| Edition |
3rd ed., [Rev. ed.]. |
| Description |
xvii, 712 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm |
| Note |
3rd ed. has same author as 2nd ed., plus 3 others: Miranda Brown, David Lurie, Suzanne Gay. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Pt. 1. The classical civilization of China. "China" in antiquity ; Turbluent times and classical thought ; The Early Imperial period - Pt. 2. China and Japan in a Buddhist age. China during the period of disunity ; The cosmopolitan civilization of the Sui and Tang : 581-907 ; Early Japan to 794 ; Heian Japan -- Pt. 3. A new and crucial phase. China during the Song : 960-1279 ; The Mongol Empire and the Yuan Dynasty ; The Ming Dynasty: 1368-1644 ; The Kamakura period in Japan ; Muromachi Japan ; East Asia and modern Europe : first encounters -- Pt. 4. Last dynasties. Tokugawa : background, establishment, and middle years ; The Qing dynasty -- Pt. 5. China and Japan in the modern world. China : the troubled nineteenth century ; Japan : endings and beginnings: from Tokugawa to Meiji, 1787-1873 ; The emergence of modern Japan: 1874-1894 ; China : endings and beginnings, 1894-1927 ; Imperial Japan : 1895-1931 ; The 1930s and World War II -- Pt. 6. East Asia since the World War II. The aftermath of the War and unfinished business ; China under Mao ; The Chinese world since Mao ; The new Japan. |
| Subject |
China -- Civilization.
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China. |
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Civilization. |
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Japan -- Civilization.
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Japan. |
| Added Author |
Brown, Miranda, 1975-
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Lurie, David.
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Gay, Suzanne.
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| ISBN |
9780618914944 paperback |
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0618914943 paperback |
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