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

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• Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life (based on the 1896 edition; this edition Lincoln, NE: Zea Books, 2022), by Lafcadio Hearn (PDF at unl.edu)
• Evolution of the Japanese, Social and Psychic, by Sidney Lewis Gulick (Gutenberg text)
• Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation (New York: Macmillan, ca. 1904), by Lafcadio Hearn
  • HTML at sacred-texts.com
  • Gutenberg text
• The Invention of a New Religion, by Basil Hall Chamberlain
  • HTML at hoary.org
  • Gutenberg text
• Japan, Foe of Freedom: Some Important Economic, Historical and Political Facts About the Ruthless Enemy We Are Fighting in the Pacific (New York: Book-of-the-hour Company, 1942), by Stanley Nehmer, illust. by J. Camarero (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kokoro, by Lafcadio Hearn (Gutenberg text)
• Kokoro (German translation and notes; Frankfurt am Main: Rütten und Loening, 1905), by Lafcadio Hearn, trans. by Berta Franzos, contrib. by Hugo von Hoffmansthal (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Kokoro (German translation and notes; Frankfurt am Main: Rütten und Loening, 1907), by Lafcadio Hearn, trans. by Berta Franzos, contrib. by Hugo von Hoffmansthal (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Kingdom of Slender Swords (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1910), by Hallie Erminie Rives, illust. by A. B. Wenzell
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• My Life with the Enemy (New York: Macmillan, 1944), by Phyllis Argall (page images at HathiTrust)

• Zen Culture: How Zen has Influenced Art, Architecture, Literature, Sports, Ceramics, Theatre, by Thomas Hoover (Gutenberg multiple formats)

• The Role of Japan in Modern Chinese Art (Berkeley et al.: Global, Area, and International Archive; University of California Press, c2012), ed. by Joshua A. Fogel (page images and PDF at escholarship.org)

• The Great Wave: The Influence of Japanese Woodcuts on French Prints (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1974), by Colta Feller Ives (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• Bringing the World Home: Appropriating the West in Late Qing and Early Republican China (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, c2005), by Theodore Huters (PDF with commentary at Hawaii)

• 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)