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4 | Confucianism and Ecology: The Interrelation of Heaven, Earth, and Humans | 1998 | Confucianism demonstrates a remarkable wealth of resources for rethinking human–earth relations. This second volume in the series on religions of the world and the environment includes 16 essays that address the ecological crisis and the question of Confucianism from three perspectives: the historical describes this East Asian tradition’s views of nature, social ethics, and cosmology, which may shed light on contemporary problems; a dialogical approach links Confucianism to other philosophic and religious traditions; an examination of engaged Confucianism looks at its involvement in concrete ecological issues. | 378 pg. | Tucker, Mary Evelyn and John Berthrong (editors) | Harvard University Press | Asia | ||||||||||||||||||
5 | Empowering Global Citizens: A World Course | 2016 | The world is changing rapidly and schools must evolve to prepare young people to invent the future. Reinventing education requires thinking anew about how to help students develop competencies that will empower them as architects of their own lives and contributing members of their communities. | 422 pg. | Reimers, Fernando, et al. | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | Misc. | ||||||||||||||||||
6 | Patterns of East Asian History | 2020 | Examines large patterns in the development of East Asian history from earliest times to the present. | 512 pg. | Desnoyers, Charles A. | Oxford University Press | Asia | ||||||||||||||||||
8 | Saddharma-Pundarika or The Lotus of the True Law | 1963 | Dutch scholar Hendrik Kern offers a rare translation of the Lotus Sutra directly from the Sanskrit. Rather than starting from the Chinese of Kumarajiva, Kern worked principally from a manuscript written on palm leaves in Nepal in 1039. | 454 pg. | H. Kern | Dover Publications | Asia | ||||||||||||||||||
9 | The End of the Asian Century: War, Stagnation, and the Risks to the World's Most Dynamic Region | 2018 | A provocative reassessment of Asia's ride, revealing the growing risks of war and economic decline that could spell the end of the "Asian Century." | 279 pg. | Auslin, Michael R. | Yale University Press | Asia | ||||||||||||||||||
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11 | "Tell the World": What Happened in China and Why | 1989 | China's greatest investigative reporter offers an eloquent and powerful account of the momentous events shaking China today. Here is the story of China's turbulent spring and the forces which shaped it, told by three former members of the Chinese Communist Party. "Tell the World" begins with a vivid eye-witness account of the way Chinese saw, felt, and participated in this extraordinary mass movement. It then portrays the bitter conflicts among Chinese leaders and depicts the inner working of the power at the top, carefully explaining who took what positions and why. Finally, in "Tell the World: we find not onl a revealing account of the era of Deng Xiaoping - an era marked by its conflicting currents for and against reform - but also a startling assessment of Deng's real legacy. The authors let us see the reasons underlying this outpouring of protest and praphically delineate the crisis China now faces after its bloody suppression. With the integrity and insight that have characterized their lives and work, the authors capture this cucial moment in CHinese history and suggest why unheaval will continue as China strugglest o find its own way to overcome the staggering problems in confronts today. | 195 pg. | Liu Binyan | Pantheon Books | China | ||||||||||||||||||
13 | A History of Modern Chinese Fiction (Second Edition) | 1974 | This new and fully corrected edition includes an epilogue discussing post-1957 Communist fiction in the context of the Great Cultural Revolution, and an appendix presenting Mr. Hsia's reflections on the moral burden of modern Chinese literature. | 701 pg. | C. T. Hsia | Yale University Press | China | ||||||||||||||||||
15 | Anyuan: Mining China's Revolutionary Tradition | 2012 | How do we explain the surprising trajectory of the Chinese Communist revolution? Why has it taken such a different route from its Russian prototype? An answer, Elizabeth Perry suggests, lies in the Chinese Communists' creative development and deployment of cultural resources--during their revolutionary rise to power and afterward. Skillful "cultural positioning" and "cultural patronage" on the part of Mao Zedong, his comrades, and successors helped to construct a polity in which a once-alien Communist system bame to be accepted as familiarly "Chinese." | 392 pg. | Perry, Elizabeth J. | University of California Press | China | ||||||||||||||||||
