Test Bank Patterns of East Asian History 1st Edition by Charles A. Desnoyers
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Test Bank Patterns of East Asian History 1st Edition by Charles A. Desnoyers
Covering all of East Asian history from the Neolithic to the present–including Mongolia and Vietnam, alongside China, Japan, and Korea–Patterns of East Asian History uses recognizable and widely-accepted patterns of historical development as a framework around which to structure the material.
ISBN-10 : 0199946469
ISBN-13 : 978-0199946464
Charles A. Desnoyers (Author)
Table Of Contents
Cover
About the Cover Image
Title page
Copyright
BRIEF CONTENTS
CONTENTS
LIST OF MAPS
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
NOTES ON DATES AND SPELLING
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Quick Reference Materials
PART I: Creating East Asia
CHAPTER 1: The Region and People
VARIED GEOGRAPHIES
The Chinese Landscape
The Great Regulator: The Monsoon
Mountains and Deserts
Eurasia’s Eastern Branch: Korea
The Island Perimeter: Japan
The Southern Branch: Vietnam
EAST ASIAN ETHNICITIES AND LANGUAGES
China and Taiwan
Tibet
Mongolia
Korea
Japan
CONCLUSION
CHAPTER 2: The Middle Kingdom: China to 1280
CHINA AND THE NEOLITHIC REVOLUTION
Neolithic Origins
THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE DYNASTIC SYSTEM
The Three Dynasties: The Xia
The Three Dynasties: The Shang
The Three Dynasties: The Zhou
Economy and Society
New Classes: Merchants and Shi
Family and Gender in Ancient China
Religion, Culture, and Intellectual Life
Chinese Writing
Ritual and Religion
THE HUNDRED SCHOOLS: CONFUCIANISM AND DAOISM
Self-Cultivation and Ritual: Confucius
Mencius and the Politics of Human Nature
Paradox and Transcendence: Laozi and Daoism
THE STRUCTURES OF EMPIRE
The First Empire, 221 to 206 BCE
Qin Shi Huangdi
The Imperial Model: The Han Dynasty, 202 BCE to 220 CE
Expanding the Empire
Downturn of the Dynastic Cycle
The Centuries of Fragmentation, 220 to 589 CE
China’s Cosmopolitan Age: The Tang Dynasty, 618 to 907
Buddhism in China
The Period of Expansion: Emperor Taizong
“Emperor” Wu
Cosmopolitan Autumn
An Early Modern Period? The Song
The Southern Song Remnant
The Mongol Conquest
ECONOMICS, SOCIETY, AND GENDER IN EARLY IMPERIAL CHINA
Industry and Commerce
Agricultural Productivity
Gender and Family
THOUGHT, SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY
The Legacy of the Han Historians
Neo-Confucianism
Poetry, Painting, and Calligraphy
Technological Leadership
CONCLUSION
FURTHER RESOURCES
WEBSITES
CHAPTER 3: Interaction and Adaptation on the Sinitic Rim: Korea, Japan, and Vietnam to the Mongol Era
FROM THREE KINGDOMS TO ONE: KOREA TO 1231
The “Three Kingdoms”
Korea to the Mongol Invasion
Economy and Society
Religion, Culture, and Intellectual Life
ISOLATION, INTERACTION, AND ADAPTATION: JAPAN TO 1281
Jomon and Yayoi
Early State Building
Imperial Rule
Economy and Society
Family Structure
Religion, Culture, and Intellectual Life
Buddhism in Japan
Forging a New Japanese Culture
BORDERS OF INFLUENCE AND AGENCY: VIETNAM
Neolithic Cultures
Village Society and Buddhism
The “Far South”
Independence and State Building
Economy and Society
Officials, Peasants, and Merchants
Women and Family
Religion, Culture, and Intellectual Life
Chu Nom
CONCLUSION
FURTHER RESOURCES
Korea
Vietnam
Japan
WEBSITES
CHAPTER 4: The Mongol Super-Empire
GENGHIS KHAN AND THE MONGOL CONQUEST
Strategies of the Steppes
Clashing Codes of Combat
Assimilating Military Technologies
The Mongol Conquest: The Initial Phase
The Drive to the West
Subduing China
From Victory to Disunity
Overthrow and Retreat
THE MONGOL COMMERCIAL REVOLUTION
Rebuilding Agriculture and Infrastructure
Role Reversal: Artisans and Merchants
FAMILY, GENDER, RELIGION, AND CULTURE
Egalitarian Patriarchy?
