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East Asia: A Cultural, Social, and Political History (2006); 639pp; also in 2-vol edition split at 1600. Fenby, Jonatham The Penguin History of Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great Power 1850 to the Present (3rd ed. 2019) popular history. Gilbert, Marc Jason. South Asia in World History (Oxford UP, 2017)
Modern Asian Studies is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal in the field of Asian studies, published by Cambridge University Press.The journal was established in 1967 [1] by the Syndics of the University of Cambridge and the Committee of Directors at the Centre of South Asian Studies (CSAS), a joint initiative among SOAS University of London, University of Cambridge, University of Hull ...
Early Modern Japan in Asia and the World, c.1580–1877 (edited by David L. Howell). [3] This volume covers the Edo period. The Modern Japanese Nation and Empire, c.1868 to the Twenty-First Century (edited by Laura Hein). [4] This volume covers events from the Meiji Restoration to the 21st century. [2]
The ancestral population of modern Asian people has its origins in the two primary prehistoric settlement centres – greater Southwest Asia and from the Mongolian plateau towards Northern China. Migrations of distinct ethnolinguistic groups have probably occurred as early as 10,000 years ago.
[1] [2] South Asia is sometimes also included in the definition of the term. [3] [4] In modern times, the term Far East has widely fallen out of use and been substituted by Asia–Pacific, [5] while the terms Middle East and Near East, although now pertaining to different territories, are still commonly used today.
Since 1980, the economies and living standards of South Korea and China have increased exponentially. In contemporary times, East Asia is a pivotal world region with a major influence on world events. In 2010, East Asia's population made up approximately 24% of the world's population. [8]
Another influential modern Chinese philosopher was Hu Shih, who was a student of John Dewey at Columbia University and who promoted a form of pragmatism. The influence of Marxism on modern Chinese political thought is vast, especially through the work of Mao Zedong, the most famous thinker of Chinese Marxist Philosophy.
East Asia: The great tradition and East Asia: The modern transformation (1960) [2 vol 1960] online free to borrow, famous textbook. Flynn, Matthew J. China Contested: Western Powers in East Asia (2006), for secondary schools; Gelber, Harry. The dragon and the foreign devils: China and the world, 1100 BC to the present (2011). Green, Michael J.