"Learn the powerful story of Pacific Asia over the last 150 years. This global approach looks at how exploration and economic expansion of the region mutually transformed East and West. Contemporary and archival films and photographs add drama to the unforseen rise of the Pacific Basin as an epicenter of global commerce. THE PACIFIC CENTURY is ideal for Asian studies or related area studies and for educators who want to combine history with contemporary economics and politics."

Titles- The Two Coasts of China, Meiji - Asia's Response to the West, From The Barrel of a Gun, Writes and Revolutionaries, Reinventing Japan, Inside Japan Inc., Big Business and The Ghost of Confucius, The Fight for Democracy, Sentimental Imperialists - America in Asia, The Future of the Pacific Basin