A brief history of Chinese and Japanese civilizations

Consideration of all facets of human activity, general mapping out of the terrain. The enduring value of their cultural achievements. 25 chapters: Chinese Antiquity, Age of Philosophers, First Empire, China During the Period of Disunity, Sui and Tang, Early Japan, Heian Japan, Gentry and Samurai, Mongol Empire and Yuan Dynasty, Ming Dynasty, Japan in the Kamakura Period, Ashikaga Shogunate, East Asia and Modern Europe Encounters, China under the Manchus, Tokugawa Japan, Intrusion of the West, End of the Old Order and Struggle for the New China, Limits of Success Japan, Militarist Japan Second WW. Afterback, and more. Old black and white photos and maps thru-out. Notes on names and Romanization.