Table of Contents

• Chapter 1: Basic Identities
• Chapter 2: From Multicultural Empire to Semicolony: The Qing Dynasty, 1750—1870
• Chapter 3:  Rebellion and War: The Qing State in Decline, 1850—1901         The Taiping Rebellion (1851—1864): Attempts to Revolutionize Identity
• Chapter 4:  From Tributary Younger Brother to Colony: Vietnam, 1770s—1925
• Chapter 5: The Tokugawa Regime (1603—1830): Early Modern Japan
• Chapter 6:  The Last Years of Feudal Japan, 1830—1868
• Chapter 7:  Forging a New Japanese Identity: The Meiji Revolution
• Chapter 8:  "A Sea in a Heavy Gale": Korea, 1724—1905
• Chapter 9:  Chinese Identity in Turmoil: Reform, Revolution, and Reaction, 1901—1937
• Chapter 10:  "Grown, But Not Grown Up":  Japan, 1912—1937
• Chapter 11:  Under the Imperialist Gun: Vietnam, Korea, and Taiwan
• Chapter 12:  Cataclysm: East Asia in World War II   
• Chapter 13:  From Success to Tragedy: The Chinese Communist Revolution, 1931—1976
• Chapter 14:  The Phoenix: Japan, 1945—1973
• Chapter 15: The Korean Tragedy: War and Identity, 1945—1979
• Chapter 16:  The Vietnam Wars, 1941—1975
• Chapter 17:  Socialism with a Chinese and a Vietnamese Face, 1980s to the Present
• Chapter 18:  Whither Japan? From the 1970s to the Present
• Chapter 19: A "Democracy" in the South, a "Hermit Kingdom" in the North: Korea, 1980s to the Present
• Chapter 20:  Contemporary East Asian Identities: Commonalities and Differences