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Author: Conrad Schirokauer, Miranda Brown, David Lurie, Suzanne Gay

This compelling text explores the development of China and Japan through their art, religion, literature, and thought as well as through their economic, political, and social history. The author team combines strong research with extensive classroom teaching experience to offer a clear, consistent, and highly readable text that is accessible to students with no previous knowledge of the history of East Asia.

Table of contents:

Part 1: The Classical Civilization of China
Ch 1: “China” in Antiquity

  • The Neolithic Age

  • The Rise of the Bronze Age

  • Erlitou and Xia

  • The Shang

  • The Origins of Chinese Writing

  • Oracle Bones

  • Bronze Vessels

  • Other Bronze Age Civilizations

  • The Western Zhou Dynasty

  • The Odes

Ch 2: Turbulent Times and Classical Thought

  • The Spring and Autumn Period

  • The Warring States Period

  • “The Hundred Schools”

  • The Analects

  • Mozi

  • Mencius

  • Xunzi

  • Laozi and Zhuangzi

  • Han Feizi

Ch 3: The Early Imperial Period

  • The Qin

  • Sources and Historiographical Problems

  • Reappraisals

  • The Han

  • The Formative Years

  • The Quality of Han Rule

  • The Xiongnu and Other Neighboring Peoples

  • Intellectual Movements

  • Poetry

  • Gender

  • Changes in Political Economy during the Han Period

  • The Fall of the Han

Part 2: China and Japan in a Buddhist Age
Ch 4: China during the Period of Disunity

  • A World in Disarray

  • China Divided

  • The Northern Wei (386-534)

  • Buddhism in the North

  • Daoism-The Religion

  • The South

  • Poetry

  • Calligraphy

  • Painting

  • Buddhism in the South

  • China on the Eve of Reunification

Ch 5: The Cosmopolitan Civilization of the Sui and Tang: 581-907

  • The Sui (581-617)

  • The Tang: Establishment and Consolidation

  • Gaozong and Empress Wu

  • High Tang

  • City Life in the Capital Chang’an

  • The Flourishing of Buddhism

  • Daoism

  • The Rebellion of An Lushan (755-763)

  • Li Bai and Du Fu

  • Late Tang

  • Late Tang Poetry and Culture

  • Collapse of the Dynasty

Ch 6: Early Japan to 794

  • Prehistory

  • Geography

  • Paleolithic Culture

  • Jomon Culture (c.14,500 B.C.E.-400 B.C.E.)

  • Yayoi Culture (c. 900 B.C.E.-250 C.E.)

  • Political and Social Developments

  • The Tomb Period (Mid-Third to Late-Sixth Century C.E.)

  • The Yamato Kings

  • The Emergence of the JapaneseState and Elite Culture

  • Korean Backgrounds

  • The Late Tomb Period

  • The Seventh-Century Transition (The Asuka Period)

  • Nara as a Center and Symbol

  • Nara as a Religious Center

  • Documents and Structures

  • Literature

  • The Visual Arts

  • The End of the Nara Period

Ch 7: Heian Japan

  • Early Heian and the Rise of the Fujiwara (794-930)

  • Middle Heian-Fujiwara Dominance (930-1072)

  • The Estates

  • Late Heian: Rule by Retired Emperors

  • The Warriors

  • A World Permeated by Religion

  • Heian Buddhism: Tendai

  • Esoteric Buddhism: Shingon

  • Pietism

  • Literature

  • The Visual Arts

  • Painting

  • The Phoenix Pavilion

Part 3: New Institutions, Elites, and Discrepancies
Ch 8: China during the Song: 960-1279

  • The Founding

  • The New Elite

  • The Examination System

  • The Northern Song (960-1127)

  • Government and Politics

  • Wang Anshi

  • The Economy

  • The Religious Scene

  • The Confucian Revival

  • Poetry and Painting

  • The Southern Song (1127-1279)

  • Southern Song Cities and Commerce

  • Literary and Visual Arts

  • “Neo-Confucianism”

  • Values and Gender

  • The End

Ch 9: The Mongol Empire and the Yuan Dynasty

  • Chinggis Khan: Founding of the Mongol Empire

  • China under the Mongols: The Early Years (1211-1260)

  • Kublai Khan and the Early Yuan

  • The Yuan Continued (1294-1355)

  • The Economy

  • Society

  • Religion

  • Cultural and Intellectual Life

  • “Northern” Drama

  • Painting

  • Rebellions and Disintegration

Ch 10: The Ming Dynasty: 1368-1644

  • The Early Ming (1368-1424)

  • Maritime Expeditions (1405-1433)

