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China

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Chan-Kuo Ts'e tr. J. I, Crump, Jr. Oxford, 1970.
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Chinese Government in Ming Times: Seven Studies ed. Charles O. Hucker. New York, 1969.
Chinese Poems tr. Arthur Waley. London, 1946.
Circle of Chalk, The tr. Frances Hume. London, 1954.
Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean tr. James Legge. New York, 1893.
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Farmer, Edward L., Early Ming Government: The Evolution of Dual Capitals. Cambridge, 1976.
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Fung Yu-lan, A History of Chinese Philosophy tr. Derk Bodde, Volume 1. Princeton, 1952.
Fung Yu-lan, A Short History of Chinese Philosophy ed. Derk Bodde. New York, 1948.
Genius of the Oriental Theater, The ed. G. L. Anderson. New York, 1966.
Gernet, Jacques, A History of Chinese Civilization. Cambridge, 1982.
Giles, Herbert A., A History of Chinese Literature. New York, 1928.
Golden Casket, The tr. Christopher Levenson. Middlesex, 1964.
Granet, Marcel, Chinese Civilization. New York, 1958.
Great Literature of the Eastern World ed. Ian P. McGreal. New York, 1996.
Great Thinkers of the Eastern World ed. Ian P. McGreal. New York, 1995.
Guan, Hanqing, Selected Plays of tr. Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang. Beijing, 1979.
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Holt, Edgar, The Opium Wars in China. Chester Springs, 1964.
Hong Sheng, The Palace of Eternal Youth tr. Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang. Beijing, 1980.
Hsia, C. T., The Classic Chinese Novel. Bloomington, 1980.
Hua-Ching Ni, Hua Hu Ching: The Later Teachings of Lao Tzu. Boston, 1995.
Huang, Ray, 1587: A Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline. New Haven, 1981.
Hucker, Charles O., The Censorial System of Ming China. Stanford, 1966.
Hulsewé, A. F. P., China in Central Asia: The Early Stage: 125 BC-AD 23. Leiden, 1979.
Hung, Josephine Huang, Ming Drama. Taipei, 1966.
Hsu, Cho-yun, Ancient China in Transition. Stanford, 1965.
Hsu, Immanuel C. Y., The Rise of Modern China. New York, 1983.
Humanist Way in Ancient China, The: Essential Works of Confucianism ed. Ch'u Chai and Winberg Chai. New York, 1963.
I Ching, The tr. Richard Wilhelm and Cary F. Baynes. Princeton, 1967.
I Ching: Book of Changes tr. James Legge, ed. Ch'u Chai. New York, 1964.
I-Li or Book of Etiquette and Ceremonial, The tr. John Steele. Taipei, 1966.
Imperial China: The Decline of the Last Dynasty and the Origins of Modern China ed. Franz Schurmann and Orville Schell. New York, 1967.
Importance of Understanding, The, tr. Lin Yutang. Cleveland, 1960.
Jen Yu-wen, The Taiping Revolutionary Movement. New Haven, 1973.
Kahn, Harold L., Monarchy in the Emperor's Eyes: Image and Reality in the Ch'ien-lung Reign. Cambridge, 1971.
Kao, Ming, The Lute tr. Jean Mulligan. New York, 1980.
K'ung Shang-jen, The Peach Blossom Fan tr. Chen Shih-hsiang and Harold Acton. Berkeley, 1976.
Lai Ming, A History of Chinese Literature. New York, 1964.
Lee, Sherman E., A History of Far Eastern Art. Englewood Cliffs, no date.
Legacy of China, The ed. Raymond Dawson. London, 1964.
Li Chi (Book of Rites) tr. James Legge, Introduction by Ch'u Chai and Winberg Chai. New Hyde Park, 1967.
Li, Dun J., The Ageless Chinese. New York, 1978.
Li Ju-chen, Flowers in the Mirror tr. Lin Tai-yi. Berkeley, 1965.
