East Asia Research Guides

Harvard Research Guide

https://guides.library.harvard.edu/EAS

Princeton University Research Guide

https://libguides.princeton.edu/ealresearch/chinese/graduate

Columbia University Research Guide

https://guides.library.columbia.edu/eastasian/introduction

UC Berkeley Research Guide

https://guides.lib.berkeley.edu/east-asian

Yale East Asia Library

https://guides.library.yale.edu/c.php?g=296192&p=6800358

SOAS, University of London

https://library.soas.ac.uk/

Library Catalogues

British Library East Asia Catalogue

https://www.bl.uk/subjects/east-asia

University of Heidelberg Catalogue

https://www.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/boa/research/index_en.html

Council of East Asian Libraries (North America)

https://www.eastasianlib.org/newsite/

Library of Congress, Asian Division

https://www.loc.gov/rr/main/religion/asian.html

The First Historical Archives of China (Qing China 1644-1912)

https://www.fhac.com.cn/index.html

The Second Historical Archives of China (20th Century China)

http://www.shac.net.cn/

Taiwan Palace Museum Archive

https://www.npm.gov.tw/

Academia Sinica Archive

https://aslib.sinica.edu.tw/

Hong Kong Municipal Archive Collection

https://mmis.hkpl.gov.hk/municipal-councils-archives-collection

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

https://www.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/en/

Toyo Bunko

http://www.toyo-bunko.or.jp/toyobunko-e/

National Diet Library, Japan

https://www.ndl.go.jp/en/

United Combined Digital Reference Services, China

http://www.ucdrs.superlib.net/

National Library of China

http://www.nlc.cn/

Reading List on Chinese History (1600-2000)

Background Reading

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: 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. Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Topic 1. Qing Government Institutions

Chang, Michael G. A Court on Horseback: Imperial Touring & the Construction of Qing Rule, 1680-1785. Harvard University Asia Center, 2007.

Elliott, Mark C. The Manchu Way: The Eight Banners and Ethnic Identity in Late Imperial China. Stanford University Press, 2001.

Rhoads, Edward J. M. Manchus and Han: Ethnic Relations and Political Power in Late Qing and Early Republican China, 1861-1928. University of Washington Press, 2000.

Topic 2. Qing Legal Frameworks, Chinese Law, and Property Rights

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. Stanford University Press, 2011, 68–90.

Zhang, Taisu. The Laws and Economics of Confucianism. Cambridge University Press, 2017.

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. University of California Press, 1985.

Alford, W. P. "Law, Law, What Law?: Why Western Scholars of Chinese History and Society Have Not Had More to Say about Its Law." Modern China 23, no. 4 (1997): 398–419.

Alford, William P. To Steal a Book Is an Elegant Offense: Intellectual Property Law in Chinese Civilization. Stanford University Press, 1995.

Altehenger, Jennifer. Legal Lessons: Popularizing Laws in the People's Republic of China, 1949–1989. Harvard Asia Center, 2018.

Angle, Stephen C. Human Rights in Chinese Thought: A Cross-Cultural Inquiry. Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Asen, Daniel. Death in Beijing: Murder and Forensic Science in Republican China. Cambridge University Press, 2016.

Bell, Daniel. East Meets West: Human Rights and Democracy in East Asia. Princeton University Press, 2000.

Bell, Daniel, et al. Towards Illiberal Democracy in Pacific Asia. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995.

Bernhardt, Kathryn. Women and Property in China, 960–1949. Stanford University Press, 1999.

Bernhardt, Kathryn and Philip Huang, eds. Civil Law in Qing and Republican China. Stanford University Press, 1994.

Biddulph, Sarah. The Stability Imperative: Human Rights and Law in China. UBC Press, 2015.

Biddulph, Sarah and Joshua Rosenzweig, eds. Handbook on Human Rights in China. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019.

Bodde, Derk and Clarence Morris. Law in Imperial China. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1967.

Brook, Timothy, Jérôme Bourgon, and Gregory Blue. Death by a Thousand Cuts. Harvard University Press, 2008.

Brown, Ronald. Understanding Chinese Courts and the Legal Process. Kluwer Law International, 1997.

Cassel, Pär Kristoffer. Grounds of Judgment: Extraterritoriality and Imperial Power in Nineteenth-Century China and Japan. Oxford University Press, 2012.

Chan, Johannes M.M., et al., eds. Hong Kong's Constitutional Debate. Hong Kong University Press, 2000.

Ch'en, Paul Heng-chao. Chinese Legal Tradition Under the Mongols: The Code of 1291. Princeton University Press, 1979.

Chen, Albert. An Introduction to the Legal System of the People's Republic of China. Buttersworth Asia, 1998.

Chen, Li. Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes: Sovereignty, Justice, and Transcultural Politics. Columbia University Press, 2015.

Chen, Qi. Governance, Social Control and Legal Reform in China. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

Chen, Titus and Dingding Chen, eds. International Engagement in China's Human Rights. Routledge, 2016.

Cheng, Hongming. Financial Crime in China. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Ch'ien, Tuan-Shen. The Government and Politics of China. Harvard University Press, 1950.

Chu, T'ung-tsu. Law and Society in Traditional China. Paris: Mouton, 1961.

Cohen, Jerome Alan. The Criminal Process in the People's Republic of China, 1949-63. Harvard University Press, 1968.

Cohen, Jerome A., R. Randle Edwards and Fu-mei Chang Chen, eds. Essays on China's Legal Tradition. Princeton University Press, 1980.

Cong, Xiaoping. Marriage, Law and Gender in Revolutionary China, 1940–1960. Cambridge University Press, 2016.

Cook, Alexander. The Cultural Revolution on Trial. Cambridge University Press, 2016.

Corne, Peter. Foreign Investment in China: The Administrative Legal System. Hong Kong University Press, 1996.

Cui, Wei. The Administrative Foundations of the Chinese Fiscal State. Cambridge University Press, 2022.

de Bary, Wm. Theodore. Asian Values and Human Rights. Harvard University Press, 1998.

Diamant, Neil. Revolutionizing the Family. University of California Press, 2000.

Diamant, Neil J., Stanley B. Lubman, and Kevin J. O'Brien, eds. Engaging the Law in China. Stanford University Press, 2005.

Dong, Baohua. Landmark Labor Law Cases in China. Kluwer Law International, 2019.

Fang, Qiang and Xiaobing Li, eds. Corruption and Anticorruption in Modern China. Lexington Books, 2019.

Folsom, R.H. and J.H. Minan. Law in the People's Republic of China. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1989.

Goh, Bee Chen. Law Without Lawyers, Justice Without Courts. Routledge, 2016.

Goldman, Merle. From Comrade to Citizen. Harvard University Press, 2007.

Goldman, Merle and Roderick MacFarquhar, eds. The Paradox of Post-Mao Reforms. Harvard University Press, 1999.

He, Baogang. The Democratization of China. Routledge, 1996.

He, Joiahong. Back from the Dead: Wrongful Convictions and Criminal Justice in China. University of Hawai'i Press, 2016.

Head, John W. Great Legal Traditions. Carolina Academic Press, 2011.

Hecht, Jonathan. Opening to Reform: An Analysis of China's Revised Criminal Procedure Law. Lawyers' Committee for Human Rights, 1996.

Hegel, Robert E. and Katherine Carlitz, eds. Writing and the Law in Late Imperial China. University of Washington Press, 2007.

Huang, Philip C.C. Civil Justice in China. Stanford University Press, 1996.

Huang, Philip C.C. Code, Custom, and Legal Practice in China. Stanford University Press, 2001.

Huang, Yasheng. Inflation and Investment Controls in China. Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Inboden, Rana Siu. China and the International Human Rights Regime, 1982-2017. Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Javers, Quinn. Conflict, Community, and the State in Late Imperial Sichuan. Routledge, 2019.

Jayasuriya, Kanishka, ed. Law, Capitalism and Power in Asia. Routledge, 1999.

