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East Asia

Here are entered works dealing collectively with China, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan.

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• The Soviet Union and Japan in the Far East (Foreign Policy Reports v8 #12; 1933), by Vera Micheles Dean (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Soul of the Far East, by Percival Lowell (Gutenberg text)

• Colonial Legacies: Economic and Social Development in East and Southeast Asia (Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, c2007), by Anne Booth (PDF with commentary at Hawaii)

• Heart of Asia: True Tales of the Far East (c1951), by Roy Chapman Andrews (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Finding the Worth While in the Orient (New York: R.M. McBride and Co., 1926), by Lucian Swift Kirtland
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images and text at Michigan
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• A Lady's Visit to Manilla and Japan (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1863), by Anna D'Almeida (multiple formats at Google)
• The Old World Through Old Eyes: Three Years in Oriental Lands (New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1917), by Mary S. Ware
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Surgeon's Log: Being Impressions of the Far East (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1911), by James Johnston Abraham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Worlds Within Worlds (c1928), by Stella Benson (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• Larger Outlooks on Missionary Lands: Descriptive Sketches of a Missionary Journey Through Egypt, Palestine, India, Burmah, Malaysia, China, Japan, and the Sandwich Islands (New York : Christian Alliance Pub. Co., c1893), by A. B. Simpson
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Unconducted Wanderers (London and New York: J. Lane, 1919), by Rosita Forbes (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Woman in the Antipodes and in the Far East (London: Methuen and Co., c1914), by Mary Hall (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Relations de Voyages et Textes Géographiques Arabes, Persans et Turks Relatifs à l'Extrème Orient du VIIIe au XVIIIe Siècles (2 volumes in 1, in French; Paris: E. Leroux, 1913-1914), ed. by Gabriel Ferrand (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The History Problem: The Politics of War Commemoration in East Asia (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, c2017), by Hiro Saito (PDF and EPub with commentary at Hawaii)
• Complexity, Security and Civil Society in East Asia: Foreign Policies and the Korean Peninsula (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2015), ed. by Peter Hayes and Kiho Yi (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Fairness, Globalization, and Public Institutions: East Asia and Beyond (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, c2006), ed. by James A. Dator, Richard Pratt, and Yong-sŏk Sŏ (PDF with commentary at Hawaii)

• The Changing Far East (Headline series #41; New York: Foreign Policy Association, c1943), by William Crane Johnstone, contrib. by Lawrence K. Rosinger
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • bound with other Headline Series titles; page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Da Asia (new edition of 24 volumes in Portuguese; Lisbon: Regia Officina Typografica, 1778-1788), by João de Barros and Diogo do Couto, contrib. by Manoel Severim de Faria (page images at HathiTrust)

• Castles in the Far East: The U.S. Carmy Corps of Engineers Okinawa and Japan Districts, 1945-1990 (1990), by Gretchen Charles Greeson (page imagest at US Army Corps of Engineers)

• Asia Major (full serial archives)
• Chung Chi Journal (full serial archives)
• Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies (partial serial archives)

• The China Story (Chicago: H. Regnery Co., 1951), by Freda Utley (PDF at fredautley.com)
• Pacific Asia: A Political Atlas (with the UN Pacific Islands Trust Agreeement; Headline Series #66; New York: Foreign Policy Association, 1947), by Samuel Van Valkenburg (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Fairness, Globalization, and Public Institutions: East Asia and Beyond (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, c2006), ed. by James A. Dator, Richard Pratt, and Yong-sŏk Sŏ (PDF with commentary at Hawaii)

• The Harim and the Purdah: Studies of Oriental Women (London: T. F. Unwin, c1915), by Elizabeth Cooper (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Harim and the Purdah: Studies of Oriental Women (New York: The Century Co., ca. 1915), by Elizabeth Cooper (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Buddhist Statecraft in East Asia (Stuies on Easi Asian Religions v6; Leiden and Boston: Brill, c2022), ed. by Stephanie Balkwill and James A. Benn (PDF with commentary at Brill)

