Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Lands and Languages of East Asia Lands China North China Central China Southern China North of China West of China South and Southeast of China Korea Japan Languages Speech and Writing Vocabulary and Local Written Forms Pronunciation, Phonetics, and Romanization Japanese Korean Chinese Names Chapter 2: MIng China, Choson Korea, and Warring States Japan in 1600 World Context Chinese Society and Culture in the Late Ming Neo-Confucianism and the Ideal of Self-Cultivation Individuals and Families, Ideals and Realities Women's Lives Native Place Food and Hobbies Religions Orthodoxy, Meritocracy, and the Examination System Hai Rui Rebukes His Lord Time and the Cosmos Agriculture and Commerce Land and Population Frontiers, Defense, and Diversity Being Chinese Korea under the ChosOn Kings The Yangban Ruling Class Ms. Kim hangs herself Examinations and the Limited Power of a Centralized State Land, Slaves, and Commoners Tribute and Invasion The Origins of Tokugawa Japan The International Context The End of the Warring States Period Hideyoshi's Pacification Hosokawa Gracia Tama The Road to Sekigahara Diasporas Connections Chapter 3: The Seventeenth Century World Context Dynastic Upheaval and a New Ruling Elite The End of the Ming The Rise of the Manchus The Conquest of Ming The Xu Brothers, Scholars of the Early Qing Empire-Building under the Kangxi Emperor State, Society, and the Intellectual Elite in the Early Qing Korea Tax Reform and the Economy Farmers, Rice, and the Commercialization of Agriculture International Trade Kim Manjung Cultural Growth and Criticism Japan in the Seventeenth Century: Consolidating the Realm The Tokugawa and the DaimyM The Tokugawa Regime and the World Economic Growth and Social and Environmental Change Culture and Society Ihara Saikaku Diasporas Connections Chapter 4: The Eighteenth Century World Context The High Qing: Triumph and the Sources of Decline Population Growth and the Qing Economy Social Transformation and the Status of Women Shen Fu and Chen Yun, A Qing Love Story Manchus and Political Power The Late Kangxi Period Fiscal Reform and Yongzheng Period Economics The Qianlong Emperor Ending the Nomadic Threat and Creating "China" Intellectual Life and the Literary Inquisition Corruption and Rebellion in the Late Qianlong Period The High Qing and the Europeans ChosOn in the Eighteenth Century Economic Growth and Commercialization The Yangban Puzzle State and Countryside A Tragedy at Court Relations with Qing Domesticating Letters and Arts The Coming of "Western Learning" The Early Modern Transition in Tokugawa Japan Japan in the Eighteenth-Century World Scholars and Artists Molding Class, Status, and Gender Ema SaikM Demographic Changes in the Eighteenth Century The Blossoming of Intellectual Diversity Diasporas Connections Chapter 5: Internal Contradictions, External Pressures (1800--1860S) World Context The Qing in Decline End of an Era Social Problems and Statecraft Solutions Frontier Wars by Land A Loyal Man of Qing Frontier Wars by Sea Mapping the World Imagining Other Worlds Shaking the Foundations Korea An End to Slavery Practical Learning in a Changing World The Escalation of Rural Resistance From Factional to Consort Politics Eastern and Western Learning The "Disturbances" of 1866 Japan on the Eve of Modernity The Cultural Scene, 1795--1853 Economic Crises Japan in the New Diplomatic Scene Nakahama ManjirM The End of the Tokugawa Regime Diasporas Japan China Connections Chapter 6: Traditionalist Reforms and the Origins of Modernity (1860S--1895) World Context Japan's Meiji Transformation Fukuzawa Yukichi Drafting the Blueprints for the New Order Implementing the Charter Oath: Constructing a New Nation The New Japanese Subject Planting the Seeds for Economic Modernity Japan's International Position and the Iwakura Mission Reactionary Samurai, Progressive Reformers, and the Oligarchs Religion, Culture, and Arts Japan in the Late Nineteenth-Century World Qing Restoration and Reform Defeating the Taipings The Other Domestic Rebels New Troubles in the Northwest Wang Tao, A Confucian Christian Journalist-Reformer Foreign Studies and the First Hundred Self-Strengthening and Foreign Affairs Social Change The Great Shock of 1895 Korea The "Opening" of Korea to Foreign Trade The Early Self-Strengthening Movement The Kapsin Coup of 1884 Yun Ch'iho Qing Influence and Interference The Sino-Japanese War and the Kabo Reform, 1894--5 Diasporas Japan China Korea Connections Chapter 7: Meiji Japan Rises, Qing and Choson Fall, 1895-1912 World Context Japan From Farms to Factories and Mines GotM Shinpei, Modernist and Imperialist Japan and the World Politics, Rights, and Citizenship The End of the Qing 222 Responses to the 1895 Defeat Reformers and Revolutionaries Kang Youwei and the Hundred Days of 1898 "Support the Qing and Annihilate the Foreigners" Too Much, Too Late: "New Government" and Qing Reformism Free the Mind and the Feet: Women and Chinese Nationalism Qiu