Historical Perspectives on Contemporary East Asia

Edited by Merle Goldman

Edited by Andrew Gordon

    [This book] is a highly stimulating collection, designed to make undergraduates think, but one which should appeal to an informed audience well beyond universities...[It undoes] a fair amount of the conventional wisdom about East Asia in the modern period, showing that there were other possibilities and other options for the development of these societies than the one that eventually emerged...the quality of the writing is uniformally high, making each chapter a pleasure to read.
       --J. E. Hoare, Asian Affairs

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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.