Religion: Toleration and Support
CONCLUSION
FURTHER RESOURCES
WEBSITES
PART II: Recasting East Asia to the Present
CHAPTER 5: From Super-Power to Semi-Colony: China from the Ming to 1895
REMAKING THE EMPIRE: THE MING
Centralizing Government and Projecting Power
Toward a Regulated Society: Foreign Relations
The End of the Ming
THE ERA OF DOMINANCE: THE QING TO 1795
The Banner System
Universal Empire
Pacification and Expansion
Encounters with Europeans
Regulating Maritime Trade
THE STRUGGLE FOR AGENCY IN “THE CENTURY OF HUMILIATION”
The Horizon of Decline: The White Lotus Rebellion
Interactions with Maritime Powers
The Coming of the Unequal Treaties
THE TAIPING AND NIAN ERAS
The Origins of Taiping Ideology
Defeating the Taipings
The Nian Rebellion, 1853–1868
REFORM THROUGH SELF-STRENGTHENING, 1860–1895
Nineteenth-Century Qing Expansion
The Limits of Self-Strengthening, 1860–1895
The Sino–Japanese War of 1894–1895
SOCIETY AND ECONOMICS IN MING AND QING TIMES
Rural Elites
Organizing the Countryside
Population and Sustainability
The “High-Level Equilibrium Trap” Debate
TECHNOLOGY AND INTELLECTUAL LIFE
Philosophy and Literature
Poetry, Travel Accounts, and Newspapers
CONCLUSION
FURTHER RESOURCES
WEBSITES
CHAPTER 6: Becoming “The Hermit Kingdom”: Korea from the Mongol Invasions to 1895
TOWARD SEMI-SECLUSION
The Mongol Era and the Founding of the Yi Dynasty
The Japanese Invasion
Recovery and the Drive for Stability
The Shadow of the Qing
Strangers at the Gates
The Hermit Kingdom
Korea and the Sino-Japanese War
ECONOMY, SOCIETY, AND FAMILY
Land Reform
Social Organization
The New Economy
Family and Gender Roles
CULTURE AND INTELLECTUAL LIFE
Neo-Confucianism and Pragmatic Studies
CONCLUSION
FURTHER RESOURCES
WEBSITES
CHAPTER 7: From “Lesser Dragon” to “Indochina”:
THE LESSER DRAGON
Southward Expansion
Perils of Growth
Rebellion and Consolidation
CREATING INDOCHINA
First Footholds
Colonization by Protectorate
The Sino-French War
CONFLICT AND COMPROMISE: ECONOMY AND SOCIETY
The New Commercial Development
Neo-Confucianism in Imperial Vietnam
TOWARD “MODERNITY”? CULTURE, SCIENCE, AND INTELLECTUAL LIFE
Asserting Incipient Nationalism
Struggles of Modernization
CONCLUSION
FURTHER RESOURCES
WEBSITES
CHAPTER 8: Becoming Imperial: Japan to 1895
THE ERA OF THE SHOGUNS, 1192–1867
Kamakura and Ashikaga Shogunates, and Mongol Attacks
Dissolution and Reunification
THE TOKUGAWA BAKUFU
“Tent Government”
Freezing Society
Securing the Place of the Samurai
Tokugawa Seclusion
REUNIFYING RULE
The Coming of the “Black Ships”
Restoring the Emperor
From Feudalism to Nationalism
The Meiji Constitution and Political Life
Becoming an Imperial Power
ECONOMY, SOCIETY, AND FAMILY
Agriculture, Population, and Commerce
Late Tokugawa and Early Meiji Society and Economics
Railroads and Telegraphs
Family Structure
“Civilization and Enlightenment”
RELIGION, CULTURE, AND INTELLECTUAL LIFE
Zen, Tea, and Aesthetics
The Arts and Literature
Bunraku, Noh, Kabuki, and Ukiyo-e
Intellectual Developments
Science, Culture, and the Arts in the Meiji Period
CONCLUSION
FURTHER RESOURCES
WEBSITES
CHAPTER 9: From Reform to Revolution: China from 1895 to the Present, Part I
THE REPUBLICAN REVOLUTION
The Last Stand of the Old Order: The Boxer Rebellion and War
The Twilight of Reform
Sun Yat-sen and the Ideology of Revolution
The New Warring States Era (1916–1926)
Creating Nationalism
The First United Front
CIVIL WAR, WORLD WAR, AND PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC
The Nationalist Interval
The Long March and Xi’an Incident
East Asia at War
From Coalition Government to the Gate of Heavenly Peace
A NEW SOCIETY AND CULTURE
The New Culture Movement
City and Country
CONCLUSION
FURTHER RESOURCES
WEBSITES
CHAPTER 10: From Continuous Revolution to Authoritarian Modernity: China from 1895 to the Present, Part II
THE MAOIST YEARS, 1949 TO 1976
Early Mass Mobilization Campaigns
Land Reform
The Great Leap Forward
The Hundred Flowers and Anti-Rightist Campaigns
Taking a Breath in the Revolution
Becoming Proletarian: The Cultural Revolution
The End of the Maoist Era
A U-TURN ON THE SOCIALIST ROAD
China’s Four Modernizations
Modernizing National Defense
The “Fifth Modernization”
TIANANMEN SQUARE AND THE NEW AUTHORITARIANISM
Ending the Colonial Era
Tiananmen Square
“Confucian Capitalism”
Growth and Its Discontents
Tibet and Minorities
Toward Harmony and Stability?
The Olympic Moment
Xi Jinping and “