Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Naming Conventions ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1 A Broad Overview ofRyukyuan History and Historiography• 25
6. Part One PRESTATE SOCIETIES, 35,000 BP-1490
7. Introduction 41
8. 2 First Peoples 43
9. 3 Origins of Japonic Ryukyu 57
10. 4 Expanding Trade and Warfare 73
11. 5 The Early Theatrical Kingdom and the Three Principalities Era in Okinawa 87
12. 6 The First Sho Dynasty Era 117
13. 7 Classical Ryukyuan Culture 137
14. Part Two DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSFORMATION OF THE SHURI EMPIRE, 1490-1630
15. Introduction 161
16. 8 Sho Shin and the Shuri Empire 163
17. 9 The Sixteenth Century 179
18. 10 War with Satsuma and the Immediate Aftermath, 1570-1650 195
19. Part Three THE MATURE THEATRICAL KINGDOM AND ITS COLLAPSE, 1630-1880
20. Introduction 219
21. 11 The Era of Sho Shaken and Sai On 223
22. 12 Extracting Resources from the Northern and Southern Ryukyu Islands 253
23. 13 The Mature Kingdom 279
24. 14 The Ryukyu shobun and the Creation of Okinawa Prefecture 301
25. 15 Literature, Drama, and Official Portrayals of Ryukyu 321
26. 16 The Tametomo Legend 335
27. Part Four THE MODERN ERA, 1880-2024
28. Introduction 349
29. 17 The Early Decades of Okinawa Prefecture 353
30. 18 Midcentury Turbulence 377
31. 19 The Era of US Control, 1945-72 391
32. 20 From 1972 to the Twenty-First Century 405
33. Acknowledgments Notes 425
34. Works Cited 437
35. Selected Additional Sources 451
36. Index 463