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Print Price: $102.99

Format:
Paperback
544 pp.
6.125" x 9.25"

ISBN-13:
9780199946464

Copyright Year:
2019

Imprint: OUP US


Patterns of East Asian History

Charles A. Desnoyers

Covering all of East Asian history from the Neolithic to the present, and including Mongolia and Vietnam as well as China, Japan, and Korea, Patterns of East Asian History uses recognizable and widely-accepted patterns of historical development as a loose framework around which to structure the material. This approach serves as both an organizational aid to the instructor and as a tool to make complex material more comprehensible to the student. The result is enhanced pedagogical flexibility. The subtly recursive format allows abundant opportunities for contrast and comparison among and within the societies under consideration. The overall aim is to simplify the immense complexities of history for the beginning student without making them simplistic.

Accompanied by a companion website that includes quizzes, flashcards, and PowerPoint slides. https://oup-arc.com/access/desnoyers.

Readership : Undergraduate students enrolled in History of Modern East Asia courses.

Reviews

  • "Patterns of East Asian History offers significant features that others texts do not. The author does an excellent job of identifying and explaining patterns in East Asian civilizations, including the latest scholarship, and placing East Asia in the context of World History."
    --Peter Worthing, Texas Christian University

  • "Patterns of East Asian History is well organized, selects the important events and personalities, and sustains the reader with animated writing and engrossing details. It is accurate, concise and engaging."
    --Margaret B. Denning, Slippery Rock University

  • "The references to recent and current events offer a great advantage over other textbooks on East Asian history. Patterns of East Asian History is well organized, and the vignettes that open each chapter capture the reader's interest. The scholarship is solid and the coverage is excellent."
    --Clayton D. Brown, Utah State University

  • "Patterns of East Asian History is an engaging and accessible survey of East Asian history that attends to both local/national histories as well as transnational/global patterns. There is a need for this text. It presents the material in a scholarly but engaging way."
    --Charles V. Reed, Elizabeth City State University

List of Maps
Preface
Acknowledgements
Notes on Dates and Spelling
About the Author
PART I: CREATING EAST ASIA
1. The Region and People

