Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Maps xiv
5. 1 The Foreign Impact on East Asia 1
6. 2 Social and Political Change in Nineteenth-Century China 42
7. 3 Visions of the Future in Meiji Japan 85
8. 4 Korea’s Transition to Modernity: At Will to Greatness 119
9. 5 State and Society in Interwar Japan 155
10. 6 China in the Early Twentieth Century: Tasks for a New World 183
11. 7 The Nationalist Regime and the Chinese Party-State, 1928–1958 211
12. 8 The Search for Social Cohesion in China, 1921–1958 238
13. 9 Society and Politics from Transwar through Postwar Japan 272
14. 10 Searching for the Appropriate Model for the People’s Republic of China 297
15. Chronologies 323
16. Notes 329
17. Contributors 349
18. Index 351