Ji, Weidong. Towards the Rule of Law in China. Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Ji, Weidong. Building the Rule of Law in China. Routledge, 2018.

Ji, Ying. The Making of Chinese Criminal Law: The Preventive Shift. Routledge, 2021.

Jiang, Hao and Pietro Sirena, eds. The Making of the Chinese Civil Code. Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Jones, William. The Great Qing Code. Clarendon Press, 1999.

Jones, William C., ed. Basic Principles of Civil Law in China. M.E. Sharpe, 1989.

Keith, Ronald C. China's Struggle for the Rule of Law. St. Martin's Press, 1994.

Keith, Ronald C. and Zhiqiu Lin. Law and Justice in China's New Marketplace. Palgrave, 2001.

Keith, Ronald C. and Zhiqiu Lin. New Crime in China. Routledge, 2006.

Kent, Ann. China, the United Nations, and Human Rights. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.

Kuo, Margaret. Intolerable Cruelty: Marriage, Law, and Society in Early Twentieth-Century China. Rowman & Littlefield, 2012.

Lau, Ulrich and Thies Staack. Legal Practice in the Formative Stages of the Chinese Empire. Brill, 2016.

Lean, Eugenia. Public Passions: The Trial of Shi Jianqiao. University of California Press, 2007.

Leib, Ethan J. and Baogang He, eds. The Search for Deliberative Democracy in China. Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Leng, Shao-Chuan and Hungdah Chiu. Criminal Justice in Post-Mao China. SUNY Press, 1985.

Levenson, Joseph R. Confucian China and Its Modern Fate. University of California Press, 1968.

Li, Enshen. Punishment in Contemporary China. Routledge, 2019.

Li, Victor H. Law without Lawyers. Westview Press, 1978.

Li, Yuwen. The Judicial System and Reform in Post-Mao China. Routledge, 2016.

Liang, Bin and Hong Lu. The Death Penalty in China. Columbia University Press, 2016.

Lieberthal, Kenneth. Governing China: From Revolution to Reform. W.W. Norton, 1995.

Lieberthal, Kenneth and Michel Oksenberg. Policy Making in China. Princeton University Press, 1988.

Lin, Feng. Administrative Law Procedures and Remedies in China. Sweet and Maxwell, 1996.

Lin, Feng. Constitutional Law in China. Sweet & Maxwell Asia, 2000.

Liu, Sida and Terrence C. Halliday. Criminal Defense in China. Cambridge University Press, 2016.

Liu, Yongping. Origins of Chinese Law. Oxford University Press, 1998.

Lo, Carlos Wing-hung. China's Legal Awakening. Hong Kong University Press, 1995.

Lu, Haina. The Right to Work in China. Intersentia, 2011.

Lubman, Stanley B. Bird in a Cage: Legal Reforms in China after Mao. Stanford University Press, 1999.

Lubman, Stanley B., ed. China's Legal Reforms. Oxford University Press, 1996.

Macauley, Melissa. Social Power and Legal Culture. Stanford University Press, 1998.

MacCormack, Geoffrey. Traditional Chinese Penal Law. Edinburgh University Press, 1990.

McConville, Mike, et al. Criminal Justice in China: An Empirical Inquiry. Edward Elgar, 2012.

McConville, Mike and Eva Pils, eds. Comparative Perspectives on Criminal Justice in China. Edward Elgar, 2013.

McKnight, Brian. Law and Order in Sung China. Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Meisner, Maurice. Li Ta-Chao and the Origins of Chinese Marxism. Harvard University Press, 1967.

Mühlhahn, Klaus. Criminal Justice in China: A History. Harvard University Press, 2009.

Nathan, Andrew. Chinese Democracy. Alfred A. Knopf, 1986.

Nathan, Andrew. China's Transition. Columbia University Press, 1997.

Ng, Kwai Hang and Xin He. Embedded Courts: Judicial Decision-Making in China. Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Oi, Jean and Andrew Walder, eds. Property Rights and Economic Reform in China. Stanford University Press, 1999.

Otto, Jan Michiel, et al., eds. Law-Making in the People's Republic of China. Kluwer Law International, 2000.

Pearson, Margaret. China's New Business Elite. University of California Press, 1997.

Peerenboom, Randall. Law and Morality in Ancient China. SUNY Press, 1993.

Peerenboom, Randall. Lawyers in China. Lawyers' Committee for Human Rights, 1998.

Peerenboom, Randall. China's Long March toward Rule of Law. Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Peerenboom, Randall. China Modernizes. Oxford University Press, 2007.

Pils, Eva. China's Human Rights Lawyers. Routledge, 2015.

Pontell, Henry and Adam Ghazi-Tehrani. Wayward Dragon: White-Collar and Corporate Crime in China. Springer, 2022.

Potter, Pitman, ed. Domestic Law Reforms in Post-Mao China. M.E. Sharpe, 1994.

Primiano, Christopher B. China, the UN and Human Rights. Routledge, 2020.

Redding, Gordon S. The Spirit of Chinese Capitalism. Walter de Gruyter, 1990.

Reed, Bradley W. Talons and Teeth: County Clerks and Runners in the Qing Dynasty. Stanford University Press, 2000.

Ren, Xin. Tradition of the Law and Law of the Tradition. Greenwood Press, 1997.

Ruskola, Teemu. Legal Orientalism: China, the United States, and Modern Law. Harvard University Press, 2013.

Shen, Anqi. Offending Women in Contemporary China. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Shen, Anqi. Women Judges in Contemporary China. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

Shen, Anqi. Internal Migration, Crime, and Punishment in Contemporary China. Springer, 2018.

Shih, Chih-yu. Collective Democracy. Chinese University Press, 1999.

Shiming, Zhang. Law, Resources and Time-Space Constructing. Springer and China Renmin University Press, 2012.

Shirk, Susan. The Political Logic of Economic Reform in China. University of California Press, 1993.

Sommer, Matthew H. Sex, Law, and Society in Late Imperial China. Stanford University Press, 2000.

Steinfeld, Edward. Forging Reform in China. Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Stephens, Thomas. Order and Discipline in China. University of Washington Press, 1992.

Sun, Pinghua. Human Rights Protection System in China. Springer, 2014.

Svensson, Marina. Debating Human Rights in China. Rowman & Littlefield, 2002.

Tanner, Murray Scot. The Politics of Lawmaking in China. Clarendon Press, 1999.

Thai, Philip. China's War on Smuggling. Columbia University Press, 2018.

Trevaskes, Sue. Courts and Criminal Justice in Contemporary China. Lexington Books, 2007.

Trevaskes, Sue. Policing Serious Crime in China. Routledge, 2010.

Turner, Karen, et al., eds. The Limits of the Rule of Law in China. University of Washington Press, 2000.

Wang, Chenguang and Xianchu Zhang, eds. Introduction to Chinese Law. Sweet & Maxwell Asia, 1997.

Wang, Fei-hsien. Pirates and Publishers. Princeton University Press, 2019.

Wank, David. Commodifying Communism. Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Whiting, Susan. Power and Wealth in Rural China. Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Wilson, Scott. Tigers without Teeth. Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.

Wong, Kam C. Chinese Policing: History and Reform. Peter Lang, 2009.

Woo, Margaret Y.K. and Mary E. Gallagher, eds. Chinese Justice. Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Wu, Yuan-li, et al., eds. Human Rights in the People's Republic of China. Routledge, 2018.

Xu, Xiaoqun. Trial of Modernity. Stanford University Press, 2008.

Xu, Xiaoqun. Heaven Has Eyes: A History of Chinese Law. Oxford University Press, 2020.

Yang, Mayfair. Gifts, Favors, and Banquets. Cornell University Press, 1994.

Yonglin, Jiang, tr. The Great Ming Code. University of Washington Press, 2001.

Yonglin, Jiang. The Mandate of Heaven and The Great Ming Code. University of Washington Press, 2011.

