Author:
Wan, Peter P. author.
ImprintHoboken, NJ : Wiley Blackwell, 2021.
Descriptionxii, 516 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Note:Part 1. Asian and non-Asian cultures interact to circa 1850 CE -- Cultures and the development of core Asian civilizations -- The land and the people of ancient China to 221 BCE: Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties -- China's first empire: the Qin and Han dynasties, 221 BCE-220 CE -- The golden age of imperial Cina: the Sui and Tang dynasties, 581-960 -- The peaking of traditional Chinese civilization: the Song and Yuan dynasties, 960-1368 -- The decline of imperial China: the Ming and early Qing dynasties, 1368-1840 -- Premodern Japan and Korea -- The formation of Indian civilization: 1200 BCE-185 BCE -- The Hindu synthesis at home: 185 BCE-1200 CE -- The Indianization of south, central, southeast, and east Asia: 185 BCE-1200 CE -- India under Islamic rule: the Delhi sultanate and Mughal empire, 1206-1707 -- On the Indian and Chinese northern frontiers: Asian empires and kingdoms on the central and inner Asian steppe, circa 1100-1850 -- On the Indian and Chinese southern frontiers: Asian empires and kingdoms in southeast Asia, circa 1100-1850 -- European empires in Asia: the foundatinos for revolutionary transformation, circa 1500-1850 -- Part 2. the age of transformations: nationalism and modernization in the era of global wars and the search for new social arrangements, circa 1800 to present -- Foreign incursions, domestic challenges and late Qing dynastic decline: China's long road to modernization, 1840-1911 -- The birth of republicanism in China, 1911-1949 -- The People's Republic of China, 1949- -- Japan's rapid modernization, 1868-1918 -- Japan goes from liberalism to militarism, 1918-1945 -- Japan since World War II -- Korea in modern times -- The European struggle for India and the emergence of Indian resistance, 1707-1914 -- The impact of world wars, revolution, and nationalism in India and south Asia, 1914-1945 -- India since 1945 -- In India's orbit: south Asian nationals in the cold war setting and the rise of China -- Mainland southeast Asia since 1945 - Insular southeast Asia since 1945 -- Colonialism, independence, and nation building on the northern frontiers of India and China, 1850-2019: Afghanistan, central and inner Asia, and the Russian far east -- Asia in the twenty-first century: the problems of progress.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:"An expansive survey of the social, political, and economic history of the continent from the Paleolothic era to the early 21st century."--Back cover.
