DOCUMENT RESUME ED 080 443 SO. 006 193 AUTHOR Embree, Ainslie T., Ed. TITLE ASia: A Guide to Paperbacks..Revised Edition.. INSTITUTION ASIA Society, New York, N.Y. PUB DATE 68 NOTE 187p.. EDPS PRICE MF-$0.65 HC -$6.58 DESCRIPTORS *Annotated Bitliograpbies; *Area Studies; *Non Western Civilization; *Paperback Books; *Resource Guides IDENTIFIERS *Asia; China; India; Japan ABSTRACT The guide includes in-print titles which were listed in the original guide and the supplement, new titles which appeared between December 1965 and December 1967, 'books published in 1968 provided by some publishers,- and a few titles omitted from earlier editions. All the.-books are listed alphabetically by author within five subject areas: Asia-General; South Asia --Afghanistan, Bhutan, Nepal, Sikkim, Tibet, Ceylon, India, Pakistan;. Southeast Asia --Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines,TIlailand, Vietnam; East Asia --China, Japan, Korea; and, Oceania. -The largeSt sections are: Asian and specifically Indian, Chinese and Japanese history, culture, religion and philosophy, literature and the arts, modern social, political and economic developments, and ,pliscellaneous including geography. Two additional indexes are appended: the addresses of publishers and author-title index..This document - previously announced as ED 045 517..(SBE) FILMED FROM BEST :AVAILABLE COPY ASIA A QUIDE TO PAPERBACKS 4 REVISED EDITION a A A f THE ASIA SOCIETY / . A- WIDE TO PAPERBACKS US OEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. EDUCATION & WELFARE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN REPRO DUCED EXACTLY AS RECEIVEO FROM THE PERSON OR ORGANIZATION ORIGIN ATING IT PO,NTS OF VIEW OR OPINIONS STATED DO NOT NECESSARILY RE PRE SENT OFFICIAL NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION POSITION OR POLICY A GUIDE TO PAPERBACKS REVISED EDITION AINSLIE T. EMBREE, editor Asia General and South Asia JACKSON H. BAILEY Japan and Korea SAMUEL C. CHU East Asia General and China I' INN V. HART Southeast Asia and Oceania GECRGE ALEXANDER LENSEN East Asia General and China THE ASIA SOCIETY 1968 CONTRIBUTORS JACKSON H. BAILEY Professor of History and Director of NDEA Center for East Asian La2guage and Area Studies Earlham College SAMUEL C. CHU Associate Professor of History University of Pittsburgh AINSLIE T. EMBREE Associate Professor of Indian History Columbia University DONN V. HART Professor of Anthropology Syracuse University GEORGE ALEXANDER LENSEN Professor of History The Florida State University Copyright C 1%8 by THE ASIA SOCIETY, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED THIS PUBLICATION MAY NOT BE REPRODUCED, IN WHOLEOR IN PART, IN AN, FORM, WITHOUT WRITTEN PERMISSION FROM THE ASIASOCIETY, 112 E. 64 STREET, NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10021 a TABLE OF CONTENTS Pi.GE PREFACE i I. ASIAGENERAL 1. Growth of Civira.ations 1 2. History and Politics . - 1 3. Economic and Social Developments 8 4. Literature and the Arts 13 5. Religion a. General Studies and Anthologies 16 b. Faiths Found throughout Asia i. Buddhism 20 ii. Islam 23 iii. Christianity 26 6:- Geography 26 7. - Miscellaneous 26 IL SOUTH ASIA -;. 1. General 28 2. Afghanistan 29 3. Bhutan, Nepal, Sikkim, Tibet 30 4. Ceylon 31 5. India a. History and Culture 32 b. Religion and Philosophy 36 c. Literature and the Arts i. Classical 40 ii. Modern 42 iii. Novels and Belles Lewes about India 44 d. Modern Social, Political, and Economic Developments 47 6. Pakistan 51 III. SOUTHEAST ASIA 1. General-.. 53 2. Burma 57 3. Cambodia 59 4. Indonesia 59 5. Laos 62 6. Malaysia (Malaya) and Singapore 62 7. Philippines 67 8: Thailand . 69 9. Vietnam 70 IV. EAST ASIA 1. General a. History and Politics 79 b. Literature and the Arts 81 4 4 PAGE _ 2. China 82 a. History 90 b. Religion- aiid Philosophy c. Literature i. Classical '97 ii. Modern 101 iii. Novels andBelles Lettresabotit China 101 d. Art 102 e. Modern Social, Political, andEconomic Developments 104 f. Miscellaneous including Geography 118 3. Japan a. History 120 b. Bengal and Philosophy 122 c. Literature a i. Classical 126 ii. Modern 129 iii. Novels andBelles Lettresabout Japan 132 d. Art 134 e. Modern Social, Political,and Economic Developments 138 f. Miscellaneous including Geography 143 4. Korea 145 147 V. OCEANIA ADDRESSES OF PUBLISHERS 151 AUTHOR TITLE INDEX 155 -z- ti s - PREFACE Aniericans, has Asian studies, once the concernand pleasure of only a few contemporary affairs. rapidly become an integral partof our curriculumkand of the increased awareness andappreciation of Asian It is gratifying to observe to participate peoples and cultures. The AsiaSociety is delighted to continue rewarding discovery bypublishing a revised edition of in this significant and growing interest in ASIA: A GUIDE TOPAPERBACKS. *Fortunitely, the