For most of its past, East Asia was a world unto itself. The land we now call China sat roughly at its center and was surrounded by a number of places we now call Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Mongolia, and Tibet, as well as a host of lands absorbed into one of these. The peoples and cultures of these lands interacted among themselves with virtually no reference to the outside world before the dawn of early modern times. Although all was not always peaceful or harmonious, there were rules (explicit and implicit) governing interactions long in existence when Westerners arrived on the scene. The World of East Asia is a book series that aims to support the production of research on the interactions, both historical and contemporary, between and among these lands and their cultures and peoples. It purposefully does not define itself by discipline or time period; the only criterion is that the interaction be either within East Asia or between East Asia and its Central, South, and Southeast Asian neighbors.
Titles in the series:
In Transit: The Formation of a Colonial East Asian Cultural Sphere by Faye Yuan Kleeman (March 2014)
Tang China in Multi-polar Asia: A History of Diplomacy and War by Zhenping Wang (September 2013)
Remote Homeland, Recovered Borderland: Manchus, Manchoukuo, and Manchuria, 1907-1985 by Shao Dan (2011)
Crossing Edge: Foreign Ministry Police and Japanese Expansionism in Northeast Asia by Erik Esselstrom (2008)
Memory Maps: The State and Manchuria in Postwar Japan by Mariko Asano Tamanoi (2008)
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