In general, those seeking further information should refer to the many volumes of the Cambridge History of China and to specialist journals, where much of the latest research is appearing. Among the many excellent publications in the latter category, probably the most useful in this context are Asia Major, Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs (now China Journal), China Quarterly, Journal of Asian Studies, Journal of World History, Late Imperial China, Modern Asian Studies, Modern China, and T’oung Pao. Collections of articles on particular topics from these and other journals and edited volumes have been reprinted, see under Russell-Wood, below. Where specific articles are referred to in the text, they are included in the list below, which is highly selective and is intended only as a starting point. Items cited in full in the notes are not included in the bibliography
Adas, Michael. Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1989.
———, ed. Technology and European Overseas Enterprise: Diffusion, Adaptation, and Adoption. Aldershot, U.K., and Brookfield, Vt.: Variorum, 1996.
Bergère, Marie-Claire. The Golden Age of the Chinese Bourgeoisie. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Blussé, Leonard. Strange Company: Chinese Settlers, Mestizo Women, and the Dutch in VOC Batavia. Dordrecht, Holland, and Riverton, N.J., Foris Publications, 1986.
Boxer, C. R. Fidalgos in the Far East, 1550–1777. The Hague: M. Nijhoff, 1948.
———. South China in the Sixteenth Century: Being the Narratives of Galeota Pereira, Fr. Gaspar da Cruz O.P., and Fr. Martin de Rada, O.E.S.A. 1550–1575. London: Hakluyt Society, Second Series, vol. CVI (1953).
Brook, Timothy. The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 1998.
Chen Jian. China’s Road to the Korean War: The Making of the Sino-American Confrontation. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.
Chen Xiaomei. Occidentalism: A Theory of Counter-Discourse in Post-Mao China. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Coble, Parks M., Jr. Facing Japan: Chinese Politics and Japanese Imperialism, 1931–1937. Cambridge: Harvard Council on East Asian Studies, 1991.
———. The Shanghai Capitalists and the Nationalist Government, 1927–1937. Cambridge: Harvard Council on East Asian Studies, 1986.
Cochran, Sherman. Big Business in China: Sino-Foreign Rivalry in the Cigarette Industry, 1890–1930. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1980.
———, ed. Inventing Nanjing Road. Forthcoming.
Cohen, Paul A. China and Christianity: The Missionary Movement and the Growth of Chinese Antiforeignism, 1839–1939. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1963.
———. History in Three Keys: The Boxers in History and Myth. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.
Cranmer-Byng, J. L. An Embassy to China: Lord Macartney’s Journal, 1793–1794. London: Longman, 1962.
Cumings, Bruce, The Origins of the Korean War. 2 vols. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981, 1990.
Cushman, Jennifer. Fields from the Sea: Chinese Junk Trade with Siam during the Late Eighteenth-Century and Early Nineteenth Centuries. Ithaca: Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 1993.
Dirlik, Arif. Anarchism and the Chinese Revolution. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 1991.
Duara, Prasenjit. Rescuing History from the Nation: Questioning Narratives of Modern China. Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 1995.
Esherick, Joseph W. The Origins of the Boxer Uprising. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1987.
Fairbank, J. K., ed. The Chinese World Order: Traditional China’s Foreign Relations. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1968.
———. Trade and Diplomacy on the China Coast: The Opening of the Treaty Ports, 1842–1854. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1953.
Flynn, Dennis O., and Arturo Giraldez, eds. Metals and Monies in an Emerging Global Economy. Brookfield, Vt.: Variorum, 1997.
Franck, Irene M., and David M. Brownstone. The Silk Road: A History. New York and Oxford: Facts on File Publications, 1986.
Gardella, Robert. Harvesting Mountains: Fujian and the China Tea Trade, 1757–1937. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
Garver, John W. Chinese-Soviet Relations, 1937–1945: The Diplomacy of Chinese Nationalism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Goncharov, Sergei N., John W. Lewis, and Xue Litai. Uncertain Partners: Stalin, Mao and the Korean War. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993.
