CONTENTS

I. INTRODUCTORY

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"Between Adam and the Mayflower" Obligations of

nationalism — Europo-centric views of history and phi-

losophy - Unity of history-Era of comparative sci-

ence only begun - Interrupted intercourse Trend of

American history Discovering the Pacific - Our

relations with Asia- - Asia a cradle of the human race,

of culture, of world religions - Asia great in person-

alities - Opportunities of the Pacific era Civilization

the common product of East and West.

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II. HOW THE CHANNELS OF ASIATIC HISTORY WERE

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What forces determine history-Geography - General
view of Asia - The inert North-The central springs
The "pockets" of the South - Influence of climatic
changes on population - China as a cultural pocket-
Pre-Aryan races of India - Malay Peninsula - Original
Sumerian colonies-Semitic origins - Sargon of Agade
and his successors - Hammurabi and the Code - Kas-
sites and Hittites The throned tigers" of Assyria -
Fall of Nineveh - Neo-Babylonian kingdom and Nebu-
chadnezzar Story of the Hebrews Aryan movement,
Indo-Aryan and Iranian - Vedic
Zoroaster
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age - The

Persian
Ahuramazda vs. Angramainyu - Cyrus the
Darkness over the Farthest East - The Ainus
Summary of history to the sixth century B.C.

III. FROM CYRUS TO THE CHRISTIAN ERA

Seven centuries of movement Colonizing of Japan

Achæmenian Empire - Cyrus and his successors - Judaism

under the Persians - Indian philosophy The orthodox

schools - The heretics Jainism and Buddhism

Story of Gautama — Invasion of India by Alexander -

The Seleucids Chandragupta - Açoka - Hinayana

and Mahayana - Indo-Bactrian, Indo-Parthian, and

Indo-Scythian dynasties - Kanishka - Chinese adminis-
tration Confucius Mencius - Lao Tzŭ and Taoism
-Chin dynasty-Great First Emperor-Han period
- Revival of learning- Expansion of the Empire-
Introduction of Buddhism — Rome and China - Inter-
relations of commerce, of culture, the drama, pictorial
art, of religion - Birth of Christianity - Extension of
Buddhism Efforts toward universal religion.

IV. ASIA TO THE RISE OF ISLAM

Legendary Japan - Buddhism in Japan - First Japanese

codes Anarchy in China The Three Kingdoms

The vanity of Yang Ti-Glories of the T'ang dynasty-

Foreign religions- The Nestorian Stone - Great Chinese

poets-Gupta dynasty of India - Court of Vikramaditya

-Buddhist pilgrims-Harsha, last lord-paramount of

native India Parthian rule in Persia - Ardashir founds

the Sassanid line - The Shahpurs and the Khosrus -

Persian heresies - Persia wars with Rome · Arabian

paganism Muhammad - The four orthodox Khalifs

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The tragedy of Ali Hassan and Husayn - The
Passion Play of the month Muharram - The Ummayad
Khalifate-Unity of the period, literary and religious.

V. ASIA IN THE GRIP OF THE TATARS

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Bagdad Khalifate-Mahmud the Image-breaker - The
Persian Homer The Seljuks Umar al-Khayyami -
The Assassins - The Kings of Khiva - Sung dynasty in
China - Ten years of state socialism - Iron, Gold
Tatars China divided - Weakening of imperial power
in Japan Learned, cloistered, and child emperors -
"Wars of the Roses - Kiyomori Minamoto revolt -
Yoritomo and Yoshitsune The Shogunate Kama-
kura Shogun and Shikken - Jenghiz Khan - Ogdai-
The sack of Bagdad — Kublai Khan — The Great Armada
- The Friars Minor - Carpini and De Rubruk -
John Marco Polo-Porcelain and printing-Buddhist

revival in Japan.

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Transition to modern history-Ming revolution in China
The Beggar King - Arrival of the Portuguese - The

Manchus Nurhachu - Rebellion of Li - Burning of

Kamakura Ashikaga Shogunate - Portuguese in Japan.

-Nobunaga-The three-days' Shogun - Hideyoshi -

War with Korea - First ironclads - Death of the Taiko

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Sama - Iyeyasu - The Ottoman Turk - Dream of
Osman Capture of Adrianople Timur the Lame

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Defeat of Bayazid - The Timurids - Sufi dynasty of
Persia Shah Abbas - The Moghul Empire in India -
Babar to Akbar.

VII. OPENING THE SEA ROUTES TO ASIA .

Closing of the land routes - Prince Henry the Navigator

Diaz discovers the Cape - Da Gama reaches India -

Camoens and The Lusiads - First Portuguese settle-
ment in India - Albuquerque - Portuguese reach
Malacca, China, and Japan - Mendez Pinto - Saint
Francis Xavier-Christianity in Japan - Decline of
Portuguese domination - Expulsion from Japan - Rem-
nants of Portuguese sovereignty in the East.

VIII. SPAIN IN THE FAR EAST

Treaty of Tordesillas - Magellan - Discovery of the La-

drones and the Philippines - Death of Magellan - Legaspi

and the Philippines - Aborigines, wild men, and Malays

- Christianization of the islands - Manila made the

capital Salcedo The Marianas and the Carolines

Invasion of Li-ma-hong - Quarrels between soldiers and

friars Relations with Japan - Crucifixion of the

Twenty-three-Hostility between Dutch and Spanish

Koxinga - Chinese massacres Capture of Manila

by the British - Native disaffection.