qatlity-of-educitional materials. Forexample: Asia is paralleled by the increased in- paperbOund books are not merelyreplicas of .haidcover editions; in some have'been reprinted in only thepaperback edition. stances, out-of-print classics being pub- Moreover, some titles are originalpape..oacks. and many are now lished simifftaneously in hardand soft editions. paperbound bOpks is the result ofeffective The appearance of distinguished Literature Program efforts of dedicated andknowledgeable people. The Asian participates in the publication of the, Asia Society; forexample, encourages and Program assists in the:Ye-issueof outstanding basic of significant books. The works and classics books; it identifies forpublication important contemporary such as anthologies of for translation; it encouragesthe creation of new books publishers on the promotion prose and poetry,and it consults with American of books on-Asia. relating to the arts "Those interested in a continuingprogram of publications follow the exhibitions presentedby the Asia House of Asia are advised to have'set high standards Gallery of the Asia Society,whose paperback catalogues of equal importance for btiokg associated withsuch displays. The catalogues are constitute book-sized studiesof each. Many of these with the exhibitions and copies of the cata- catalogues have already gone outof print, but paperbound and clothbound copies logues of all new shows canbe purchased at Asia House from the distributor (NewYork can be found in bookstores or ordered directly Greenwich Ave., Greenwich,Conn.). The three Graphic Society Ltd.; 140 specialists who select catalogues which are publishedeach year are written by are the following the objedts exhibited atAsia House. Typical of this program titles available in paperbackediti-.ns: MINGEI: FOLK ARTS OFOLDJAPAN, by Hugo Munsterberg INDIAN GODS, THRONES, ANDPEACOCKS: NORTHERN PAINTING FROM TWOTRADITIONS-15th-19th 'CENTURIES, by Stuart Cary Welchand Milo Cleveland Beach -JAPANESE ARTS OF THEHEIAN PERIOD: 794-1185, by John Rosenfield CHINESE .TREASURESFROM THEAVERY BRUNDAGE COLLECTION, by Rene-YvonLefebvre d'Argence THE ART OF THE KOREAN POTTER, with preface by Robert P. Griffing, Jr. RITUAL VESSELS OF BRONZE AGE CHINA, by Max Loehr (Publication date: October, 1968) This edition of ASIA: A GUIDE TO PAPERBACKSincludes in-print titles which were listed in the original guide and the supplement, newtitles which 14. appeared f...ttiveen December 1965 and December-1967, those be-lks with a 1968 publication date which were provided by some publishers, al.a few titles which had been inadvertently omitted from the earliereditions. Where more 'than one country receives major treatment, thepap,Tbi.ck iS listed under the "General" section. Asia here I:. defined asincluding all the countries from Afghanistan eastward to Japan. A few of thepaperbacks are bibliographies and are listed by country. Theii-are,aiew features in this guide. All-books are listedalphabatically by- author (within their area and subject listing) and on page 155there is a title - author index. Publication dates are included. This information is especially tclav9.ot to books which deal with conteinpoiary subjects; dates which appear in parentheses suggest the currency of the text. Each-parenthetical date indi- cates one of thite possibilities: when the bookwas-Written, when it was first published or the first copyright date. Every attempt has been made-to,cite the revised edition. 4-- Paperbacks listed are those published in this country or are impoitsavailable from American distributors. In general, novels are- not--consideredunless they are of outstanding quality or importance.Alfew select-pamphlets are also in- cluded. For the most part, however,periodicals though very usefulare not mentioned. The Asia Society, for example, publishes paperbound quarterly journal, ASIA, which consists of -authoritative articles onvarious aspects of life and culture in Asia; drawn principally from lectures delivered atAsia House. Most of the issues contain an assortment of subjects on anumber of countries. Some special issues are devoted to one major theme or countrysuch as "Vietnam: Evolution of aCrisis," "Japan and Asia," and "Buddhism: Seven Views." Most major universities-have scholarly publications but,with a few excep- tions, they have not been included. These publication's arevaluable and the reader can ask universities for listings of their Asian ,programspublications. Some of these institutions are the American University,Univeis4 of Arizona, University of California, University of Chicago,. ClaremontCollege, Columbia University, Cornell University, Duke University, HartfordSeminary, Harvard University, University of Hawaii, Homer Institution, JohnsHopkins University, Indiana University, State University of Iowa, University ofKansas, University