Greenberg, Michael. British Trade and the Opening of China, 1800–1842. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1951.
Grunfeld, A. Tom. The Making of Modern Tibet, 2d ed. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1996.
Hao Yen-p’ing. The Comprador in 19th Century China: Bridge between East and West. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970.
Harley, J. B., and David Woodward, eds. The History of Cartography, vol. 2, book 2, Cartography in the Traditional East and Southeast Asian Societies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.
Harrell, Paula. Sowing the Seeds of Change: Chinese Students, Japanese Teachers, 1895–1905. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992.
Hay, Stephen N. Asian Ideas of East and West: Tagore and His Critics in Japan, China and India. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970.
Hershatter, Gail. Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1997.
Hevia, James L. Cherishing Men from Afar: Qing Guest Ritual and the Macartney Embassy. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1995.
Honig, Emily. Sisters and Strangers: Women in the Shanghai Cotton Mills, 1919–1939. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1986.
Howland, Douglas. Borders of Chinese Civilization: Geography and History at Empire’s End. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1996.
Hu deHart, Evelyn. “Latin America in Asia-Pacific Perspective.” In Arif Dirlik, ed. What’s in a Rim. Boulder, Colo.: Westview, 1993.
Hung, Chang-tai. War and Popular Culture: Resistance in Modern China, 1937–1945. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1994.
Hunt, Michael H. The Genesis of Chinese Communist Foreign Policy. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996.
———. The Making of a Special Relationship: The United States and China to 1914. New York: Columbia University Press, 1983.
Jansen, Marius. China in the Tokugawa World. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992.
Karl, Rebecca. Secret Sharers: Chinese Nationalism and the Non-Western World at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. Durham and London: Duke University Press, forthcoming.
Kim, Samuel S., ed. China and the World: Chinese Foreign Relations in the Post-Cold War Era. Boulder, Colo.: Westview, 1994.
Kraus, Richard Curt. Pianos and Politics in China: Middle-Class Ambitions and the Struggle over Western Music. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Lach, Donald F., and Edwin J. van Kley. Asia in the Making of Europe, vol. 3, A Century of Advance, book four: “East Asia.” Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 1993.
Leonard, Jane Kate. Wei Yuan and China’s Rediscovery of the Maritime World. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984.
Levathes, Louise. When China Ruled the Seas: The Treasure Fleet of the Dragon Throne, 1405–1433. New York: Simon and Schuster: 1994.
Lewis, John W., and Xue Litai. China Builds the Bomb. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988.
———. China’s Strategic Seapower: The Politics of Force Modernization in the Nuclear Age. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994.
Li, Lillian. China’s Silk Trade: Traditional Industry in the Modern World, 1842–1937. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981.
Lin Man-houng. “Currency and Society: The Monetary Crisis and Political-Economic Ideology of Early Nineteenth-Century China.” Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, 1989.
Liu, Lydia. Translingual Practice: Literature, National Culture, and Translated Modernity. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995.
Liu Xinru. Ancient India and Ancient China: Trade and Religious Exchanges, A.D. 1–600. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Meisner, Maurice. Li Ta-chao and the Origins of Chinese Marxism. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1967.
———. The Deng Xiaoping Era: An Inquiry into the Fate of Chinese Socialism, 1978–1994. New York: Hill and Wang, 1996.
Morse, Hosea Ballou. The Chronicles of the East India Company Trading to China, 1635–1834. 5 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1926.
———. The International Relations of the Chinese Empire. 3 vols. London, Longmans, Green, 1910–1918.
Mungello, David. Curious Land: Jesuit Missionaries and the Origins of Sinology. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1985.
Murray, Dian.Pirates of the South China Coast, 1790–1810. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1987.
Ng, Chin-keong. Trade and Society: The Amoy Network on the China Coast, 1683–1735. Singapore: Singapore University Press, 1983.
Pritchard, Earl H. The Crucial Years of Early Anglo-Chinese Relations, 1750–1800. New York: Octagon Books, 1970.