18 | Camel Xiangzi | 1986 | Camel Xiangzi is a classic novel of modern China written by the famous author, Lao She, during the 1930s. The story focuses on the life of an honest and industrious rickshaw boy, Ciangzi, who suffers the cruel oppression common to the poor in "old" Beijing. Being young, strong and self-confident, Xiangzi wants nothing more than to save enough money to buy a rickshaw of his own to pull, rather than be bullied by those who own and rent rickshaws. He begins to build a decent life for himself when the woman he marries helps him buy a rickshaw. But his life takws a tragic turn when his wife dies, and he is forced to sell the rickshaw to pay off debts. Faced with nothing but personal misery and social corruption, Xiangzi is China's labouring class epitome of the disintegration of a human soul. | 236 pg. | Lao She | Foreign Languages Press | China | ||||||||||||||||||
19 | Chairman Mao Talks to the People | 1974 | This fascinating collection of Chairman Mao's speeches, writings, and interviews spans the years from the mid-1950s through the Cultural Revolution and the demise of Lin Piao. The texts, superbly translated by John Chinnery and Tieyun, can be appreciated as the expression of Mao Tse-tung's thinking about various economic, political, and philosophical problems; as historical documents contributng to our knowledge of events in Chinafrom 1956 to 1971; and as lively and entertaining prose which projects a vivid image of one of the most remarkable personalities of our time. | 352 pg. | Schram, Stuart, editor | Pantheon Books | China | ||||||||||||||||||
20 | China Made: Consumer Culture and the Creation of the Nation | 2003 | "Chinese people should consume Chinese products!" This was the slogan of a movement in early twnetieth-century china that sought to instill a concept of china as a modern "nation" with its own "national products." From fashions in clothing to food additives, from museums to department stores, from product fairs to advertising, this movement aimed to link consumerism and nationalism. But Chinese were reluctant to heed the call, especially when less expensive or better-made imports were available. Anti-imperialist boycotts, commemorations of national humiliations, exhibitions of Chinese products, the villification of treasonous consumers, and the promotion of Chinese captains of industry helped enforce nationalistic consumption and spread the message--patriotic Chinese bought goods made of Chinese materials by Chinese workers in factories owned and run by Chinese. | 445 pg. | Karl Gerth | Harvard University Asia Center | China | ||||||||||||||||||
24 | China's Intellectuals: Advise and Dissent | 1981 | Suppression and thaw have marked the course of communism in China. Merle Goldman traces that shifting pattern over the last decades of Mao's regime, linking it to the unique role of the intellectual in government. Her engrossing account of the relations between the intelletuals and the governing elites provides a map of understasdning to some recent events in the turbulent history of the People's Republic. | 276 pg. | Merle Goldman | Harvard University Press | China | ||||||||||||||||||
25 | Chinese Customs | 1987 | 223 pg. | Dore, Henry | Graham Brash (Pte) Ltd | China | |||||||||||||||||||
26 | Chinese Family and Society | 1968 | A thoughtful analysis of Chinese family life and social structures up to 1937. The first and briefer part presents the old China. The bulk of the book describes developments since the end of the Empire. Every facet of the changes in thought and modes of living is covered. Especially rewarding are the views on education and religion. | 395 pg. | Lang, Olga | Archon Books | China | ||||||||||||||||||
28 | Contemporary China: Between Mao and Market | 2016 | This overview of Chinese politics, economy, and society by a leading scholar offers a deeply informed assessment of China’s last decade—its debates and political infighting, its rising and assertive international profile, and the forceful initiatives taken by Xi Jinping, who is proving to be China’s strongest leader since Mao and Deng. François Godement moves from the inner workings of the Party elite to the economic policies that have made China the world’s factory while fueling growing inequality. He explains the recent turn of China’s foreign policy to assertiveness, showing its roots in domestic political competition. He illustrates this trend with the case of Sino-Japanese relations, which have fluctuated wildly since the start of the reform era in 1978. Providing rare and vivid insights into the trenches of Chinese politics, the book illuminates dramatic corruption cases, behind-the-scenes decision-making processes, and a political and intellectual establishment torn between political reform and nationalism. It will be of interest not only to academics and students but also to general readers interested in China’s political scene beyond the headlines. | 266 pg. | Godement, Francois | Rowman & Littlefield | China | ||||||||||||||||||
