Warren I. Cohen is Distinguished University Professor of History at University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC and Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He is the author of several books, including East Asian Art in American Culture and America Response to China: A History of Sino-American Relations, both published by Columbia.
A superb and readable introduction to the region's history. Foreign Affairs Extremely ambitious... Cohen plunges right in with enviable bravado and scope. China Quarterly Stimulating and informative. Library Journal A detailed, general-reader overview of everything below Siberia and above the Himalayas, plus the offshore archipelagos and the march of Islam. With maps, time-lines and celebrity lists; without partisanship... East Asia at the Center is an intellectual feat. -- James H. Bready Baltimore Sun [Cohen] has attempted the impossible with East Asia at the Center and largely succeeded. His book is an absorbing corrective to the Eurocentric view that dominates most thinking about the world. The Japan Times I recommend that all who are curious about or who have a professional interest in East Asia read this book. -- Lewis Bernstein Military Review A successful attempt to rpovide a useful aid to students in area studies . -- Andrea Campana Acta Koreana Vol. 4 2001