Modern East Asia: A Brief History

This compelling text explores the development of China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam from their traditions and commonalties...
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Author: Conrad Schirokauer
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Modern East Asia: A Brief History by Schirokauer, Conrad

Modern East Asia: A Brief History

BD$596.73

Modern East Asia: A Brief History

BD$596.73
Author: Conrad Schirokauer
Format: Paperback
Language: English
This compelling text explores the development of China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam from their traditions and commonalties in 1600, through industrialization and state building, to each country's response to modernization in a global environment. This 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.

Author: Conrad Schirokauer, Clark
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Published: 03/26/2007
Pages: 512
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.70lbs
Size: 9.00h x 7.40w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780618920709

About the Author
Schirokauer, Conrad: - Conrad Schirokauer currently serves as Senior Scholar and Adjunct Professor at Columbia University as well as Professor Emeritus at the City University of New York. In addition to A BRIEF HISTORY OF CHINESE AND JAPANESE CIVILIZATIONS (and its separate volumes on China and Japan), he has published articles on Song intellectual history and served as co-editor (with Robert Hymes) of ORDERING THE WORLD: APPROACHES TO STATE AND SOCIETY IN SUNG DYNASTY CHINA and as translator of CHINA'S EXAMINATION HELL, by Miyazaki Ichisada.Clark: - Donald Clark is Professor of History and Director of International Programs at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. He earned his Ph.D. in East Asian history at Harvard University and is a leader in the field of Korean Studies. His publications include CHRISTIANITY IN MODERN KOREA (1986), CULTURE AND CUSTOMS OF KOREA (2000), and LIVING DANGEROUSLY IN KOREA, 1900-1950 (2003) as well as contributions to THE KWANGJU UPRISING (1988), the Asia Society's Korea Briefing series, and the CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF CHINA.

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