"Let's start studying history! First, spread out the map."

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“This is why China and Japan are different from our country!”
From China to the nomadic world, Asia's geopolitical situation at a glance!

With 29.35 million cumulative views and a peak of 1.84 million, the book "World History Under the Guidance of Mr. Doo," which encompasses the knowledge gathered from the popular YouTube channel "Mr. Doo's History Factory," has returned with an East Asian edition, following its Western edition.
Following the Western section, which delved into the history intertwined with geography from the United States and Europe to the Middle East and Africa, the Eastern section provides knowledge encompassing the entire world, looking at China, Central Eurasia, and Southeast Asia.

How did China come to occupy such a vast territory and boast such a large population? How did Koreans, who began their civilization in Manchuria, settle on the Korean Peninsula? Why did Buddhism, a world religion, disappear from India, where it originated? Why do most Southeast Asian countries that achieved independence similar to ours after World War II remain developing nations?

Maps and geography are not simply about the appearance of the land.
It is a window to the past and a blueprint for reading the future.
To properly study 'real' history, we must first understand geography, which contains the stories of mountain ranges and seas.
This book contains the author's characteristically humorous explanations that even those unfamiliar with history can understand at a glance, along with a wealth of visual aids in the form of 45 illustrated color maps.
This book will correct your perception that history is long and boring and maps are complicated and difficult to read.

When explaining the geography of China, the first thing to know is ‘rivers.’
Because China has the most fertile plains in the world, and the Han people have enjoyed the richest history based on those plains, rivers have great historical and geographical significance.
If you know just the rivers of China, you can understand half of Chinese geography and maps.


The concept of 'nation' itself is a cultural concept rather than a blood concept.
It's a 'question of identity', how I define myself.
And Chinese history is also a process that shows how the Han Chinese identity expanded.
In fact, Chinese history is a history of ‘pongdang pongdang’.
The period of division, confusion, and unification keeps repeating itself.
After a period of chaos, a unified dynasty is established for 200 to 400 years, and when that country falls, chaos returns, and a unified dynasty is established again. This pattern continues.
--- From "China, an Empire Made by Geography, an Empire Confined by Geography"

In 663 AD, Baekje was destroyed when the Baekje revival forces were defeated in the Battle of Baekchon River at the mouth of the Geumgang River.
After the Battle of Baekchon River, the connection between the Korean Peninsula and the Japanese archipelago was severed, and as territorial consciousness bordering the Japanese archipelago grew stronger, the prototype of the national consciousness called Japan was born.

The name Euljiro comes from General Eulji Mundeok.
When the old-style army revolted in 1882 (Imo Incident), the Qing army suppressed it. As a result of this incident, Qing officials dispatched to Joseon began to reside in Euljiro, and Korea's first Chinatown was formed.
When changing place names to Korean names after liberation, the decision to name this road after General Eulji Mundeok was made because they wanted to suppress the Chinese's momentum, just like General Eulji Mundeok, who defeated the Sui army in the Battle of Salsu.
--- From "Close yet Distant Neighbors, Korea and Japan"

The most significant geographical feature that distinguishes South Asia from other regions is the Himalayas.
South Asia was originally a huge island that collided with the Eurasian continent about 50 million years ago, and the Himalayas, the 'roof of the world', were created as a result of that collision.

When the Soviet Union collapsed, the five Central Asian countries became independent, but the last secretaries appointed by the Soviet Union became the presidents of the five independent countries and have maintained their power hereditarily until recently.
The countries created by the Soviet Union are still politically and economically dependent on Russia.
Border disputes and ethnic conflicts still occur between the five countries.
A representative example is the Fergana Basin, where the borders of five countries are intertwined.

--- From "Teachers of the East and the West, South Asia and Central Eurasia"

Southeast Asia is a good place to lump together as one region.
But it is said that Southeast Asians do not actually share a common identity.
Historically, no single country had any significant influence over the entire Southeast Asia, and being located between the two great civilizations of India and China, it was heavily influenced by both regions.


Compared to the history of our country, which, while influenced by China, consistently pursued its own independence and, since the modern era, sought its own possibilities in the gap between continental and maritime powers, the history of Southeast Asia does not feel so unfamiliar.

--- From "Between India and China, Southeast Asia"