Chinese Concentration
Original Works (in translation)
Confucius, Analects. (D.C. Lau, trans.)
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching (D.C. Lau, or Stephen Mitchell, or Waley,
trans.)
Wu Cheng'en, Monkey. (Arthur Waley, trans.)
Cao Xueqin, Story of the Stone, Vol. 1 (David Hawkes, trans.)
Liu Tieh-yun, The Travels of Lao Ts'an
(Various Poets) in Burton Watson, Chinese Lyricism
Lu Xun, Selected Stories of Lu Hsun
Pa Chin, Family
Lao She, Camel Xiangzi
Shen, Congwen, Imperfect Paradise: Stories by Shen Congwen
Pai, Hsien-yung, Wandering in the Garden, Waking from a Dream
Wang, Wen-hsing, Family Catastrophe
Anthologies of Original Works
Wm. T. deBary, Sources of Chinese Tradition
Cyril Birch, Anthology of Chinese Literature
Patricia Buckley Ebrey, Chinese Civilization and Society: A
Sourcebook
Howard Goldblatt and Joseph S.M. Lau, ed., Columbia Anthology of Modern
Chinese Literature
Wu-chi Liu and Irving Lo, ed. Sunflower Splendor
Joseph S. M. Lau et. al., Modern Chinese Stories and Novellas,
1919-1949
Victor Mair, Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature
David Wang, ed., Running Wild
Secondary Works:
Geography
Beijing Surveying and Mapping Institute, Atlas of
Beijing
The Lonely Planet, China
Oxford University Press, National Economic Atlas of China
Zhao, Songqiao, Geography of China
Government, Economics, & Foreign Affairs
David Bachman, Bureaucracy, Economy, and Leadership in China:
the Institutional Origins of the Great Leap Forward
Richard Baum, Burying Mao: Chinese Politics in the Age of Deng
Harry Harding, A Fragile Relationship: the United States and China Since
1972
William Hinton, Fanshen and Shenfan
Nicholas Lardy, China in the World Economy
Kenneth Lieberthal, Governing China
Michael Mandelbaum, ed., The Strategic Quadrangle: Russia, China, Japan,
and the United States in East Asia
Maurice Meisner, Mao's China and After: A History of the People's
Republic
Carl Riskin, China's Political Economy
History
Jung Chang, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Mark Elvin, the Pattern of the Chinese Past
Ainslee T. Embree, ed., The Encyclopedia of Asian History
John K. Fairbank and Edwin O. Reischauer, China: Tradition and
Transformation
Jacques Gernet, Daily Life in China on the Eve of the Mongol
Invasion
Ray Huang, 1587 , A Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in
Decline
Charles O. Hucker, China's Imperial Past
Frederick W. Mote, Intellectual Foundations of China, 2nd ed.
Richard J. Smith, China's Cultural Heritage, 2nd ed.
Jonathan D. Spence, The Search for Modern China
John E. Wills, Jr., Mountain of Fame: Portraits in Chinse
History
Arthur F. Wright, Buddhism in Chinese History
Modern Literature
Marston Anderson, The Limits of Realism
C. T. Hsia, A History of Modern Chinese Fiction
Leo Ou-fan Lee, The Romantic Generation of Modern Chinese Writers
Jonathan Spence, The Gate of Heavenly Peace
Traditional Literature
C.T. Hsia, The Classic Chinese Novel
James J.Y.Liu, The Art of Chinese Poetry
________, Chinese Theories of Literature
Wu-chi Liu, An Introduction to Chinese Literature
Stephen Owen, The Great Age of Chinese Poetry: the High T'ang
________, Traditional Chinese Poetry and Poetics
Andrew Plaks, The Four Masterworks of the Ming Novel
Burton Watson, Early Chinese Literature
Miscellaneous
Feng Yulan, History of Chinese Philosophy
John deFrancis, The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy
Joseph Needham, Science and Civilization in China
Edward Schafer, The Vermilion Bird
Laurence G. Thompson, Chinese Religion, 5th ed.
Journals
Asian Survey
Beijing Review
China Quarterly
China Journal (formerly called The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs
)
Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews
Journal of Asian Studies
Late Imperial China
Modern China
Renditions (Translations of Literature)
Videotapes
The Genius that was China
China in Revolution, 1911-1949
The Mao Years, 1949-76
One Village in China: The Long Bow Trilogy
Works introducing various disciplines
Geography
Association of American Geographers, Annals
Kenneth Foote, et al., Re-Reading Cultural Geography
Government
"State of the Field" articles, China Quarterly 139 (Sept. 1994 issue)
History
Paul Cohen, Discovering History in China
Literature
Peter Barry, Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and
Cultural Theory
Joseph Gibaldi, ed. Introduction to Scholarship in Modern Languages and
Literatures
Frank Lentricchia, ed. Critical Terms for Literary Study
Tzvetan Todorov, Introduction to Poetics