Jin, Revolutionary Heroine Toppling Heaven: The 1911 Revolution and the End of Imperial China Korea The Independence Club and Nationalist Reaction Expansion of the Public Sphere The Korean Enlightenment and the Origins of Korean Nationalism Sin Ch'aeho, Nationalist Historian The Russo-Japanese War and the Reemergence of Japanese Power The Japanese Protectorate Annexation and Descent into Colonial Status Diasporas Japan China Korea Connections Chapter 8: Triumphs, Revolutions, and Hard Times (1910-31) World Context Japan: Democracy and Empire Japan's Expansion during World War I From World War I to the Earthquake: 1918--23 From Reconstruction to the Manchurian Incident: 1923--31 Ichikawa Fusae China: Warlords and New Culture Yuan Shikai, Militarism, and Imperialism Public Intellectuals: The New Culture Movement The May Fourth Movement Lu Xun, Mirror for Modern China The Family Broken, the People Gone The Rise of Political-Military Parties Economics in the 1920s Centralization and Its Discontents Colonial Korea The Governor-General and the Colonial State Land and the Survey of 1911--18 Cultural Control, Political Repression, and the Ideology of Empire, 1910--19 The March First Movement and Japanese Reforms The Cultural Policy and Nationalist Renaissance Cultural Nationalism and Literary Activity Yi Kwangsu Diasporas Japan China Korea Connections Chapter 9: The FIfteen-Year War and Anti-Japanese War of Resistance (1931-45) World Context Japan at War The Manchurian Incident Domestic Politics and Economics The 2-26 Incident The Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937--45 Yamamoto Isoroku The Road to Pearl Harbor The Pacific War on the Battlefield The War at Home Creating Two Chinas 293 Nation-Building in the Nanjing Decade Communists in Power: The Jiangxi Soviet Defeat and Retreat Yan'an, Xi'an, and the Second United Front Invasion and All-Out War, 1937--38 Feng Zikai, Buddhist Cartoonist The Long Wars of Resistance, 1938--45 Korea Colonial Development and War Mobilization Manchuria, Korea, and Developmental Colonialism The Great Depression, Tenancy, and Rural Misery Nationalist Resistance The Anti-Japanese Guerrillas in Manzhouguo, 1937--45 Colonial Modernity, Urbanization, and Mass Culture in Korea Modern Women Na HyesOk Forced Assimilation and War Mobilization Comfort Women and the End of Japanese Rule Diasporas Japan China Korea's Population Hemorrhage Connections Chapter 10: Occupations, Settlements, and Divisions (1945-53) World Context Korea Japanese Surrender, the CPKI, and the Korean People's Republic YO UnhyOng The Reoccupation of Korea The Evolution of Separate States The Road to Civil War The Korean War China Conditions at War's End The Marshall Mission and Peacemaking Zhang Junmai, Confucian Cosmopolitan Large-Scale Civil War Preparing Taiwan The PRC and Its Frontiers Land Reform International Relations and the Korean War Social Mobilization The Occupation of Japan The Winter of 1945--46 The American Occupation Kurosawa Akira, Filmmaker The End of the Occupation and the Beginning of Recovery Diasporas Korea China Japan Connections Chapter 11: Reconstruction and Divergent Development (1953- Late 1970s) World Context China Hukou, Danwei, and Mass Mobilization Socialist Economic Transformation "Identifying" China's Ethnic Groups A Hundred Flowers Yue Daiyun, Ambivalent Maoist The Great Leap Forward Manmade Famine A Frontier Debacle: The Tibetan Uprising Mao on the Margins The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution Detente and Changing the Guard The Other China Japan: The Era of Double-Digit Growth Creation of the "1955 System" The Climate for Recovery Diverse and Conflicting Voices in the 1950s The 1960s and Income Doubling The Attainment of Wealth and the Rise of Discontent Ienaga SaburM, crusading Historian The End of an Era Nation-Building in the Koreas Authoritarian Patterns in South Korea: Syngman Rhee's First Republic Political Consolidation in North Korea Rebuilding and North Korea's Command Economy (1953--72) Import Substitution in South Korea, 1953--60 The Second Republic and the 1961 Military Coup The Economic Transformation of South Korea The New Hermit Kingdom and the Cult of the Leader The Yusin Constitution and the Fourth Republic Kim Chi Ha, Dissident Poet Diasporas China Japan Korea Connections Chapter 12: Social Trans-Formations and Economic Growth (Mid 1970s-Early 1990s World Context China and Taiwan The Beginnings of Reform International Relations and War Handling Mao's Legacy Economic Liberalization Inflation and Planned Inequality The "One Child" Policy Attacking "Bourgeois Liberalization" Intellectuals Under Reform Wang Ruoshui, Liberal Marxist Humanist The Road to Tiananmen Taiwan under the Guomindang A Watershed Decade for the Koreas The Violent Origins of the Fifth Republic The Kwangju Incident The Fifth Republic and Growing Opposition The Minjung Movement Marking Time in 1980s North Korea Democratization of South Korean Society Im Kwon-Taek, Award-Winning Director Labor Activism and