History East Asia Compilation
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Contents
A modern history of Japan: from Tokugawa times to the present.........................................................5
global power in a polarized world......................................................................................................5
japan in the 1980s..........................................................................................................................5
new roles in the world and new tensions......................................................................................5
economy: thriving through the oil crises.......................................................................................7
politics: the conservative heyday...................................................................................................8
Society and culture in the exuberant eighties................................................................................8
Modern Asian Studies..........................................................................................................................10
Testing the Self-Strengthening: The Chinese Army in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 – pages
1007 to 1031....................................................................................................................................10
I....................................................................................................................................................10
II...................................................................................................................................................11
III..................................................................................................................................................12
IV..................................................................................................................................................13
V...................................................................................................................................................14
VI..................................................................................................................................................15
VII.................................................................................................................................................15
1968: memories and legacies of a global revolt...................................................................................16
Japan: ‘1968’-History of a Decade...................................................................................................16
Loose and spontaneous: Beheiren and Zenkyoto........................................................................16
The Japanese Red Army: Japanese perceptions...........................................................................17
Aftereffects of the 68ers..............................................................................................................18
Japan’s Colonization of Korea: Discourse and Power..........................................................................19
Introduction.....................................................................................................................................19
A History of East Asia: From the Origins of Civilization to the Twenty-First Century...........................20
Chapter 8 – the nineteenth-century encounter of civilizations (page 2017 – 255)..........................20
Summary......................................................................................................................................20
Industrialization and the rise of new great powers......................................................................20
The nineteenth-century impact on China....................................................................................21
The nineteenth-century opening of Korea...................................................................................26
The Meiji restoration (1868-1912): Japan “leaves Asia”..............................................................28
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, Chapter 9 – pages 259 to 287..........................................................................................................31
Summary......................................................................................................................................31
Empire's End: Republican Revolution in China.............................................................................32
The may fourth movement: science and democracy...................................................................33
Korea under japanese rule, 1905-1945........................................................................................36
Japan: taisho democracy..............................................................................................................37
Our ancestors the gauls: French colonial Indochina....................................................................38
chapter 10 – pages 288 to 310.........................................................................................................38
Summary......................................................................................................................................38
The Rise of Japanese Ultra-nationalism.......................................................................................38
Manchukuo..................................................................................................................................39
Nationalist China..........................................................................................................................41
The rise of mao zedong................................................................................................................41
WWII in China..............................................................................................................................42
WWII in the pacific.......................................................................................................................42
Japan’s Colonization of Korea: Discourse and Power..........................................................................44
Illegal Korea.....................................................................................................................................44
Japan on display...........................................................................................................................45
The real North Korea: life and politics in the failed Stalinist utopia.....................................................47
Chapter 1 – the society Kim Il Sung built and how he did it.............................................................47
Captain kim returns home...........................................................................................................47
way to war...................................................................................................................................49
Between Moscow and Beijing: the foreign policy of Kim Il Sung’s North Korea..........................50
Dealing with the South................................................................................................................52
The command society..................................................................................................................54
a country of maps........................................................................................................................55
The world according to Kim Il Sung..............................................................................................55
The silver lining in a social disaster..............................................................................................56
The birth of Juche, the rise of the son, and the slow-motion demise of a hyper Stalinist economy
.....................................................................................................................................................57
Korea’s place in the sun: a modern history..........................................................................................59
Chapter 6 – Korean Sun Rising: industrialization, 1953-present......................................................59
Working uncle sam......................................................................................................................60
Miracle on the han.......................................................................................................................61
mechanics of finance: the gnomes of seoul.................................................................................61
normalization with japan and the Vietnam war...........................................................................62
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, the big push.................................................................................................................................63
The big chaebol............................................................................................................................63
crisis and reform..........................................................................................................................63
Han’s miracle...............................................................................................................................64
not so miraculous........................................................................................................................64
amoral familism...........................................................................................................................64
Conclusion...................................................................................................................................65
The Cambridge History of China..........................................................................................................67
Chapter 6 – Japan and the Chinese Revolution of 1911...................................................................67
the opening of china as a warning to japan.................................................................................67
Meiji Japan in Chinese thinking....................................................................................................68
Chinese students in Japan............................................................................................................69
Nationalism and its repercussions...............................................................................................70
Influence through translation......................................................................................................71
Japan and the chinese revolutionaries.........................................................................................72
Zhao Ziyang speech Tiananmen Square 19 May 1989.........................................................................75
Diplomatic History...............................................................................................................................77
Losses, Chances, and Myths.............................................................................................................77
The United States and the Creation of the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1945–1950...............................77
Deng Xiaoping: the statesman.............................................................................................................81
Deng’s leadership in foreign affairs.................................................................................................81
the re-drawing of china’s national interest......................................................................................82
Deng’s adaptation to the changes in international politics..............................................................83
Deng and china’s modern problems of statehood...........................................................................85
Conclusions......................................................................................................................................85
Mao Zedong and China's revolutions: a brief history with documents................................................87
Introduction: Comrade, Chairman, Helmsman — The Continuous Revolutions of Mao Zedong.....87
China’s revolutions......................................................................................................................87
Battle cry......................................................................................................................................89
Creating a new china...................................................................................................................90
Utopian revolutions: the hundred flowers campaign, great leap forward, and cultural revolution
.....................................................................................................................................................92
Experiencing Mao’s revolutions...................................................................................................93
Japanese student activism in the 1970s..............................................................................................95
Abstract...........................................................................................................................................95
Article..............................................................................................................................................95
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, campus calm................................................................................................................................95
Effect of student movements.......................................................................................................96
Trends of student unrest.............................................................................................................97
The Cambridge History of the Cold War............................................................................................100
The Korean War.............................................................................................................................100
Summary....................................................................................................................................100
Origins........................................................................................................................................100
Stages.........................................................................................................................................103
Impact........................................................................................................................................105
Prisoner of the State..........................................................................................................................108
The student protests begin............................................................................................................108
An editorial makes things worse....................................................................................................109
power struggle...............................................................................................................................110
the crackdown...............................................................................................................................112
The accusations fly.........................................................................................................................114
Mao Zedong a hundred years on: The legacy of a ruler.....................................................................116
Mao and his generation.................................................................................................................116
the struggle for power and its consequences................................................................................117
Toward a chinese road to socialism...............................................................................................117
Marxism and romanticism.............................................................................................................117
From rural utopianism to an inferno of class struggle...................................................................118
Assigning praise and blame...........................................................................................................119
Mao Zedong’s place in Chinese history..........................................................................................119
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................120
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