The Genesis of East Asia, 221 B.C.-A.D. 907
- Hardcover
- Publisher:
- Association for Asian Studies and University of Hawai'i Press
- Release Date:
- 2001
- ISBN-10:
- 0824824156
- ISBN-13:
- 9780824824150
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About The Genesis of East Asia, 221 B.C.-A.D. 907
The Genesis of East Asia examines in a comprehensive and novel way the critically formative period when a culturally coherent geopolitical region identifiable as East Asia first took shape. By sifting through an impressive array of both primary material and modern interpretations, Charles Holcombe unravels what East Asia means, and why. He brings to bear archaeological, textual, and linguistic evidence to elucidate how the region developed through mutual stimulation and consolidation from its highly plural origins into what we now think of as the nation-states of China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. Beginning with the Qin dynasty conquest of 221 B.C. which brought large portions of what are now Korea and Vietnam within Chinas frontiers, the book goes on to examine the period of intense interaction that followed with the many scattered local tribal cultures then under Chinas imperial…
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