1. CHAPTER 14
Asian Nations in Motion

2. China: The Ming Dynasty
The Early Ming Era
Ming Society and Culture in the Sixteenth Century
Ming Decline

3. Korea: The Making of a Confucian Society
The Beginning of the Chosôn Dynasty

4. Japan: From Warring States to Centralized Feudalism
Tokugawa Shogunate
Economic and Social Changes: The Western Factor
Cultural Expressions

5. Southeast Asia: States Within a Region
Burma and the Thais
Vietnam
Indonesia
Arrival of the Europeans

6. YOU SHOULD UNDERSTAND
The characteristics of Chinese culture under the Ming dynasty.
Korea under the Silla, Koryo, and Yi dynasties.

7. YOU SHOULD UNDERSTAND
What Japan was like during the Ashikaga and early Tokugawa shogunates.
The geographical influences on Southeast Asia, the outside influences that determined its direction, and the pattern of rivalries that kept the region divided.