@Book{1621661237, author="Holcombe, Charles", title="Genesis of East Asia, 221 B.C. - A.D. 907", series="Asian interactions and comparisons", year="2001", publisher="Assoc. for Asian Studies and Univ. of Hawai'i Press", address="Honolulu", keywords="East Asia; History", abstract="Machine generated contents note: ONE -- INTRODUCTION 1 TWO -- E PLURIBUS SERICUM 8 -- China, Plural 1 1 -- The Sinification of China (How China Became Chinese) 18 -- ``The More Things Change '': The Tenacity of Diversity 25 THREE -- CIVILIZING MISSION: CONCEIVING EAST ASIA 30 -- Mission Civilisatrice 38 -- The Diplomatic Order 53 -- Back from Babel: The Kanji Sphere 60 FOUR -- BEYOND EAST ASIA: GLOBAL CONNECTIONS 78 -- Foreign Trade 78 -- Buddhist Internationalization 94 FIVE -- NUCLEAR IMPLOSION 109 -- The Fourth-Century ``Barbarization'' of Northern China 116 -- Re-Genesis: Urban Nomads, Sui and Tang 128 I X -- BEFORE VIETNAM 145 -- Southern Yue 145 -- Imperial Entrep6t 151 -- Orphan Empire 155 SEVEN -- THE BIRTH OF KOREA 165 -- Chinese Colonies 165 -- Native Diversity 168 -- Singular Korea 173 EIGHT -- JAPAN: INSULAR EAST ASIA 183 -- Immigration 183 -- Becoming Japanese 194 -- A Separate Sun-Japan's All-under-Heaven 201 NINE -- CONCLUSION: SINIFICATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS 215 ENDNOTES 229 SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY 263 INDEX 325", note="Charles Holcombe", note="Includes bibliographical references and index", isbn="0824824156", language="English" }