第三部分进一步阅读书目(第3/3页)
中国和日本。E.O.Reischauer,J.K.Fairbank,and A.M.Craig,East Asia:Tradition and Transformation(Boston,1973)和George M.Beckman,The Modernization of China and Japan(New York,1962)提供了远东近代历史的概述。Immanuel Hsu,The Rise of Modern China,2nd ed.(New York,1975)是对近代中国历史的最好概述。Charles R.Boxer,Fidalgos in the Far East,1550~1700(Hague,1948)老练地论述了葡萄牙的作用。关于基督教传教士,参见:Kenneth Scott Latourette,A History of Christian Missions in China(New York,1929)和Arnold H.Rowbotham, Missionary and Mandarin:The Jesuits at the Court of China(Berkeley,1942)。关于政府,见 Franz Michael,The Origin of Manchu Rule in China(Baltimore,1942)和Etienne Balazs,Political Theory and Administrative Reality in Traditional China(London,1965)。Jonathan Spence,The Death of Woman Wang(New York,1978)是中华帝国晚期下层社会生活的形象描述。Ping-ti Ho,Studies on the Population of China,1368~1953(Cambridge,1959);同一作者的The Ladder of Success in Imperial China:Aspects of Social Mobility,1368~1911(New York,1962);Chung-li Chang,The Chinese Gentry:Studies in their Role in Nineteenth Century Chinese Society(Seattle,1955);和Hsiao-tung Fei,Peasant Life in China:A Field Study of Country Life in the Yangtze Valley(New York,1946)都论述了最近几个世纪中国社会的秩序和无序问题。关于技术,Sun E-tu Zen and Sun S.C.,Chinese Technology in the Seventeenth Century(University Park,Pa.,1966)。Theodore de Bary,ed.,Sources of Chinese Tradition(New York,1966)是按照年代和主题顺序编辑的文献翻译汇编,非常有用。John K.Fairbank,ed.,Chinese Thought and Institutions(Chicago,1957)探讨了中国思想史,John K.Fairbank,ed.,The Chinese World Order:Traditional Chinese Foreign Relations(Cambridge,Mass.,1968)也富有启迪意义。
Osvald Siren,A History of Later Chinese Painting,2 vols.(London,1938)提供了近代中国艺术的最好标本。学生也可以通过选读传统的中国小说来熟悉中国社会的本质。其中2本最重要的小说可以得到英文译本:Wu Ching-tzu,The Scholars(New York,1972)和Tsao Chan,Dream of the Red Chamber(New York,1958)。
至于日本近代历史的研究,参见:George B.Sansom,The Western World and Japan(New York,1950);Donald Keene,The Japanese Discovery of Europe(New York,1954);Charles R.Boxer,The Christian Century in Japan,1549~1650 (Berkeley,1951);Conrad D.Totman,Politics in the Tokugawa Bakufu,1600~1843(Cambridge,Mass.,1967);Robert N.Bellah,Tokugawa Religion(Glencoe,III.,1957);Maruyama Masao,Studies in the Intellectual History of Tokugawa Japan(Princeton,1974);William R.Braisted,tr.,Meiroku Zasshi:Journal of the Japanese Enlightenment(Cambridge,Mass.,1976);Hugh Borton,Japans Modern Century(New York,1955);和Tetsuo Najita,Japan(Englewood Cliffs,N.J.,1974)。Thomas C.Smith,The Agrarian Origins of Modern Japan(Stanford,1959),是一部阐述早期近代日本社会的杰作。
Peter C.Swann, An Introduction to the Arts of Japan(Oxford,1958)是一本有帮助的著作。Ichitaro Kondo,ed.,Hiroshige,The Fifty-three Stages of the Tokaido(Honolulu,1965)提供了由最伟大的日本艺术家之一翻译的德川时代后期社会的景象。Howard Hibbert,The Floating World in Japanese Fiction(New York,1959)是对德川时代日本世俗小说的优秀介绍。