Historical perspectives on contemporary East Asia

The foreign impact on East Asia; Social and political change in Nineteenth-Century China; Visions of thhe future in Meiji Japan; Korea´ s transition to modernity: a will to greatness; State and society in interwar Japan; China in the Early Twentieh Century; The nationalist regime and the Chinese Party-State, 1928-1958; The search for social cohesion in China, 1921-1958; Society and politicsfrom Traswar through postwar Japan; Searching for the appropiate model for the People´ s republic of China.