East Asia Research Guides
East Asia Research Guides
https://guides.library.harvard.edu/EAS
https://libguides.princeton.edu/ealresearch/chinese/graduate#s-lg-box-5920186
https://guides.library.columbia.edu/eastasian/introduction
https://guides.lib.berkeley.edu/east-asian
https://guides.library.yale.edu/c.php?g=296192&p=6800358
https://library.soas.ac.uk/
https://www.bl.uk/subjects/east-asia
https://www.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/boa/research/index_en.html
https://www.eastasianlib.org/newsite/
https://www.loc.gov/rr/main/religion/asian.html
https://www.fhac.com.cn/index.html
http://www.shac.net.cn/
https://www.npm.gov.tw/
https://aslib.sinica.edu.tw/
https://mmis.hkpl.gov.hk/municipal-councils-archives-collection
https://www.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/en/
http://www.toyo-bunko.or.jp/toyobunko-e/
http://www.ucdrs.superlib.net/
http://www.nlc.cn/
· Tanner, Harold Miles. China: A History. Indianapolis: Hackett Pub., 2009.
· Lipman, Jonathan Neaman., Barbara Molony, and Michael Edson Robinson. Modern East Asia: An Integrated History. London: Laurence King, 2011.
· Rowe, William T., and Timothy Brook. China's Last Empire: The Great Qing. Cambridge, U.S.A.: Harvard University Press, 2010
· Naughton, B., The Chinese Economy, Transitions and Growth (MIT Press, 2007).
· Spence, J. D., The Search for Modern China (New York: W.W. Norton, 1990).
· Richardson, Philip. Economic Change in China, C.1800–1950. New Studies in Economic and Social History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Chang, Michael G. A Court on Horseback: Imperial Touring & the Construction of Qing Rule, 1680-1785. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2007, Introduction.
Elliott, Mark C. The Manchu Way: The Eight Banners and Ethnic Identity in Late Imperial China. Stanford, Calif., Stanford, Ca: Stanford University Press, 2001, Introduction Chapter.
Rhoads, Edward J. M. Manchus [and] Han: Ethnic Relations and Political Power in Late Qing and Early Republican China, 1861 - 1928. Studies on Ethnic Groups in China. Seattle [u.a.]: Univ of Washington Press, 2000
Kishimoto, Mio. ‘Property Rights, Land, and Law in Imperial China, in Law and Long-Term Economic Change, ed. Debin Ma and Jan Luiten van Zanden. California: Stanford University Press, 2011, 68–90
Zhang, Taisu. The Laws and Economics of Confucianism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017, Introduction.
Huang, Philip C. ‘Civil Adjudication in China, Past and Present, Modern China 32, no. 2 (2006): 135–80
Zelin, Madeleine. The Magistrate's Tael: Rationalizing Fiscal Reform in Eighteenth-century Ch'ing China. Berkeley, Calif. ; London: University of California Press, 1985.
Ho, Ping–ti. The Ladder of Success in Imperial China, Aspects of Social Mobility, 1368–1911. New York: Columbia University Press, 1962. Chs 3 and 5.
Elman, B. A.. Civil Examinations and Meritocracy in Late Imperial China. Harvard University Press, 2013. Part II.
Chang, Chung-li. The Chinese Gentry: Studies on Their Role in Nineteenth-Century Chinese Society. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1955. Chs 2 and 3.
Brandt, Loren and Barbara Sands. "Beyond Malthus and Ricardo: Economic Growth, Land Concentration, and Income Distribution in Early Twentieth Century China." Journal of Economic History 50 (Dec 1990), 807-827.
Chao, Kang “The Growth of a Modern Cotton Textile Industry and the Competition with Handicrafts” (pp. 167 – 201 only) in Perkins (ed.) China’s Modern Economy in Historical Perspective.
Rawski, T. “The Growth of Producer Industries, 1900-1971” (pp. 203-221 only) in Perkins (ed.) China’s Modern Economy in Historical Perspective.
Zelin, M. “The firm in early Modern China.” Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 71 (2009), 623–637.
Morck, Randall. and Fan Yang “The Shanxi Banks”, NBER working paper http://www.nber.org/papers/w15884.pdf
Li Tan, “Market-Supporting Institutions, Gild Organisations, and the Industrial Revolution: a Comparative View” Australian Economic History Review, Vol. 53, No. 3, Nov. 2013.
Mann, Susan. “Ningpo pang and financial power at Shanghai Finance” in M. Elvin and G.W. Skinner (eds.) The Chinese City Between Two Worlds. Stanford Univ. Press, 1974, 73-96. reprinted in R.A. Brown ed. Chinese Business Enterprise, II., 358-383.
Denzer-Speck, D. Freiburg/Br., 2009: “Currency Competition in China Between 1850 and 1950”, Kredit und Kapital, 42. NO.3，327-351.
Kuroda, A., “The Collapse of the Chinese Imperial Monetary System” chapter 5 in Sugihara, K., ed. (2005) Japan, China, and the Growth of the Asian International Economy, 1850-1949.
