East Asia Before the West - Five Centuries of Trade and Tribute

Informationen zum Autor David C. Kang is professor of international relations and business and director of the Korean Studies Institute at the University of Southern California. A regular consultant for both multinational corporations and U.S. government agencies! his books include China Rising! Crony Capitalism! and Nuclear North Korea: A Debate in Engagement Strategies. Klappentext From the founding of the Ming dynasty in 1368 to the start of the Opium Wars in 1841! China has engaged in only two large-scale conflicts with its principal neighbors! Korea! Vietnam! and Japan. These four territorial and centralized states have otherwise fostered peaceful and long-lasting relationships with one another! and as they have grown more powerful! the atmosphere around them has stabilized. Focusing on the role of the "tribute system" in maintaining stability in East Asia and in fostering diplomatic and commercial exchange! Kang contrasts this history against the example of Europe and the East Asian states' skirmishes with nomadic peoples to the north and west. Scholars tend to view Europe's experience as universal! but Kang upends this tradition! emphasizing East Asia's formal hierarchy as an international system with its own history and character. This approach not only recasts our understanding of East Asian relations but also defines a model that applies to other hegemonies outside the European order. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations and TablesPreface1. The Puzzle: War and Peace in East Asian History2. Ideas: Hierarchy! Status! and Hegemony3. States: The Confucian Society4. Diplomacy: The Tribute System5. War: The Longer Peace6. Trade: International Economic Relations7. Frontiers: Nomads and Islands8. Lessons: History Forward and BackwardNotesBibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Kang, David Kang, David (University of Southern California) Kang, David C. Kang
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2012
• EAN: 9780231153195
• ISBN: 978-0-231-15319-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Contemporary Asia in the World; Contemporary Asia in the World
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; HISTORY / Asia / General, East Asia, Far East, Asian History, Asia; Economic History