Politics International Relations The 1992 Presidential Election The Rise of Japan's Bubble Economy Japan in Asia Trade Tensions with the United States Stock-Market and Real-Estate Bubbles The Era of National Confidence Social Change and Continuing National Concerns Politics in the Era of National Confidence Japanese Arts on the Global Stage Doi Takako, Political LeadeR Diasporas Japan Korea China Connections Chapter 13: Globalization with East Asian Characteristics (Early 1990s-2010) World Context Global Japan New Directions in Politics The Traumatic 1990s The Koizumi Years and Beyond The End of LPD Government? Le KenzaburM, Nobel Laureate Japanese Arts and Culture on a Global Stage Korea at Century's End: New Beginnings Settling Accounts and Democratization The Great Transformation: South Korean Society in the 1990s Isolation, Economic Failure, and Nuclear Politics in North Korea The Great Famine Kim Dae Jung, from Prison to Presidency The Asian Financial Crisis and its Aftermath The "Sunshine Policy" and Rapprochement with North Korea The Two Koreas in the New Millennium The Reemergence of China and Taiwan Post-Tiananmen Foreign Relations and Trade Deng's Last Years The PRC at the Millennium: Globalization and Domestic Control Religion and Falun Gong The Great Firewall and Transnational Diseases 9/11 and the SCO Hong Kong Taiwan and the Politics of Reunification Zhang Ruimin, Legendary Entrepreneur The 2008 Beijing Olympics Diasporas Japan North Korean Refugees China Connections Politics Economics Culture Regional Connectivity Notes Glossary Bibliography Index Picture Credits

About the Author

Jonathan N. Lipman is the Felicia Gressitt Bock professor of Asian studies and professor of history at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts. Lipman specializes in the study of Islam and Muslims in China, however he covers all of East Asia in his courses. He is the author of Familiar Strangers: A History of Muslims in Northwest China (1998) and co-author of Imperial Japan: Expansion and War, A Humanities Approach to Japanese Histry Part III (1995). He has also recently contributed to Twentieth Century China, The Xinjiang Project and Ethnic Identity and the China Frontier (forthcoming). Lipman has published additional articles, book chapters and reviews on religion, ethnicity and diversity in Chinese history. He is a member of the Association for Asian Studies and its regional affiliate. He is also an associate in research at the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research and the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies at Harvard University. Barbara Molony has been a professor of history at Santa Clara University since 1981 and has served as the department chair since 2005. Molony is the co-author ofCivilizations Past and Present, 12th Edition (Pearson, 2009). She also co-edited Asia's New Mothers: Crafting Gender Roles and Childcare Networks in East And Southeast Asian Societies (Global Oriental, 2008) and Gendering Modern Japanese History (Harvard, 2005). Her primary research interests are centered on women's rights and the construction and representation of gender. Additionally, her research interests focus on modern Japan and its global connections. She currently serves as the associate editor of the US-Japan Women's Journal as well as the president of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American History Association. Michael A. Robinson teaches in the department of East Asian languages and cultures and the department of history at Indiana University. Although he is involved in the study of both modern and contemporary Northeast Asia, his principle studies have focused on modern Korea during the period of Japanese colonial rule. Robinson is the author of Korea's Twentieth Century Odyssey: A Short History (University of Hawaii Press, 2007), Cultural Nationalism in Colonial Korea (1988) and co-author of Korea Old and New: A History (1991). He also co-edited Colonial Modernity in Korea, 1910-1945 (Harvard East Asia Council Publications, 2000).

Reviews

"The scholarship is very soundly interpreted and up-to-date. Clear references to recent work shines through for the informed reader but in a way that the uninformed reader will not be bogged down by references! The narrative style is engaging and explains East Asian history far better than most other books out there." -Ethan Segal, MichiganState University "The three narratives are balanced and explain their connection with each other. I also like the fact that the authors changed the order of narratives between mostly China and Japan and sometimes begin with Korea. It helps an instructor to divide the time relatively evenly in their lecture of modern East Asian history." -Yosuke Nirei, IndianaUniversity, South Bend "The greatest strengths of the book are its even treatment of Korea, Japan, and China. It is also effective at engaging important historiographical debates without losing its strong narrative thread." -James Carter, Saint Joseph