Varied Geographies
- The Chinese Landscape
- The Great Regulator: The Monsoon
- Mountains and Deserts
- Eurasia's Eastern Branch: Korea
- The Island Perimeter: Japan
- The Southern Branch: Vietnam
East Asian Ethnicities and Languages
- China and Taiwan
- Tibet
- Mongolia
- Korea
- Japan
Conclusion
2. The Middle Kingdom: China to 1280
Opening Vignette
China and the Neolithic Revolution
- Neolithic Origins
Foundations of the Dynastic System
- The Three Dynasties: The Xia
- The Three Dynasties: The Shang
- The Three Dynasties: The Zhou
- Economy and Society
- New Classes: Merchants and Shi
- Family and Gender in Ancient China
- Religion Culture and Intellectual Life
- Chinese Writing
- Ritual and Religion
The Hundred Schools: Confucianism and Daoism
- Self-Cultivation and Ritual: Confucius
- Mencius and the Politics of Human Nature
- Paradox and Transcendence: Laozi and Daoism
The Structures of Empire
- The First Empire, 221-206 B.C.E.
- Qin Shi Huangdi
- The Imperial Model: The Han Dynasty, 202 B.C.E. to 220 C.E.
- Expanding the Empire
- Downturn of the Dynastic Cycle
- The Centuries of Fragmentation, 220-589 C.E.
Reconstituting the Empire: The Sui, Tang, and Song Dynasties, 589-1280
- China's Cosmopolitan Age: The Tang Dynasty, 618-907
- Buddhism in China
Patterns Up Close: Creating an East Asian Buddhist Culture
- The Period of Expansion: Emperor Taizong
- "Emperor" Wu
- Cosmopolitan Autumn
- An Early Modern Period? The Song
- The Southern Song Remnant
- The Mongol Conquest
Economics, Society, and Gender in Early Imperial China
- Industry and Commerce
- Agricultural Productivity
- Gender and Family
Thought, Science, and Technology
- The Legacy of the Han Historians
- Neo-Confucianism
- Poetry, Painting, and Calligraphy
- Technological Leadership
Conclusion
3. Interaction and Adaptation on the Sinitic Rim: Korea, Japan, and Vietnam to the Mongol Era
Opening Vignette
From Three Kingdoms to One: Korea to 1231
- The "Three Kingdoms"
- Korea to the Mongol Invasion
- Economy and Society
- Religion, Culture and Intellectual Life
Isolation, Interaction, and Adaptation: Japan to 1281
- Jomon and Yayoi
- Early State Building
- Imperial Rule
- Economy and Society
- Family Structure
- Religion, Culture, and Intellectual Life
- Buddhism in Japan
Patterns Up Close: From Periphery to Center: Nichiren, Buddhism, and Japan
- Forging a New Japanese Culture
Borders of Influence and Agency: Vietnam
- Neolithic Cultures
- Village Society and Buddhism
- The "Far South"
- Independence and State Building
- Economics and Society
- Officials, Peasants, and Merchants
- Women and Family
- Religion, Culture, and Intellectual Life
- Chu Nom
Conclusion
4. The Mongol Super-Empire
Opening Vignette
Genghis Khan and the Mongol Conquest
- trategies of the Steppes
- Clashing Codes of Combat
- Assimilating Military Technologies
- The Mongol Conquest: The Initial Phase
- The Drive to the West
Patterns Up Close: Pax Mongolica
- Subduing China
- From Victory to Disunity
- Overthrow and Retreat
The Mongol Commercial Revolution
- Rebuilding Agriculture and Infrastructure
- Role Reversal: Artisans and Merchants
Family, Gender, Religion, and Culture
- Egalitarian Patriarchy?
- Religion: Toleration and Support
Conclusion
PART II: RECASTING EAST ASIA TO THE PRESENT
5. From Superpower to Semi-Colony: China from the Ming to 1895
Opening Vignette
Remaking the Empire: The Ming
- Centralizing Government and Projecting Power
- Toward a Regulated Society: Foreign Relations
- The End of the Ming
The Era of Dominance: The Qing to 1795
- The Banner System
- Universal Empire
- Pacification and Expansion
- Encounters With Europeans
- Regulating Maritime Trade
The Struggle for Agency in "The Century of Humiliation
- The Horizon of Decline: The White Lotus Rebellion
- Interactions with Maritime Powers
- The Coming of the Unequal Treaties
The Taiping and Nian Eras
- The Origins of Taiping Ideology
- Defeating the Taipings
- The Nian Rebellion, 1853-1868
Reform Through Self-Strengthening
Patterns Up Close: The Cooperative Era and Modernization
Nineteenth-Century Qing Expansion
- The Limits of Self-Strengthening, 1860-1895
- The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95
Society and Economics in Ming and Qing Times
- Organizing the Countryside
- Population and Sustainability
- The "High-Level Equilibrium Trap" Debate
Technology and Intellectual Life
- Philosophy and Literature
- Poetry, Travel Accounts, and Newspapers
Conclusion
6. Becoming "The Hermit Kingdom": Korea from the Mongol Invasions to 1895
Opening Vignette
Toward Semi-Seclusion
- The Mongol Era and the Founding of the Yi Dynasty
- The Japanese Invasion
- Recovery and the Drive for Stability
- The Shadow of the Qing
- Strangers at the Gates
- The Hermit Kingdom
- Korea and the Sino-Japanese War
Economy, Society, and Family
- Land Reform
- Social Organization
- The New Economy
- Family and Gender Roles
Culture and Intellectual Life
Patterns Up Close: The Development of Han Gul
- Neo-Confucianism and Pragmatic Studies
Conclusion
7. From "Lesser Dragon" to "Indochina": Vietnam to 1885
Opening Vignette
The Lesser Dragon
- Southward Expansion
- Perils of Growth
- Rebellion and Consolidation
Patterns Up Close: The French as Allies of the Imperial Court
Creating Indochina
- First Footholds
- Colonization by Protectorate
