User:Madalibi/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.

The Bronze Age in China
Erlitou, Shang polity, writing (oracle bones), Mandate of Heaven

Warfare and philosophy
Confucius, Daoism, iron age, technology

The beginning of imperial China
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
Dunhuang documents, cultural florescence, multi-ethnic empire