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Abacus, 169 Aborigines Southern Dynasty, 64 Taiwan, 383 Tang Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-11873-7 — A History of East Asia 2nd Edition Index More Information Index abacus, 169 Ashikaga Takauji, 161–62 aborigines Asia. See East Asia Southern dynasty, 64 Asia Express, 294 Taiwan, 383 Asian values Tang Dynasty, 100 Singapore, 378 Acheson, Dean, 331–32 Attila the Hun, 51 advantages of backwardness, 47 Au Lac, Vietnamese kingdom of, 202 advertising, commercial automobile. See also Hyundai, and Toyota early 20th-century China, 265–66 first privately owned Chinese, 265 agriculture, origins of, 13 sales in People’s Republic of China, 371 Aguda, 135 Avalokiteśvara, 75 Ainu, 247 Azuchi, castle at, 189 airplanes first Chinese, 265 Baghdad, 147 Allan, Sarah, 27 Bai Juyi, 100, 114 Allied Occupation of Japan. See postwar bakufu, 159 Allied occupation of Japan bamboo curtain, Cold War, 324 alphabet, 15, 20, 24 Bamiyan, Afghanistan, 74 alternate attendance, 245 banditry, 271 Amaterasu, 91, 122, 289, 316 banner gown, 179 Amitābha, 73, 78, 160 Banner People. See Manchu Amoghavajra, 106 Bao Dai, Emperor, Vietnam An Lushan, 110 abdicated, 351 Analects, 38, 45 enthroned, 350 Angkor, 213 in exile, 353 anime, 326, 328 southern Vietnam, head of state, 352 Annam barbarian, 9 Song Dynasty, 206 Barbie Doll, 393 Southern Han, 206 Barmé, Geremie, 376 Tang creation of, 205 baseball, 278, 324 weakened Tang control, 205 baths, 159 Arabs, 110–11, 136 Beckwith, Christopher, 31 armor, 32, 45, 62 beer, 252, 265, 278, 328 Arrow war. See opium begs (a Uighur Türk word for “noble”), Art of War,44 177 447 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-11873-7 — A History of East Asia 2nd Edition Index More Information 448 Index Beijing. See also Beiping government supervision in China, 76 Cultural Revolution, 366 imperial temple construction, China, 105 falls to Communist forces, 360 Indian origins, 10, 72 Jurchen Jin Dynasty, 135 interaction with Daoism, 74 Manchu, 177 Kamakura Japan, 160 Mongol Yuan Dynasty capital, 145 last age of the law, 159 residence of Koryŏ princes, 152 Mahayana, 73 Beiping, “Northern Peace,” 300 medieval Japan, 129 Biddle, Commodore, 242 miracles, 75 Black Flags, 256 nirvāna,72–73, 76 _ Bodhidharma, 106 pagoda, 74, 79, 114 Bolshevik model, 297 printing of scriptures, 103 bone rank, 117 purges, 76 Book of Changes,36–37, 140 reincarnation, 72 Book of Documents, 34, 36 South Vietnam, 354 Book of Lord Shang,42–43 spread to China, 75 Book of Odes, 36, 80, 343 spread to Japan, 80–81 bourgeois liberalization, 374 spread to Korea, 79–80 bow, composite reflex, 32 textual canon, 73, 105 Boxer Protocol, 235 translation of scriptures, 77 Boxer Rebellion, 234–35 Tripitaka, 137 _ Britain True Pure Land League, 188 alliance with Japan, 255, 273 Bukhara, 143 colonial Hong Kong, 377, 379–81 bunmei kaika (civilization and colonial Singapore, 378 enlightenment), 247 concession in Shandong, 233 bunraku, Tokugawa puppet theater, 193 East India Company, 220 bushi. See samurai free trade, 223 bushidō: the “Way of the Military opium trade, 222–23 Gentleman,” 192 opium wars, 224–25 origin of modern nation-state, 261 Cai Hesen, 269 origins of tea trade, 219 calendar, solar, 264, 266 Sino-British joint declaration, Hong