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IX. PORTUGAL'S SUCCESSORS IN THE EAST

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Holland in the East-Itinerario of Linschoten - Dutch

East India Company - Dutch relations with Christianity

in Japan Trade in the East Indies - Koxinga expels

the Dutch from Formosa - Embassy to Peking - The

Amboyna affair - London East India Company — Way-

mouth's expedition to Cathay - Will Adams — Sir John

Saris and the Clove - Charter at Surat - First joint-

stock voyage to India - Acquisition of Madras - Elihu

Yale Job Charnock - How England obtained Bombay

Colbert and French influence Rebellion of Sivaji –

Death of Aurungzeb.

X. THE RUSSIAN ADVENTURE IN ASIA

Geography of Northern Asia-Palæasiatic, Tungus, and

Samoyed tribes - Central Asian tribes - Early inter-

course of Russia with Asia - Mongol invasions - Russian

penetration of Asia - Yermak - Khabaroff — Founding

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Russia on the

- Eleuth wars - Treaty of Kiakhta — Amur-

sana - "Flight of a Tatar Tribe."

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XI. ASIA IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

Manchu invasion - Wu San-kwei

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Macartney

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Great Pure dy-

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nasty "Song of the Cakes" Opposition in the

South Jesuits in China-Shun Chih- K'ang Hsi,

ruler and reformer Yung Chêng and the secret

societies Ch'ien Lung - Correspondence with Vol-

taire

China

mission - Tibet -
the Grand Lama - The Gurkhas - Tokugawa Iye-
yasu - The Tokugawa Shoguns - The Dog Shogun
-The Forty-seven Ronins - The Shakespeare of Ja-
pan Yoshimune-Japanese renaissance-Dutch
learning The Great Moghuls in India - Akbar-
Jehangir Shah Jehan-Aurungzeb-Mahratta war

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Decline of the Great Moghuls - English and French
in India - "Black Hole" of Calcutta - Plassey-
Clive and Hastings - Persia after the death of Abbas
- Nadir Shah — Afghanistan — Turkish rule in the
eighteenth century - Arabia explored by Niebuhr —
Cambodia and the Khmers Siam A Cephalonian
adventurer - Burmah and the "Golden Chersonese."

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XII. THE DAWN OF THE PACIFIC ERA

Balboa, Magellan - Their successors - Captain James
Cook Malaysia and the Philippines - Australia
and Tasmania - New Zealand - Melanesia — Mi-
cronesia Polynesia - Hawaii in the eighteenth cen-
tury "Napoleon of the Pacific" - Introduction of
Christianity-First American trade with the Far
East The Empress of China - First American
Consul in China - The Hongs - Smuggling and the
opium trade- Discovery of the Northwest - John
Ledyard Astoria Oregon and the Pacific trade-
Terranova case - Efforts to open Japan The Mor-

Attempted assassination of the Emperor - "Foam of
the sea" "Tom Tiddler's ground" in China
Amherst mission The Emperor to King George III
- Taokwang - Troubles in Canton - Lord Napier
- Elliot - "War over a pin"-Treaty of Nanking

- First American Minister - Tai-ping Rebellion-

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"the Ever-victorious Army" Arrow incident-
War with Great Britain and France-Treaty of
Peking "Most-favored-nation" clause Anson
Burlingame-Treaty of 1868 — Chinese immigration
-Exclusion legislation - Great Empress-Dowager

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Her three regencies - Maritime Customs - Sir

Robert Hart - Trouble with France - British in

Burmah - Margary affair - Christian persecution in

Korea - War with Japan - Treaty of Shimonoseki

- Retrocession of Liao-tung peninsula - European

aggressions in China - Reforms of July - Empress-

Dowager resumes power
Boxer revolt - Deaths of

the Emperor and Empress-Dowager - Accession of

Hsuan-Tung.

XIV. RUSSIAN ADVANCES IN ASIA

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Treaty of Kiakhta - The exile system Chinese mi-

gration to Central Asia - Cossacks of the Urals

First expedition to Khiva - Submission of the Cas-

pian tribes Crimean war Muravieff - Treaty of

Aigun Treaty of Peking - Khanates of Central

Asia Conquest of Bokhara - Kaufmann's cam-

paigns against Khiva Civil war in Khokand - Mu-

hammadan rebellions in China - Yakoob Khan -

Province of Ferghana-"Agricultural army"

Treaty of Livadia — Conquest of the Tekke Turko-

mans Merv oasis-Afghan frontier · Delimita-

tion of three empires - Trans-Siberian Railway -

Russo-Japanese war - Causes Russia in Manchuria

Battle of Mukden

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Capture of Port Arthur

Battle of the Sea of Japan - Roosevelt as peacemaker
-Treaty of Portsmouth - Japanese gains and dis-
appointments -Russia and Mongolia.

XV. JAPAN TO THE TREATY OF PORTSMOUTH

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Tokugawa Shogunate - American commerce and Japan

-Japanese martyrs - Takano Nagahide - Coming

of Perry Shogun's dilemma - Treaty of Kanagawa

-Townsend Harris - Treaty of 1858 - Yoshida

Shoin Bombardment of Kagoshima and Shimono-

seki Sir Harry Parkes - Last of the Shoguns -

Meiji Charter Oath - National Assembly - Yedo

made capital-Abolition of feudal system -Sat-

suma Rebellion - Constitutional movement - First

political parties-Ito and the Constitution -The

Diet Treaty revision - Causes and results of war

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