  • The Early Middle Period (1425-1505)

  • The Later Middle Period (1506-1590)

  • Economy and Society

  • Literacy and Literature

  • The Novel

  • Drama

  • Painting

  • Ming Thought-Wang Yangming

  • Religion

  • Ming Thought after Wang Yangming

  • Dong Qichang and Late Ming Painting

  • Late Ming Government (1590-1644)

Ch 11: The Kamakura Period in Japan

  • Triumph and Fall of the Taira (1156-1185)

  • Establishment of the Kamakura Bakufu

  • The Hojo Regents

  • Local Governance, Economy, Society

  • The Mongol Invasion and Its Aftermath

  • The Warrior and His Ideals

  • Religion in the Kamakura Period

  • The Pure Land Schools

  • Nichiren

  • Zen

  • Kami Worship

  • Religious Art

  • Literature

Ch 12: Muromachi Japan

  • The Kenmu Restoration (1333-1336)

  • The Establishment of the Ashikaga Shogunate

  • Government and Politics

  • Economy and Society

  • Japanese and Continental Culture

  • Yoshimitsu and His Age

  • The Noh Drama

  • Political Decline and Cultural Brilliance

  • Poetry and Painting

  • War and the Rise of the Daimyo

Ch 13: East Asia and Modern Europe: First Encounters

  • The Portuguese in East Asia

  • The Jesuits in Japan

  • The Impact of Other Europeans

  • The “Closing” of Japan

  • The Jesuits in China

  • The Rites Controversy

  • The Decline of Christianity in China

  • Trade with the West and the Canton System

Part 4: Last Dynasties
Ch 14: Tokugawa: Background, Establishment, and Middle Years

  • Unification and Consolidation (1573–1651)

  • Oda Nobunaga

  • Toyotomi Hideyoshi

  • The Invasion of Korea

  • Grand Castles and the Arts

  • The Tokugawa Political Consolidation (1600-1653)

  • The Middle Years (1653–1787)

  • Bakufu-Han Relations

  • Economic and Social Change

  • Classes and Values

  • The Aesthetic Culture of the Aristocracy

  • Genroku Urban Culture

  • The Print

  • Theater and Literature

  • Intellectual Currents: Confucianism

  • Reform and Its Limits

  • Art and Literature after the Genroku Period

Ch 15: The Qing Dynasty

  • The Founding of the Qing

  • Early Qing Thinkers and Painters

  • The Reign of Kangxi

  • Yongzheng

  • Qianlong

  • Eighteenth-Century Governance

  • Eighteenth-Century Literati Culture

  • Fiction

  • A Buoyant Economy

  • Social Change

  • Ecology

  • Dynastic Decline

Part 5: China and Japan in the Modern World
Ch 16: China: Internal Crises and Western Intrusion

  • The Opium War and Taiping Rebellion

  • The Opium War (1839–1841) and Its Causes

  • The Treaty of Nanjing and the Treaty System

  • Internal Crisis

  • The Taiping Rebellion (1850-1864)

  • Zeng Guofan and the Defeat of the Taipings

  • China and the World from the Treaty of Nanjing to the End of the Taipings

  • 1870–1894

  • The Post-Taiping Revival

  • Self-Strengthening-The First Phase

  • Self-Strengthening-The Theory

  • The Empress Dowager and the Government

  • Education

  • Economic Self-Strengthening

  • The Traditional Economic Sector

  • Missionary Efforts and Christian Influences

  • Old and New Wine in Old Bottles

  • Foreign Relations

  • Continued Pressures

  • Vietnam and the Sino-French War of 1884-1885

Ch 17: Japan: Endings and Beginnings: From Tokugawa to Meiji, 1787-1873

  • Late Tokugawa

  • The Bakufu (1787-1841)

  • Economy and Society

  • Reforms

  • Intellectual Currents

  • The Opening of Japan

  • Domestic Politics

  • Sonno Joi

  • Mixed Responses to the West

  • Last Years of the Shogunate (1860-1867)

  • The Meiji Restoration

  • Formation of a New Government

  • The Charter Oath

  • Dismantling the Old Order

  • Disaffection and Opposition

  • The Crisis of 1873

  • The Meaning of the Restoration

Ch 18: The Emergence of Modern Japan: 1874-1894

  • Political Developments

  • Formation of Parties

  • The Emperor and the Constitution

  • Western Influences on Values and Ideas

  • “Civilization and Enlightenment”

  • Social Darwinism and Nationalism

  • Education

  • Economic Developments

  • Industry and Finance

  • Agriculture

  • Transportation and Communication

  • The Military

  • Culture

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