Li Ki, The tr. James Legge, 2 volumes. Delhi, 1885.
Li Xueqin, Eastern Zhou and Qin Civilizations. New Haven, 1985.
Li Yu, Jou Pu Tuan tr. Franz Kuhn and Richard Martin. New York, 1963.
Liang Ch'I-ch'ao, Intellectual Trends in the Ch'ing Period tr. Immanuel C. Y. Hsu. Cambridge, 1959.
Lieh-Tzu, A Taoist Guide to Practical Living ed. Eva Wong. Boston, 1995.
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Luo Guanzhong, Three Kingdoms tr. Moss Roberts. Berkeley, 1991.
Lynn, Richard John, Kuan Yun-Shih. Boston, 1980.
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Martin, H. Desmond, The Rise of Chingis Khan and his Conquest of North China. New York, 1950.
Mei, Yi-pao, Motse: The Neglected Rival of Confucius. Westport, 1934.
Mencius tr. W. A. C. H. Dobson. Toronto, 1963.
Mencius tr. D. C. Lau. Baltimore, 1970.
Mencius, The Works of tr. James Legge. New York, 1894.
Meng Chengshun, Mistress & Maid tr. Cyril Birch. New York, 2001.
Modern China from Mandarin to Commissar ed. Dun J. Li. New York, 1978.
Morgan, David, The Mongols. Oxford, 1986.
Morgan, Evan, Tao The Great Luminant: Essays from Huai Tan Tzu. New York, 1969.
Morse, Hosea Ballou, The International Relations of the Chinese Empire, Volume 1: The Period of Conflict 1834-1860. Ewell, 1910.
Mote, F. W., Imperial China 900-1800. Cambridge, 1999.
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Motse, The Ethical and Political Works of tr. Yi-pao Mei. London, 1929.
Origins of Chinese Civilization, The ed. David N. Keightley. Berkeley, 1983.
Paludan, Ann, Chronicle of the Chinese Emperors. London, 1998.
Pan Ku, The History of the Former Han Dynasty tr. Homer H. Dubs, 2 volumes. Baltimore, 1938, 1944.
Peffer, Nathaniel, The Far East. Ann Arbor, 1958.
Plum in the Golden Vase, The or, Chin P'ing Mei, Volume One: The Gathering tr. David Tod Roy. Princeton, 1993.
Poetry and Prose of the Ming and Qing. Beijing, 1986.
Polo, Marco,The Travels tr. Ronald Latham. Middlesex, 1958.
Pong, David, Shen Pao-chen and China's Modernization in the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge, 1994.
Qü Yüan and other poets, The Songs of the South, tr. David Hawkes. New York, 1985.
Readings in Modern Chinese History ed. Immanuel C. Y. Hsu. New York, 1971.
Reischauer, Edwin O. and John K. Fairbank, East Asia: The Great Tradition. Boston, 1958.
Roberts, J. A. G., A Concise History of China. Cambridge, 1999.
Romance of the Western Chamber, The tr. S. I. Hsiung. New York, 1968.
Rossabi, Morris, Khubilai Khan: His Life and Times. Berkeley, 1988.
Rowe, William T., Saving the World: Chen Hongmou and Elite Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century China. Stanford, 2001.
Sacred Books of China, The: The Texts of Confucianism: Part I: The Shu King, Shih King, and Hsiao King tr. James Legge. Delhi, 1879.
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Secret of the Golden Flower, The tr. Richard Wilhelm. San Diego, 1962.
Shang Yang's Reforms and State Control in China ed. Li Yu-ning. White Plains, 1977.
Shen Fu, Six Records of a Floating Life tr. Leonard Pratt and Chiang Su-hui. Middlesex, 1983.
Shih, Chung-Wen, The Golden Age of Chinese Drama: Yuan Tsa-chu. Princeton, 1976.