Yuan, Xiaoyu. Restorative Justice in China. Springer, 2017.

Zelin, Madeleine. The Merchants of Zigong. Columbia University Press, 2005.

Zelin, Madeleine, Jonathan K. Ocko, and Robert Gardella, eds. Contract and Property in Early Modern China. Stanford University Press, 2004.

Zhang, Taisu. The Laws and Economics of Confucianism. Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Zhang, Taisu. The Ideological Foundations of Qing Taxation. Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Zhang, Ting. Circulating the Code: Print Media and Legal Knowledge in Qing China. University of Washington Press, 2020.

Zhang, Zhaoyang. A History of Civil Law in Early China. Brill, 2022.

Zhao, Xudong. Power and Justice: Disputes Resolution in a North China Village. Springer, 2019.

Zheng, Henry R. China's Civil and Commercial Law. Butterworths, 1988.

Zhou, Ling. Access to Justice for the Chinese Consumer. Hart Publishing, 2020.

Topic 3. Qing Social Mobility and Inequality

Ho, Ping-ti. The Ladder of Success in Imperial China, Aspects of Social Mobility, 1368–1911. Columbia University Press, 1962.

Elman, B. A. Civil Examinations and Meritocracy in Late Imperial China. Harvard University Press, 2013.

Chang, Chung-li. The Chinese Gentry: Studies on Their Role in Nineteenth-Century Chinese Society. University of Washington Press, 1955.

Topic 4. Qing Agricultural and Industrial Developments

Brandt, Loren and Barbara Sands. "Beyond Malthus and Ricardo." Journal of Economic History 50 (1990): 807-827.

Chao, Kang. "The Growth of a Modern Cotton Textile Industry and the Competition with Handicrafts." In Perkins, ed., China's Modern Economy in Historical Perspective.

Rawski, T. "The Growth of Producer Industries, 1900-1971." In Perkins, ed., China's Modern Economy in Historical Perspective.

Topic 5. Qing Commercial Organization in Transition

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.

Li, Tan. "Market-Supporting Institutions, Gild Organisations, and the Industrial Revolution." Australian Economic History Review 53, No. 3 (2013).

Mann, Susan. "Ningpo pang and financial power at Shanghai Finance." In Elvin and Skinner, eds., The Chinese City Between Two Worlds. Stanford University Press, 1974.

Topic 6. Qing and Republican Money and Finance

Denzer-Speck, D. "Currency Competition in China Between 1850 and 1950." Kredit und Kapital 42, No. 3 (2009): 327-351.

Kuroda, A. "The Collapse of the Chinese Imperial Monetary System." In Sugihara, ed., Japan, China, and the Growth of the Asian International Economy, 1850-1949. 2005.

Ma, Junya. "Traditional Finance and China's Agricultural Trade, 1920-1933." Modern China 34, No. 3 (2008): 344-371.

Topic 7. Republican Government

Nathan, Andrew. "A constitutional republic: the Peking government, 1916–28." In Cambridge History of China, Volume 12. Cambridge University Press, 1983.

Dikotter, Frank. Age of Openness, China before Mao. Chapter 2.

Kirby, William C. "Engineering China: The Origins of the Chinese Developmental State." In Becoming Chinese, ed. Wen-hsin Yeh. University of California Press, 2000.

Elvin, M. "The Gentry Democracy in Chinese Shanghai, 1905-14." In J. Gray, ed., Modern China's Search for a Political Form. Oxford University Press, 1969.

Dernberger, R.F. "The Role of the Foreigner in China's Economic Development, 1840-1949." In Perkins, ed., China's Modern Economy in Historical Perspective. 1975.

Hou, C. M. Foreign Investment and Economic Development in China 1840-1937. Harvard University Press, 1965, Ch. 6.

Eiichi, Motono. Conflict and Cooperation in Sino-British Business, 1860-1911. Macmillan Press, 2000.

Topic 8. Japan Society

Berry, Mary Elizabeth, and Marcia Yonemoto. What Is a Family?: Answers from Early Modern Japan. University of California Press, 2019.

Burns, Susan. "The Body as Text: Confucianism, Reproduction, and Gender in Early Modern Japan." In Rethinking Confucianism, ed. Elman, Ooms, and Duncan. University of California Press, 2002.

Jansen, Marius B. "Japan and the Chinese revolution of 1911." Cambridge History of China Vol. 11, part 2.

Duus, Peter. "Japan's Informal Empire in China, 1895-1937: An Overview." In The Japanese Informal Empire in China, 1895-1937.

Duus, Peter. "Zaikabo: Japanese Cotton Mills in China, 1895-1937." In The Japanese Informal Empire in China, 1895-1937.

Davis, Julie Nelson. "Picturing Beauties: Print Designers, Publishers, and a Mirror of the Yoshiwara." In Partners in Print. University of Hawai'i Press, 2015.

Drixler, Fabian. Mabiki: Infanticide and Population Growth in Eastern Japan, 1660–1950. University of California Press, 2013.

Fuess, Harald. Divorce in Japan: Family, Gender, and the State, 1600–2000. Stanford University Press, 2004.

Gerstle, Andrew, and Timothy Clark, eds. "Shunga: Sex and Humour in Japanese Art and Literature." Japan Review special issue 26 (2013).

Gramlich-Oka, Bettina, et al. Women and Networks in Nineteenth-Century Japan. University of Michigan Press, 2020.

Ihara Saikaku. The Great Mirror of Male Love. Trans. Paul Gordon Schalow. Stanford University Press, 1990.

Koch, Angelika. "Nightless Cities: Timing the Pleasure Quarters in Early Modern Japan." Kronoscope 17, no. 1 (2017): 61–93.

Koch, Angelika. "Sexual Healing: Regulating Male Sexuality in Edo-Period Books." International Journal of Asian Studies 10, no. 2 (2013): 143–70.

Koch, Angelika, et al., eds. Blood, Tears and Samurai Love. Japan Past and Present, 2023.

Leupp, Gary. Male Colors: The Construction of Homosexuality in Tokugawa Japan. University of California Press, 1995.

Lindsey, William R. Fertility and Pleasure: Ritual and Sexual Values in Tokugawa Japan. University of Hawai'i Press, 2006.

Ochiai Emiko. "The Reproductive Revolution at the End of the Tokugawa Period." In Women and Class in Japanese History. University of Michigan Press, 1999.

Pflugfelder, Gregory. Cartographies of Desire: Male–Male Sexuality in Japanese Discourse, 1600–1950. University of California Press, 1999.

Rowley, G. G. An Imperial Concubine's Tale. Columbia University Press, 2013.

Sawayama Mikako. "The 'Birthing Body' and the Regulation of Conception and Childbirth in the Edo Period." US–Japan Women's Journal 24 (2003): 10–34.

Schalow, Paul Gordon. "The Invention of a Literary Tradition of Male Love." Monumenta Nipponica 48, no. 1 (1993): 1–31.

Screech, Timon. Sex and the Floating World: Erotic Images in Japan, 1700–1820. Reaktion, 1999.

Seigle, Cecilia Segawa. Yoshiwara: The Glittering World of the Japanese Courtesan. University of Hawai'i Press, 1993.

Seigle, Cecilia Segawa, and Linda H. Chance. Ōoku: The Secret World of the Shogun's Women. Cambria, 2013.

Sone Hiromi. "Conceptions of Geisha: A Case Study of the City of Miyazu." In Gender and Japanese History, vol. 1. Osaka University Press, 1999.

Sone Hiromi. "Prostitution and Public Authority in Japan." In Women and Class in Japanese History. University of Michigan, 1999.

Stanley, Amy. "Adultery, Punishment, and Reconciliation in Tokugawa Japan." Journal of Japanese Studies 33, no. 2 (2007): 309–35.

Stanley, Amy. Selling Women: Prostitution, Markets and the Household in Early Modern Japan. University of California Press, 2012.

