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Theoretical Overview
Cycles and Cycling
Before Empire: State Formation in China and Proto-states Elsewhere
The Creation of Stable Dynastic Empires in East and Southeast Asia
High Empire: The Glory Days of Early Medieval Eastern Asia
The Rise of Central Asia: Coastal Golden Ages Increasingly Threatened by Conquest Dynasties from the Deep Interior
The Mongol Conquests of China and Korea and Invasion of Japan
Long-Lived Dynasties: Ming and Its Contemporaries
The Early Modern Period in the East Asian World-System
Lessons: Factors Driving the Rise and Fall of Dynasties
Comparisons: Cycles and Empires in Agrarian Worlds
What East Asia's Dynamics Teach Us about Climate, Society, and Change in the Modern and Future World.
Cycles and Cycling
Before Empire: State Formation in China and Proto-states Elsewhere
The Creation of Stable Dynastic Empires in East and Southeast Asia
High Empire: The Glory Days of Early Medieval Eastern Asia
The Rise of Central Asia: Coastal Golden Ages Increasingly Threatened by Conquest Dynasties from the Deep Interior
The Mongol Conquests of China and Korea and Invasion of Japan
Long-Lived Dynasties: Ming and Its Contemporaries
The Early Modern Period in the East Asian World-System
Lessons: Factors Driving the Rise and Fall of Dynasties
Comparisons: Cycles and Empires in Agrarian Worlds
What East Asia's Dynamics Teach Us about Climate, Society, and Change in the Modern and Future World.