Books Ordered on Library Reserve for Term Projects
Media/Reserve is now located in the Basement of the Undergraduate Library, opposite the cafeteria, housed together with the periodical reading room (Kent Cooper Room) to the right of the escalator as you go down to the basement.
Topic areas for which I've reserved books:
Women in Traditional China Women in Contemporary China Women in Japan & Korea
Samurai Chinese Philosophy & Religion Chinese Medicine
The Korean War
CHINESE CIVILIZATION AND SOCIETY : A
SOURCEBOOK
Author: EBREY, PATRICIA
Call #: DS721.C517
[A very rich selection of texts with introductions; several relate to women,
for example, sections 38, 55, and 56.]
DAILY LIFE IN CHINA,
ON THE EVE OF THE MONGOL INVASION, 1250-1276
Author: GERNET, JACQUES.
Call #: DS721.G37
[There's a lot of information on women in Chapter IV -- this is great
material, provided you remember that it describes only a particular place at a particular
time -- check out the early sections to be clear on this.]
DEATH OF WOMAN WANG
Author: SPENCE, JONATHAN D.
Call #: HQ1767.S63
[Really good reading, with wonderful material on women -- look at chapters 1,
3, & 5.]
EMPRESS WU
Author: FITZGERALD, C. P.
Call #: DS749.3.F48
MOUNTAIN OF FAME :
PORTRAITS IN CHINESE HISTORY
Author: WILLS, JOHN E.
Call #: DS734.W63 1994
[Includes material on Empress Wu.]
LI CH'ING-CHAO: COMPLETE POEMS
Translators: KENNETH REXROTH & LING CHUNG
call #: PL 2682 .A27 1927
[China's greatest woman poet (twelfth century).]
PAN CHAO: FOREMOST WOMAN
SCHOLAR OF CHINA
Author: NANCY LEE SWANN
Call #: DS 748 .P3 S92
CHINESE FOOTBINDING: THE
HISTORY OF A CURIOUS EROTIC CUSTOM
Author: HOWARD S. LEVY
Call #: GN 161 .L66
VIEWS FROM JADE TERRACE:
CHINESE WOMEN ARTISTS, 1300-1912
Editor: MARSHA WEIDNER
Call#: ND1043.5 .V54 1988
[Note: This book is on reserve at the FINE ARTS LIBRARY (attached to
the art museum and the Fine Arts Building.)]
-- See also the first item in the next section.
DAUGHTER OF HAN; THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A
CHINESE WORKING WOMAN
Author: NING, LAO T`AI-T`AI
Call #: CT1828.N7 A3 1967
[The most famous first-person account of an ordinary, poor woman caught in
traditional social patterns in a time of social upheaval, around one hundred years
ago. This is not about contemporary China, but it forms a good bridge, if
there's room for a webpage on women in transition times. It could also be
used for some aspects of a page on traditional China.]
REVOLUTION POSTPONED :
WOMEN IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA
Author: WOLF, MARGERY.
Call #: HQ1768.W651985
WOMEN OF CHINA: ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION
Author: WEST, JACKIE
Call #: HQ 1767 .W655 1999
WOMEN IN CHINESE SOCIETY
Authors: WOLF, MARGARY; ROXANNE WITKE
Call #: HQ 1737 .W872
[Especially the chapter on suicide, by Margery Wolf.]
Women in Japan & Korea (one item sharing both concerns)
WOMEN OF JAPAN AND
KOREA: CONTINUITY AND CHANGE
Editors: JOYCE GELB & MARIAN LEIF PALLEY
Call #: HQ 1762 .W67 1994
EVERYDAY LIFE IN IMPERIAL JAPAN
Author: DUNN, CHARLES JAMES.
Call #: DS 822.2.D923
[Useful information on samurai (use the Index).]
CODE OF THE SAMURAI
Author: DAIDOJI YUZAN (Th. Cleary, trans.)
