Pacific Asia in the Global System: An Introduction

Preface.

Acknowledgements.

Part I: The Theme of the Shift to the Modern World: .

1. Classical Social Theory.

Part II: The Phases of the Shift to the Modern World in Pacific Asia:.

2. Analyzing the Process of the Shift to the Modern World in Pacific Asia.

3. From Ancient Empires to Nineteenth-century Industrial-capitalism.

4. The Shist to the Modern World: Reactions, Resistance and Empire.

5. After the Pacific War: Decolonization, Nation-building and the Cold War.

6. The Emergence of Pacific Asia.

Part III: Changing Relationships in Contemporary Pacific Asia:.

7. The Region and the Global System.

8. Changing Patterns of Relations between Japan, the USA and China.

9. Contemporary Pacific Asia in the 1990's.

Part IV: Debates, Disputes and Lessons in Respect of the Development Experience of Pacific Asia:.

10. The Particularity of the Historical Development Experience of Pacific Asia.

11. The Pacific Asian Model I: Political-economic and Social-institutional Processes.

12.The Pacific Asian ModelII: Cultural and Political-cultural Processes.

Part V: Pacific Asia in the New Global System:.

13. Pacific Asia in the Twenty-first Century Global System.

Bibliography.

Index.