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Song Nian Shen: Discover East Asia

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It represents one third of the world's land area, and it is called Asia, which includes Korea, China, or Japan. Asia is a word that literally states the pronunciation of the English word aia, which means it comes from ancient Greek and is part of the eastern region. So the word East Asia means ‘ east of the east. ’. In his words the word East Asia has a view of “keeping your butts still west”. That means the word itself contains Western vision. As if to reflect the etymological meaning, Eastern Asian history has largely been written from a Western perspective, and the self-intelligence and independent narratives that we have seen in East Asian view are often cited. In 19th - century Europe, East Asia or Asia was not just a geographic entity. The expansion of capital and colonialism gave the area a sense of time and a sense that history and civilization have become. Since Hegel and Marx, Asia has been a mercenary (a post-existent) and an anti-extreme of European liberalism and progress. The author refers to the progressiveism that leads to high capitalistic states through World War II and the Cold War, in terms of economic, social, political, and cultural values, as ‘ Colonial times’ and strongly disagrees with this view. We reject the history of East Asia with Western eyes and look at modern East Asia from the East Asian point of view. The case that author captured the modern quarter point of the East Asian Third World (Korea, China, Japan).

Korean title: 동아시아를 발견하다

Korean author: 쑹녠선

Korean publisher: 역사비평사

ISBN-13: 9788976964380

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SS*******************
June 8, 2026

It's a book that takes East Asia from its traditional perspective and re-watchs it from its historical point of view.

BE****
September 7, 2024

I felt unique all the time, and was disappointed to be featured in chapter 10 as a gamed over-sized Chinese entertainment that is easily seen in Chinese academic writing. Subordination theoreticalally, a very old pattern that stands out.

AD****
June 11, 2022

As is evident from the origin of Asia, the history of East Asia was seen as a case in Western view and as a way of looking at Asia, which we included. I hope this book will help you to look and understand Asia from the Western perspective.

KU******
December 9, 2020

We're not going to find "history" in East Asia until we get it right! It looks like there's no way to go through a textbook that the Korean students can study together.

KM******
November 21, 2020

The book consists of more than 10 chapters of the Bible, which shows how East Asia developed from the late sixteenth century to the middle of the 20th century. But it doesn't just mean that this book is a timeline for the development of events or listing events. Each chapter has a typical event or topic, and we're also looking at what it means. For example, chapter one explains what the book calls the 'election war' in terms of the impromptu war, not just the development of the battle or the

JI********
November 7, 2020

The discovery of East Asia in this book is easy to say that it's a self-respecting, self-conservative self-awareness through self-interest in East Asia. Five chapters are fun!

쑹녠선: 동아시아를 발견하다
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