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Challenges to East Asian Societies: Extra Resources

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  • Option 3: History of Asia and Oceania/
  • Topic 07. Challenges to traditional East Asian societies (1700 - 1868)/
  • Challenges to East Asian Societies: Extra Resources

Here you can find just a small section of the websites and texts that students might find find enjoyable to develop their understanding further. There are also some suggestions for fiction and movies set in this period.

Historians

These books are all very readable and students will find them useful for extra reading and for getting a more in-depth perspectives on  aspects of this topic. These will also be essential if students are writing on this topic for their IA or their Extended Essay.

China

Grey, J. Rebellions and Revolutions, China from the 1800s to the 1980s, OUP, 1990

Hsu, I. The Rise of Modern China, OUP, 1995

Westad, Odd Arne, Restless Empire, The Bodley Head, 2002

Japan

Beasley, W. G., The Rise of Modern Japan, Widenfield and Nicholson, 1995

Mcclain, James, Japan A Modern History, W. W, Norton and Co., 2002 

Beasley, W. G., The Japanese Experience, Widenfield and Nicholson, 1999

Huffman, J. L./ Modern Japan: A History in Documents, OUP, 2005

Pyle, Kenneth, The Making of Modern Japan, DC Heath and Company, 1978

Useful websites

China

Asia for Educators has useful primary sources on Taiping and the Opium Wars

The Radio 4 programme, In our Time, has an episode on the Taiping Rebellion; historians discussing its causes, course and results

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The Taiping Rebellion (BBC)

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Taiping Rebellion.

Japan

The Samurai Archives has every possible resource connected to samurai

This site has a lot of useful information about Life in the Edo Period

Japan Centre for Historical Records: This site has access to a range of primary documents

Brown University has a good selection of primary sources related to Perry's visit to Japan

Asia for educatiors also has a site with a range of primary sources

Movies and fiction

China

The Opium War

This is a movie from 1997 on the Opium Wars; definitely worth showing - or at least showing bits of. There is a great scene at 55 minutes in where the officials are being tested to check that they are not taking opium..

Japan

There are many movies and television dramas set around samurai stories. Movies which are linked to this period include the 13 Assassins, The Hidden Blade and Yojimbo which are set in the 1860s.