Heinemann Outcomes Studies of Asia

Structured around a series of double and four-page units (each of which includes questions and activities), this source-based text will encourage students to develop the key skills of investigation, participation and communication in line with recent curriculum documents.

• Chapter 1: A Survey of Asia
• What is Asia?
• Asia — A religious region
• Conflict in Asia — Sri Lanka
• Asia - Unity and division
• Myanmar — A case study in human rights
• Health issues in the Asian region — HIV/AIDS
• The literature of Asia
• Chapter 2: Australia’s Relations with Asia
• Australia’s historic and geographic links with Asia
• Australian perceptions of Asia
• Asian perceptions of Australia
• Australia reaches out — Development assistance in Asia
• Australia’s trade with Asia
• Migration from Asia to Australia
• Exporting education to Asia
• Two-way tourism
• Chapter 3: China
• China — All under heaven
• Confucianism and Taoism
• Early Chinese technology — The spirit of invention
• Chinese cosmology
• Chinese exploration
• End of empire
• The Chinese city — Singapore, Hong Kong and Shanghai
• Chinese communities across the world
• Taiwan
• The last dynasty
• Communists, Nationalists and war
• Invasion and war 1937–49
• Communist China
• China — To get rich is glorious
• Shaking the foundations — The Beijing massacre 1989
• The environment
• Chapter 4: Vietnam
• Birth of the nation
• Early Vietnamese kingdoms and Chinese control
• Vietnamese heroines — Resisting the invader
• Vietnam — A rice culture, a rich culture
• The push south
• European contact
• The French take control
• The struggle against France
• The American war
• The My Lai 4 massacre
• Winning the peace
• Vietnam — A developing country
• Chapter 5: Indonesia
• Unity in diversity
• The kings of Java
• The jewel in the colonial crown
• The calm before the storm — Indonesia 1900–41
• 'Asia for the Asians’ — Japanese invasion
• The struggle for independence
• The year of living dangerously — 1965
• The Soeharto era 1966-98
• The invasion of East Timor
• The Dili Massacre 1991 — A case study in human rights
• Australia–Indonesia relations
• Chapter 6: Cambodia
• Temples and kingdoms
• Angkor Wat and the power of rice
• Decline of empire
• French colonialism and the struggle for independence
• Sihanouk — The changing prince
• Into the fire
• The reign of terror
• The ‘killing fields’
• Refuge and war 1979–91
• Building the peace
• Cambodia — Problems without end?
• The culture of the Khmer
• Chapter 7: Japan
• Japan — Children of the sun
• Shogun and samurai
• The Tokugawa period and contact with the world
• The Meiji restoration
• The new Japan
• Case study — The factory women of Japan
• Women in modern Japanese society
• Colonisation of Korea
• The road to war
• Wartime 1941–45
• Hiroshima and Nagasaki — Right or wrong?
• The Japanese economic miracle
• Minamata — The costs of change
• Having fun — Japanese popular culture
• Australia–Japan relations
• Chapter 8: An Asian Future
• Megacities
• Legacies for the future.

Key features:

• extensive use of full colour
• a wide range of questions and activities in unit, linked to the visual and textual sources
• a variety of fresh source material not found in other texts
• Key Terms, Did You Know? and Country Profile boxes
• chapter openings which include a short introduction, chapter outcomes and content summary
• end-of-chapter review pages, which include extension activities
• on-going references to Australia’s cultural, political and economic links with Asia.

Selected sample pages from Heinemann Outcomes Studies of Asia.