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A Short Economic History Of Modern Japan 1867-1937 (1945) online; also 1981 edition free to borrow; Cowan, C.D. ed. The economic development of China and Japan: studies in economic history and political economy (1964) online free to borrow; Hansen, Valerie. The Silk Road: A New History (Oxford University Press, 2012). Jones, Eric.
The decolonisation of Asia was the gradual growth of independence movements in Asia, leading ultimately to the retreat of foreign powers and the creation of several nation-states in the region. Background
European political power, commerce, and culture in Asia gave rise to growing trade in commodities—a key development in the rise of today's modern world free market economy. In the 16th century, the Portuguese broke the (overland) monopoly of the Arabs and Italians in trade between Asia and Europe by the discovery of the sea route to India ...
Map of Asia. The politics of Asia are extremely varied as would be expected of such a large landmass and a diverse population. Constitutional monarchies, absolute monarchies, one-party states, federal states, dependent territories, liberal democracies and military dictatorships are all factors in the region, as well as various forms of independence movements.
A number of other Asian political leaders from Sun Yat-sen in the 1910s and 20s to Mahathir Mohamad in the 1990s similarly argue that the political models and ideologies of Europe lack values and concepts found in Asian societies and philosophies. European values such as individual rights and freedoms would not be suited for Asian societies in ...
The seven pillars include: free-market economics, science and technology, meritocracy, pragmatism, culture of peace, rule of law and education. [14] Professor John West in his book 'Asian Century … on a Knife-edge' [15] argues: "Over the course of the twenty-first century, India could well emerge as Asia’s leading power.
Japan invoked themes of Pan-Asianism and said that the Asian people needed to be free from Western influence. [78] The United States opposed the Second Sino-Japanese War, and recognized Chiang Kai-Shek's Nationalist Government as the legitimate government of China. As a result, the United States sought to bring the Japanese war effort to a halt ...
For southern India, History of South India#Ancient period. Southern kingdom of India, the Chola dynasty. East Asia. Iron Age China, from the Spring and Autumn period and the early imperial period under the Han dynasty; History of China, from the Han dynasty to the Tang dynasty; The Proto–Three Kingdoms of Korea and Three Kingdoms of Korea