Contents List of Maps Preface Acknowledgments Introduction PERSPECTIVES ON A PACIFIC CENTURY PACIFIC ASIA: CONCEPTS, DEFINITIONS, RATIONALE EAST ASIA SOUTHEAST ASIA OCEANIA NORTH AMERICA CONTINENT AND OCEAN: THE TWO FRONTIERS 1. Dynasties, Empires, and Ages of Commerce: Pacific Asia to the Nineteenth Century QIN: THE FIRST CHINESE EMPIRE THE HAN DYNASTY AND THE CHINESE LANGUAGE EMERGENCE OF THE TANG DYNASTY THE SONG DYNASTY AND PACIFIC COMMERCE35 THE MONGOL EMPIRE AND THE GREAT KHAN38 THE MING DYNASTY THE RISE OF THE TOKUGAWA SHOGUNATE THE QING (MANCHU) DYNASTY SOUTHEAST ASIA THE LANDS BELOW THE WINDS by Anthony Reid THE CLASSICAL WORLD by Milton Osborne AN "AGE OF COMMERCE" IN SOUTHEAST ASIA by Anthony Reid 2. Seaborne Barbarians: Incursions by the West OVERVIEW EARLY EUROPEAN ADVANCES NINETEENTH-CENTURY COMMERCIAL CAPITALISM IN PACIFIC ASIA THE GROWING EUROPEAN PRESENCE IN SOUTHEAST ASIA 3. Meiji: Japan in the Age of Imperialism INTRODUCTION: ARRIVAL OF THE BLACK SHIPS by Frank Gibney THE MEIJI RESTORATION by George Akita REGIONAL DYNAMICS: THE NEW JAPAN AND ITS ASIAN NEIGHBORS MEIJI JAPAN: AN ASSESSMENT by Mikiso Hane CONCLUSION by Frank Gibney 4. The Rise of Nationalism and Communism OVERVIEW THE PHILIPPINES PHILIPPINE NATIONALISM TO WORLD WAR II by David Joel Steinberg INDONESIA SOCIAL CHANGE AND NATIONALISM by John R.W. Smail POLITICAL LEADERSHIP CHINA THE NEW CULTURE MOVEMENT by Guy R. Alitto LU XUN by Jonathan Spence A GOLDEN AGE OF CHINESE CAPITALISM VIETNAM KOREA PHILIP JAISOHN AND THE INDEPENDENCE CLUB by Vipan Chandra THE NEW KOREAN ENLIGHTENMENT JAPAN 5. Maelstrom: The Pacific War and Its Aftermath OVERVIEW JAPAN AND THE UNITED STATES AT WAR by John Curtis Perry JAPAN'S AMERICAN INTERLUDE INDONESIA by John R. W. Smail THE PHILIPPINES by David Joel Steinberg VIETNAM By Alexander Woodside THE BANDUNG CONFERENCE IN THE POSTWAR SETTING 6. Miracle by Design: The Postwar Resurgence of Japan OVERVIEW THE EARLY POSTWAR PERIOD THE FAST GROWTH DECADES THE 1980s: RETHINKING FOREIGN POLICY PUZZLES IN THE JAPANESE MIRACLE JAPANESE DEMOCRACY AND POLITICAL STABILITY by Chalmers Johnson THE MODERN JAPANESE ECONOMY 7. The New Asian Capitalists OVERVIEW DEVELOPING ECONOMIES OF THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION East-West Center KOREA'S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE, 1945-1990 by Carter J. Eckert INTERNATIONAL FACTORS INTERNAL SOCIAL AND POLITICAL FACTORS THE ROLE OF CULTURE AND TIMING CONFUCIANISM AND ECONOMIC GROWTH THE CONFUCIAN FACES OF CAPITALISM by Gilbert Rozman THE "OVERSEAS" ETHNIC CHINESE FROM "MIRACLE" TO "CRISIS" 8. Power, Authority, and the Advent of Democracy OVERVIEW POWER AND AUTHORITY IN PACIFIC ASIA TRIALS OF DEMOCRACY IN SOUTHEAST ASIA MALAYSIA: THE TRIAL OF PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACY, 1957-1969 INDONESIA: FROM "DEMOCRACY" TO "GUIDED DEMOCRACY," 1950-1966 SUKARNO AND GUIDED DEMOCRACY by Ulf Sundhaussen DESCENT INTO CHAOS by John R. W. Smail BRAVE NEW ORDER THE PHILIPPINES: FROM INDEPENDENCE TO MARTIAL LAW, 1946-1972 THE MARCOS ERA by David Joel Steinberg THE LEGACY OF "PORK BARREL DEMOCRACY" DEMOCRACY IN SOUTHEAST ASIA DEMOCRATIZATION IN SOUTH KOREA DEMOCRATIZATION IN TAIWAN STATUS OF HONG KONG MIGRATION AND DEMOCRACY DETERMINANTS OF DEMOCRATIC CHANGE IN ASIA 9. Sentimental Imperialists: America's Cold War in Asia OVERVIEW AMERICANS AND THE "LOSS" OF CHINA by James C. Thomson KOREA: LIBERATION, DIVISION, AND WAR, 1945-1953 by Carter J. Eckert VIETNAM AND THE AMERICANS by Alexander Woodside STRATEGIES OF CONTAINMENT IN ASIA REVERSAL OF FORTUNE: U.S.-CHINA RAPPROCHEMENT END OF THE COLD WAR IN ASIA THE COLD WAR LEGACY AND NORTH KOREA THE LONELY "HYPERPOWER" 10. China's Long March Toward Modernization OVERVIEW "THE CHINESE AMNESIA" by Fang Lizhi POLITICAL REFORMS by Harry Harding THE CHINESE ECONOMIC SYSTEM TODAY by Robert F. Dernberger EDITOR'S POSTSCRIPT: RISKS IN THE INVESTMENT BOOM DEMOGRAPHIC AND SOCIAL CHANGE by William Lavely CHINA'S ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS REALITIES AND ASPIRATIONS by Vaclav Smil MAO'S REVOLUTION AND CHINESE CULTURE by Martin Whyte THE END OF THE CHINESE REVOLUTION by Roderick MacFarquhar POST-DENG CHINA: THE NEXT PHASE by Philip Bowring CHINA'S ECONOMIC FUTURE: PESSIMISTS VS. OPTIMISTS CHINA'S MILITARY MODERNIZATION 11. Beyond the Revolution: Indonesia and Vietnam by Michael Williams OVERVIEW INDONESIA, 1965-1968 VIETNAM, 1965-1975 INDONESIA, 1968-1976 VIETNAM, 1975-1990 INDONESIA IN THE EIGHTIES VIETNAM: SETBACK TO REFORM CONCLUDING REMARKS APPENDIX EDITOR'S POSTSCRIPT A POST-WAR CHRONOLOGY 12. Siberian Salient: Russia in Pacific Asia by John J. Stephan EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION RUSSIA IN PACIFIC ASIA EDITOR'S POSTSCRIPT 13.Pacific Century: Regional and Global Perspectives OVERVIEW REGIONAL DYNAMICS JAPAN'S ROLE IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC ECONOMY CHINA'S GROWING REGIONAL IMPACT THE REVIVAL OF EAST ASIAN REGIONALISM PACIFIC ASIA IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY CHINA AND JAPAN COMPETITION, OPENNESS, AND GLOBALIZATION APPENDIX: TIME CHART Representation of Foreign Words and Names Sources for Graphs Credits About the Book and Author Index