User:Madalibi/History of East Asia

Main article: History of East Asia

New outline for what could become a great article, though it looks extremely large... Each section should be on average about 500-words long.

Important themes to consider East Asia as a whole: Buddhism, Chinese characters, contacts with inner Asia, warfare, the Mongol empire, technological and philosophical exchanges, Japanese invasions of Korea, the Manchu empire, book trade, piracy, Confucianism, state institutions, "early modernity", western imperialism, conflicts over Korea, Japanese imperialism, WWII, postwar rivalries.

Prehistory

Main articles: History of China § Prehistory, History of Korea § Prehistory, and History of Japan § Prehistory

The Bronze Age in China

Main articles: Xia dynasty, Shang dynasty, Zhou dynasty, and Bronze Age § China

Erlitou, Shang polity, writing (oracle bones), Mandate of Heaven

Warfare and philosophy

Main articles: Spring and Autumn period and Warring States period

Confucius, Daoism, iron age, technology

The beginning of imperial China

Main articles: Qin dynasty and Han dynasty

Imperial system, territorial expansion, Xiongnu, formalization of philosophical heritage

Division

Spread of Buddhism, dominance of non-Chinese groups in the north, flourishing of Daoism

Early Korea

Bronze Age, "Gojoseon", Buyeo, Goguryeo, Samhan

The Three Kingdoms of Korea and what followed

Goguryeo, Paekche, Silla, Bohai/Palhae, Silla dominance

The emergence of states in Japan

Early kingship, Nihon shoki

The Sui and Tang dynasties in China

Main articles: Sui dynasty and Tang dynasty

Dunhuang documents, cultural florescence, multi-ethnic empire