31 | Education, Culture, & Identity in Twentieth-Century China | 2001 | Educational pursuits run like a rich thread through the fabric of China's tubulent twentieth century. From the founding of China's first modern school system in the late Qing dynasty through the republican era to the latest education developments in the People's Republic of China, this book seeks to understand how developments in education contributed to, and were in turn influenced by, cultural patterns and the ongoing search for identity by individuals, collectives, and states. Its sixteen contributors explore three themes that have enlived China studies in recent years: sino-foreign interactions, state-society relations, and gender representation and identification. | 498 pg. | Glen Peterson, Ruth Hayhoe, Yonging Lu (editors) | University of Michigan Press | China | ||||||||||||||||||
35 | Huadong: The Story of a Chinese People's Commune | 1978 | This topical and concise report on one commune in China's innovative commune system is designed to present key features of the system as a whole. The range of source materials-collected as a project of the Texas China Council and the University of Texas Center for Asian Studies-includes official Chinese documents, criticisms of a prominent regional leader published during the Cultural Revolution, official statements to foreign visistors at Huadong, observations about the commune by foreign visitors and journalists, and recollections by local emigres. The author emphasizes the personal views of commune residents, and calls attention to important changes over the last few years. The sixty-five photographs included in the book give a vivid sense of everyday life at Huadong. | 197 pg. | Gordon Bennett, Ken Kieke, Ken Yoffy | Westivew Press | China | ||||||||||||||||||
37 | Mao's War Against Nature: Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary China | 2001 | In clear and compelling prose, Judith Shapiro relates the great, untold story of China in the Mao years - the devastating impact of Maoist politics on China's environment. Under Mao, the traditional Chiense ideal of "Harmony between the Heavens and Humankind" was abrogated in favor of Mao's insistence that "Man Must Conquer Nature." Mao and the Chinese Communist Party's "war" to bend the physical world to human will often had disastrous consequences for both human beings and the natural environment. Mao's War Against Nature argues that the abuse of people and the abuse of nature are often linked. | 287 pg. | Judith Shapiro | Cambridge University Press | China | ||||||||||||||||||
40 | Nation, Governance, and Modernity in China: Canton, 1900-1927 | 1999 | This is the first detailed study in English of the city of Canton (Guangzhou), the cradle of the Chinese revolution, in the first quarter of the twentieth century. In retracing various fragments of the city's history in this period, the book argues that modernist politics as practiced by the Nationalists and Communists represented a specific political rationality embedded in the context of a novel conception of the social realm. | 275 pg. | Michael Tsin | Stanford University Press | China | ||||||||||||||||||
41 | Old Madam Yin: A Memoir of Peking Life | 1979 | A portrait of a prominent widow and her family provides insights into the social and cultural milieu of Peking during the 1920s and 1930s as well as describing the lifestyles of the wealthy class | 129 pg. | Pruitt, Ida | Stanford University Press | China | ||||||||||||||||||
43 | Rebels and Revolutionaries in North China 1845-1945 | 1980 | Why do peasants rebel? In particular, why do some peasants rebel and not others? Starting from the fact that only in certain geographical areas does rebellion seem to recur persistently, the author examines three notable rebel movements in one such area in China: Huaipei, a region of poor soil and unstable weather bounded by the Huai and Yellow rivers. | 324 pg. | Elizabeth J. Perry | Stanford University Press | China | ||||||||||||||||||
49 | Steps of Perfection: Exorcistic Performers and Chinese Religion in Twentieth-Century Taiwan | 2003 | Despite Taiwan's rise as an economic force in the world, modernity has not led to a Weberian process of disenchantment or curbed religiosity. To the contrary, other factors--social, economic, political--have stimulated religion. How and why this has happened are central issues in this book. | 418 pg. | Sutton, Donald S. | Harvard University Press | China | ||||||||||||||||||
