books.google.co.uk - "Charles Holcombe begins his extraordinarily ambitious book by asking the question "What is East Asia?" In the modern age, many of the features that made the region - now defined as including China, Japan, and Korea - distinct have been submerged by the effects of revolution, politics, or globalization....http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/A_History_of_East_Asia.html?id=rHeb7wQu0xIC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareA History of East Asia