Ma, Junya, “Traditional Finance and China’s Agricultural Trade, 1920-1933” Modern China. Vol. 34, No. 3, July 2008, 344-371.
Nathan, Andrew. “A constitutional republic: the Peking government, 1916–28” Chapter 5 in The Cambridge History of China, Volume 12, Republican China 1912–1949, Part 1. Pp. 256-283. Cambridge University Press, 1983.
Dikotter, Frank. Age of Openness, China before Mao. Chapter 2, Open Governance.
Kirby, William C. "Engineering China: The Origins of the Chinese Developmental State." In Becoming Chinese, edited by Wen-hsin Yeh, 137-160. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.
Elvin, M. “The Gentry Democracy in Chinese Shanghai, 1905-14” chapter 2 in J. Gray (ed.) Modern China’s Search for a Political Form. Oxford University Press (1969), also reprinted as chapter 5 in Another History by Mark Elvin. Wild Peony 1996.
Dernberger, R.F., “The Role of the Foreigner in China’s Economic Development, 1840-1949” in Perkins, D. (ed.) (1975) China’s Modern Economy in Historical Perspective.
Hou, C. M. Foreign Investment and Economic Development in China 1840-1937. Harvard Univ Press, 1965. Ch 6.
Eiichi, Motono Conflict and Cooperation in Sino-British Business, 1860-1911. St. Antony’s College. Oxford. Macmillan Press. 2000. pp. 1- 13 (Introduction) and pp. 166-170 (Conclusion).
Jansen. Marius B. “Japan and the Chinese revolution of 1911.” The Cambridge History of China Vol. 11, part 2: Late Ch'ing, 1800–1911. LSE ebook
Duus, Peter. “Japan’s Informal Empire in China, 1895-1937: An Overview” Introduction in The Japanese Informal Empire in China, 1895-1937. (Edited by Duus, Myers, and Peattie) pp. xi-xxix.
Duus, Peter. “Zaikabo: Japanese Cotton Mills in China, 1895-1937.” in The Japanese Informal Empire in China, 1895-1937. Edited by Duus, Myers, and Peattie pp.65-100. Chapter 3
Naughton, Barry. “Pattern and Legacy of Economic Growth in the Mao Era”, in Perspectives on Modern China. Edited by Lieberthal, Kallgren, MacFarquhar, Wakeman. chapter10
Bernstein, T.P. “Chinese Communism in the Era of Mao Zedong, 1949-1976”. Chapter 12 in Perspectives on Modern China. Edited by Lieberthal, Kallgren, MacFarquhar, Wakeman.
Bramall, Chris. “Social Capability and the Capital Stock at the End of the Maoist Era.” in Sources of Chinese Economic Growth, 1978-1996. chapter 6
Yang, Dali. Calamity and Reform in China. Stanford Univ. Press. 1996, ch. 1 & 2.
Yang, Dennis. “China's Agricultural Crisis and Famine of 1959–1961: A Survey and Comparison to Soviet Famines.” Comparative Economic Studies (2008) 50, 1–29.
Kung and Chen, “The Tragedy of the Nomenclature: Career Incentives and Political Radicalism during China’s Great Leap Famine” The American Political Science Review. 105 (1) (Feb. 2011),: 27–45
Walder, Andrew and Yang Su. “The Cultural Revolution in the Countryside: Scope, Timing and Human Impact.” The China Quarterly, 2003.
Zhong, Deng and Donald J. Treiman. “The Impact of the Cultural Revolution on Trends in Educational Attainment in the People's Republic of China.” The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 103, No. 2 (September 1997), pp. 391-428.
Han, Dongping. “The Impact of the Cultural Revolution on Rural Education and Economic Development.” Modern China, 27 (1) (2001).: 59-90.
Zhu, Xiaodong. “Understanding China's Growth: Past, Present, and Future.” Journal of Economic Perspectives—Volume 26, Number 4—Fall 2012—Pages 103–124.
Naughton, Barry. “A Political Economy of China’s Economic Transition.” in China’s Great Economic Transformation. Chapter 4.
Xu, Chenggang. “The Fundamental Institutions of China’s Reforms and Development,” The Journal of Economic Literature, 2011, 49:4, sections 1 & 2. http://www.sef.hku.hk/~cgxu/04_Xu.pdf
Vogel, Ezra F. Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2013.
Lin, J. Y. “Rural Reforms and Agricultural Growth in China,” American Economic Review 82 (1) (1992),: 34-51.
Li, Hongbin and Li-An Zhou. “Political Turnover and Economic Performance: The Incentive Role of Personnel Control in China.” Journal of Public Economics, 89 (9-10) (2005),: 1743-1762.
Victor Shih, C. Adolph and M. Liu. “Getting Ahead in the Communist Party: Explaining the Advancement of Central Committee Members in China” in American Political Science Review. Feb 2012, pp 166-187