Stanley, Amy. Stranger in the Shogun's City. Scribner's, 2020.

Terazawa, Yuki. Knowledge, Power, and Women's Reproductive Health in Japan, 1690–1945. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

Walthall, Anne. "The Life Cycle of Farm Women in Tokugawa Japan." In Recreating Japanese Women, 1600–1945. University of California Press, 1991.

Walthall, Anne. "Masturbation and Discourse on Female Sexual Practices in Early Modern Japan." Gender & History 21, no. 1 (2009): 1–18.

Yokoyama Yuriko. "The Yūjo Release Act as Emancipation of Slaves in Mid-19th-Century Japan." In Abolitions as a Global Experience. NUS Press, 2016.

Yonemoto, Marcia. The Problem of Women in Early Modern Japan. University of California Press, 2016.

Topic 9. An Overview of the Mao Period

Naughton, Barry. "Pattern and Legacy of Economic Growth in the Mao Era." In Perspectives on Modern China, Chapter 10.

Bernstein, T.P. "Chinese Communism in the Era of Mao Zedong, 1949-1976." In Perspectives on Modern China, Chapter 12.

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.

Aaberge, Rolf, Kai Liu, and Yu Zhu. "Political Uncertainty and Household Savings." Journal of Comparative Economics 45, no. 1 (2017): 154–70.

Topic 10. Households in Modern China

Aaberge, Rolf and Yu Zhu. "The Pattern of Household Savings During a Hyperinflation." Review of Income and Wealth 47, no. 2 (2001): 181–202.

Apter, David E. and Tony Saich. Revolutionary Discourse in Mao's Republic. Harvard University Press, 1998.

Bramall, Chris. "The Quality of China's Household Income Surveys." China Quarterly 167 (2001): 689–705.

Brown, Jeremy. City Versus Countryside in Mao's China. Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Chen, Zeyuan and Albert Park. "Rural Pensions, Intra-household Bargaining, and Elderly Medical Expenditure in China." Health Economics 32, no. 10 (2023): 2353–71.

Chiang, Yung-chen. Social Engineering and the Social Sciences in China, 1919-1949. Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Cohen, Myron L. Kinship, Contract, Community, and State. Stanford University Press, 2005.

Cook, Alexander C. The Cultural Revolution on Trial. Cambridge University Press, 2016.

Curtis, Chadwick C., Steven Lugauer, and Nelson C. Mark. "Demographics and Aggregate Household Saving in Japan, China, and India." Journal of Macroeconomics 51 (2017): 175–91.

Davis, Deborah. The Consumer Revolution in Urban China. University of California Press, 2000.

Davis, Deborah. "Urban Consumer Culture." China Quarterly 183 (2005): 692–709.

Davis, Deborah S. and Stevan Harrell. Chinese Families in the Post-Mao Era. University of California Press, 1993.

Dikötter, Frank. The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962-1976. Bloomsbury Press, 2016.

Ding, Xueliang 丁学良. Zhong Guo Mo Shi 中国模式. Oxford University Press, 2011.

Durante, Kristina M. and Juliano Laran. "The Effect of Stress on Consumer Saving and Spending." Journal of Marketing Research 53, no. 5 (2016): 814–28.

Eckaus, Richard S. "Forced Saving in China." China Quarterly 217 (2014): 180–94.

Egger, Peter H., Gabriel Loumeau, and Nicole Püschel. "Natural City Growth in the People's Republic of China." Asian Development Review 34, no. 2 (2017): 51–85.

Esherick, Joseph. Remaking the Chinese City. University of Hawaii Press, 2001.

Fabre, Guilhem. "Xi Jinping's Challenge: What Is Behind China's Anti-Corruption Campaign?" Journal of Self-Governance and Management Economics 5, no. 2 (2017): 7–28.

Fan, Shenggen, Gail Cramer, and Eric Wailes. "Food Demand in Rural China." Agricultural Economics 11, no. 1 (1994): 61–69.

Finnane, Antonia. How to Make a Mao Suit. Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Friedman, Edward, Paul G. Pickowicz, and Mark Selden. Chinese Village, Socialist State. Yale University Press, 1993.

Friedman, Edward, Paul G. Pickowicz, and Mark Selden. Revolution, Resistance, and Reform in Village China. Yale University Press, 2005.

Friedmann, John. China's Urban Transition. University of Minnesota Press, 2005.

Gao, Gao 高皋. Wen Hua Da Ge Ming Shi Nian Shi 文化大革命十年史. Tianjin renmin chubanshe, 1986.

Gao, Yongzhong 高永忠 and Ouyang Song 欧阳淞. Gai Ge Kai Fang Kou Shu Shi 改革开放口述史. Zhongguo renmin daxue chubanshe, 2018.

Gibson, John, Jikun Huang, and Scott D. Rozelle. Improving Estimates of Inequality and Poverty from Urban China's Household Income and Expenditure Survey. eScholarship, University of California, 2001.

Gillette, Maris Boyd. Between Mecca and Beijing: Modernization and Consumption among Urban Chinese Muslims. Stanford University Press, 2000.

Gong, Xiaodong, Arthur van Soest, and Ping Zhang. "The Effects of the Gender of Children on Expenditure Patterns in Rural China." Journal of Applied Econometrics 20, no. 4 (2005): 509–27.

Goodman, David S. G. Social and Political Change in Revolutionary China. Rowman & Littlefield, 2000.

Gould, Brian W. "Household Composition and Food Expenditures in China." Agribusiness 18, no. 3 (2002): 387–407.

Gross, Miriam. Farewell to the God of Plague. University of California Press, 2016.

Guo, Yiyao 郭益耀. Zhong Guo Nong Ye de Bu Wen Ding Xing 中國農業的不穩定性. Xianggang zhongwen daxue chubanshe, 2013.

Halbrendt, C., F. Tuan, C. Gempesaw, and D. Dolk-Etz. "Rural Chinese Food Consumption: The Case of Guangdong." American Journal of Agricultural Economics 76, no. 4 (1994): 794–99.

Han, Xiao, Kaiyu Lyu, Fengying Nie, and Yuquan Chen. "Resilience Effects for Household Food Expenditure and Dietary Diversity in Rural Western China." Journal of Integrative Agriculture 23, no. 2 (2024): 384–96.

He, Yuna, et al. "Consumption of Meat and Dairy Products in China: A Review." Proceedings of the Nutrition Society 75, no. 3 (2016): 385–91.

Hertz, Ellen. The Trading Crowd: An Anthropological Study of the Shanghai Stock Exchange. Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Ho, Denise Y. Curating Revolution: Politics on Display in Mao's China. Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Holz, Carsten A. "The Changing Role of Money in China and Its Implications." Comparative Economic Studies 42, no. 3 (2000): 77–100.

Hovhannisyan, Vardges and Brian W. Gould. "Quantifying the Structure of Food Demand in China." Agricultural Economics 42, no. s1 (2011): 1–18.

Hu, Debao, et al. "Does Household Risk Attitude Affect Consumption Expenditure?" Economic Modelling 141 (2024): 106924.

Hu, Teh-wei, Ming Li, and Shangjin Wei. "Household Durable Goods Ownership in Tianjin, China." China Quarterly, no. 120 (1989): 787–99.

Ikels, Charlotte. The Return of the God of Wealth. Stanford University Press, 1996.

Jin, Dalu 金大陆. Fei Chang Yu Zheng Chang 非常与正常. Shanghai cishu chubanshe, 2011.

Jr, Ralph A. Thaxton. Catastrophe and Contention in Rural China. Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Kipnis, Andrew. The Funeral of Mr. Wang. University of California Press, 2021.

Kipnis, Andrew B. Producing Guanxi. Duke University Press, 1997.

Kleinman, Arthur, et al. Deep China: The Moral Life of the Person. University of California Press, 2011.

Kroeber, Arthur. "China's Consumption Paradox." Eurasian Geography and Economics 52, no. 3 (2011): 330–46.

