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  Table of Contents

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Distortions in East Asian History:
Formulating a Proper Analytic Framework

1.

The Mechanism of Tripolar Interactions: Summary and Conclusion

2.

Manchuria, Mongolian Steppe and Mainland China: ATripolar East Asia  
3.

Interactions between the Xiongnu-Turks and the Han Chinese:
Sima Qian's Bipolar World of Nomads vs. Sedentary People

4.

The Yemaek Tungus in Central Manchuria and Korean Peninsula:
Interactions between the Xianbei and the Yemaek Tungus

5.

Rise of the Xianbei in Manchuria Presaging a Tripolar East Asia:
Trial Performance of Murong-Xianbei Proto-Conquest Dynasty

6.

The First Full-fledged Conquest Dynasty of Tuoba-Xianbei:
Compatriot Military and Chinese Administrators

7.

Sui and Tang Can Not Be Classified as Han Chinese Dynasties:
Successors to the Xianbei Conquest Dynasties
8.

Unified Mainland China and the Yemaek Kingdoms in the East:
Rise and Fall of the Dynasties in East Asia

9.

Ordo Tribal Army and Dual Government System:
The Qidan Establish a Proto-Pan-Manchurian Conquest Dynasty
10.

The Mengan-Mouke Socio-Military Organization:
A Pan-Manchurian Conquest Dynasty
11.

The Mongols Co-opt the Turks to Rule All under Heaven:
Crippled the Dual-System and Expelled by Chinese Rebellion

12.

The Manchus Co-opt the Mongols to Rule over East Asian Continent:
Eight Banners and Neo-Confucian Civil Governance
13.

The People's Republic of China Taking Over the Whole of Qing Empire:
End of the Tripolar Framework of Analysis
14.

The Korean War and a New East Asia:
East Asia in a Globalized World

 

ADDENDA I: Magnate/Gentry,Women,W.Xia,Seljuk-Ottoman,Iron-Making

ADDENDA II: PUYI (1906-67), Manchuria, and Manzhouguo (1932-45)

  REFERENCES INDEX Back Cover
  Review by Juha Janhunen in Studia Orientalia, 109, 2010, pp.136-9
  Polar Opposites: Two New Histories of East Asia in Global Asia 2011
 

Informal Comments on East Asian History

 

East Asian History: A Tripolar Approach (Whole Contents)
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