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Defining Documents in World History: Asia

Table of Contents

Publisher’s Note




Editor’s Introduction




Contributors




China




Excerpt from The Art of War, Chapter 1




The Doctrine of the Mean, Section 2




Excerpts from the Dao De Jing




“Lessons for Women”




Report from China




The Hongwu Emperor’s Edict




Chinese Emperor’s Rejection of British Trade Request




Treaty of Nanking




An Account of U.S.-China Trade Negotiations, 1844




Economic Program of the Taiping Rebels




China’s Hundred Days’ Reform




Boxer Protocol




Sun Yat-sen: “The Three Stages of Revolution”




Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty




Mao Zedong on the “Correct Handling of Contradictions among the People”




Constitution of Tibet




Documents Relating to Normalization of Relations between the United States and the People’s Republic of China




Letter from a Chinese “Rusticant”




U.S. Embassy Cables Concerning the Crackdown in Tiananmen Square




Japan and Korea




From The Tale of Genji




From The Tale of the Heike




Convention of Kanagawa




Meiji Charter Oath




Open Door Note




The Treaty of Portsmouth




Japan’s 21 Demands and China’s Reply




Korean Declaration of Independence




The Problem of Japan—A Japanese View




Henry Stimson to Senator Borah Regarding the Nine-Power Treaty




United States–Japan Security Treaty




Fourteen-Part Message from Japan to the United States and Secretary Hull’s Response




Mutual Defense Treaty between the United States and the Republic of Korea




Kim Il Sung—“On Eliminating Dogmatism and Formalism and Establishing Juche in Ideological Work”




India




The Edicts of King Ashoka




The Duties of a King, from the Arthashastra




The Laws of Manu, Chapter 1




Excerpt from the Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 1




An Account of India and the Great Moghul




India Regulating Act




Karl Marx on British Rule in India




Mohandas Gandhi: Statement at Trial




Jawaharlal Nehru—Speech on the Occasion of Indian Independence




Indira Gandhi: “What Educated Women Can Do”




Southeast Asia




Henry Cabot Lodge: Speech on the Retention of the Philippine Islands




“Subjugation of the Philippines Iniquitous”




President Sukarno’s Address at the Bandung Conference




Geneva Accords on Indochina




“The Path of Revolution in the South”




President Ngô Đình Diệm: Address to U.S. Congress




Message from Ho Chi Minh




Conversation between Presidents Nixon and Thiêu




Story from the Khmer Rouge Killing Fields




Appendixes




Chronological List




Web Resources




Bibliography