Reardon-Anderson, James. The Study of Change: Chemistry in China, 1842–1949. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Rigby, Richard W. The May Thirtieth Movement: Events and Themes. Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1990.
Rossabi, Morris, ed. China among Equals: The Middle Kingdom and Its Neighbors, 10th–14th Centuries. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 1983.
———. Voyager from Xanadu: Rabban Sauma and the First Journey from China to the West. Tokyo, New York, and London: Kodansha, 1992.
Rowe, William T. Hankow: Commerce and Society in a Chinese City, 1796–1889. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1984.
———. Hankow: Conflict and Community in a Chinese City, 1796–1895. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1989.
Russell-Wood, A. J. R., ed. An Expanding World: The European Impact on World History, 1450–1800. Birmingham, U.K.: Ashgate, 1997.
Schwarcz, Vera. The Chinese Enlightenment: Intellectuals and the Legacy of the May Fourth Movement of 1919. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.
Schwartz, Benjamin I. In Search of Wealth and Power: Yen Fu and the West. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1964.
Shambaugh, David. Beautiful Imperialist: China Perceives America, 1972–1990. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991.
Shiba Yoshinobu. Commerce and Society in Sung China, translated by Mark Elvin. Ann Arbor: Michigan Center for Chinese Studies, 1970.
Smith, Richard J. Mercenaries and Mandarins: The Ever-Victorious Army in Nineteenth-Century China. Millwood, N.Y.: KTO, 1978.
Snow, Philip. The Star Raft: China’s Encounter with Africa. New York: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988.
Spence, Jonathan D., The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci. New York: Viking, 1984.
Spence, Jonathan D., and John E. Wills, Jr. From Ming to Ch’ing. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979.
Steensgaard, Niels.The Asian Trade Revolution of the Seventeenth Century: The East India Companies and the Decline of the Caravan Trade. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1973.
Subrahmanyam, Sanjay. The Portuguese Empire in Asia, 1500–1700: A Political and Economic History. London and New York: Longman, 1993.
Tsai Jung-fang. Hong Kong in Chinese History: Community and Social Unrest in the British Colony, 1842–1913. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.
Viraphol, Sarasin. Tribute and Profit: Sino-Siamese Trade, 1652–1853. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1977.
von Glahn, Richard. Fountain of Fortune: Money and Monetary Policy in China, 1000–1700. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 1996.
Wakeman, Frederic, Jr. The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 1985.
———. Policing Shanghai. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1995.
———. The Shanghai Badlands: Wartime Terrorism and Urban Crime 1937–1941. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Waldron, Arthur. From War to Nationalism: China’s Turning Point, 1924–1925. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
———. The Great Wall of China: From History to Myth. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Waley-Cohen, Joanna. “China and Western Technology in the Late Eighteenth Century.” American Historical Review, vol. 98, no. 5 (December 1993), 1525–44.
Wang Gungwu. The Nanhai Trade: The Early History of Chinese Trade in the South China Sea, 2d ed. Singapore: Times Academic Press, 1998.
Wills, John E., Jr. Embassies and Illusions: Dutch and Portuguese Envoys to K’ang-hsi, 1666–1687. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984.
———. Pepper, Guns and Parleys: The Dutch East India Company and China, 1662–1681. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1974.
Wong, R. Bin. China Transformed: Historical Change and the Limits of European Experience. Ithaca, N.Y., and London: Cornell University Press, 1997.
Yahuda, Michael. Towards the End of Isolationism: China’s Foreign Policy after Mao. London: Macmillan, 1983.
Yen Ching-Hwang. Coolies and Mandarins: China’s Protection of Overseas Chinese during the Late Ch’ing Period (1851–1911). Singapore: Singapore University Press, 1985.
Yu Ying-shih. Trade and Expansion in Han China; A Study in the Structure of Sino-Barbarian Economic Relations.Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967.
Zhuang Guotu. Tea Silver, Opium and War: The International Tea Trade and Western Commercial Expansion into China in 1740–1840. Xiamen: Xiamen University Press, 1993.