calligraphy Kong, 382 as examination criterion, 104 Ya’qub Beg and Xinjiang, 227 Huaisu, 107 bronze Wang Xizhi, 64 Chinese ritual vessels, 27, 32 Canton. See Guangzhou Korea, 81 Cao Cao, 56 Red River region, Vietnam, 199 Cao Wei Dynasty, 56 bronze drums, Vietnam, 199 capital punishment, 38 bubonic plague, 146 Cardinal Principles of the National Polity, 289 Buddha Nature, 78, 105 castles, 189–90, 244 Buddhism castle-towns, 195 art, 73–74 cavalry Bodhisattva, 73 4th to 6th century in north China, 62 cave temples, 73 Disturbances of the Eight Princes, 58 Champa, 211 Han, 52 Chan, or Zen, 105–6, 129, 160 Japan, 90 Chinese domestication, 78, 105 Jurchen, 135 Chosŏn Korea, 154 Northern Wei Dynasty, 70 digitalization of scriptures, 346 Song Dynasty, 133 Esoteric (Tantric), 106 cell phones, 348, 371 Four Noble Truths, 72 chaebŏl, 341–42, 347–48 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-11873-7 — A History of East Asia 2nd Edition Index More Information Index 449 Chaghadai Khanate, 145 Civil War, 360 chairs, 104, 278 military academy founded, 272 Chajang, 114 Republic of China’s ruling party, 296 Cham Chinese Revolution, 1911, 263–64 Mongol Invasions, 209 Chinese writing system, 17, 19–22 Champa Chinggis Khan, 142–43 Buddhism, 211 Chinhan, 84 Dai Viet, 213 chinoiserie, 172 geography, 211 Chinul, Korean monk, 150 Indian influence, 211 Ch’oe Che-u, 239 Linyi, 211 Ch’oe Sŭng-no, 150 prehistory, 211 Chŏn Namsaeng, 117 Chang Po-go, 119–20 Chŏn Tu-hwan. See Chun Doo Huan Chang’an Chongqing, 300 center for Buddhist translation, 77 chōnin, Tokugawa townspeople, 193 fall of Western Jin Dynasty alternate chopsticks, 325 capital, 58 Chōshū, 244–45 Tang Dynasty capital, 98 conflict with Tokugawa Shogunate, 245 chanoyu, 10, 164 Chosŏn. See also King Kojong; Yi chariot, 31–32 Sŏng-gye Charlemagne, 113 Buddhism, 154 chaste widow, Confucian ideal, 29 ceremonial code, 37 Chen Duxiu, 268, 297 chili peppers, 186 Chen Shuibian, 389 Chosŏn Korea, 153 Chen Yi, 269 civil service examinations, 154 Chiang Ching-kuo, 296 Confucian academies Chiang Kai-shek Chosŏn Korea, 154 Christianity, 296 founding, 152 Commandant of Nationalist military, 272 founding of dynasty, 82 death, 385 isolationism, 184 loss of Civil War and retreat to Taiwan, Japanese invasions, 183–84 360 King Sejong, 153 Memorial, 389 legal code, 153 military training in Japan, 267 Manchu invasion, 184 Northern Expedition, 272–73 Ming military assistance, 184 split with leftists, 273, 297–98 Neo-Confucianism, 154 U.S. support, 360 Old Chosŏn, 12 World War II, 303 reduced to Japanese protectorate, 275 Xi’an incident, 300 relationship with Tokugawa Japan, 236 Chiang Wei-kuo, 296 slaves, 153, 186 Chikamatsu Monzaemon, 193 Tonghak rebellion, 239 chili peppers, 186 tributary relations with China, 235–36 China. See also names of Chinese Dynasties; Wiman, 82 People’s Republic of China; Republic women, 153–54 of China yangban, 153 derivation of name, 8 Yŏngjo, King, 184 experiments with democracy, 218 Chosŏn Korea origins, 6 Neo-Confucianism, 185 Chinese Communist Party. See communism Christianity founded, 268 anti-Christian policies of Nguyen Chinese language. See language Vietnam, 255 Chinese Nationalist Party Chiang Kai-shek, 296 1912 elections, 270 colonial era Korea, 277 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-11873-7 — A History of East Asia 2nd Edition Index More Information 450 Index Christianity (cont.) Collection of Ancient and Modern (Poetry). early-modern Japan, 187 See Kokinshū Francis Xavier, Saint, 170 Collection of Ten thousand Leaves. See Jesuit mission to China, 172, 180 Manyōshū Matteo Ricci, 171–72 colonial Korea. See Korea, Japanese colonial missionary effort in Vietnam, 214 comfort women, 277 Ngo Dinh Diem, 354 commerce. See economy South Korea, 344 communes. See Great Leap Forward Sun Yat-sen, 262 communism. See also Mao Zedong Xu Guangqi, 171 as a form of Westernization, 269 Chronicles of Japan. See Nihon shoki Chinese civil war, 360 Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms,89 Chinese Communist Party founded, 268, Chun Doo Hwan, 344–45, 347 297 Chungking. See Chongqing Chinese translation, 370 Chūshingura, 193 collective ownership of means of civil service examination system production, 370 abolition of, 260 historical stages, or modes of production, Chosŏn Korea, 154 269, 362 Le Dynasty Vietnam, 210 Jiangxi rural revolutionary base, 298 meritocracy, 39 loss of enthusiasm for in post-Mao China, precursors, 101, 104 371 Silla, 119 Nationalist purge, 297–98 Song Dynasty, 137–39 Soviet support for Chinese Communists, Sui and Tang dynasties, 101 360 Civil War, Chinese, 360 computer Cixi. See Dowager Empress Cixi Chinese, 24 Classic of Filial Piety,39 computers Japan, 123 China, 25 Xianbei language translation, 70 South Korea, 347 Classic of Law,43 Taiwan, 387 climate change, 143 Concordia Association, 295 clothing Confucian academies, 154 Khubilai Khan, 145 Han Dynasty, 53 kimono, 325 Silla Korea, 119 Ming, 172 Confucian classics, 36–37 Silla, 114 Kang Youwei’s claim to be forgeries, 259 World War II Japan, 304 stone inscription, 63 Xianbei, 70, 99, 102 Confucian Classics Co Loa, 202 6th century, 79 coal, 137, 219 Meiji Japan, 192 Cochinchina, 352 Nara Japan, 123 coinage printed, 137 Chosŏn, 186 Silla Korea, 119 Hong Kong, 382 Tang Dynasty, 102 Japan, 123, 127, 129, 136 Confucian sacrifices Vietnam, 214 Nara and Heian Japan, 123 Cold War. See also Korean War Confucian work ethic, 6 bamboo curtain, 324 Confucianism. See also Neo-Confucianism end of, 323, 373 “Teachings of the Ru,” or Rujiao,36 Nixon’s démarche, 367 defining feature of East Asia, 37 U.S. containment of communism, hierarchy, 39 360 Japan, 37 U.S.–Japanese alliance, 316 Korea, 37 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-11873-7 — A History of East Asia 2nd Edition Index More Information Index 451 meritocracy, 39, 247 democracy. See Tiananmen Square Tokugawa Shogunate, 192 demonstrations Vietnam, 37 China’s 1912 elections, 218, 270 Western invention of, 36 Hong Kong, limited democracy, conscription, military 381–83 China, Warring States period, 44 Japan, Taishō, 281 Japan, 155, 249 Meiji constitution, 250 co-prosperity, 295 Meiji Japan popular rights movement, 249 creation myths, 12 postwar Japan, 314 crossbow, 44, 52, 155 Qing Dynasty constitutional reforms, 260 Japan, 155 South Korea, 338–39, 344–45 Cui Jian, 375 South Korean Confucian interpretation, Cultural Revolution, 365–66 345 literature of the wounded, 369 Taishō Japan, 281 curry, 278, 327 Taiwan, 273, 387–89 Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
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