Shih, Chung-Wen, Injustice to Tou O: A Study and Translation. Cambridge, 1972.
Sima Qian, Records of the Grand Historian of China: Qin Dynasty, 2 volumes tr. Burton Watson. Hong Kong, 1993.
Six Yüan Plays tr. Liu Jung-en. Middlesex, 1972.
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Spence, Jonathan D., God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Ziuquan. New York, 1996.
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Ssu-ma Ch'ien, Records of the Grand Historian of China: Han Dynasty, 2 volumes tr. Burton Watson. New York, 1961.
Ssu-ma Ch'ien, Records of the Historian: Chapters from the Shih Chi tr. Burton Watson. New York, 1969.
Statecraft and Intellectual Renewal in Late Ming China ed. Catherine Jami et al. Brill, 2001.
Sun Tzu, The Art of War ed. James Clavell. New York, 1983.
Sze, Mai-mai, The Way of Chinese Painting. New York, 1959.
T'ai Hsuan Ching: The Hidden Classic, The tr. Derek Walters. Northamptonshire, 1983.
Tang Xianzu, The Peony Pavilion tr. Cyril Birch. Bloomington, 1980.
Taoist I Ching, The tr. Thomas Cleary. Boston, 1986.
Temple, Robert, The Genius of China. New York, 1986.
T'ien Ju-k'ang, Male Anxiety and Female Chastity: A Comparative Study of Chinese Ethical Values in Ming-Ch'ing Times. Leiden, 1988.
Traditional Chinese Plays, Volumes 1-2 tr. A. C. Scott. Madison, 1967, 1969.
Tsao Hsueh-chin, Dream of the Red Chamber tr. Chi-Chen Wang. Garden City, 1958.
Tsao Hsueh-chin and Kao Ngoh, The Dream of the Red Chamber tr. Franz Kuhn and Florence and Isabel McHugh. New York, 1958.
Tso chuan, The: Selections from China's Oldest Narrative History tr. Burton Watson. New York, 1989.
Tung Yueh, Tower of Myriad Mirrors tr. Shuen-fu Lin and Larry J. Schulz. Berkeley, 1978.
Turnbull, Stephen, Genghis Khan & the Mongol Conquests 1190-1400. New York, 2003.
Voices from the Ming-Qing Cataclysm tr. Lynn A. Struve. New Haven, 1993.
Waley, Arthur, The Opium War Through Chinese Eyes. Stanford, 1958.
Waley, Arthur, Three Ways of Thought in Ancient China. Garden City, 1939.
Waley, Arthur, Translations from the Chinese. New York, 1941.
Wallacker, Benjamin E., The Huai-nan-tzu, Book Eleven: Behavior, Culture and the Cosmos. New Haven, 1962.
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Watson, Burton, Ssu-ma Ch'ien: Grand Historian of China. New York, 1958.
Weatherford, Jack, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World. New York, 2004.
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Wisdom of Confucius, The ed. Lin Yutang. New York, 1943.
Woo, X. L., Empress Dowager Cixi. New York, 2002.
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Worldly Wisdom: Confucian Teachings of the Ming Dynasty tr. J. C. Cleary. Boston, 1991.
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Wu, Ch'eng-en, The Journey to the West, 4 volumes tr. Anthony C. Yu. Chicago, 1977-1983.
Wu, Ch'eng-en, Monkey tr. Arthur Waley. New York, 1943.
Wu Ching-tzu, The Scholars tr. Yang Hsien-yi and Gladys Yang. New York, 1972.
Xunzi, 3 volumes tr. John Knobleck. Stanford, 1988-1994.
Yearley, Lee H., Mencius and Aquinas. Albany, 1990.
Yuan Hung-tao, Pilgrim of the Clouds: Poems and Essays from Ming China tr. Jonathann Chaves. New York, 1978.

Korea

Anthology of Korean Literature From Early Times to the Nineteenth Century ed. Peter H. Lee. Honolulu,1990.