Kuhlgatz, Christian H., Jiaqi Huang, and Gerrit Antonides. "Food Demand and the Nutrient Intake of Households in Underdeveloped Rural Regions of China." China Agricultural Economic Review 15, no. 1 (2023): 17–45.

Lan, Xiaohuan 兰小欢. Zhi Shen Shi Nei 置身事内. Shanghai renmin chubanshe, 2021.

Latham, Kevin. "Rethinking Chinese Consumption." In Postsocialism, 2002.

Lee, Yiu-fai Daniel. "Do Families Spend More on Boys than on Girls?" China Economic Review 19, no. 1 (2008): 80–100.

Lewis, Philip and Neil Andrews. "Household Demand in China." Applied Economics 21, no. 6 (1989): 793–807.

Li, Feng and Xintao Wang. "Misreporting in Household Income and Expenditure." Economics Letters 237 (2024): 111626.

Li, Yining 厉以宁. Gai Ge Kai Fang Yi Lai de Zhong Guo Jing Ji 改革开放以来的中国经济. Zhongguo da baike quanshu chubanshe, 2018.

Lin, Chaochao. "20世纪50年代的职工储蓄动员与现代国家建设." Zhongguo jingji shi yanjiu 19, no. 1 (2022): 161–73.

Lü, Xiaobo and Elizabeth J. Perry. The Danwei. Routledge, 1997.

Meng, Cai. Economic Transformation and Income Distribution in China. Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Min zheng bu 民政部. Zhongguo zai qing baogao 1949-1995 中国灾情报告. Zhongguo tongji chubanshe, 1995.

Mullaney, Thomas S. Coming to Terms with the Nation. University of California Press, 2011.

Nabar, Malhar S. "Interest Rates, Targets, and Household Saving in Urban China." In China's Economy in Transition. International Monetary Fund, 2013.

Ngai, Pun. "Subsumption or Consumption?" Cultural Anthropology 18, no. 4 (2003): 469–92.

Ong, Aihwa and Donald Nonini, eds. Ungrounded Empires. Routledge, 1996.

Perkins, Dwight H. "Rapid Growth and Changing Economic Structure." China Economic Review 23, no. 3 (2012): 501–11.

Perry, Elizabeth J. Patrolling the Revolution. Rowman & Littlefield, 2007.

Perry, Elizabeth J. Shanghai on Strike. Stanford University Press, 1993.

Qu, Tongzu 瞿同祖. Zhong Guo Fa Lv Yu Zhong Guo She Hui 中国法律与中国社会. Zhonghua shuju, 2003.

Rofel, Lisa. Other Modernities. University of California Press, 1999.

Rogers, Sarah. "Betting on the Strong." Journal of Rural Studies 36 (2014): 197–206.

Seale, James L., et al. "Household Engel Curve Analysis for Food, Beijing." China Agricultural Economic Review 4, no. 4 (2012): 427–39.

Skinner, G. William and Hugh D.R. Baker. The City in Late Imperial China. Stanford University Press, 1977.

Snyder, Steve and Wen S. Chern. "The Impact of Remittance Income on Rural Households in China." China Agricultural Economic Review 1, no. 1 (2009): 38–57.

Sun, Liping 孙立平. Zhuan Xing Yu Duan Lie 转型与断裂. Qinghua daxue chubanshe, 2004.

Tang, Xiaobing. Chinese Modern: The Heroic and the Quotidian. Duke University Press, 2000.

Trevaskes, Sue. "People's Justice and Injustice." China Information 16, no. 2 (2002): 1–26.

Vogel, Ezra F. Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China. Harvard University Press, 2011.

Wan, Junmin. "Corporate Saving, Household Saving, and Gross National Savings." The Chinese Economy 55, no. 1 (2022): 1–12.

Wang, Chuhong, Xingfei Liu, and Zizhong Yan. "Temporary versus Permanent Migration." Review of Economics of the Household 19, no. 3 (2021): 873–911.

Wang, Hong, Jody L. Sindelar, and Susan H. Busch. "The Impact of Tobacco Expenditure on Household Consumption Patterns in Rural China." Social Science & Medicine 62, no. 6 (2006): 1414–26.

Wang, Junhui, Shuang Ai, and Mian Huang. "Migration History, Hukou Status, and Urban Household Consumption." Economic Modelling 97 (2021): 437–48.

Wang, Weiwei and Yifan Zhao. "Impact of Natural Disasters on Household Income and Expenditure Inequality in China." Sustainability 15, no. 18 (2023): 13813.

Wang, Yiming and Michelle Baddeley. "The Problem of Land Value Betterment." Annals of Regional Science 57, nos. 2–3 (2016): 413–36.

Wang, Yuru 王玉茹. Jin Dai Zhong Guo Wu Jia 近代中国物价工资和生活水平研究. Shanghai caijing daxue chubanshe, 2007.

Wang, Zhi and Wen S. Chern. "Effects of Rationing on the Consumption Behavior of Chinese Urban Households." Journal of Comparative Economics 16, no. 1 (1992): 1–26.

Wang, Zhi and Jean Kinsey. "Consumption and Saving Behavior under Strict and Partial Rationing." China Economic Review 5, no. 1 (1994): 83–100.

Watson, James L. Golden Arches East: McDonald's in East Asia. Stanford University Press, 1997.

Wedeman, Andrew H. From Mao to Market. Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Wemheuer, Felix. Ji huang zheng zhi 饑荒政治. Xianggang zhongwen daxue chubanshe, 2017.

Wilcox, Emily. Revolutionary Bodies: Chinese Dance and the Socialist Legacy. University of California Press, 2018.

Wood, Adrian. "A Survey of Income and Expenditure of Urban Households in China." Journal of Development Studies 26, no. 3 (1990): 548.

Woodward, Dennis. "China Briefing 2000." China Journal 47 (2002): 136–38.

Wright, Patrick. Passport to Peking. Oxford University Press, 2010.

Xiao, Gongqin 萧功秦. Zhong Guo de Da Zhuan Xing 中国的大转型. Xinxing chubanshe, 2008.

Xu, Xianchun. "Understanding China's Official Statistics." China Economic Journal 6, nos. 2–3 (2013): 63–79.

Yan, Yunxiang. Private Life under Socialism. Stanford University Press, 2003.

Yan, Yunxiang. The Individualization of Chinese Society. Bloomsbury Academic, 2009.

Yang, Mayfair Mei-hui. Gifts, Favors, and Banquets. Cornell University Press, 1994.

Yu, Xiaohua. "Engel Curve, Farmer Welfare and Food Consumption in 40 Years of Rural China." China Agricultural Economic Review 10, no. 1 (2018): 65–77.

Yuan, Weipeng and Shaoyong Lai. "Family Optimal Investment Strategy for a Random Household Expenditure." Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics 354 (2019): 1–14.

Ze, Song, Liu Zilan, and Zou Hong. "Internal Spatial Differences in a Large Country." China Economist 16, no. 4 (2021): 101–14.

Zhang, Chuanyong and Guoliang Feng. "More Wealth, Less Leisure?" Tourism Economics 24, no. 5 (2018): 526–40.

Zhang, Li and Aiwa Ong. Privatizing China: Socialism from Afar. Cornell University Press, 2008.

Zhang, Yin and Guang Hua Wan. "Household Consumption and Monetary Policy in China." China Economic Review 13, no. 1 (2002): 27–52.

Zhong, Hai. "Measuring Corruption in China." Economica 85, no. 338 (2018): 383–405.

Zhou, Shaojie and Junsen Zhang. "Chinese Saving Rates from 1953 to 2012." Pacific Economic Review 21, no. 2 (2016): 227–52.

景跃进, 陈明明, and 肖滨. Dang Dai Zhong Guo Zheng Fu Yu Zheng Zhi 当代中国政府与政治. Zhongguo renmin daxue chubanshe, 2016.

