Historical Perspectives on Contemporary East Asia

Edited by Merle Goldman

Edited by Andrew Gordon

    Preface

    Maps

    1 The Foreign Impact on East Asia WARREN I.COHEN

    2 Social and Political Change in Nineteenth-Century China MARY BACKUS RANKIN

    3 Visions ofthe Future in Meiji Japan DAVID L. HOWELL

    4 Korea's Transition to Modernity: A Will to Greatness CARTER J. ECKERT

    5 State and Society in Interwar Japan SHELDON GARON

    6 China in the Early Twentieth Century: Tasks for a New World ERNEST P. YOUNG

    7 The Nationalist Regime and the Chinese Party-State,1928-1958 WILLIAM C. KIRBY

    8 The Search for Social Cohesion in China, 1921-1958 R. KEITH SCHOPPA

    9 Society and Politics from Transwar through Postwar Japan ANDREW GORDON BR>
    10 Searching for the Appropriate Model for the People's Republic of China MERLE GOLDMAN and ANDREW J.NATHAN

    Chronologies Notes Contributors Index

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Merle Goldman is Professor of History, Emerita, at Boston University and Associate of the John K. Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University.

Andrew Gordon is Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University.