Covers major events including the initial contact of China, Korea, and Japan with the West; nineteenth- and twentieth-century reform movements in China, along with the Nationalist and Communist revolutions; Korea's encounter with imperialist Japan; and the Meiji Restoration.

Preface Acknowledgments Contributors Part IV. The Maturation of East Asian Civilizations The Maturation of China 58. The Chinese Tradition in Retrospect 59. Popular Values and Beliefs, by David Johnson 60. Chinese Responses to Early Christian Contacts, by David Mungello 61. Chinese Statecraft and the Opening of China to the West 62. The Heavenly Kingdom of the Taipings The Tokugawa Peace 63. Ieyasu and the Founding of the Tokugawa Shogunate, by Willem Boot 64. Confucianism in the Early Tokugawa Period, by Willem Boot 65. The Spread of Neo-Confucianism in Japan 66. The Evangelic Furnace: Japan's First Encounter with the West, by J. S. A. Elisonas 67. Confucian Revisionists, by Wm. Theodore de Bary, John A. Tucker 68. Varieties of Neo-Confucian Education 69. Popular Instruction 70. "Dutch Learning," by Grant Goodman 71. Eighteenth-Century Rationalism 72. The Way of the Warrior II 73. The National Learning Schools, by Peter Nosco 74. Buddhism in the Tokugawa Period 75. Orthodoxy, Protest, and Local Reform 76. Forerunners of the Restoration 77. The Debate over Seclusion and Restoration Korea in the Middle Choson Period 78. Politics 79. Education 80. Reform Proposals 81. The Encounter with the West 82. Society 83. Culture and National Identity 84. Neo-Confucian Philosophy Part V. East Asia in the Modern World Japan 85. The Meiji Restoration 86. Civilization and Enlightenment, by Albert Craig 87. Popular Rights and Constitutionalism, by James Huffman 88. Education in Meiji Japan, by Richard Rubinger 89. Nationalism and Pan-Asianism 90. The High Tide of Prewar Liberalism, by Arthur E. Tiedemann 91. Socialism and the Left, by Andrew Barshay 92. The Rise of Revolutionary Nationalism, by Marius Jansen 93. Empire and War, by Peter Duus Reform and Revolution in China 94. Moderate Reform and the Self-Strengthening Movement, by K. C. Liu 95. Radical Reform at the End of the Qing 96. The Nationalist Revolution 97. The New Culture Movement, by Wing-Tsit Chan 98. The Communist Revolution 99. Chinese Communist Praxis 100. The Mao Regime 101. Deng's "Modernization" and Its Critics, by R. Lufrano 102. Twentieth-Century Christianity in China, by Julia Ching 103. Reopening the Debate on Chinese Tradition Part VI. Postwar East Asia Japan 104. The Occupation Years, 1945-1952, by Marlene Mayo 105. Democracy and High Growth 836, by Andrew Gordon 106. The New Religions 849, by Helen Hardacre 107. Japan and the World in Cultural Debate 108. Gender Politics and Feminism, by Brett de Bary 109. Thinking with the Past: History Writing in Modern Japan, by Carol Gluck Korea 110. Domestic Disquiet and Foreign Threats 111. Negative Responses to Western Civilization 112. Development of Enlightenment Thought 113. The Tonghak Uprisings and the Kabo Reforms 114. The Independence Club and the People' s Assembly 115. Patriotic Movements 116. National Culture During the Colonial Period 117. The Nationalist Movement 118. The Communist Movement 119. Korea Since 1945 Bibliography Index