| Title | Author | Call# | Book Cover |
|---|---|---|---|
| Twentieth Century China: A History in Documents | Schoppa, R. Keith | DS 773.89 .S36 2011 |  |
| China Under Mao: A Revolution Derailed | Walder, Andrew G. | DS 777 .75 W343 2017 |  |
| The Tragedy Of Liberation: A History of The Chinese Revolution 1945-1957 | Dikötter, Frank | DS 777.54 .D55 2017 |  |
| Mao’s Great Famine: The History of China’s Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962 | Dikötter, Frank | DS 778.7 .D55 2016 |  |
| The Cultural Revolution: A People’s History, 1962-1976 | Dikötter, Frank | QD 33.2 .Z86 2009 |  |
| China Since 1949 | Benson, Linda | DS 777.55 .B416 2016 |  |
| The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories, China From the Bottom Up | Liao, Yiwu | HD 8736.5 .L56 2009 |  |
| Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China | Fincher, Leta Hong | HQ 1237.5 .C5F5 2016 |  |
| Rebellions and Revolutions : China from the 1800s to 2000 | Gray, Jack | DS 755 .G72 2002 |  |
| China’s Political System: Modernization and Tradition | Dreyer, June Teufel | JQ 1510 .D74 2015 |  |
| Title | Author | Call# | Book Cover |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Brief History of Japanese Civilization | Schirokauer, Conrad | DS 821 .S324 2006 |  |
| A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present | Gordon, Andrew | DS 881.9 .G66 2009 |  |
| The Essence of Shinto: Japan’s Spiritual Heart | Yamakage, Motohisa | BL 2221 .Y355613 2006 |  |
| The Japanese “New Woman”: Images of Gender and Modernity | Lowy, Dina | HQ 1762 .L68 2007 |  |
| Anime: A History | Clements, Jonathan | NC 1766 .J3C53 2013 |  |
| Hiroshima, Nagasaki: The Real Story of the Atomic Bombings and Their Aftermath | Ham, Paul | D 767.25 .H6H334 2014 |  |
| Modern Japan: A History in Documents | Huffman, James L. | DS 881.9 .H85 2011 |  |
| Japanese Popular Culture and Globalization | Tsutsui, William M. | DS 822.5 .T8595 2010 |  |
| Japan Since 1945 | Dunscomb, Paul E. | DS 889 .D797 2014 |  |
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Chinese History and Culture: Sixth Century B.C.E. To Seventeenth Century, Volume 1
Yu, Yingshi. 2016
Chinese History and Culture: Sixth Century B.C.E. To Seventeenth Century, Volume 2
Yu, Yingshi. 2016
China Under Mao: A Revolution Derailed
Walder, Andrew G. 2015
Chinese Women – Living and Working
McLaren, Anne E. 2004
Rural Women in Urban China: Gender, Migration, and Social Change
Jacka, Tamara. 2005
Making Religion, Making the State: The Politics of Religion in Modern China
Wank, David L. 2009
Radicalism, Revolution, and Reform in Modern China: Essays in Honor of Maurice Meisner
Pickowicz, Paul. 2011
China in War and Revolution, 1895-1949
Zarrow, Peter G. 2005
China: Regional Growth and Sustainability From an Environmental Perspective
Zarrow, Peter G. 2005
Grassroots Political Reform in Contemporary China
Jiang, Yanqing. 2016
The Changing Face of China: From Mao to Market
Gittings, John. 2006
Following the Leader: Ruling China, From Deng Xiaoping to Xi Jinping
Lampton, David M. 2013
A Cultural History of Postwar Japan: 1945-1980
Tsurumi, Shunsuke. 2010
Japan: A Short Cultural History
Sansom, George B. 2015
Allison, Anne. 2015
Modern Japan: A Very Short Introduction
Goto-Jones, Christopher S. 2009
Fandom Unbound: Otaku Culture in a Connected World
Itō, Mizuko. 2012
Japanese Visual Culture: Explorations in the World of Manga and Anime
MacWilliams, Mark W. 2008
The Japanese and the War: Expectation, Perception, and the Shaping of Memory
Lucken, Michael. 2017
China and Japan at War, 1937-1945
Jowett, Philip S. 2016
Blocker, H. Gene and Christopher L. Starling. 2011
Kabashima, Ikuo and Gill Steel. 2010
Manga: An Anthology of Global and Cultural Perspectives
Johnson-Woods, Toni. 2010
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