Introduction to non-western history

[Rodion Romanovich]

History books here are way too focused on Europe, Middle East and North Africa (and America of course, once you get past the Rennaissance), and not much about the rest. I thought it would be interesting to gain some more knowledge about other regions of the world, and I was wondering if anyone could recommend good sources for the region I intend to start with: East Asia. I'm interested in both very rough chronology/timeline links for overview, and more in-depth descriptions. Primarily everything up to around 1900 would be interesting, with the greatest focus on all periods before and up to around 1700.