51 | Tai Chi Ch'uan: The Technique of Power | 1976 | This book is an introduction and a reference guide to the study of Tai Chi Ch'uan. It offers inspiration to the beginner, and for those already involved in Tai Chi it is a source book, opening the way to a study of the philosophy that gives meaning and substance to the exercise. The book features sections discussing Tai Chi's connections to meditation, Taoism, dance, performance, the I Ching, health, mysticism and more. | 233 pg. | Horwitz, Tem, Susan Kimmelman, and H. H. Lui | Chicago Review Press | China | ||||||||||||||||||
52 | Tao Qian and the Chinese Poetic Tradition: The Quest for Cultural Identity | 1994 | While Tao Qian’s unique position in Chinese literature is uncontested, there has been much debate over the relationship between Tao’s poetry and the life he lived and over the poet’s place within the literary and intellectual traditions of his time. Kwong’s nuanced analysis draws upon the full range of traditional Chinese literary scholarship and intellectual history as well as recent advances in Western literary criticism, hermeneutics, and comparative literature. | 281 pg. | Kwong, Charles Yim-tze | Center for Chinese Studies at The University of Michigan | China | ||||||||||||||||||
54 | Teachers of the Inner Chambers: Women and Culture in Seventeenth-Century China | 1994 | Rejecting popular image and accepted scholarship on the status of women in premodern China, this pathbreaking work argues that literate gentrywomen in seventeenth-century Jiangnan were far from oppressed or silenced. As writers, readers, editors, and teachers, these women created a rich culture and meaningful existence from within the constraints of the male-dominated Confucian system. The author reconstructs the social, emotional, and intellectual worlds of these women from the interstices between ideology, practice, and self-perception. | 395 pg. | Dorothy Ko | Stanford University Press | China | ||||||||||||||||||
59 | The Pattern of the Chinese Past: A Social and Economic Interpretation | 1973 | A satisfactory comprehensive history of the social and economic development of pre-modern China, the largest country in the world in terms of population, and with a documentary record covering three millennia, is still far from possible. The present work is only an attempt to disengage the major themes that seem to be of relevance to our understanding of China today. In particular, this volume studies three questions. Why did the Chinese Empire stay together when the Roman Empire, and every other empire of antiquity of the middle ages, ultimately collapsed? What were the causes of the medieval revolution which made the Chinese economy after about 1100 the most advanced in the world? And why did China after about 1350 fail to maintain her earlier pace of technological advance while still, in many respects, advancing economically? The three sections of the book deal with these problems in turn but the division of a subject matter is to some extent only one of convenience. These topics are so interrelated that, in the last analysis, none of them can be considered in isolation from the others. | 346 pg. | Elvin, Mark | Stanford University Press | China | ||||||||||||||||||
60 | The Rise of Modern China (Sixth Edition) | 1999 | Now in its sixth edition, this book has been updated to examine the return of Hong Kong in 1997 and the upcoming return of Macao in 1999. Hsü discusses the end of the last vestiges of foreign imperialism in China, as well as China's emergence as a regional and global superpower. U.S.-China rivalry and the prospect of unification between China and Taiwan are also considered. | 1052 pg. | Immanuel C. Y. Hsu | Oxford University Press | China | ||||||||||||||||||
66 | Three Ways of Thought in Ancient China | 2004 | In the fourth century BC three conflicting points of view in Chinese philosophy recieved classic expression: the Taoist, the Confucianist, and the "Realist." | 216 pg. | Arthur Waley | Stanford University Press | China | ||||||||||||||||||
67 | Twentieth-Century China: New Approaches | 2003 | Twentieth-Century China: New Approaches is an important revisionist study of China's recent past. The chapters throw light on a variety of subjects within the field which has recently undergone considerable change. The four major parts of this Reader take into account the historical shape of the century, local perspectives on national history, political language, and the upheavals that punctuated the last dozen years of China's turbulent twentieth century. | 272 pg. | Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom (editor) | Routledge | China | ||||||||||||||||||
73 | The Road to Democracy: Taiwan's Pursuit of Identity | 1999 | If Taiwan is not a sovereign state, what is it? On an island about the size of the state of West Virginia, Taiwan's people have build a modern insutrial democracy. Over the past decade they have produced "twin miracles" of economic development and political reform under the leadership of the author, President Lee Teng-hui of the Republic of China (ROC). | 229 pg. | Lee Teng-hui | PHP Institute, Inc. | China/Taiwan | ||||||||||||||||||
