In this sweeping account, Warren I. Cohen explores four millennia of international relations from the perspectives of China, Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia.

Warren I. Cohen is Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. His Columbia University Press books include America's Response to China: A History of Sino-American Relations (sixth edition, 2019) and A Nation Like All Others: A Brief History of American Foreign Relations (2018).

Maps
Tables
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. The Emergence of an International System in East Asia
2. Shadows Over Tang Splendor
3. East Asia Uncentered
4. The Mongol Ascendancy
5. The Resurgence of Chinese Power and the Coming of Islam
6. Europe and Japan Disrupt the East Asian International Order
7. The Great Qing Empire
8. Triumph of the West
9. The Ascendance of Japan
10. Challenge to the West
11. War and Decolonization, 1932-1949
12. The Cold War in Asia
13. The Resurgence of East Asian Economic Power
14. On the Eve of the Twenty-first Century
15. East Asia in the Twenty-first Century
Closing Thoughts
Notes
Further Reading
Index