Historic Documents of Asia
Historic Documents of Asia
The Essential Primary Sources
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Historic Documents Series,
World History
Publication Date: 15 December, 2024
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Table of contents
Chapters
This volume explores critical aspects of the
history of Asia, from China and Japan to India and Pakistan, Korea, Vietnam, Mongolia, and more. It includes key primary documents, from letters and
speeches to government documents and royal edicts. Overview articles provide important context to the era, while the curated selection of documents helps make the volume an important starting point for
historical research.
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Description
This volume explores critical aspects of the
history of Asia, from China and Japan to India and Pakistan, Korea, Vietnam, Mongolia, and more. It includes key primary documents, from letters and
speeches to government documents and royal edicts. Overview articles provide important context to the era, while the curated selection of documents helps make the volume an important starting point for
historical research.
Table of contents
- Historic Documents of Asia
- Historic Documents of Asia
- Historic Documents of Asia: The Essential Primary Sources
- Contents
- Reader’s Guide
- China and Taiwan
- Confucius: Doctrine of the Mean
- Confucius: The Great Learning
- Wang Bi: “Outline Introduction to the Laozi”
- Yan Zhitui: Family Instructions for the Yen Clan
- Yao Zui: “Continued Classifications of Painters”
- “The Song of Lasting Regret”
- Ouyang Xiu: “On the Partisanship of Friends”
- “When Heirs Have Already Been Installed, They Ought Not to Be Displaced”
- Cai Kang: “Forging of Official Documents”
- Regent Dorgon: Two Edicts concerning the Wearing of Hair under Manchu Rule
- “Manslaughter over an Outhouse”
- Daoguang: Imperial Edict
- Zhu Zun: Memorial on Banning Opium
- Xu Naiji: Memorial on Legalizing Opium
- Annexed Laws on Banning Opium
- “Ode for Youth”
- Zongli Yamen: Circular Letter on the Unequal Treaties
- Boxer Protocol
- Press Coverage of the Wuchang Uprising
- Hu Shi: Appeal for Legal Rights
- Emergency Law for the Suppression of Crimes against the Safety of the Republic
- Principles for the Organization of the “Manchukuo” Government
- Chiang Kai-shek: Reply to Prince Konoye
- Liu Shaoqi: How to Be a Good Communist
- Chiang Kai-shek: “China Cannot Be Conquered”
- Mao Zedong: “Talks at the Yenan Forum on Literature and Art”
- Chiang Kai-shek: Speech before the Preparatory Commission for Constitutional Government in Chungking
- Mao Zedong: “On the People’s Democratic Dictatorship”
- Mao Zedong: “On the Co-Operative Transformation of Agriculture”
- Chinese Communist Party: Guidelines for the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
- Mao Zedong: The Little Red Book
- Shanghai Communiqué
- Hao Ran: “Date Orchard”
- Deng Xiaoping: “Emancipate the Mind”
- Deng Xiaoping: “Uphold the Four Cardinal Principles”
- Taiwan Relations Act
- “Questions in the Job Responsibility Systems of Agricultural Production”
- Deng Xiaoping: “The Present Situation and the Tasks before Us”
- “How Should the Criteria for Admission to the Communist Youth League Be Administered?”
- Fang Lizhi: “The Social Responsibility of Today’s Intellectuals”
- Yi Ding: “Opposing Interference in Other Countries’ Internal Affairs through Human Rights”
- “Bourgeois and Socialist Democracies Compared”
- Li Hongzhi: Zhuan falun
- ”Strengthening Management over the Floating Population”
- Japan, Korea, and Mongolia
- Manyoshu Court Poems
- Azuma Kagami Account of the Shookyü War
- Dogen: “On the Great Wisdom That Is Beyond Discriminatory Thought”
- Mongol Capture of Kiev
- Mongol Conquest of Northern Rus
- Yoshida Kenko: Essays in Idleness
- The Tale of the Heike
- Kita Ikki: General Outline of Measures for the Reorganization of Japan
- Kim Il-sung: “On the Establishment of the Workers’ Party of North Korea”
- Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan
- South and Southeast Asia
- ‘Abd-al-Qadir Bada’uni: Chronicles
- Muhammad Bakhtáwar Khan: On the Emperor Aurangzeb
- Emilio Aguinaldo’s Case against the United States
- George Orwell: Burmese Days
- John McNaughton: Plan of Action for South Vietnam
- My Lai Massacre Witness Statements and Testimony
- Paris Peace Accords
- Letter and Report of the UN Group of Experts for Cambodia
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