一般注記1. Introduction -- pt. I Before imperialism -- 2. Prehistory and the first Indian civilizations -- 3. The development of Indian culture : Hinduism and Buddhism -- 4. Early South-east Asia : the ships from India -- 5. China : the eternal nation -- 6. Early Japan and the Tang Dynasty in China -- 7. The awakening of Europe and the challenge of Islam -- 8. Flood tide in China : the song, Mongol and Ming Dynasties -- 9. China : Ebb tide -- 10. The three makers of Japan and the Tokugawa period -- pt. II The 'White Man's Burden' -- 11. The dominators and the dominated -- 12. South-east Asia : the European and Chinese impacts -- 13. The Malay world : Majapahit and Malacca -- 14. Indonesia : the last independent kingdoms and the extension of Dutch rule -- 15. India under two masters : the Grand Moguls and the East India Company -- 16. Gandhi's India: the struggle for liberty -- pt. III The modern nations -- 17. The Second World War and the end of empire -- 18. South Asia : freedom and poverty -- 19. India -- 20. Pakistan -- 21. Bangladesh -- 22. Afghanistan -- 23. The mountain states : Nepal and Bhutan -- 24. Sri Lanka -- 25. China : two revolutions -- 26. Modern China : the communist state -- 27. Taiwan : Chinese or not? -- 28. Mongolia -- 29. Indonesia and Timor-Leste -- 30. Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei -- 31. Japan : the iron triangle -- 32. Thailand : two hats, the struggle for democracy -- 33. The Philippines : trouble in paradise -- 34. Korea : divided nation -- 35. Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia -- 36. Burma : rule by the gun -- 37. The Asian century?
Previous edition: 2005.