- The Sino-French War
Conflict and Compromise: Economy and Society
- The New Commercial Development
- Neo-Confucianism in Imperial Vietnam
Toward "Modernity?" Culture, Science, and Intellectual Life
- Asserting Incipient Nationalism
- Struggles of Modernization
Conclusion
8. Becoming Imperial: Japan to 1895
Opening Vignette
The Era of the Shoguns, 1192 to 1867
- Kamakura and Ashikaga Shogunates, and Mongol Attacks
- Dissolution and Reunification
The Tokugawa Bakufu
- "Tent Government"
- Freezing Society
- Securing the Place of the Samurai
- Tokugawa Seclusion
Reunifying Rule
- The Coming of the "Black Ships"
- Restoring the Emperor
- From Feudalism to Nationalism
- The Meiji Constitution and Political Life
- Becoming An Imperial Power
Economy, Family, and Society
- Agriculture, Population, and Commerce
- Late Tokugawa and Early Meiji Economics and Society
Patterns Up Close: Japan's Transformation Through East Asian Eyes
- Railroads and Telegraphs
- Family Structure
- "Civilization and Enlightenment"
Religion, Culture, and Intellectual Life
- Zen, Tea, and Aesthetics
- The Arts and Literature
- Bunraku, Noh, Kabuki, and Ukiyo-e
- Intellectual Developments
- Science, Culture, and the Arts in the Meiji Period
Conclusion
9. From Reform to Revolution: China from 1895 to the Present, Part I
Opening Vignette
The Republican Revolution
- The Last Stand of the Old Order: The Boxer Rebellion and War
- The Twilight of Reform
- Sun Yat-sen and the Ideology of Revolution
- The New Warring States Era (1916-1926)
- Creating Nationalism
- The First United Front
Civil War, World War, and People's Republic
- The Nationalist Interval
- The Long March and Xi'an Incident
- East Asia At War
- From Coalition Government to the Gate of Heavenly Peace
A New Society and Culture
- The New Culture Movement
- City and Country
Conclusion
10. From Continuous Revolution to Authoritarian Modernity: China from 1895 to the Present, Part II
The Maoist Years, 1949 to 1976
- Early Mass Mobilization Campaigns
- Land Reform
- The Great Leap Forward
- The Hundred Flowers and Anti-Rightist Campaigns
- Taking a Breath in the Revolution
- Becoming Proletarian: The Cultural Revolution
- The End of the Maoist Era
A U-Turn on the Socialist Road
- China's Four Modernizations
- Modernizing National Defense
- "The Fifth Modernization"
Tiananmen Square and the New Authoritarianism
- Ending the Colonial Era
- Tiananmen Square
- "Confucian Capitalism"
- Growth and Its Discontents
- Tibet and Minorities
Toward Harmony and Stability?
- The Olympic Moment
- Xi Jinping and "The Four Comprehensives"
Patterns Up Close: Confucius Institutes and China's Soft Power
Society, Science, and Culture
- Recasting Urban Life
- Modernization and Society
- The New Technology
- Art and Literature
- The Media
- Conclusion
11. A House Divided: Korea to the Present
Opening Vignette
The Ebb and Flow of Colonialism
- Military Rule
- Relative Restraint: The Cultural Policy
- Militarism, Colonialism, and War
Patterns Up Close: Nationalism, Empire, and Athletics
Cold War, Hot War, and Cold War
- A Korean Civil War?
- From Seesaw to Stalemate
Political and Economic Developments South and North
- Republics and Coups
- Land Reform and the Export Economy
- From Authoritarian Rule to Democracy
- The Democratic Era, 1993 to the Present
The New Hermit Kingdom of the North
- War by Other Means
- Juche and the Cult of Personality
- The Kim Dynasty
Conclusion
12. Colonized, Divided, and Reunited: Vietnam to the Present
Opening Vignette
The First Colonial Era: 1885 to 1945
- "The Civilizing Mission" and Rebellion
- Reform and Republicanism
- Ho Chi Minh and Revolution
Patterns Up Close: Parsing the Language of Independence
- The War for Independence
The American War
- Tearing Two Nations Apart
- "Peace With Honor" and National Unification
From Reunification to Regional Power
- Building the New Socialist State
- Politics and Genocide: Fighting the Khmer Rouge
- Recovery and Prosperity
Conclusion
13. Becoming the Model of Modernity: Japan to the Present
Opening Vignette
"A Wonderfully Clever and Progressive People"
- The Russo-Japanese War
- The Limits of Power Politics
- The Great War and the Five Requests
- Intervention and Versailles
- Taisho Democracy
Militarism and Co-Prosperity: The War Years
- Creating Manchukuo
- State Shinto and Militarism
- The "China Incident"
- World War II in the Pacific
- Allied Counterattack
- Co-Prosperity and Conditional Independence
- Endgame
The Model of Modernity: From Occupation to the Present
- The New Order: Reform and Constitution
- The Reverse Course: Japan and the Cold War
- Moving Toward the 21st Century
Patterns Up Close: Japan's History Problem
Economy, Society and Culture
- From Made in Japan to Total Quality Management
- The Dominance of the Middle Class
- Women and Family: A Half-Step Behind?
- Godzilla and Sailor Moon: Postwar Culture
Conclusion
Epilogue: Breakneck Change and the Challenge of Tradition
One Region, Three Systems?
- Colonialism and Imperialism
- Twentieth Century Conflict and Political Configuration
1. China and Vietnam: Authoritarian Capitalism
- China
- Vietnam
2. Japan, Taiwan, South Korea: Representative Government and Capitalism
- Japan
- South Korea
- Taiwan
3. North Korea: Stalinist Self-Sufficiency
The "Chinese Dream" as the East Asian Dream?
Glossary
Credits
Index

