The Genesis of East Asia, 221 B.C. - A.D. 907
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Charles Holcombe
overview
The Genesis of East Asia examines in a comprehensive and novel way the critically formative period when a culturally coherent geopolitical region identifiable as East Asia first took shape.
contents
ntroduction, 1
E Pluribus Sericum, 8
China, Plural, 11
The Sinification of China (How China Became Chinese), 18
"The More Things Change ...": The Tenacity of Diversity, 25
Civilizing Mission: Conceiving East Asia, 30
Mission Civilisatrice, 38
The Diplomatic Order, 53
Back to Babel: The Kanji Sphere, 60
Beyond East Asia: Global Connections, 78
Foreign Trade, 78
Buddhist Internationalization, 94
Nuclear Implosion, 109
The Fourth-Century "Barbarization" of Northern China, 116
Re-Genesis: Urban Nomads, Sui and Tang, 128
Vietnam, 145
Southern Yue, 145
Imperial Entrepôt, 151
Orphan Empire, 155
The Birth of Korea, 165
Chinese Colonies, 165
Native Diversity, 168
Singular Korea, 173
Japan: Insular East Asia, 183
Immigration, 183
Becoming Japanese, 194
A Separate Sun: Japan's All-under-Heaven, 201
Conclusion: Sinification and Its Discontents, 215