74 | Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
76 | Bankei Zen | 1990 | 196 pg. | Peter Haskel | Grove Press | Japan | |||||||||||||||||||
80 | Days to Remember: An Account of the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | 1981 | N/A | 36 pg. | Committee of Japanese Citizens | N/A (?) | Japan | ||||||||||||||||||
81 | Dogen's Manuals of Zen Meditation | 1988 | 259 pg. | Carl Bielefeldt | University of California Press | Japan | |||||||||||||||||||
83 | Japan Prepares for Total War: The Search for Economic Security, 1919-1941 | 1987 | The roots of Japan's aggressive, expansionist foreign policy have often been traced to its concern over acute economic vulnerability. Historian Michael Barnhart tests this assumption by examining the events leading up to World War II in the context of Japan's quest for economic security. Drawing on a wide array of Japanese and American sources, this is the first English-language book on the war's origins to be based on research in archives on both sides of the Pacific. | 290 pg. | Barnhart, Michael A. | Cornell University | Japan | ||||||||||||||||||
85 | Japanese Lessons: A Year in a Japanese School through the Eyes of an American Anthropologist and Her Children | 1997 | Americans regard the Japanese educational system and the lives of Japanese children with a mixture of awe and indignation. We respect a system that produces higher literacy rates and superior math skills, but we reject the excesses of a system tat appears to leave children with little free time and few outlets for creativity and self-expression. | 262 pg. | Benjamin, Gail R. | New York University Press | Japan | ||||||||||||||||||
88 | Nippon: The Land and Its People | 1993 | 475 pg. | Takashi Momose, Megumi Tateyama | Nippon Steel Corporation / Gakuseisha Publishing Co. | Japan | |||||||||||||||||||
89 | Nitobe Inazo: The Twilight Years | 1985 | The final years of the Japanese educator, author and international civil servant, Nitobe Inazo, began in triumph and ended in tragedy. Nitobe arrived home in Japan early in 1927 after he had retired from his post as an under-secretary at the League of Nations. He died six years later on a trip to Canada. At the time of his death, his name was a household word in Japan, and he was probably the most famous Japanese outside the homeland. Over seven hundred people came out to a memorial service in Vancouver three days after his death. More than a thousand went to Yokohama to meet his ashes at the dock. And over three thousand signed the book of condolence at the time of his public funeral in Tokyo. | 174 pg. | Eiichiro, Uchikawa | Christian Literature Society | Japan | ||||||||||||||||||
90 | Philosophy Live: A Perspective from Japan | 2018 | 172 pg. | Sueki Fumihiko | International Research Center for Japanese Studies | Japan | |||||||||||||||||||
91 | Research on Art and Music in Japan | 2007 | 331 pg. | Patricia Fister, Hosokawa Shuhei (editors) | International Research Center for Japanese Studies | Japan | |||||||||||||||||||
92 | School Education in Japan | 2001 | 57 pg. | Ishizaka Kazuo | International Society for Educational Information | Japan | |||||||||||||||||||
93 | Shots in the Dark | 2009 | 290 pg. | Shoji Yamada | University of Chicago Press | Japan | |||||||||||||||||||
98 | The Origins of Entrepreneurship in Meiji Japan | 1964 | 354 pg. | Johannes Hirschmeier | Harvard University Press | Japan | |||||||||||||||||||
100 | The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Protest Music after Fukushima | 2015 | Nuclear power has been a contentious issue in Japan since the 1950s, and in the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster, the conflict has only grown. Government agencies and the nuclear industry continue to push a nuclear agenda, while the mainstream media adheres to the official line that nuclear power is Japan's future. Public debate about nuclear energy is strongly discouraged. Nevertheless, antinuclear activism has swelled into one of the most popular and passionate movements in Japan, leading to a powerful wave of protest music. | 433 pg. | Manabe, Noriko | Oxford University Press | Japan | ||||||||||||||||||
103 | Two Zen Classics - Mumokan & Hekiganroku | 1977 | 413 pg. | Katsuki Sekida (translator) | Weatherhill | Japan | |||||||||||||||||||
104 | Ukiyo-e: Beautiful Women and Actors 2 (in Japanese) | 1966 | 143 pg. | Seichiro Takahashi | Kodansha Co. | Japan | |||||||||||||||||||
105 | Ukiyo-e: Beautiful Women and Actors 7 (in Japanese) | 1966 | 143 pg. | Oka Isaburo, Suzuki Juzo | Kodansha Co. | Japan | |||||||||||||||||||
106 | What I Want to Know About Japan (2 copies available) | 1996 | 80 pg. | Japan Information Center | Consulate General of Japan at New York | Japan | |||||||||||||||||||
113 | Korea |