Chung, Chai-sik, A Korean Confucian Encounter with the Modern World: Yi Hang-no and the West. Berkeley, 1995.
Cumings, Bruce, Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History. New York, 1997.
Haboush, JaHyun Kim, The Confucian Kingship in Korea. New York, 2001.
Hulbert, Homer Bezaleel, History of Korea, 2 volumes. New York, 1962.
Ilyon, Samguk Yusa: Legends and History of the Three Kingdoms of Ancient Korea tr. Tae-Hung Ha and Grafton K. Mintz. Seoul, 1972.
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Joe, Wanne J., Traditional Korea: A Cultural History. Seoul, 1972.
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Kim, Yongkoo, The Five Years' Crisis, 1866-1871. Inchon, 2001.
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Tennant, Roger, A History of Korea. London, 1996.
Woo-keun, Han, The History of Korea tr. Lee Kyung-shik. Seoul, 1970.
Yi (Lee), Ki-baek, A New History of Korea tr. Edward W. Wagner and Edward J. Shultz. Seoul, 1984.

Japan

Anthology of Japanese Literature ed. Donald Keene. New York, 1955.
Art of Kabuki, The: Famous Plays in Performance tr. Samuel L. Leiter. Berkeley, 1979.
Aston, W. G., A History of Japanese Literature. Rutland, 1972.
Basho, Matsuo, The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches tr. Nobuyuki Yuasa. London, 1966.
Beard, Mary R. The Force of Women in Japanese History. Washington, 1953.
Beasley, W. G., The Meiji Restoration. Stanford, 1972.
Cambridge History of Japan, The, Vol. 3 ed. Kozo Yamamura. Cambridge, 1990.
Cambridge History of Japan, The, Vol. 4 ed. John Whitney Hall. Cambridge, 1991.
Cambridge History of Japan, The, Vol. 5 ed. Marius B. Jansen. Cambridge, 1989.
Chikamatsu: 5 Late Plays tr. C. Andrew Gerstle. New York, 2001.
Chikamatsu, Major Plays of tr. Donald Keene. New York, 1961.
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18th Century Japan: Culture and Society ed. C. Andrew Gerstle. Richmond, 1989.
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Ihara Saikaku, Five Women Who Love Love tr. Wm. Theodore de Bary. Rutland, 1956.
Ihara Saikaku, The Japanese Family Storehouse tr. G. W. Sargent. London, 1959.
Ihara Saikaku, The Life of an Amorous Man tr. Kengi Hamada. Rutland, 1964.
Ihara Saikaku, The Life of an Amorous Woman and Other Writings tr. Ivan Morris. Toronto, 1963.
Ihara Saikaku, This Scheming World tr. Masanori Takatsuka and David C. Stubbs. Rutland, 1965.
Ikku Jippensha, Shanks' Mare (Tokaido volumes of the Hizakurige) tr. Thomas Satchell. Rutland, 1960.
Imperial Japan 1800-1945 ed. Jon Livingston et al. New York, 1973.
Jansen, Marius B., The Making of Modern Japan. Cambridge, 2000.
Japanese No Dramas tr. Royall Tyler. London, 1992.
Kaibara Ekken, The Way of Contentment tr. Ken Hoshino. London, 1913.
Kabuki: Five Classic Plays tr. James R. Brandon. Cambridge, 1975.
Keene, Donald, Seeds in the Heart: Japanese Literature from Earliest Times to the Late Sixteenth Century. New York, 1993.
Keene, Donald, World Within Walls: Japanese Literature of the Pre-modern Era 1600-1867. New York, 1976.
Kenko, Essays in Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa tr. Donald Keene. New York, 1967.
Kerr, George H., Okinawa: The History of an Island People. Rutland, 1958.
Lee, Sherman E., A History of Far Eastern Art. Englewood Cliffs, no date.