• Buddhist Statecraft in East Asia (Stuies on Easi Asian Religions v6; Leiden and Boston: Brill, c2022), ed. by Stephanie Balkwill and James A. Benn (PDF with commentary at Brill)

• Civil Society and the State in Democratic East Asia: Between Entanglement and Contention in Post High Growth (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020), ed. by David Chiavacci, Simona Alba Grano, and Julia Obinger (PDF files at Project MUSE)
• Complexity, Security and Civil Society in East Asia: Foreign Policies and the Korean Peninsula (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2015), ed. by Peter Hayes and Kiho Yi (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Civil Society and the State in Democratic East Asia: Between Entanglement and Contention in Post High Growth (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020), ed. by David Chiavacci, Simona Alba Grano, and Julia Obinger (PDF files at Project MUSE)

• The Roots of French Imperialism in Eastern Asia (Ithaca, NY: Pub. for the American Historical Association by Cornell University Press, 1954), by John F. Cady (page images at HathiTrust)

• Competing Economies: America, Europe, and the Pacific Rim (1991), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Japan's Future in East Asia and the Pacific (2007), ed. by Mari Pangestu and Ligang Song (PDF with commentary at ANU E Press)

• The History Problem: The Politics of War Commemoration in East Asia (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, c2017), by Hiro Saito (PDF and EPub with commentary at Hawaii)

• Mission to Lepers in India and the East: Story of Naini Asylum at Allahabad, India (ca. 1905), by Sam Higginbottom (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Rebuke of Islam (5th edition; London: United Council for Missionary Education, 1920), by W. H. T. Gairdner
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • PDF at muhammadanism.org
• The Reproach of Islam (London: Student Volunteer Missionary Union, 1909), by W. H. T. Gairdner (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Reproach of Islam (3rd edition; London: Church Missionary Society, 1910), by W. H. T. Gairdner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Cathay and the Way Thither, ed. by Henry Yule (page images at Toyo Bunko Archive)
• Larger Outlooks on Missionary Lands: Descriptive Sketches of a Missionary Journey Through Egypt, Palestine, India, Burmah, Malaysia, China, Japan, and the Sandwich Islands (New York : Christian Alliance Pub. Co., c1893), by A. B. Simpson
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Multiculturalism and Conflict Reconciliation in the Asia-Pacific: Migration, Language, and Politics (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, c2014), ed. by Kosuke Shimizu and William S. Bradley (multiple formats at palgraveconnect.com)

• Complexity, Security and Civil Society in East Asia: Foreign Policies and the Korean Peninsula (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2015), ed. by Peter Hayes and Kiho Yi (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• The History Problem: The Politics of War Commemoration in East Asia (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, c2017), by Hiro Saito (PDF and EPub with commentary at Hawaii)

• Civil Society and the State in Democratic East Asia: Between Entanglement and Contention in Post High Growth (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020), ed. by David Chiavacci, Simona Alba Grano, and Julia Obinger (PDF files at Project MUSE)

• Public Health in East and Southeast Asia: Challenges and Opportunities in the Twenty-First Century (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2012), ed. by Roger Detels, Sheena G. Sullivan, and Chorh Chuan Tan (HTML and PDF with commentary at UC Press)

• Fairness, Globalization, and Public Institutions: East Asia and Beyond (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, c2006), ed. by James A. Dator, Richard Pratt, and Yong-sŏk Sŏ (PDF with commentary at Hawaii)

• Crossing the Strait: China's Military Prepares for War With Taiwan (Washington: National Defense University Press, 2022), ed. by Joel Wuthnow, Derek Grossman, Phillip C. Saunders, Andrew Scobell, and Andrew N. D. Yang (PDF with commentary at ndu.edu)

• The High Cost of Hate (San Francisco: The author, 1939), by Ralph Townsend (page images at HathiTrust)

• The High Cost of Hate (San Francisco: The author, 1939), by Ralph Townsend (page images at HathiTrust)
• Asia Answers (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1936), by Ralph Townsend (page images at HathiTrust)

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