Buku "Why? Perkembangan Masyarakat Tradisional Asia Timur" ini menjelaskan perjalanan pembangunan Kerajaan Mongol dengan rajanya Jenghis Khan, dan kerajaan yang terbentuk setelahnya seperti negara Ming dan Qing, kekaisaran yang terdapat di daerah Jepang dan India, lalu penyebaran agama Islam hingga ke Asia Tenggara.
The civilization of Japan is an ancient one, and by the time the first Western visitors arrived in 1542, the Japanese people were as highly educated as any in the world and enjoyed a sophisticated culture. From the sixteenth century on, the country's history was shaped by a tension between its people's thirst to understand foreign institutions and customs and their determination to assert and p…