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China -- Civilization -- Western influences

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• China -- Civilization
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• Western influences

• China -- Civilization -- Occidental influences

• Chinese Cultural Traditions and Modernization (Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c1997), ed. by Wang Miaoyang, Yu Xuanmeng, and George F. McLean (multiple formats at Google)
• Philosophy and Modernization in China (Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c1997), ed. by Liu Fangtong, Huang Songjie, and George F. McLean (multiple formats at Google)
• Economic Ethics and Chinese Culture (Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c1997), ed. by Yu Xuanmeng, Lu Xiaohe, Liu Fangtong, Zhang Rulun, and Georges Enderle (multiple formats at Google)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Critical Han Studies: The History, Representation, and Identity of China's Majority (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2012), ed. by Thomas S. Mullaney, James Leibold, Stéphane Gros, and Eric Vanden Bussche (HTML and PDF with commentary at UC Press)
• The Humanization of Technology and Chinese Culture (Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c1998), ed. by Tomonobu Imamichi, Wang Miaoyang, and Liu Fangtong (PDF at crvp.org)
• Leibniz and Confucianism: The Search for Accord (Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, c1977), by D. E. Mungello (PDF and Epub with commentary at Hawaii)
• Beyond Modernization: Chinese Roots for Global Awareness (Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c1997), ed. by Wang Miaoyang, Yu Xuanmeng, and George F. McLean (multiple formats at Google)
• Our Chinese Ally (1944), by Owen Lattimore and Eleanor Holgate Lattimore
  • illustrated HTML at historians.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Civilization of China, by Herbert Allen Giles (Gutenberg text)
• Oriental Religions and Their Relation to Universal Religion: China (Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Co., 1878), by Samuel Johnson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism, Christianity, and Chinese Cultures, by Tang Yi-Jie (PDF at crvp.org)
• The Problem of China, by Bertrand Russell (Gutenberg text)

• War and Popular Culture: Resistance in Modern China, 1937-1945 (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1994), by Chang-tai Hung (HTML at UC Press)

• Becoming Chinese: Passages to Modernity and Beyond (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2000), ed. by Wen-Hsin Yeh (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Chinese Religiosities: Afflictions of Modernity and State Formation (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2008), ed. by Mayfair Mei-hui Yang (Javascript-dependent page images at UC Press)

• China: Dawn of a Golden Age, 200-750 AD (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c2004), by James C. Y. Watt, An Jiayao, Angela Falco Howard, B. I. Marshak, Su Bai, and Zhao Feng (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• A General History of The Americans, of Their Customs, Manners, and Colours; An History of The Patagonians, of The Blafards, and White Negroes; History of Peru; An History of The Manners, Customs, &c. of The Chinese and Egyptians, Selected from M. Pauw (Rochdale, UK: T. Wood, 1806), by Cornelius Pauw, ed. by Daniel Webb (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Consumer-Citizens of China: The Role of Foreign Brands in the Imagined Future China (London and New York: Routledge, c2011), by Kelly Tian and Lily Dong
  • PDF with commentary at tanfebooks.com
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Asia Major (full serial archives)

• The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture, 1776-1876, by John Rogers Haddad (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at gutenberg-e.org)

• The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture, 1776-1876, by John Rogers Haddad (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at gutenberg-e.org)

• China and the West: Music, Representation, and Reception (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2017), ed. by Hon-Lun Yang and Michael Saffle (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• The Collapse of Civilization (New York: Church Peace Union, 1914), by Church Peace Union (page images here at Penn)
• Ideales Viejos e Ideales Nuevos; Significación Histórica del Movimiento Maximalista (in Spanish; ca. 1918), by José Ingenieros (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Tensions between Culture and Human Rights: Emancipatory Social Work and Afrocentricity in a Global World (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2021), ed. by Vishanthie Sewpaul, Linda Kreitzer, and Tanusha Raniga (PDF files at University of Calgary)

• Penguin Island, by Anatole France, trans. by A. W. Evans (Gutenberg text)
• Penguin Island (London: J. Lane; New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1925), by Anatole France, trans. by A. W. Evans, illust. by Frank Cheyne Papé (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)

• The Naulahka: A Story of West and East, by Rudyard Kipling and Charles Wolcott Balestier (text at Gutenberg Australia)
• A Desert Drama: Being the Tragedy of the Korosko (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1898), by Arthur Conan Doyle, illust. by Sidney Paget
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Persian Letters (English translation; London: G. Routledge and Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., ca. 1891), by Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, ed. by John Davidson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Razor's Edge (c1944), by W. Somerset Maugham (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• Tragedy and Enlightenment: Athenian Political Thought and the Dilemmas of Modernity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), by Christopher Rocco (HTML at UC Press)

• The Impulse of Power: Formative Ideals of Western Civilization, by Michael W. Kelley (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• The Story of Stupidity, by James F. Welles (HTML at mensch.net)

• Islamic Contributions to Civilization (1963), by Stanwood Cobb (HTML at bahaistudies.net)

• The Public Domain Review (2011-) (full serial archives)

• The West, Christians, and Jews in Saudi Arabian Schoolbooks (2003), by Arnon Groiss (PDF at impact-se.org)

• The Bases of Values in a Time of Change: Chinese and Western (Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c1999), ed. by Kirti Bunchua, Liu Fangtong, Yu Xuanmeng, and Yu Xujin (multiple formats at Google)
• Turkey in Europe, and Europe in Turkey, by Turgut Özal (HTML at loc.gov)

• Revolutionary Rexroth: Poet of East-West Wisdom (electronic edition), by Morgan Gibson (HTML at Light and Dust)

• Critical Terrains: French and British Orientalisms (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1991), by Lisa Lowe (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Internationales Taschenbuch für Orientalisten (first edition of what aimed to be an annual guide, in German; Halle a. Salle and New York: R. Haupt, 1907), ed. by Rudolf Haupt (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Internationales Taschenbuch für Orientalisten (second edition, in German; Leipzig: R. Haupt, 1910), ed. by Rudolf Haupt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Interrogating Orientalism: Contextual Approaches and Pedagogical Practices (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), ed. by Diane Long Hoeveler and Jeffrey Cass (PDF at Ohio State)

• Orientalism: Visions of the East in Western Dress (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1994), by Richard Martin and Harold Koda (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Interrogating Orientalism: Contextual Approaches and Pedagogical Practices (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), ed. by Diane Long Hoeveler and Jeffrey Cass (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Spirit of Japan: A Lecture (Tokyo: Indo-Japanese Association, 1916), by Rabindranath Tagore (Gutenberg text)

• Familiar and Foreign: Identity in Iranian Film and Literature (Edmonton: AU Press, c2015), ed. by Manijeh Mannani and Veronica Thompson (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• China and the West: Music, Representation, and Reception (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2017), ed. by Hon-Lun Yang and Michael Saffle (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Turkey in Europe, and Europe in Turkey, by Turgut Özal (HTML at loc.gov)

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