Historical Perspectives on Contemporary East Asia
by Merle Goldman, Andrew Gordon
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Historical Perspectives on Contemporary East Asiaaddresses provocative themes concerning the experience of particular nations and of East Asia as a whole. It explores the turbulent process of integrating Asian societies and political systems into a global order dominated by the West over the past two centuries. The authors show that important changes were already underway before the western advance, which had their own internal logic and staying power. They describe how people in China, show more Japan, and Korea redefined and defended indigenous "traditions" even as they disagreed over what these traditions were and how to transform them. They make it clear that nationalism was a powerful motivating force in the modern development of these countries, but they stress that a wide variety of nationalisms emerged and collided in the dramatic history of modern Asia. show lessTags
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Merle Goldman is Professor Emerita of Chinese History at Boston University and Associate of the John K. Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University
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Andrew Gordon is Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History at Harvard University.
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