Waubonsee Community College

Asia, editor, Michael Shally-Jensen

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

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non fiction

Asia

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editor, Michael Shally-Jensen

Defining documents in world history

Explores the history of Asia, including China, Japan, Korea, India, and Southeast Asian societies including Vietnam

Publisher's Note -- Editor's Introduction -- Contributors -- China -- Excerpt from The Art of War, Chapter 1 -- The Doctrine of the Mean, Section 2 -- Excerpts from the Dao De Jing -- "Lessons for Women" -- Report from China -- The Hongwu Emperor's Edict -- Chinese Emperor's Rejection of British Trade Request -- Treaty of Nanking -- An Account of U.S.-China Trade Negotiations, 1844 -- Economic Program of the Taiping Rebels -- China's Hundred Days' Reform -- Boxer Protocol -- Sun Yat-sen: "The Three Stages of Revolution" -- Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty -- Mao Zedong on the "Correct Handling of Contradictions among the People" -- Constitution of Tibet -- Documents Relating to Normalization of Relations between the United States and the People's Republic of China -- Letter from a Chinese "Rusticant" -- U.SEmbassy Cables Concerning the Crackdown in Tiananmen Square -- Japan and Korea -- From The Tale of Genji -- From The Tale of the Heike -- Convention of Kanagawa -- Meiji Charter Oath -- Open Door Note -- The Treaty of Portsmouth -- Japan's 21 Demands and China's Reply -- Korean Declaration of Independence -- The Problem of Japan-A Japanese View -- Henry Stimson to Senator Borah Regarding the Nine-Power Treaty -- United States-Japan Security Treaty -- Fourteen-Part Message from Japan to the United States and Secretary Hull's Response -- Mutual Defense Treaty between the United States and the Republic of Korea -- Kim Il Sung-"On Eliminating Dogmatism and Formalism and Establishing Juche in Ideological Work" -- India -- The Edicts of King Ashoka -- The Duties of a King, from the Arthashastra -- The Laws of Manu, Chapter 1 -- Excerpt from the Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 1 -- An Account of India and the Great Moghul -- India Regulating ActKarl Marx on British Rule in India -- Mohandas Gandhi: Statement at Trial -- Jawaharlal Nehru-Speech on the Occasion of Indian Independence -- Indira Gandhi: "What Educated Women Can Do" -- Southeast Asia -- Henry Cabot Lodge: Speech on the Retention of the Philippine Islands -- "Subjugation of the Philippines Iniquitous" -- President Sukarno's Address at the Bandung Conference -- Geneva Accords on Indochina -- "The Path of Revolution in the South" -- President Ngo Dinh Di?m: Address to U.SCongress -- Message from Ho Chi Minh -- Conversation between Presidents Nixon and Thieu -- Story from the Khmer Rouge Killing Fields -- Appendixes -- Chronological List -- Web Resources -- Bibliography -- Index