Topic 11. The Great Leap Forward and The Great Leap Famine

Yang, Dali. Calamity and Reform in China. Stanford University Press, 1996, Ch. 1 & 2.

Yang, Dennis. "China's Agricultural Crisis and Famine of 1959–1961." Comparative Economic Studies 50 (2008): 1–29.

Kung and Chen. "The Tragedy of the Nomenclature: Career Incentives and Political Radicalism during China's Great Leap Famine." APSR 105, no. 1 (2011): 27–45.

Topic 12. Political Radicalism

Walder, Andrew and Yang Su. "The Cultural Revolution in the Countryside." China Quarterly, 2003.

Zhong, Deng and Donald J. Treiman. "The Impact of the Cultural Revolution on Trends in Educational Attainment." American Journal of Sociology 103, no. 2 (1997): 391-428.

Han, Dongping. "The Impact of the Cultural Revolution on Rural Education and Economic Development." Modern China 27, no. 1 (2001): 59-90.

Topic 13. Reform of Deng Xiaoping

Zhu, Xiaodong. "Understanding China's Growth." Journal of Economic Perspectives 26, no. 4 (2012): 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." Journal of Economic Literature 49, no. 4 (2011).

Vogel, Ezra F. Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China. Harvard University Press, 2013.

Lin, J. Y. "Rural Reforms and Agricultural Growth in China." American Economic Review 82, no. 1 (1992): 34-51.

Li, Hongbin and Li-An Zhou. "Political Turnover and Economic Performance." Journal of Public Economics 89, nos. 9-10 (2005): 1743-1762.

Victor Shih, C. Adolph and M. Liu. "Getting Ahead in the Communist Party." APSR, Feb 2012: 166-187.

Topic 14. Intellectual History

Chang, Hao. Chinese Intellectuals in Crisis: Search for Order and Meaning (1890-1911). University of California Press, 1987.

Chen, Joseph T. "The May Fourth Movement Redefined." Modern Asian Studies 4, no. 1 (1970): 63–81.

Chen, Zhongping. "The May Fourth Movement and Provincial Warlords." Modern China 37, no. 2 (2011): 135–169.

Chow, Tse-tsung. The May Fourth Movement: Intellectual Revolution in Modern China. Harvard University Press, 2014.

Cohen, Warren I. "America and the May Fourth Movement." Pacific Historical Review 35, no. 1 (1966): 83–100.

DeFrancis, John and Gang Zhou. "The Chinese Renaissance and the Vernacular." PMLA 121, no. 1 (2006): 298–300.

Feng, Liping. "Democracy and Elitism: The May Fourth Ideal of Literature." Modern China 22, no. 2 (1996): 170–196.

Grieder, Jerome B. Intellectuals and the State in Modern China. Free Press, 1981.

Hockx, Michel. "Is There a May Fourth Literature?" Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 11, no. 2 (1999): 40–52.

Hsia, Chih-tsing. A History of Modern Chinese Fiction. 3rd ed. Chinese University Press, 1999.

Kenley, David L., Ruth Hayhoe, and Heidi Ross. "May Fourth Movement." In Education in China. Berkshire, 2013.

Lee, Leo Ou-fan. Voices from the Iron House: A Study of Lu Xun. Indiana University Press, 1987.

Lou, Yulie and Jianying Han. "Hu Shi's Study of Chinese Medieval Intellectual History." Frontiers of Philosophy in China 1, no. 1 (2006): 66–78.

Ng, Kenny K.K. "The Long and the Short: May Fourth Contestation of Fiction Form." CLEAR 38 (2016): 107–128.

Pye, Lucian W. "How China's Nationalism Was Shanghaied." Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, no. 29 (1993): 107–133.

Schmidt, Hans. "Democracy for China: American Propaganda and the May Fourth Movement." Diplomatic History 22, no. 1 (1998): 1–28.

Schwarcz, Vera. The Chinese Enlightenment: Intellectuals and the Legacy of the May Fourth Movement. University of California Press, 1986.

Seth, Sanjay. "Nationalism, Modernity, and the 'Woman Question' in India and China." JAS 72, no. 2 (2013): 273–297.

Townsend, James. "Chinese Nationalism." Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, no. 27 (1992): 97–130.

Wang, Gungwu. "May Fourth and the GPCR." Pacific Affairs 52, no. 4 (1979): 674–690.

Wang, Xiaoming, Michel Hockx, and Theodore Huters. "A Journal and a 'Society'." Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 11, no. 2 (1999): 1–39.

Wasserstrom, Jeffrey N. "Chinese Students and Anti-Japanese Protests, Past and Present." World Policy Journal 22, no. 2 (2005): 59–65.

Weston, Timothy B. "Tensions within the May Fourth Movement." In The Power of Position. University of California Press, 2004.

Yan, Haiping. Chinese Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination, 1905-1948. Routledge, 2006.

Yeh, Wen-hsin. "Middle County Radicalism: The May Fourth Movement in Hangzhou." China Quarterly, no. 140 (1994): 903–925.

Zhang, Xudong. "Nationalism, Mass Culture, and Intellectual Strategies in Post-Tiananmen China." Social Text, no. 55 (1998): 109–140.

Topic 15. Gender History

Joan Wallach Scott. Gender and the Politics of History.

Gerda Lerner. The Creation of Patriarchy. Oxford University Press, 1986.

Beverly Bossler. Courtesans, Concubines, and the Cult of Female Fidelity.

Patricia B. Ebrey. The Inner Quarters: Marriage and the Lives of Chinese Women in the Sung Period. University of California Press, 1993.

Bettine Birge. "Women, Property, and Confucian Reaction in Sung and Yüan China."

Matthew H. Sommer. Sex, Law and Society in Late Imperial China. Stanford University Press, 2000.

Vivien W. Ng. "Ideology and Sexuality: Rape Laws in Qing China." JAS 46, no. 1 (1987): 57–70.

Philip C.C. Huang. Code, Custom, and Legal Practice in China: The Qing and the Republic Compared.

Weijing Lu. True to Her Word: The Faithful Maiden Cult in Late Imperial China.

Janet M. Theiss. Disgraceful Matters: The Politics of Chastity in Eighteenth-Century China.

Johanna S. Ransmeier. Sold People: Traffickers and Family Life in North China.

Grace S. Fong. Herself an Author: Gender, Agency, Writing in Late Imperial China.

Ju-K'ang T'ien. Male Anxiety and Female Chastity.

Susan Mann. Precious Records: Women in China's Long Eighteenth Century. Stanford University Press, 1997.

Dorothy Ko. Teachers of the Inner Chambers: Women and Culture in Seventeenth-Century China.

Harriet Evans. "Past, Perfect or Imperfect: Changing Images of the Ideal Wife." In Chinese Femininities/Chinese Masculinities.

Hershatter, G. "State of the Field: Women in China's Long Twentieth Century." JAS 63, no. 4 (2004): 991–1065.

Topic 16. The Republic of China

Taylor, Jay. The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China. Harvard University Press, 2009.

Wakeman, Frederic Jr. and Richard Louis Edmonds. Reappraising Republican China. Oxford University Press, 2000.

Wilbur, C. Martin. The Nationalist Revolution in China, 1923-1928. Cambridge University Press, 1984.

Eastman, Lloyd E. The Abortive Revolution: China under Nationalist Rule, 1927-1937. Harvard University Press, 1974.

Tien, Hung-mao. Government and Politics in Kuomintang China, 1927-1937. Stanford University Press, 1972.

Coble, Parks M. Facing Japan: Chinese Politics and Japanese Imperialism, 1931-1937. Harvard University, 1991.

Wakeman, Frederic Jr. Spymaster: Dai Li and the Chinese Secret Service. University of California Press, 2003.

Merkel-Hess, Kate. Women and Their Warlords. University of Chicago Press, 2024.

