Keswick, Maggie.The Chinese Garden. Rev. ed. Harvard University Press, 2003. Illustrated history and philosophy of landscape architecture and painting in China.
Sullivan, Michael.The Arts of China. Rev. ed. University of California Press, 2000. History including painting, sculpture, ceramics, architecture, and calligraphy.
Thorp, Robert L., and Richard Ellis Vinograd.Chinese Art and Culture. Abrams, 2001. The story of Chinese art set against the backdrop of history and culture.
Tregear, Mary.Chinese Art. Rev. ed. Thames & Hudson, 1997. A survey of the arts of China.
Xinian, Fu, and others, eds.A History of Chinese Architecture. Yale University Press, 2003. Lavishly illustrated study of Chinese architecture.
Chinese culture and society
China 2020. World Bank, 1998. Specific volumes deal with issues such as development, food supply, environment, old age security, health care, and integration into a global economy.
Anderson, E. N.The Food of China. Yale University Press, 1988, 1990. Overview of food and agriculture in Chinese history and culture.
de Bary, William T.; Irene Bloom; and Wing-T Chan, eds.Sources of Chinese Tradition. Columbia University Press, 1998. Writings of major Chinese religious, cultural, and political figures.
Dutton, Michael Robert, ed.Streetlife China. Cambridge University Press, 1998. Glimpses into the lives of ordinary people and their daily rituals.
Gamer, Robert, ed.Understanding Contemporary China. Rienner, 1998. An outline of China's geography, cultural history, politics, and economy.
Grayling, A. C., and Susan Whitfield.China: A Literary Companion. Trafalgar Square, 1995. Information on history and culture selected from materials by both Western and Chinese writers.
Murowchick, Robert E.China: Ancient Culture, Modern Land. University of Oklahoma Press, 1994. Development of Chinese history from ancient to modern times.
Patten, Christopher.East and West: China, Power, and the Future of Asia. Crown, 1998. Hong Kong's last governor discusses his five years in Hong Kong before revealing his views on economic policies, governance, and political freedoms in China.
Van Kemenade, Willem.Trans. Diane Webb.China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Inc. Vintage, 1998. Comprehensive account of economic strengths forming within the triad.
Yang Xin, and others.Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting. Yale University Press, 1997. Chronologically organized history of Chinese painting, with 325 color plates.
Adshead, S.A.China in World History. 3rd ed. St. Martin's, 1999. Explores 2000 years of China's relationship with the outside world.
Bozan, Jian, and others.A Concise History of China. University Press of the Pacific, 2001. Designed for the general reader with little previous knowledge of Chinese history.
Fairbank, John K.China: A New History. Harvard University Press, 1991,1998. China's history from prehistoric times to the 1990s.
Graff, David Andrew.A Military History of China. Westview, 2001. A basic introduction to the important role that armed conflict has played in China's history.
Roberts, J. A. G.Modern China: An Illustrated History. Sutton, 1998, 2000. Provides a survey for the non-specialist seeking an introduction to recent China history and culture.
Hsia, Chih-Tsing.A History of Modern Chinese Fiction. 3rd ed. Indiana University Press, 1999. This remains the most authoritative study of 20th-century Chinese fiction today.
Lau, Joseph S. M., and Howard Goldblatt, eds.The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Literature. Columbia University Press, 1995. Comprehensive collection of representative works in all major genres by 20th-century Chinese writers.
Nienhauser, Jr., William, and others, eds.The Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature. Indiana University Press, 1986-1998. Monumental reference work that summarizes the current state of knowledge about traditional Chinese literature.
Yang, Lan.Chinese Fiction of the Cultural Revolution. Hong Kong University, 1998. A comprehensive study of the period 1966-1976, analyzing and comparing novels with fiction of the preceding period, with Soviet fiction, and with traditional Chinese and Western fiction.
Dainian, Zhang.Key Concepts in Chinese Philosophy. Trans. Edmund Ryden. Yale University Press, 2002. Provides a good introduction to 25 centuries of Chinese thought.
Ivanhoe, Philip J., and Bryan W. Van Norden, eds.Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy. Seven Bridges, 2000. A single-volume anthology of key works by major early Chinese philosophers.
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