East Asia in the World

Brook, Timothy. The Confusions of Pleasure. Studies the impact of the growing commercial culture on China during the Ming dynasty [1368 -1644]. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, “Summer” and “Fall” 1998, pp. 153-262. ISBN: 9780520210912.

Perdue, Peter C. “China in the Early Modern World: Shortcuts, Myths, and Realities.” Education about Asia 4, no. 1 (Spring 1999): 21-26.

Pomeranz, and Topik. The World That Trade Created . Thematic survey of the rise of global trading systems, with many good anecdotes. London, UK: M.E. Sharpe, 2000, pp. 3-21, 41-43, 51-3, and 59-62. ISBN: 9780765602503.

Waley-Cohen, Joanna. The Sextants of Beijing. A survey stressing China’s constant openness to outside influence. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 2000, chapters 2, and 3. ISBN: 9780393320510.

Perdue, Peter C. Draft chapters for World History Textbook , covering China, Russia, Mongolia, Japan, 1500-1700, 1700-1850.

Hane, Mikiso. “Vivid descriptions of the poorest people in Japan, who suffered for the country’s modernization.” In Peasants, rebels, and outcastes: the underside of modern Japan . New York, NY: Pantheon, 1982, pp. 173-204. ISBN: 9780394519630.

Pomeranz, and Topik. The World That Trade Created . Thematic survey of the rise of global trading systems, with many good anecdotes. London, UK: M.E. Sharpe, 2000, pp. 84-6, 99-105, 121-4, 133-6, 161-3, 168-71, and 214-28. ISBN: 9780765602503.

Waley-Cohen, Joanna. The Sextants of Beijing. A survey stressing China’s constant openness to outside influence. New York, NY: W.W. Nortan & Company, 2000, chapters 4, and 5. ISBN: 9780393320510.

Japan’s role as imperial power, after defeat of Russia in 1905. China’s revolution; rise of nationalism, increasingly focused against Japan. US Open Door policy in China, but anti-immigration laws at home. First World War gives Japan further openings to advance in China [21 Demands], China’s frustration at Versailles generates May 4th movement. Rise of Nationalist and Communist parties. Nanking decade [1927-37] as period of internationalization, cut off by Japanese invasion. Militarization of Japan, leading to autarchy, and war in China. Racial perceptions during the Pacific War.

Waley-Cohen, Joanna. The Sextants of Beijing. A survey stressing China’s constant openness to outside influence. New York, NY: W.W. Nortan & Company, 2000, chapter 6. ISBN: 9780393320510.

Godement, François. The New Asian Renaissance . Survey of Asian nationalist movements and the rise of Asian economies. New York, NY: Routledge, 1997, pp. 37-83. ISBN: 9780415118576.

Iriye, Akira. China and Japan in the Global Setting . A series of three lectures on broad themes of Sino-Japanese relations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998, pp. 3-88. ISBN: 9780674118393.

Kirby, William, and Charles Maier. Chapters from World History Textbook on the Twentieth Century .

Dower, John. Japan in War and Peace . Collection of essays on modern Japan. New Press, 1995, pp. 1-55, 257-301. ISBN: 9781565842793.

Schaller, Michael. The US and China in the Twentieth Century . Survey of US Chinese relations. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1979, pp. 3-93. ISBN: 9780195025989.

Pomeranz, and Topik. The World That Trade Created . Thematic survey of the rise of global trading systems, with many good anecdotes. London, UK: M.E. Sharpe, 2000, pp. 140-3, 190-2, 198-201, and 235-7. ISBN: 9780765602503.

Waley-Cohen, Joanna. The Sextants of Beijing . A survey stressing China’s constant openness to outside influence. New York, NY: W.W. Nortan & Company, 2000, chapter 7. ISBN: 9780393320510.

Godement, François. The New Asian Renaissance . Survey of Asian nationalist movements and the rise of Asian economies. New York, NY: Routledge, 1997, pp. 85-141. ISBN: 9780415118576.

Schaller, Michael. The US and China in the Twentieth Century . Survey of US Chinese relations. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1979, pp. 94-155. ISBN: 9780195025989.

Dower, John. Embracing Defeat . Pulitzer Prize winning study of the experience of the Japanese people after the end of World War II. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 2000, pp. 33-64, 121-67, 254-76, 346-73, and 443-84. ISBN: 9780393320275.

Dower, John. Japan in War and Peace . Collection of essays on modern Japan. New York, NY: New Press, 1995, pp. 155-208. ISBN: 9781565842793.

Iriye, Akira. China and Japan in the Global Setting . A series of three lectures on broad themes of Sino-Japanese relations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998, pp.91-142. ISBN: 9780674118393.

Schaller, Michael. The US and China in the Twentieth Century . Survey of US Chinese relations. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1979, pp. 156-94. ISBN: 9780195025989.

China’s reforms and opening to global economy; the puzzling slowdown of Japan’s economic growth; Korea’s rapid economic boom and sudden crash; US reevaluations of economic and strategic alliances. 1989: A critical year in world history. The Asian Financial Crisis of 1997: A Year of No Significance? Asian values and Western ideologies.

Mann, James. About Face . Describe the stormy course of U.S. China relations since the 1980s. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 2000, chapters 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 15, 17, and 18. ISBN: 9780679768616.

Johnson, Chalmers. Japan: Who Governs: The Rise of the Developmental State . The foremost U.S. political scientist studying Japan describes the institutions that made possible the Japanese miracle, and why the U.S. fails to understand them. New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 1995, pp. 51-112. ISBN: 9780393037395.

Katz, Michael. Japan: The System That Soured . Hard-hitting discussion of what went wrong with Japan’s economy in the 1990s, and how to save it. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1998, pp. 3-46, 318-46. ISBN: 9780765603104.

Mohammad, Mahathir, and Shintaro Ishihara. The Voice of Asia . Two prominent Asian politicians proclaim that Asians should not follow Western prescriptions, for their economies or for human rights. 1st ed. Tokyo, Japan: Kodansha International, 1996. ISBN: 9784770020437.

Godement, François. The New Asian Renaissance . Survey of Asian nationalist movements and the rise of Asian economies. New York, NY: Routledge, 1997, pp. 234-73. ISBN: 9780415118576.

Katsuichi, Honda. The Nanking Massacre . Gripping and gruesome description of the atrocities committed by the Japanese army in China in 1937. London, UK: M.E. Sharpe, 1997. ISBN 9780765603357.

Teng-hui, Lee. The Road to Democracy: Taiwan’s Pursuit of Democracy . Taiwan’s former President, harshly criticized by Beijing, outlines his views of Taiwan’s future. 1st ed. New York, NY: Dell Publishing Company, 1999. ISBN: 9784569606514.

Hein, Laura, and Mark Selden. Censoring History . Describes how textbooks in the US, Japan, and Germany distort the teaching of modern world history. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2000, pp. 3-73, 150-7. ISBN: 9780765604477.