Historical Perspectives on Contemporary East Asia

Andrew Gordon

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$37.00 • £29.95 • €33.50

ISBN 9780674000988

Publication Date: 08/15/2000

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382 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

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HISTORY: Asia: General

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]
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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