Wang Chaoguang 汪朝光, ed. Jiang Jieshi de ren ji wang luo 蒋介石的人际网络. Shehui kexue wenxian chubanshe, 2011.

White, Theodore Harold and Annalee Jacoby. Thunder out of China. William Sloane Associates, 1946.

Eastman, Lloyd E. Seeds of Destruction: Nationalist China in War and Revolution, 1937-1949. Stanford University Press, 1984.

Hung, Chang-tai. War and Popular Culture: Resistance in Modern China, 1937-1945. University of California Press, 1994.

Pong, David, ed. Resisting Japan: Mobilizing for War in China, 1935-45. EastBridge, 2008.

Pepper, Suzanne. Civil War in China: The Political Struggle, 1945-1949. University of California Press, 1978.

Snow, Edgar. Red Star over China. Modern Library, 1944.

Bianco, Lucien. Origins of the Chinese Revolution, 1915-1949. Stanford University Press, 1971.

Esherick, Joseph W. "Ten Theses on the Chinese Revolution." Modern China 21, no. 1 (1995): 45-76.

Dirlik, Arif. The Origins of Chinese Communism. Oxford University Press, 1989.

Schwartz, Benjamin I. Chinese Communism and the Rise of Mao. Harvard University Press, 1961.

Isaacs, Harold R. The Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution. Stanford University Press, 1951.

Meisner, Maurice J. Li Ta-Chao and the Origins of Chinese Marxism. Harvard University Press, 1967.

Van de Ven, Hans J. From Friend to Comrade: The Founding of the Chinese Communist Party, 1920-1927. University of California Press, 1991.

Averill, Stephen C. Revolution in the Highlands: China's Jinggangshan Base Area. Rowman & Littlefield, 2006.

Van Slyke, Lyman P. Enemies and Friends: The United Front in Chinese Communist History. Stanford University Press, 1967.

Chen, Yung-fa. Making Revolution: The Communist Movement in Eastern and Central China, 1937-1945. University of California Press, 1986.

Goodman, David. Social and Political Change in Revolutionary China: The Taihang Base Area. Rowman & Littlefield, 2000.

Hartford, Kathleen and Steven M. Goldstein. Single Sparks: China's Rural Revolutions. M.E. Sharpe, 1989.

Johnson, Chalmers A. Peasant Nationalism and Communist Power. Stanford University Press, 1962.

Selden, Mark. The Yenan Way in Revolutionary China. Harvard University Press, 1971.

Kataoka, Tetsuya. Resistance and Revolution in China. University of California Press, 1974.

Pepper, Suzanne. Civil War in China. University of California Press, 1978.

Hinton, William. Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village. Vintage Books, 1966.

Friedman, Edward, Paul Pickowicz, and Mark Selden. Chinese Village, Socialist State. Yale University Press, 1991.

Mitter, Rana. The Manchurian Myth. University of California Press, 2000.

Duara, Prasenjit. Sovereignty and Authenticity: Manchukuo and the East Asian Modern. Rowman & Littlefield, 2003.

Smith, Norman. Resisting Manchukuo: Chinese Women Writers and the Japanese Occupation. UBC Press, 2007.

Brook, Timothy. Collaboration. Harvard University Press, 2005.

Barret, David and Larry Syue, eds. Chinese Collaboration with Japan, 1932-1945. Stanford University Press, 2001.

Boyle, John Hunter. China and Japan at War, 1937-1945. Stanford University Press, 1972.

Yeh, Wen-hsin. Wartime Shanghai. Routledge, 1998.

Fu, Poshek. Passivity, Resistance, and Collaboration: Intellectual Choices in Occupied Shanghai, 1937-1945. Stanford University Press, 1993.

Wakeman, Frederic E. The Shanghai Badlands: Wartime Terrorism and Urban Crime, 1937-1941. Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Goldstein, Melvyn C. A History of Modern Tibet, 1913-1951. University of California Press, 1989.

Goldstein, Melvyn C. The Snow Lion and the Dragon. University of California Press, 1997.

Tuttle, Gary. Tibetan Buddhism in the Making of Modern China. Columbia University Press, 2005.

Liu, Xiaoyuan. The Reins of Liberation: An Entangled History of Mongolian Independence. Stanford University Press, 2006.

Liu, Xiaoyuan. Frontier Passages: Ethnopolitics and the Rise of Chinese Communism, 1921-1945. Stanford University Press, 2004.

Atwood, Christopher. Young Mongols and Vigilantes in Inner Mongolia's Interregnum Decades, 1911-1931. Brill, 2002.

Bulag, Uradyn. The Mongols at China's Edge. Rowman & Littlefield, 2002.

Jagchid, Sechin. The Last Mongol Prince. Western Washington University, 1999.

Millward, James A. Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang. Columbia University Press, 2007.

Forbes, Andrew D.W. Warlords and Muslims in Chinese Central Asia. Cambridge University Press, 1986.

Xiao, Hong. Field of Life and Death. Trans. Howard Goldblatt. Cheng and Tsui, 2002.

Topic 17. Sino-Japan Relationship

Atwell, William S. "Some Observations on the 'Seventeenth-Century Crisis' in China and Japan." JAS 45, no. 2 (1986): 223–244.

Cornell, Laurel L. "Infanticide in Early Modern Japan? Demography, Culture, and Population Growth." JAS 55, no. 1 (1996): 22–50.

Cox, Rupert, ed. The Culture of Copying in Japan. Routledge, 2008.

Fogel, Joshua A. Maiden Voyage: The Senzaimaru and the Creation of Modern Sino-Japanese Relations. University of California Press, 2014.

Fogel, Joshua A. The Cultural Dimension of Sino-Japanese Relations. M.E. Sharpe, 1995.

Fogel, Joshua A. The Role of Japan in Modern Chinese Art. University of California Press, 2012.

Glahn, Richard Von. "Myth and Reality of China's Seventeenth-Century Monetary Crisis." JEH 56, no. 2 (1996): 429–454.

Gordon, Andrew. A Modern History of Japan. Oxford University Press, 2009.

Hagström, Linus and Björn Jerdén. "Understanding Fluctuations in Sino-Japanese Relations." Pacific Affairs 83, no. 4 (2010): 719–739.

High, Peter B. The Imperial Screen: Japanese Film Culture in the Fifteen Years' War, 1931–1945. University of Wisconsin Press, 2003.

Hinner, Michael B., ed. Chinese Culture in a Cross-Cultural Comparison. PL Academic Research, 2014.

Howe, Christopher. China and Japan: History, Trends, and Prospects. Clarendon Press, 1996.

Hsiung, James C., ed. China and Japan at Odds. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Huters, Theodore, R. Bin Wong, and Pauline Yu, eds. Culture & State in Chinese History. Stanford University Press, 1997.

Iriye, Akira. China and Japan in the Global Setting. Harvard University Press, 1992.

Iriye, Akira. The Chinese and the Japanese: Essays in Political and Cultural Interactions. Princeton University Press, 1980.

Jansen, Marius B. Japan and China: From War to Peace, 1894-1972. Rand McNally, 1975.

Newby, Laura. Sino-Japanese Relations: China's Perspective. Routledge, 1988.

Nosco, Peter. Confucianism and Tokugawa Culture. Princeton University Press, 1984.

Ōba Osamu. Books and Boats: Sino-Japanese Relations in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Trans. Joshua A. Fogel. Merwin Asia, 2012.

Peattie, Mark, Edward J. Drea, and Hans Van de Ven, eds. The Battle for China. Stanford University Press, 2011.

Richie, Donald. A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics. Stone Bridge Press, 2007.

Shirane, Haruo, ed. Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology. Columbia University Press, 2012.

Swanström, Niklas and Ryosei Kokubun, eds. Sino-Japanese Relations: Rivals or Partners? World Scientific, 2013.

Toynbee, Arnold, ed. Half the World: The History and Culture of China and Japan. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973.

Twitchett, Denis and John K. Fairbank, eds. The Cambridge History of China, Vols. 1, 3, and 7. Cambridge University Press, 1978.

