Pacific Century: The Emergence of Modern Pacific Asia / Edition 3

by Mark Borthwick

Overview

The Asia-Pacific region is rapidly emerging as the global economic and political powerhouse of the twenty-first century. Looking at both Southeast and East Asia, this richly illustrated volume stresses broad, cross-cutting themes of regional history, with an emphasis on the interactions between cultures and nations. In this updated third edition, Mark Borthwick provides a significantly revised introduction, which places the contemporary rise of China within the context of the political, cultural, and economic evolution of the region since ancient times. He then considers more recent developments in their historical context, balancing national and international factors underlying Asia-Pacific economic growth and political change. New areas receiving attention in the third edition include Japan's recovery from economic stagnation, Japan's new political landscape, China's economic transformation and leadership in East Asian regionalism, the North Korean crisis, and the Asia-Pacific impact on the global economic system. The book also provides chronological updates for Cambodia, Vietnam, and Indonesia. Borthwick concludes with an examination of the key domestic and international issues facing the nations of Pacific Asia and the growing influence of these nations on North America and the world economy.

About the Author:
Mark Borthwick is director of the United States Asia Pacific Council at the East-West Center in Washington, DC, and has served on staff of the subcommittee of Asian and Pacific affairs in the U.S. House of Representatives

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813343556
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/12/2006
Edition description:	Third Edition
Pages:	616
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Mark Borthwick is director of the United States Asia Pacific Council at the East-West Center in Washington, DC, and has served on staff of the subcommittee of Asian and Pacific Affairs in the US House of Representatives.

