© Columbia University Press
East Asia at the Center: Four Thousand Years of Engagement with the World
Paper, 528 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-10109-7
$29.00
/ £17.00
January, 2001
Cloth, 528 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-10108-0
$83.50
/ £49.00
"[Cohen] has attempted the impossible with East Asia at the Center and largely succeeded. His book is an absorbing corrective to the Eurocentric view that dominates most thinking about the world." — The Japan Times
"A detailed, general-reader overview of everything below Siberia and above the Himalayas, plus the offshore archipelagos and the march of Islam. With maps, time-lines and celebrity lists; without partisanship....East Asia at the Center is an intellectual feat." — James H. Bready, Baltimore Sun
"A superb and readable introduction to the region's history." — Foreign Affairs
"Stimulating and informative." — Library Journal
"Extremely ambitious . . . Cohen plunges right in with enviable bravado and scope." — China Quarterly
"I recommend that all who are curious about or who have a professional interest in East Asia read this book." — Lewis Bernstein, Military Review
"A successful attempt to rpovide a useful aid to students in "area studies"." — Andrea Campana, Acta Koreana
"Warren I. Cohen is one of the most perceptive, knowledgeable and prolific historians in the world today on the subjects of China and East Asia. He writes with the clarity of a journalist and the wide-ranging authority of a scholar." — James Mann, foreign-affairs columnist for the Los Angeles Times, author of About Face
"An ambitious project that takes much courage, stamina, and intellectual acumen to undertake. It is evident that Cohen has all three." — Akira Iriye, Harvard University
"This is, in all respects, a truly amazing study! . . . Only a seasoned, talented—and audacious—writer would attempt what Warren I. Cohen has." — Robert J. McMahon, University of Florida