Peoples and Traditional Civilizations of East, Central, South, and Southeast Asia

For each nation or group of peoples covered in this division, the outline treats first of the geography and ethnography and then moves into the chronology of the respective civilization: Sections 931 and 932 outline the Chinese dynasties from the Ch'in through the late Ch'ing (mid- 19th century).

Section 933 deals with the peoples of inner Asia and the steppe and covers the early histories of Manchuria, Turkistan, and Afghanistan; of the Mongol Empire and its successor states; and of Tibet and Nepal. ...

Section 934 outlines the character and achievements of the Japanese and Korean civilizations from their beginnings until the Meiji Restoration of 1868 and the Japanese annexation of Korea in 1910.

Sections 935 and 936 treat of the civilizations of the Indian subcontinent, of the early political units of India and Ceylon, the period of Muslim hegemony, the Mughal and Maratha empires, and, for Ceylon, the arrival of the Portuguese in 1505. .

Section 937 deals with the peoples and civilizations of Southeast Asia, including the histones of Burma, Siam, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Malaya, as well as the islands of the Indonesian Archipelago, until c. 1600.