Leonard, Jonathan Norton, Early Japan. New York, 1968.
Lu, David J., Japan: A Documentary History. New York, 1997.
Mishima, Yukio, The Way of the Samurai tr. Kathryn Sparling. New York, 1977.
Mitford, A. B. (Lord Redesdale), Tales of Old Japan. Rutland, 1966.
Morris, Ivan, The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan. New York, 1964.
Murdoch, James, A History of Japan, Volumes 1-3. London, 1926.
Nakai, Kate Wildman, Shogunal Politics: Arai Hakuseki and the Premises of Togugawa Rule. Cambridge, 1988.
Peasant Uprisings in Japan: A Critical Anthology of Peasant Histories tr. Anne Walthall. 1991.
Penguin Book of Japanese Verse, The tr. Geoffrey Bownas and Anthony Thwaite. Middlesex, 1964.
Personality in Japanese History ed. Albert M. Craig and Donald H. Shively. Berkeley, 1970.
Reischauer, Edwin O. and John K. Fairbank, East Asia: The Great Tradition. Boston, 1958.
Reischauer, Edwin O. and Joseph Yamagiwa, Translations from Early Japanese Literature. Cambridge, 1964.
Ryokan, Great Fool: Zen Master Ryokan Poems, Letters, and Other Writings tr. Ryuichi Abe and Peter Haskel. Honolulu, 1996.
Sansom, George, A History of Japan to 1334. Tokyo, 1958.
Sansom, George, A History of Japan 1334-1615. Tokyo, 1961.
Sansom, George, A History of Japan 1615-1867. Tokyo, 1963.
Sandom, G. B., The Western World and Japan. New York, 1949.
Shapers of Japanese Buddhism tr. Gaynor Sekimori. Tokyo, 1994.
Smith, Bradley, Japan: A History in Art. New York, 1964.
Sources of Japanese Tradition, 2 volumes ed. Ryusaku Tsunoda et al. New York, 1958.
Sugawara and the Secrets of Calligraphy tr. Stanleigh H. Jones, Jr. New York, 1985.
Suzuki, D. T., Manual of Zen Buddhism. London, 1974.
Suzuki, Daisetz T., Zen and Japanese Culture. New York, 1959.
Takeda Izumo, Myoshi Shoraku, and Namiki Senryu, Chushingura tr. Donald Keene. New York, 1971.
Tale of the Heiki, The tr. Kitagawa Hiroshi. Kyoto, 1975.
Ten Foot Square Hut and Tales of the Heiki, The tr. A. L. Sadler. Rutland, 1972.
Tokekoshi, Yosoburo, The Economic Aspects of the History of the Civilization of Japan, Volume 3. London, 1930.
Twenty Plays of the No Theatre ed. Donald Keene. New York, 1970.
Ueda Akinari, Tales of the Spring Rain tr. Barry Jackman. Tokyo, 1975.
Uyeda Akinar, Tales of Moonlight and Rain tr. Kengi Hamada. New York, 1971.
Waley, Arthur, The No Plays of Japan. New York, 1920.
Wiley, Peter Booth with Korogi Ichiro, Yankees in the Land of the Gods: Commodore Perry and the Opening of Japan. New York, 1990.
Wind in the Pines: Classical Writings of the Way of Tea as a Buddhist Path ed. Dennis Hirota. Fremont, 1995.
Yasuda, Kenneth, Masterworks of the No Theater. Bloomington, 1989.
Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees tr. Stanleigh H. Jones, Jr. New York, 1993.
Young, Blake Morgan, Ueda Akinari. Vancouver, 1982.
Zen Works of Stonehouse: Poems and Talks of a Fourteenth Century Chinese Hermit tr. Red Pine. San Francisco, 1999.
Zenkei Shibayama, Zen Comments on the Mumonkan tr. Sumiko Kudo. New York, 1974.

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Shang, Zhou and the Classics
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China 7 BC to 1279
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