RECOMMENDED LIST
of
REFERENCE, RESERVE, & OPEN-STACK MATERIALS
in the
NWC LIBRARY

REFERENCE WORKS

Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Information China. Comp. and transl. by China Social Science Publishing House. Edited by C.V. James. 3 vols. Oxford, GB: Pergamon Press, 1989. Ref. DS706 I5 1989

Geelan, P.J.M. and D.C. Twitchett, eds. The Times Atlas of China. London & New York: Quadrangle/NY Times Books, 1974. Ref. G2305 T45 1974

Leung, Edwin Pak-wah, ed. Historical Dictionary of Revolutionary China, 1839-1976. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1992. Ref. DS740.2 H57

Liang Shih-chin, ed. Far East English-Chinese Dictionary. Taipei: Far East Book Co., 1979. PL1429 F3 1979

Sivin, Nathan, consulting ed. The Contemporary Atlas of China. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988. Ref. G2305 C986 1988

PRIMARY DOCUMENTS

De Bary, William Theodore et al., eds. Sources of Chinese Tradition. New York: Columbia University Press, 1960. DS703 D4

Mair, Victor, ed. Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. PL2658 E1 C65 1994

Sima Qian. Records of the Grand Historian. 3 vols. Hong Kong & New York: Renditions-Columbia University Press, 1993. DS741.3 S68213 1993

Schurmann, Franz & Orville Schell, eds. The China Reader. 4 vols. New York: Random House, 1967-1974. DS735 S43

AREA PERIODICALS in NWC Collection:

• China Quarterly.
• Current History (Sept. issue in any given year is on China).
• Journal of Asian Studies
• Pacific Affairs

 ASIAN STUDIES TITLES on JSTOR Data Base, linked to NWC Ramaker page:

REFERENCE WORKS, MONOGRAPHS, & COLLECTIONS OF ESSAYS

Ebrey, Patricia Buckley. Cambridge Illustrated History of China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. DS706 E37 1996

Gamer, Robert E., ed. Understanding Contemporary China. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienne, 1999. DS706 U53 1999

Goldman, Merle and Leo Ou-fan Lee, eds. An Intellectual History of Modern China. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. DS775.2 .I58 2002

Huang, Ray. China: A Macro History. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1997. DS735 H785 1997

Jensen, Lionel M. and Timothy B. Weston, eds.  China's Transformations: The Stories Beyond the Headlines. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007. On order for library collection.

Loewe, Michael and Edward L. Shaughnessy, eds. The Cambridge History of Ancient China: From the Origins of Civilization to 221 B.C. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. DS741.5 C35 1999

Luo, Jing, ed. China Today : An Encyclopedia of Life in the People's Republic. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005. Reference DS777.6 C458 2005

Needham, Joseph. Science and Civilization in China. 4 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965. DS721 N39

Ropp, Paul S., ed. Heritage of China: Contemporary Perspectives on Chinese Civilization. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. DS721 H45 1990

Schoppa, R. Keith. The Columbia Guide to Modern Chinese History. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. DS755 .S635 2000

Shaughnessy, Edward L., ed. China : empire and civilization. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. DS706 .C4945 2000

Short, Philip. Mao : A Life. New York: Henry Holt, 2000. DS778.M3 S548 2000

Tsai, Shih-shan Henry. Perpetual Happiness: The Ming Emperor Yongle. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001. DS753.6.M43 T75 2001

Tu Wei-ming, ed. The Living Tree: The Changing Meaning of Being Chinese Today. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994. DS730 L596 1994

Uhalley, Jr., Stephen and Xiaoxin Wu, eds. China and Christianity : Burdened Past, Hopeful Future. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2001. BR1285 .C523 2001

Weston, Timothy B. and Lionel M. Jensen, eds. China Beyond the Headlines. Lanham, MD: Rowan & Littlefield, 2000. HN733.5 .C4285 2000

Wills, John E., Jr. Mountain of Fame: Portraits in Chinese History. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. (Instructor's copy, Library reserve)