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Charles A. Desnoyers is professor of history and former director of Asian Studies at La Salle University in Philadelphia. He has previously taught at Temple University, Villanova University, and Pennsylvania State University. In addition to serving as History Department chair from 1999-2007, he was a founder and long-time director of the Greater Philadelphia Asian Studies Consortium, and president (2011-2012) of the Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies. He is a lifetime member of the World History Association and served as co-editor of the organization's Bulletin from 1995-2001. In addition to numerous articles in peer-reviewed and general publications, his work includes A Journey to the East: Li Gui's "A New Account of a Trip Around the Globe" (2004, University of Michigan Press), Patterns of World History (with Peter Von Sivers and George B. Stow; 2011, 2013, and 2017, Oxford University Press), and Patterns of Modern Chinese History (2017, Oxford University Press).

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Special Features

  • Written by an accomplished world historian: Charles Desnoyers is co-author of Patterns of World History (Third Edition, 2018), a widely used textbook for introductory world history courses.
  • Covers all of East Asia, including Mongolia and Vietnam.
  • Divided into two parts, with the Mongol period serving as the dividing line between the formative period of East Asia and modernity. Part I "Creating East Asia," covers chapters one through four, from Neolithic times through the Mongol interval. Part II: <"Recasting East Asia to the Present,>" (chapters 5 -14) follows the histories of individual countries from the fifteenth century onward. This flexible organization makes the book suitable for both courses that cover all of East Asian History and courses that focus exclusively on the modern period.
  • Uses recognizable and widely-accepted patterns of historical development as a framework around which to structure the material both as an organizational aid to the instructor and as a tool to make complex material more comprehensible to the student.
  • Introduces students to issues of debate in order to stress the idea that historians are not monolithic in their ideas or approaches, but more often than not disagree with each other, sometimes vigorously.
  • "Patterns Up Close" features examine key historical developments in depth in order to illuminate larger patterns.
  • Includes two timelines, a Glossary, 58 maps, and nearly 200 photographs.