East Asia: From Chinese Predominance to the Rise of the Pacific Rim - Tapa blanda

Reseña del editor

"East Asia" is a survey of the history of nearly half mankind, from the rise of China, its first civilization, to the present day. As well as China, the book covers Japan and Korea, and South East Asia from Burma to Indonesia. It is already clear that by the next century the countries of the Pacific Rim will be the world's economic pace-setters, and furthermore the world's workshop. This book sets that emergence in context by revealing the long historical process of which it is a part. It also suggests pointers to the future, when Japan - now the front-runner - will be overtaken by its neighbours, the greatest of which, China, has only just started to compete.