This comprehensive volume provides teachers and students with broad and stimulating perspectives on Asian history and its place in world and Western history. Es

A guide aimed at introducing students to the history of Asia in conjunction with Western and world history.

Now in a fully updated edition, this accessible text provides a balanced history of modern China in a global context. Through years of living and research in Ch

The material in this study is covered by Myron L. Cohen on religion and family organization in China; John R. Bowen on family, kinship, and Islam in Indonesia;