Includes bibliographical references (pages 662-684) and index.
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Part I: The classical civilization of China. "China" in antiquity ; Turbulent times and classical thought ; The early imperial period -- Part II: China and Japan in a Buddhist age. China during the Period of Disunity ; The cosmopolitan civilization of the Sui and Tang: 584-907 ; Early Japan to 794 ; Heian Japan -- Part III: A new and crucial phase. China during the Song: 960-1279 ; The Mongol Empire and the Yuan Dynasty ; The Ming Dynasty: 1368-1644 ; The Kamakura Period in Japan ; Muromachi Japan ; East Asia and modern Europe : first encounters -- Part IV: Last dynasties. Tokugawa : background, establishment, and middle years ; The Qing Dynasty -- Part V: China and Japan in the modern world. China : internal crises and western intrusion ; Japan : endings and beginnings : from Tokugawa to Meiji, 1787-1873 ; The emergence of modern Japan: 1874-1894 ; China : endings and beginnings, 1894-1927 ; Imperial Japan : 1895-1931 ; The 1930s and World War II -- Part VI: East Asia since World War II. The aftermath of the war and unfinished business ; China under Mao: 1949-1976 ; The Chinese world since Mao ; The new Japan -- Afterword.