Asia in Western and World History A Guide for Teaching Book

	Preface
	Guide to the Reader
	Introduction
	Asia in Western History	3
	The Shape of the World: Eurasia	7
	Brief Syllabus of Asia in Western History	14
	Asian Influences on the West	22
	The Beginnings of Contact and Interdependence: Western Asia and the West	31
	Interfusion of Asian and Western Cultures: Islamic Civilization and Europe to 1500	40
	The Mongols and the West	55
	Asia and the West in the New World Economy - The Limited Thalassocracies: The Portuguese and the Dutch in Asia, 1498-1700	63
	Asia and the West in the New World Order - From Trading Companies to Free Trade Imperialism: The British and Their Rivals in Asia, 1700-1850	83
	Some Suggested Readings	117
	Asia in Enlightenment and Early British Imperial Views	127
	Images of the Other: Asia in Nineteenth-Century Western Thought - Hegel, Marx, and Weber	146
	The Rise and Fall of Western Empire in Asia: 1500-1975	172
	Asia and the West in the Twentieth-Century World Order	190
	Asia in World History	199
	The Neolithic Transition: Hunting-Gathering to Sedentary Village Farming and Pastoralism	217
	Primary Civilization in Asia	236
	The Origins of Civilization in China	251
	Some Contrasts and Comparisons of Zhou China and Ancient Greece	257
	The Spread of Power: Empires East and West	265
	Empire in East Asia	280
	The Emergence of Major Religions and World Views	285
	The Analects of Confucius, Then and Now	295
	Religions and World Views in Asian and World History	309
	The Era of Asian Discovery: Trade and the Contact of Cultures	316
	China, 300-1200	330
	Song China, 960-1279	336
	Japan, 550-838	352
	India, 100 B.C.E. - 1500	357
	Separate Spheres and New Links: A New Stage in World History, 1000-1500	371
	The Case of China, 1000-1500	383
	The Case of Japan, 1000-1500	390
	The Rise of an Interdependent World, 1500-1990	397
	The Expansion of Europe, 1450-1700	424
	Japan and the West, 1543-1640	438
	Europe and the World in an Expanding World Economy, 1700-1850	445
	China and the World, 1500-1800	466
	China's Economy in Comparative Perspective, 1500 Onward	474
	An Approach to Modern Indian Economic History	494
	Tokugawa Japan, 1600-1867	505
	Five Myths about Early Modern Japan	514
	State and Society During the Qing Dynasty, 1644-1911	523
	Japan's Modernities, 1850s-1990s	561
	Modern China, 1840-1990	594
	Modern India, 1885-1990	608
	Modern Korea, 1860-1990	618
	South Asian History: A Cursory Review	631
	Themes in Southeast Asian History	663
	The Sinic World	683
	Themes in Chinese History	690
	China in the Context of World History	710
	Some Misconceptions About Chinese History	718
	Patterns of the Past: Themes in Japanese History	723
	Themes in Korean History	773
	Asia and Latin America in the Context of World History	782
	Japan and America: A Tale of Two Civilizations	798
	A Concrete Panoply of Intercultural Exchange: Asia in World History	810
	Summaries of the Essays	867
	Historical Timeliness	891
	East Asia in the National Standards for World History	912
	Index	955
	Contributors	991