China. Excerpt from The Art of War, Chapter 1 ; The Doctrine of the Mean, Section 2 ; Excerpts from the Dao De Jing ; "Lessons for Women" ; Report from China ; The Hongwu Emperor's Edict ; Chinese Emperor's Rejection of British Trade Request ; Treaty of Nanking ; An Account of U.S.-China Trade Negotiations, 1844 ; Economic Program of the Taiping Rebels ; China's Hundred Days' Reform ; Boxer Protocol ; Sun Yat-sen: "The Three Stages of Revolution" ; Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty ; Mao Zedong on the "Correct Handling of Contradictions among the People" ; Constitution of Tibet ; Documents Relating to Normalization of Relations between the United States and the People's Republic of China ; Letter from a Chinese "Rusticant" ; U.S. Embassy Cables Concerning the Crackdown in Tiananmen Square -- Japan and Korea. From The Tale of Genji ; From The Tale of the Heike ; Convention of Kanagawa ; Meiji Charter Oath ; Open Door Note ; The Treaty of Portsmouth ; Japan's 21 Demands and China's Reply ; Korean Declaration of Independence ; The Problem of Japan--A Japanese View ; Henry Stimson to Senator Borah Regarding the Nine-Power Treaty ; United States-Japan Security Treaty ; Fourteen-Part Message from Japan to the United States and Secretary Hull's Response ; Mutual Defense Treaty between the United States and the Republic of Korea ; Kim Il Sung--"On Eliminating Dogmatism and Formalism and Establishing Juche in Ideological Work" -- India. The Edicts of King Ashoka ; The Duties of a King, from the Arthashastra ; The Laws of Manu, Chapter 1 ; Excerpt from the Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 1 ; An Account of India and the Great Moghul ; India Regulating Act ; Karl Marx on British Rule in India ; Mohandas Gandhi: Statement at Trial ; Jawaharlal Nehru--Speech on the Occasion of Indian Independence ; Indira Gandhi: "What Educated Women Can Do" -- Southeast Asia. Henry Cabot Lodge: Speech on the Retention of the Philippine Islands ; "Subjugation of the Philippines Iniquitous" ; President Sukarno's Address at the Bandung Conference ; Geneva Accords on Indochina ; "The Path of Revolution in the South" ; President Ngô Đình Diệm: Address to U.S. Congress ; Message from Ho Chi Minh ; Conversation between Presidents Nixon and Thiêu ; Story from the Khmer Rouge Killing Fields.