Wan, Ming. Sino-Japanese Relations: Interaction, Logic, and Transformation. Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2006.

Willnat, Lars and Annette Aw, eds. Social Media, Culture and Politics in Asia. Peter Lang, 2014.

Yahuda, Michael. Sino-Japanese Relations after the Cold War. Routledge, 2014.

Yang, Daqing, et al., eds. Toward a History Beyond Borders. Harvard University Asia Center, 2012.

Topic 18. Nationalism

Anderson, Benedict R. Imagined Communities. Revised ed. Verso, 1991.

Chatterjee, Partha. "Whose Imagined Communities?" Millennium 20, no. 3 (1991): 521–525.

Chu, Hong-yuan and Peter Zarrow. "Modern Chinese Nationalism: The Formative Stage." In Exploring Nationalisms of China. Greenwood Press, 2002.

Cohen, Paul A. China Unbound. RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.

Dikötter, Frank. "Racial Discourse in China." In The Construction of Racial Identities in China and Japan. University of Hawaii Press, 1997.

Duara, Prasenjit. "De-Constructing the Chinese Nation." In Chinese Nationalism, ed. Jonathan Unger. M.E. Sharpe, 1996.

Duara, Prasenjit. Rescuing History from the Nation. University of Chicago Press, 1995.

Esherick, Joseph W. "Reconsidering 1911." Journal of Modern Chinese History 6, no. 1 (2012): 1–14.

Gellner, Ernest. Nations and Nationalism. Cornell University Press, 1983.

Glosser, Susan L. Chinese Visions of Family and State, 1915-1953. University of California Press, 2003.

Judge, Joan. "Talent, Virtue, and the Nation." AHR 106, no. 3 (2001): 765–803.

Kuo, Ya-pei. "Redeploying Confucius." In Chinese Religiosities. University of California Press, 2008.

Liu, Xiaoyuan. "Communism, Nationalism, Ethnicism, and China's 'National Question.'" In Chinese Nationalism in Perspective. Greenwood Press, 2001.

Schwarcz, Vera. The Chinese Enlightenment. University of California Press, 1986.

Smith, Anthony D. "The Nation: Invented, Imagined, Reconstructed?" Millennium 20, no. 3 (1991): 353–368.

van de Ven, Hans J. War and Nationalism in China: 1925-1945. Routledge, 2003.

Zarrow, Peter. China in War and Revolution, 1895-1949. Routledge, 2005.

Gao, James Z. "War Culture, Nationalism, and Political Campaigns, 1950-1953." In Chinese Nationalism in Perspective. Greenwood Press, 2001.

Goldstein, Steven. "Nationalism and Internationalism: Sino-Soviet Relations." In Chinese Foreign Policy. Clarendon Press, 1994.

Zhao, Suisheng. A Nation-State by Construction. Stanford University Press, 2004.

Hughes, Christopher. Chinese Nationalism in the Global Era. Routledge, 2006.

Mitter, Rana. "Old Ghosts, New Memories." Journal of Contemporary History 38, no. 1 (2003): 117–131.

Reilly, James. "A Wave to Worry About?" Journal of Contemporary China 23, no. 86 (2014): 197–215.

Nyíri, Pál and Juan Zhang, with Merriden Varrall. "China's Cosmopolitan Nationalists." China Journal 63 (2010): 25–55.

Gladney, Dru C. "Alterity Motives." In China Inside Out. Central European University Press, 2005.

Han, Enze. "From Domestic to International: The Politics of Ethnic Identity in Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia." Nationalities Papers 39, no. 6 (2011): 941–962.

Barnett, Robert. "Beyond the Collaborator-Martyr Model." In Contemporary Tibet. M.E. Sharpe, 2006.

Topic 19. Hong Kong History

Abbas, Ackbar. Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance. University of Minnesota Press, 1997.

Blyth, Sally and Ian Wotherspoon. Hong Kong Remembers. Oxford University Press, 1996.

Carroll, John M. A Concise History of Hong Kong. Hong Kong University Press, 2007.

Carroll, John M. Edge of Empires: Chinese Elites and British Colonials in Hong Kong. Harvard University Press, 2005.

Chan, Lau Kit-Ching. China, Britain, and Hong Kong, 1895-1945. Chinese University Press, 2004.

Chan, Ming K., ed. Precarious Balance: Hong Kong Between China and Britain, 1842-1992. Hong Kong University Press, 1994.

Faure, David, ed. A Documentary History of Hong Kong: Society. Hong Kong University Press, 1997.

Faure, David, ed. Hong Kong: A Reader in Social History. Oxford University Press, 2003.

Hayes, James. The Great Difference: Hong Kong's New Territories and Its People, 1898–2004. Hong Kong University Press, 2006.

Holdsworth, May. Foreign Devils: Expatriates in Hong Kong. Oxford University Press, 2002.

Kam, Louie, ed. Hong Kong Culture: Word and Image. Hong Kong University Press, 2010.

King, Ambrose Yeo-chi and Rance Pui-leung Lee, eds. Social Life and Development in Hong Kong. Chinese University Press, 1981.

Law, Wing Sang. Collaborative Colonial Power. Hong Kong University Press, 2009.

Mann, Christopher. Anglo-China: Chinese People and British Rule in Hong Kong, 1841-1880. Hong Kong University Press, 2001.

Miners, Norman. The Government and Politics of Hong Kong. Oxford University Press, 1998.

Miners, Norman. Hong Kong under Imperial Rule, 1912-1941. Oxford University Press, 1987.

Sinn, Elizabeth. Power and Charity: A Chinese Merchant Elite in Colonial Hong Kong. Hong Kong University Press, 2003.

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Topic 20. Shipping and Seapower

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McNeill, W. H. The Pursuit of Power. University of Chicago Press, 1982, Ch. 2.

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Andrews, K. R. Trade, Plunder and Settlement: Maritime Enterprise and the Genesis of the British Empire, 1480–1630. Cambridge University Press, 1984.

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Seagrave, Sterling. Lords of the Rim: The Invisible Empire of the Overseas Chinese. Putnam, 1995.

Wang, Gungwu. China and the Chinese Overseas. Times Academic Press, 1981.

Topic 21. Financial and Banking History

Accominotti, Olivier. "London Merchant Banks, the Central European Panic, and the Sterling Crisis of 1931." JEH 72, no. 1 (2012): 1–43.

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Bordo, Michael D. and Hugh Rockoff. "The Gold Standard as a 'Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval.'" JEH 56, no. 2 (1996): 389–428.

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Bordo, Michael, et al. "Is the Crisis Problem Growing More Severe?" Economic Policy 16, no. 32 (2001): 51–82.

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Crafts, Nicholas and Peter Fearon. The Great Depression of the 1930s: Lessons for Today. Oxford University Press, 2013.

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Diaz-Alejandro, Carlos. "Good-Bye Financial Repression, Hello Financial Crash." Journal of Development Economics 19, no. 1 (1985): 1–24.

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Eichengreen, Barry J. The Great Depression as a Credit Boom Gone Wrong. BIS Working Papers, 2003.

Eichengreen, Barry and Charles Wyplosz. "Minimal Conditions for the Survival of the Euro." Inter Economics 51, no. 1 (2016): 24–28.

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Gorton, Gary. "Slapped in the Face by the Invisible Hand: Banking and the Panic of 2007." SSRN, 2009.

Greif, Avner. "The Fundamental Problem of Exchange." European Review of Economic History 4, no. 3 (2000): 251–84.

Hoppit, Julian. "The Myths of the South Sea Bubble." Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 12 (2002): 141–65.

Jordà, Òscar, Moritz Schularick, and Alan M. Taylor. "The Great Mortgaging." Economic Policy 31, no. 85 (2016): 107–52.

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Minsky, Hyman P. Stabilizing an Unstable Economy. Yale University Press, 1986.