; The Expansion of Europe, 1450–1700; Japan and the West, 1543–1640; Europe and The World in an Expanding World Economy, 1700–1850 1; China and The World, 1500–1800; China's Economy in Comparative Perspective, 1500 Onward; An Approach to Modern Indian Economic History; III: Modern Asia, 1600–1990; Tokugawa Japan, 1600–1867; Five Myths about Early Modern Japan; State and Society During The Qing Dynasty, 1644–1911; Japans Modernities, 1850s–1990s; Modern China, 1840–1990; Modern India, 1885–1990; Modern Korea, 1860–1990; IV: Themes in Asian History; South Asian History: A Cursory Review; Themes in Southeast Asian History; The Sinic World; Themes in CHinese History; China in the Context of World History; Some Misconceptions about Chinese History; Patterns of the Past: Themes in Japanese History; Themes in Korean History; Asia and Latin America in the Context of World History; Japan and America: a Tale of Two Civilizations; A Concrete Panoply of Intercultural Exchange: Asia in World History; Postscript; East Asia in the National Standards for World History; East Asia In The National Standards For World History

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Ainslie T. Embree, Carol Gluck