Book List
Confucianism
William Theodore de Bary, The Liberal Tradition in China.
Simon Leys, The Analects of Confucius.
Ray Dawson, Confucius
Don y. Lee, An Outline of Confucianism
Rod Taylor, The Way of Heaven
Wm. Theodore de Bary, Confucianism and Human Rights
Daoism
Holmes Welch, The Parting of the Way
John Lagerway, Taoist Ritual in Chinese Society and History
N. J. Girardot, Myth and Meaning in Early Taoism.
Buddhism
Arthur Wright, Buddhism in Chinese History
Ken Chen, Buddhism in China
Military
Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Bruce Swanson, Eighth Voyage of the Dragon
John Gittings, The Role of the Chinese Army
Alexander George, The Chinese Communist Army in Action
C. Dennison Lane, Chinese Military Modernization
Ellis Joffe, The Chinese Army after Mao
Inventions/Technology/Language
John DeFrancis, The Chinese Language
Dynasties
Arthur Wright, The Sui Dynasty
Charles Hartman, Han Yu and the T'ang Search for Unity
Edward Dreyer, Early Ming China
Charles Hucker, China's Imperial Past
Chao Lin, The Socio-political Systems of the Shang
Wang Zhong Shu, Han Civilization
Hugh Scott, Golden Age of Chinese Art: The Lively T'ang Dynasty
Sterling Seagrave, The Soong Dynasty
Chi-ching Hsiao, Military Establishment of the Yuan Dynasty
Richard J. Smith, China's Cultural Heritage, The Qing Dynasty
David Johnson, Popular Culture in Late Imperial China
Modernization
Ranbir Vohra, The Path to Modernization
Michael Gasster, China's Struggle to Modernize
People
Ross Terrill, Mao
Peter Carter, Mao
Jonathan Spence, Emperor of China-Self Portrait of Kang-hsi
Harold Schriffin, Sun Yat-sen and the Origins of the Chinese Revolution
C. Martin Wilbur, Sun Yat-sen: Frustrated Patriot
Harrison Salisbury, The New Emperors
John Gurley, China's Economy and the Maoist Strategy
Zhisui Li with Anne Thurston, The Private Life of Chairman Mao
Stuart Schram, The Political Thought of Chairman Mao
Earnest Young, The Presidency of Yuan Shih-kai
Robert Payne, Chiang Kai-shek
Owen Lattimore, China Memoirs
Maurice Meisner, The Deng Era
David Chang, Zhuo Enlai and Deng Xiao Ping
May 4th
Chou Tse-tung, The May 4th Movement
Opium Wars
Peter W. Fay, The Opium War, 1840-42
Fred Wakeman Jr., Strangers at the Gate
Taiping Rebellion/Rebellions
Jen Yuwen, The Taiping Revolutionary Movement
Elisabeth Perry, Chinese Perspectives on the Nien Rebellion
Joseph Esherick, The Origins of the Boxer Uprising
Jonathan Spence, God's Chinese Son
Arthur Waley, The Opium Wars
Henry K. Boyd, The Boxer Rebellion
General
Kenneth Lieberthal, Governing China
Paul Cohen, Reform in Nineteenth Century China
Bette Bao Lord, Legacies: A Chinese Mosaic
Jonathan Spence, The Search for Modern China
Orville Schell, In the People's Republic
John H. Gray, China, A History of the Laws, Manners and Customs
Lucian Pye, China, An Introduction
Pearl S. Buck, China As I See It
Robert Dernberger, The Chinese, Adapting the Past, Building the Future
John Starr, Understanding China
John King Fairbank, Mao and China
Kung-Chuan Hsiao, A Modern China and A New World
Tsao Hsueh-chin, The Dream of the Red Chamber
Charles Pomeroy, Chinese Eunuchs
David Goodman, China Rising
Gerald Segal, Defending China
Elisabeth Croll, ed., China's One Child Family Policy
Edward Schafer, Ancient China
Arthur Cotterrell, China, A Cultural History
Franz Michael, China Through the Ages
Paul Ropp, Heritage of China: Contemporary Perspectives
Helen Foster Snow, My China Years
Michael Dutton, Policing and Punishment in China
Gender
Phyllis Andors, The Unfinished Liberation of Chinese Women
Jonathan Spence, Death of Woman Wang
Marilyn Young, ed., Women in China
Christine K. Gilmartin, Engendering the Chinese Revolution
Howard Levy, Chinese Footbinding
Kay Ann Johnson, Women, the Family and Peasant Revolution in China
Communism
Doak Barnett, Communist China: The Early Years
James P. Harrison, The Long March to Power
Harrison Salisbury, The Long March
Benjamin Schwartz, Chinese Communism and the Rise of Mao
Edgar Snow, Red Star Over China
Benjamin Schwartz, Communism and China
Mao, The Chinese Revolution and the CCP
Arthur Cohen, The Communism of Mao
Andres Onate, Chairman Mao and the CCP
Revolution
Lucien Bianco, Origins of the Chinese Revolution
Harold Isaac, The Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution
Jonathan Spence, The Gate of Heavenly Peace
C. Martin Wilbur, The Nationalist Revolution in China
Jean Chesneaux, From the 1911 Revolution to Liberation
Mary Wright, China in Revolution
Joseph Esherick, Reform and Revolution in China
Michael Gasster, Chinese Intellectuals and the Revolution of 1911
John King Fairbank, The Great Chinese Revolution
Hsi Cheng Chi, Nationalist China At War
Cultural Revolution
Yuan Gao, Born Red: A Chronicle of the Cultural Revolution
Roderick MacFarquhar, The Origins of the Cultural Revolution
Anita Chan, Children of Mao
Tang Tsu, The Cultural Revolution
Stanley Karnow, Mao and China
China and the West
Sam P. Ho, China's Open Door Policy
Jonathan Spence, The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci
Jacques Gernet, China and the Christian Impact
Fred Drake, China Charts the World
John King Fairbank, The U. S. and China
Orville Schell, Watch out for the Foreign Guests! China Encounters the West
Peasants
Daniel Kelliher, Peasant Power in China
Jean Oi, Rural China Takes Off
Jean Chesneaux, Peasant Revolts in China
Philip Huang, The Peasant Economy and Social Change in North China
E. N. Anderson, The Food of China
Great Wall
Arthur Waldron, The Great Wall of China: From History to Myth
Tiananmen Square
Harrison Salisbury, Tiananmen Square
World Wars
Edward Dreyer, China at War
Iris Chang, The Rape of Nanjing
Art/Music
Jessica Rawson, Ancient China: Art and Archaeology
Michael Sullivan, Art and Artists of the 20th Century
Ming-yueh Liang, The Chinese Chin: Its History and Music
K. C. Chang, Art, Myth and Ritual
Education
Thomas Lee, Government Education and Exams in Sung China
John Chaffee, Thorny Gates of Learning in Sung China
Tibet
Melvyn Goldstein, The Snow Lion, and the Dragon: China, Tibet and the Dalai Lama