Pacific Century: The Emergence Of Modern Pacific Asia, Second Edition | 
 enlarge | Author: Mark Borthwick
Publisher: Westview Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 240270
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 600
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.3
Dimensions (in): 10 x 7.1 x 1.2
ISBN: 0813334713
Dewey Decimal Number: 950
EAN: 9780813334714
ASIN: 0813334713
Publication Date: February 12, 1998
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Poised to enter the twenty-first century, the Asia-Pacific region is rapidly emerging as a global economic and political powerhouse. Looking at both Southeast and East Asia, this illustrated volume stresses broad, cross-cutting themes of regional history, with an emphasis on the interactions between cultures and nations. New areas receiving attention in this edition include the Japanese economic slowdown, Japan's attempts at political reform, China's current economic dilemmas and environmental crisis, the sustainability of East Asian economic growth, the North Korean crisis, and Asia-Pacific regionalism and global interactions. The book also provides chronological updates for Cambodia, Vietnam, and Indonesia, and concludes with an examination of the key domestic and international issues facing the nations of Pacific Asia. The companion text to the PBS telecourse series, The Pacific Century, which first aired in the fall of 1992, the book also stands alone as an interdisciplinary introduction to Asia and the Pacific.
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Black and white text books can cure insomnia March 14, 2000
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
I had this book for a US - East Asian affairs class at my local community college. It was a decent text book and contains tons of information about Asian history and the emergence of Asian nations as strongpoints in the Pacific. Each page of the book is separated into two columns which means that you have to read each page twice. Also, the whole book including all the pictures is in black and white. When reading about the extensive Chinese dynasties, these combined factors can make the casual reader very drowsy.
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