Table of Contents

List of Maps     xiii
Preface to the Third Edition     xv
Acknowledgments     xvii
Acronyms     xix
Introduction     1
Pacific Centuries Past and Present     1
Pacific Asia: Concepts, Definitions, Rationale     2
East Asia     3
Southeast Asia     5
Oceania     6
North America     7
Continent and Ocean: The Two Frontiers     8
Dynasties, Empires, and Ages of Commerce: Pacific Asia to the Nineteenth Century     9
Qin: The First Chinese Empire     9
The Han Dynasty and the Chinese Language     13
The Buddhist Age in Pacific Asia     22
The Song Dynasty and Pacific Commerce     27
The Mongol Empire and the Great Khan     30
The Ming Dynasty     34
The Rise of the Tokugawa Shogunate     40
The Qing (Manchu) Dynasty     43
Southeast Asia     47
The Lands Below the Winds   Anthony Reid     47
The Classical World   Milton Osborne     49
The Srivijayan Empire and Relations with China     53
An "Age of Commerce" in Southeast Asia   Anthony Reid     62
Seaborne Barbarians: Incursions by the West     69
Overview     69
Early European Advances     70
Nineteenth-Century Commercial Capitalism in Pacific Asia     80
The Growing European Presence in Southeast Asia     90
Meiji: Japan in the Age of Imperialism     109
Introduction: Arrival of the Black Ships   Frank Gibney     109
The Meiji Restoration   George Akita     117
Regional Dynamics: The New Japan and Its Asian Neighbors     130
Meiji Japan: An Assessment   Mikiso Hane     145
Conclusion   Frank Gibney     148
The Rise of Nationalism and Communism     151
Overview     151
The Philippines     153
Philippine Nationalism to World War II   David Joel Steinberg     154
Indonesia     159
Social Change and Nationalism   John R. W. Smail     159
Political Leadership     161
China     162
The New Culture Movement   Guy R. Alitto     175
Lu Xun   Jonathan Spence     177
A Golden Age of Chinese Capitalism     178
Vietnam      180
Korea     183
Philip Jaisohn and the Independence Club   Vipan Chandra     184
The New Korean Enlightenment     186
Japan     191
Maelstrom: The Pacific War and Its Aftermath     203
Overview     203
Japan and the United States at War   John Curtis Perry     204
Japan's American Interlude     214
Indonesia   John R. W. Smail     220
The Philippines   David Joel Steinberg     223
Vietnam   Alexander Woodside     225
The Bandung Conference in the Postwar Setting     227
Miracle by Design: The Postwar Resurgence of Japan     231
Overview     231
The Early Postwar Period     231
The Fast-Growth Decades     237
The 1980s: Rethinking Foreign Policy     242
Puzzles in the Japanese "Miracle,"     243
Japanese Democracy and Political Stability   Chalmers Johnson     251
The Modern Japanese Economy     255
The New Asian Capitalists     265
Overview     265
Developing Economies of the Asia-Pacific Region$dEast-West Center     267
Korea's Economic Development, 1945-1990    Carter J. Eckert     277
International Factors     277
Internal Social and Political Factors     284
The Role of Culture and Timing     288
Confucianism and Economic Growth$dEast-West Center     296
The Confucian Faces of Capitalism   Gilbert Rozman     297
The "Overseas" Ethnic Chinese     306
From "Miracle" to "Crisis,"     309
Power, Authority, and the-Advent of Democracy     317
Overview     317
Power and Authority in Pacific Asia     317
Trials of Democracy in Southeast Asia     319
Malaysia: The Trial of Parliamentary Democracy, 1957-1969     325
Indonesia: From "Democracy" to "Guided Democracy," 1950-1966     331
Sukarno and Guided Democracy   Ulf Sundhaussen     333
Descent into Chaos   John R. W. Smail     335
Brave New Order     336
The Philippines: From Independence to Martial Law, 1946-1972     340
The Marcos Era   David Joel Steinberg     340
The Legacy of "Pork Barrel Democracy,"     343
Democracy in Southeast Asia     347
Democratization in South Korea     348
Democratization in Taiwan      355
The Status of Hong Kong     357
Migration and Democracy     358
Determinants of Democratic Change in Asia     358
Sentimental Imperialists: America's Cold War in Asia     365
Overview     365
Americans and the "Loss" of China   James C. Thomson, Jr.   Peter W. Stanley   John Curtis Perry     366
Korea: Liberation, Division, and War, 1945-1953   Carter J. Eckert etal.     376
Vietnam and the Americans   Alexander Woodside     387
Strategies of Containment in Asia     393
Reversal of Fortune: U.S.-China Rapprochement     398
End of the Cold War in Asia     400
The Cold War Legacy and North Korea     401
Lonely Hegemony     404
China's Long March Toward Modernization     407
Overview     407
Four Decades of Chinese Communism: A Chronology     409
The Chinese Amnesia   Fang Lizhi     420
Political Reforms in the 1980s   Harry Harding     422
The Chinese Economic System in Transition   Robert F. Demberger     431
Postscript: Risks in the Investment Boom     436
Demographic and Social Change   William Lavely      438
China's Environmental Crisis     449
Realities and Aspirations   Vaclav Smil     449
Mao's Revolution and Chinese Culture   Martin Whyte     453
The End of the Chinese Revolution   Roderick MacFarquhar     461
Unresolved Issues from the Deng Era   Philip Bowring     466
China's Economic Future: Pessimists Versus Optimists     468
China's Military Modernization     470
Beyond the Revolution: Indonesia and Vietnam   Michael Williams     473
Overview     473
Vietnam, 1965-1975     479
Indonesia, 1968-1976     480
Vietnam, 1975-1990     483
Indonesia in Transition     490
Concluding Remarks     494
Siberian Salient: Russia in Pacific Asia   John J. Stephan     501
Editor's Introduction     501
Russia in Pacific Asia     505
Editor's Postscript     520
Asia s Resurgence and Its Global Implications     523
Overview     523
Regional Dynamics Before 2000     523
Japan's Role in the Pacific Asian Economy     528
China's Role in the Pacific Asian Economy      535
Regional Economic Dynamics Since 2000     539
The Revival of East Asian Regionalism     542
Pacific Asia Indicators     553
Competition, Openness, and Globalization     560
Time Chart: Chronology and Geography in Pacific Asia     563
Representation of Foreign Words and Names     569
About the Book and Author     573
Index     575

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From the Publisher

“A uniquely sophisticated yet very accessible and complete review of the Asian ascendancy, spanning from ancient times to today, and enriched with bountiful commentaries by renowned specialists, Pacific Century beautifully interweaves national histories with complex regional and global trends, intelligently balancing explanations of Asia's astounding successes with honest recognition of the region's darker moments.”
—Richard Feinberg, Professor, University of California, San Diego, and former senior director of the National Security Council

Editorial Reviews

The companion text to a PBS telecourse series that will air in Fall 1992, the book also stands alone as an interdisciplinary introduction to Asia and the Pacific. Paper edition (unseen), $24.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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"A uniquely sophisticated yet very accessible and complete review of the Asian ascendancy, spanning from ancient times to today, and enriched with bountiful commentaries by renowned specialists, Pacific Century beautifully interweaves national histories with complex regional and global trends, intelligently balancing explanations of Asia's astounding successes with honest recognition of the region's darker moments."
--Richard Feinberg, Professor, University of California, San Diego, and former senior director of the National Security Council

"A powerful, highly recommended analysis of Asian culture that does more than provide just another history: it connects Asian experiences and trends to its effects on the rest of the world."
--The Midwest Book Review

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