Ubrt\R..Y MOOR.E COLLECTION RELATING to the FA~ EAST >-=~ILTI\ CLASS NO
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
TRINiTYCO~- UBRt\R..Y MOOR.E COLLECTION RELATING TO THE FA~ EAST >-=~ILTI\ CLASS NO. __ BOOK NO.- VOLUME A C C E S S 1---0 :-:-:-N N-::-::0=--. \0.50 \280 THE BEST HUNDRED BOOKS ON CHINA A FINDING LIST OF BOOKS IN ENGLISH NEW HAVEN, CONNECfiCUT: YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY I I I> " THE BEST HUNDRED BOOKS ON CHINA A FINDING LIST OF BOOKS IN ENGLISH SELECTED AND ANNOTATED BY FREDERICK WELLS WILLIAMS Assistant Professor of Modern Oriental History Yale University AND THE REV. FRANK W. PRICE Associate Professor of Religious Education Union Theological Seminary, Nan king NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT: YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY MDCCCCXXIV I 1 .. 't THE BEST HUNDRED BOOKS IN ENGLISH ON CHINA THE purpose of this short list of the available literature on China is to afford students and others interested in the Far East a con venient means of selecting the best sources of information on all phases of the subject. While all of the books named are not in print they are probably still to be had through booksellers and, for the most part, in public libraries. With very few exceptions none are mentioned that are too costly to be within reach of a library or purchaser in need of a fairly complete collection on China. A few titles in French or German in excess of the hundred supposed to comprise the list are noted, also a few others that might replace books not readily obtainable, so that the heading of this catalog may be justified by actual selection. The bibliography of Chris tian missions in China is left for another list. F. w. WILLIAMS. Yale University Library, October, 1923. THE BEST HUNDRED BOOKS ON CHINA (IN ENGLISH) BIBLIOGRAPHY Cordier, Henri. Bibliotheca sinica. Dictionnaire bibliographique des ouvrages relatifs a !'Empire chinois ... 2. ed., rev., cor. et considerable ment augm. Paris, E. Guilmoto, 1904-08. 4 v. Supplement et index, 1922-24. Paris, P. Geuthner. Closely classified under 5 main heads: 1. La 01ine proprement elite. 2. Les etrangers en Chine. 3. Relation des etrangers avec les Chinois. 4. Les Chinois chez les peuples etrangers. 5. Les pays tributaires de Ia Chine. Bri ef and useful bibliographies may be found in K. S. Latourette, The development of China, rev. ed., ~oston and New York, 1920; W . R. Wheeler, China and the World--War, ew York, 1919; and E . T. Williams, China yesterday and to-day, New York, 1923. GENERA L WORKS Ball, James Dyer. Things Chinese; or Nate connected with China . 4th ed., rev. and enl. London, Murray, 1904. Bashford, James Whitford. China; an interpretation ... New York, Cincinnati, Abingdon Press [1919]. Illus. Rev. and en!. ed. "Books for reference" at the end of most chapters. Reviewed in Dial, 61: 317; Independent, Sept. 25, 1916. "No other book will help the peoples of the Western Nations to understand China better than this remarkable work." Best book in a single volume for popular use. China year book. [v. 1], 1912 (annual to date). London, Rout ledge; ew York, Dutton (1912-date]. Couling, Samuel. T he encyclopredia sinica .. Shanghai, Kelly & Walsh, 1917. 3 Dingle, Edwin J olm, editor. The new atlas and commercial gazetteer of China, a work devoted to its geography and resources and economic and com mercial development. Shanghai, North-China Daily News and Herald [1917]. Ill us., maps, folio. "Biggest and best book on the resources of China."-Millard's Review. Devqted to geography, resources, economic and commercial develop ment. 25 bi-lingual maps, compiled and translated from latest and most authoritative surveys and records by staff of Far Eastern Geographi cal Establishment-North-China Daily News and Herald, Shanghai. Giles, Herbert Allen. A Chinese biographical dictionary . London, Quaritch ; Shanghai, Kelly & Walsh, 1898. Japan. Imperial government railways. An official guide to Eastern Asia, trans-continental connections between Europe and Asia . v. 4. China. Tokyo, 1915. Excellent maps, illustrations and descriptions. Mayers, William Frederick. The Chinese reader's manual; a handbook of biographical, his torical, mythological, and general literary reference . Lon don, Probsthain, 1910. "Reprinted from the edition of 1874." Williams, Samuel Wells. The Middle kingdom. A survey of the geography, government, literature, social life, arts, and history of the Chinese empire and its inhabitants . Rev. ed. New York, Scribner's, 1883 and 1907. 2 v., illus., maps. GEOGRAPHY Little, Archibald J olm. The Far East . Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1905. Illus., maps. (The regions of the world.) Parker, Edward Harper. China, her history, diplomacy, and commerce, from the earliest times to the present day . .. 2d ed. London, Murray, 1917. 4 Richard, Pere L. L. Richard's comprehensive geography of the Chinese Empire and dependencies. Translation by M. Kennelly, S. J. Shang hai, T'usewei Press, 1908. Comprehensive and valuable. Good bibliographies. Suess, Edward. The face of the earth (Das Antlitz der Erde) ... Translated by Hertha B. C. Sallas ... under the direction of W. J. Sollas ... Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1904-09. 4 v., illus., maps. NATURAL HISTORY Carnegie institution of Washington. Research in China ... Washington, D. C., Carnegie institu tion of Washington, 1907-13. 3 v. in 4, illus., maps, and atlas. Scientific results of the Carnegie expedition to China, 1903-04. Contents: v. 1, pt. 1. Descriptive topography and geology. pt. 2. Pe trography and zoology, by Eliot Blackwelder. Syllabary of Chinese sounds, by Friedrich Hirth.-v. 2. Systematic geology, by Bailey Willis.-v. 3. The Cambrian faunas of China, by Charles D. Wal cott. A report on Ordovician fossils collected in Eastern Asia in 1903-04, by Stuart Weller. A report on upper Paleozoic fossils col lected in China in 1903-04, by George H. Girty. Very valuable. Wilson, Ernest Henry. A naturalist in western China, with vasculum, camera, and gun; being some account of eleven years' travel, exploration, and observation in the more remote parts of the Flowery king dom . with an introduction by Charles Sprague Sargent ... London, Methuen [1913]. 2 v., illus., maps. DESCRIPTION AND TRAVEL Bredon, Juliet. Peking; a historical and intimate description of its chief places of interest . [2d ed., rev. and en!.] Shanghai, Kelly & Walsh, 1922. Illus., maps. 5 Colquhoun, Archibald Ross. Amongst the Shans . with upwards of fifty whole-page illustrations, and an historical sketch of the Shans by Holt S. Hallett . Preceded by an introduction on' The cradle of the Shan race, by Terrien de Lacouperie . London, Field & Tuer; New York, Scribner & Welford, 1885. Illus., maps. Franck, Harry Alverson. Wandering in northern China. New York, Century, 1923. Illus., map. Hosie, Sir Alexander. Szechwan, its products, industries, and resources. Shi:U1ghai, Kelly & Walsh, 1922. Huntington, Ellsworth. The pulse of Asia, a journey in Central Asia illustrating the geographic basis of history . Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1907. Illus., maps. Ollone, Henri Marie Gustave, vicomte d'. In forbidden China. The D'Ollone mission 1906-09 ; China Tibet-Mongolia . translated from the French of the 2d ed., by Bernard Miall; . Boston, Small, Maynard [1912]. Illus., maps. Perry-Ayscough, Henry George Charles, and Otter-Barry, Robert Bruere. With the Russians in Mongolia . with a preface by the Right Honourable Sir Claude Macdonald ... London, New York, Lane, 1914. Illus., maps. Pumpelly, Raphael. My reminiscences . , . New York, Holt, 1918. 2 v., illus., maps. Richthofen, Ferdinand Paul Wilhelm, freiherr von. Baron Richthofen's letters, 1870-72. 2d ed. Shanghai, "North-China Herald" office, 1903. On resources of northern provinces of China. 6 Scidmore, Eliza Ruhamah. China the long-lived Empire. New York, Century, 1900. Stein, Sir Marc Aurel. Serindia; detailed report of explorations in Central Asia and westernmost China carried out and described under the orders of H. M. Indian government . Oxford, Clarendon Press, 19· 1. 5 v., illus., maps, facsims. Personal narrative and results of explorations. Yule, Sir Henry, editor and translat.or. Cathay and the way thither; being a collection of medieval notices of China . .. New ed., rev. throughout in the light of recent discoveries by Henri Cordier . London, printed for the Hakluyt society, 1913-16. 4 v., illus., maps. (Works issued by the Hakluyt society. 2d ser., no. 33, 37, 38, 41.) HISTORY Allan, C. Wilfrid. The makers of Cathay. Shanghai, Presbyterian Mission Press, 1909. Illus. Contents: Confucius, the moral reformer.-Mencius, the social re former.-Chin Shih Huang Ti, the first empero~Chu Ko Liang, strategist and statesman.-Fa Shien and Shuan Tsang, the Buddhist pilgrims.-Li Shih Min, the emperor Tai Tsung.-Li Tai Peh and Tu Fu, China's greatest poets.-Han Yii, the prince of literature.-Wang An Shih, political economist and national r former.-Chu She, scholar and philosopher.-Kublai Khan, the world's emperor.-Wen Tien Shiang and Lu Shiu Fu, the patriotic ministers.-Hung Wu, the beggar king.-Wu San Kuei, the people's general.-Koxinga, pirate and patriot.-K'ang She, the greatest of the Manchus.-Chien Lung, the conqueror.-Tseng Kuo Fan, the imperialist general.-Li Htmg Chang, statesman and diplomat. Backhouse, E., and Bland, John Otway Percy. Annals & memoirs of the court of Peking (from the 16th to the 20th century) . Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1914. Illus. Contents: The Ming dynasty.-The Manchu dynasty. 7 • Cordier, Henri. Histoire generale de la Chine et de ses relations avec les pays etrangers depuis les temps les plus anciens jusqu'a la chute de la dynastie rnandchoue . Paris, P. Genthner, 1920. 4 v., ill us. Contents: I. Depuis les temps les plus anciens jusqu'a la chute de la dynastie T'ang (907 apres ].-C.) .-11. Depuis les cinq dynasties (907) jusqu'a la chute des Mongols (1368) .-III. Depuis l'avencment des Ming ( 1368) j usqu'a la mort de Kia K'ing ( 1820) .-IV. Depuis l'avenement de Tao Kouang (1821) jusqu'a l'epoque actuelle.