This website is a resource to accompany Pacific Century: The Emergence of Modern Pacific Asia, Third Edition, by Mark Borthwick. The Pacific Century project was created by the Pacific Basin Institute, now based at Pomona College, for integrated text and video learning in college-level instruction related to modern Pacific Asia.  This site provides

Summaries and Vocabularies for each textbook chapter.
Faculty support materials.
Pacific Century videos

Videos are viewed with a password obtained from the course instructor. (for details, see Faculty.)                No password is required to view the trailer for the video supported telecourse.

Chapter titles

1. Dynasties, Empires, and Ages of Commerce
2. Seaborne Barbarians: Incursions by the West
3. Meiji: Japan in the Age of Imperialism

4. The Rise of Nationalism and Communism

5. Maelstrom: The Pacific War and Its Aftermath
6. Miracle by Design: The Postwar Resurgence of Japan
7. The New Asian Capitalists
8. Power, Authority, and the Advent of Democracy
9. Sentimental Imperialists: America’s Cold War in Asia
10. China's Long March Toward Modernization
11. Beyond the Revolution: Indonesia and Vietnam
12. Siberian Salient: Russia in Pacific Asia
13. Asia's Resurgence and Its Global Implications