Call #: BJ 971.B8 D313 1999
THE SAMURAI: A MILITARY
HISTORY
Author: STEPHEN TURNBULL
Call #: DS836 .T87 1977
SAMURAI WARLORDS: THE
BOOK OF THE DAIMYO
Author: STEPHEN TURNBULL
Call #: DS869.A1 T87 1989
ZEN AND THE WAY OF THE
SWORD: ARMING THE SAMURAI PSYCHE
Author: WINSTON LEE KING
Call #: DS 834.7 .K556 1993
HIDEYOSHI
Author: MARY ELIZABETH BERRY
Call #: DS 869 .T6 B47
MUSUI'S
STORY: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A TOKUGAWA SAMURAI
Author: KATSU KOKICHI
Call #: DS 881.5.K285 A3 1988
Chinese Philosophy and Religion (including Confucianism, Daoism, & Buddhism)
SOURCES OF CHINESE
TRADITION
Author: Wm. Th. DE BARY, et al.
Call #: DS 721 .D37 2000
A SOURCE BOOK IN CHINESE
PHILOSOPHY
Author: WING-TSIT CHAN
Call #: B 125 .C37
RELIGIONS OF CHINA IN PRACTICE
Editor: DONALD LOPEZ
Call #: BL1802 .R43 1996
THE ANALECTS OF
CONFUCIUS
Translator: D.C. LAU
Call #: PL 2478 .L5 1983
LAO TZU: TAO TE CHING
Translator: D.C. LAU
Call #: BL 1900 .L3 L3
CHUANG TZU: BASIC WRITINGS
Translator: BURTON WATSON
Call #: BL 1900 .C5 W3513 1964
BUDDHISM IN CHINA: A
HISTORICAL SURVEY
Author: KENNETH CHEN
Call #: BQ 626 .C517
BUDDHISM IN CHINESE
HISTORY
Author: ARTHUR WRIGHT
Call #: BQ 626 .W94
THE CHINESE
TRANSFORMATION OF BUDDHISM
Author: KENNETH CHEN
Call #: BQ 626 .W94
ZEN MIND, BEGINNER'S
MIND
Author: SUZUKI SHUNRYU
Call #: BQ 9288 .S968
CHINESE MEDICINE
Author: UNSCHULD, PAUL
Call #: R601 .U56913 1998
[This book should be the first one to consult for groups addressing Chinese
medicine.]
INTRODUCTORY READINGS IN
CLASSICAL CHINESE MEDICINE
Author: UNSCHULD, PAUL
Call #: PL 1117.5 .M43 I58 1988
[These are Chinese texts with English translations.]
MEDICINE IN CHINA : A HISTORY OF
IDEAS
Author: UNSCHULD, PAUL
Call #: R 602 .U56 1985
MEDICINE IN CHINA : A HISTORY OF
PHARMACEUTICS
Author: UNSCHULD, PAUL
Call #: RS 67 .C6 U57 1986
[The best source for studying about traditional herbal medicine.]
CELESTIAL LANCETS: A HISTORY AND RATIONALE OF ACUPUNCTURE AND
MOXA
Authors: LU GWEI-DJEN & JOSEPH NEEDHAM
Call #: RM 184 .L8 136
HEALTH CARE AND
TRADITIONAL MEDICINE IN CHINA, 1800-1982
Authors: S.M. HILLIER and J.A. JEWELL
Call #: R 601 .H5 1983
The Korean War
KOREA OLD AND NEW: A
HISTORY
Author: CARTER ECKERT
Call #: DS 907.18 .K673 1990
A HISTORY OF THE KOREAN
PEOPLE IN MODERN TIMES
Author: ROBERT OLIVER
Call #: DS 915.2 .O45 1993
THE ORIGINS OF THE
KOREAN WAR
Author: PETER LOWE
Call #: DS 918 .L68 1986
THE KOREAN WAR
Author: PETER LOWE
Call #: DS 918 .L67 2000
A SHORT HISTORY OF THE KOREAN WAR
Author: JAMES STOKESBURY
Call #: DS 918 .S79 1990