title: Eastern Asia: An Introductory History (3rd Edition)
author: Colin Mackerras
description: This is a current, up-to-date, and comprehensive survey of East Asian history and politics which offers a coherent and interesting survey of the history of East and South East Asia from the sixteenth century to the present. Offers a broad overview and summary of key cultural, political, economic and religious practices and influences in China, Japan, Indonesia, Korea, Vietnam and Thailand.<P>For those interested in Asian history and the role of Asia in the world today.
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  East Asia in the World
  
  
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  From the _Foundations in Global Studies_ series, this text offers students a
  fresh, comprehensive, multidisciplinary entry point to East Asia, with an
  emphasis on the globalizing processes the region is undergoing. After a brief
  introduction to the study of East Asia, the early chapters of the book survey
  the essentials of East Asian history and offer an overview of the region’s
  languages, economic development, and global connections. Students are guided
  through the material with relevant maps, resource boxes, and text boxes that
  support further independent exploration of the topics at hand.
  
  
  The second half of the book presents an interdisciplinary portrait of the
  region through a set of case studies that explore key aspects of the cultural,
  economic, and political life in specific countries, sometimes holding up a
  mirror to the region as a whole. Readers will come a