这份书单系统全面，主要是18、19、20世纪的中国和日本历史。涵盖了清末历史、德川幕府时期的日本、中国20世纪的危机、明治维新、日本的经济改革、中国的早期革命与共和、明治与大正时期的日本政治、国民党统治下的中国、帝国侵略扩张中的日本、二战后的日本、日本女人的身份地位。书在海外学术界的口碑都不错，几本获得过费正清奖，被视为东亚现代历史研究中的最佳著作。
不忍一人独享，故拿出来，以飨豆友。
Late Imperial China
Tonio Andrade, How Taiwan Became Chinese: Dutch, Spanish, and Han Colonization in the Seventeenth Century. Columbia University Press, 2008.
Beatrice S. Bartlett, Monarchs and Ministers: The Grand Council in Mid-Ch’ing China, 1723-1820. University of California Press, 1991.
Thomas M. Buoye, Manslaughter, Markets, and Moral Economy: Violent Disputes Over Property Rights in Eighteenth Century China. Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Pamela Kyle Crossley, The Manchus. Blackwell Publishers, 1997.
Benjamin A. Elman, A Cultural History of Civil Examinations in Late Imperial China. University of California Press, 2000.
R. Kent Guy, The Emperor’s Four Treasuries: Scholars and the State in the Late Ch’ien-lung Era. Harvard University Press, 1987.
Philip A. Kuhn, Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768. Harvard University Press, 1990.
Melissa Macauley, Social Power and Legal Culture: Litigation Masters in Late Imperial China. Stanford University Press, 1998.
Ichisada Miyazaki, China’s Examination Hell: The Civil Service Examinations of Imperial China. Yale University Press, 1981.
Susan Naquin and Evelyn S. Rawski, Chinese Society in the Eighteenth Century. Yale University Press, 1987.
Peter C. Perdue, China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia. Harvard University Press, 2005.
Bradley W. Reed, Talons and Teeth: County Clerks and Runners in the Qing Dynasty. Stanford University Press, 2000.
Edward J.M. Rhoads, Manchus and Han: Ethnic Relations and Political Power in Late Qing and Early Republican China, 1861-1928. University of Washington Press, 2000.
Jonathan D. Spence, Emperor of China: Self-Portrait of K’ang-His. Vintage Books, 1975.
Jonathan D. Spence, Treason by the Book. Penguin Putnam, 2001.
Frederick Wakeman, Jr., The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth Century China. University of California Press, 1985.
Tokugawa Japan
Mary Elizabeth Berry, Hideyoshi. Harvard University Press, 1982.
Philip C. Brown, Central Authority and Local Autonomy in the Formation of Early Modern Japan: The Case of Kaga Domain. Stanford University Press, 1993.
George Ellison, Deus Destroyed: The Image of Christianity in Early Modern Japan. Harvard University Press, 1988.
Harry Harootunian, Things Seen and Unseen. University of Chicago Press, 1989.
Nam-Lin Hur, Death and Social Order in Tokugawa Japan. Harvard University Press, 2007.
Ann Bowman Janetta, Epidemics and Mortality in Early Modern Japan. Princeton University Press, 1986.
Marius B. Jansen, China in the Tokugawa World. Harvard University Press, 1992.
J. Victor Koschmann, The Mito Ideology. University of California Press, 1987.
Jeffrey Mass and William Hauser, The Bakufu in Japanese History. Stanford University Press, 1985.
James L. McClain, Kanazawa: A Seventeenth- Century Japanese Castle Town. Yale University Press, 1982.
Kate Nakai, Shogunal Politics. Harvard University Press, 1988.
Peter Nosco, Remembering Paradise. Harvard University Press, 1990.
Herman Ooms, Tokugawa Ideology: Early Constructs, 1580-1679. Princeton University Press, 1985.
Richard Rubinger, Private Academies of Tokugawa Japan. Princeton University Press, 1989.
Thomas C. Smith, ed., Native Sources of Japanese Industrialization, 1750-1920. University of California Press, 1988.
Carl Steenstrup, A History of Law in Japan until 1868. Brill, 1991.
Ronald P. Toby, State and Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan: Asia in the Development of the Tokugawa Bakufu. Stanford University Press, 1991.
Conrad Totman, Early Modern Japan. California University Press, 1995.
Bob Wakabayashi, Anti-Foreignism and Western Learning. Harvard University Press, 1986.
The Crisis of 19th Century China
Marie-Claire Bergere, Sun Yat-sen. Stanford University Press, 1998.
Hsin-pao Chang, Commissioner Lin and the Opium War. Harvard University Press, 1998.
Paul A. Cohen, History in Three Keys: The Boxers as Event, Experience, and Myth. Columbia University Press, 1997.
Mark C. Elliott, The Manchu Way: The Eight Banners and Ethnic Identity in Late Imperial China. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001.
Joseph Esherick, The Origins of the Boxer Uprising. University of California Press, 1987.
Robert D. Jenks, Insurgency and Social Disorder in Guizhou: The “Miao” Rebellion 1854-1873. University of Hawaii Press, 1994.
Hodong Kim, Holy War in China: The Muslim Rebellion and State in Chinese Central Asia, 1864-1877. Stanford University Press, 2004.
Robert B. Marks, Tigers, Rice, Silk and Silt: Environment and Economy in Late Imperial South China. Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Kenneth Pomeranz, The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the World Economy. Princeton University Press, 2000.
Douglas R. Reynolds, China, 1898-1912: The Xinzheng Revolution and Japan. Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1993.
Edward J.M. Rhoads, Manchus and Han: Ethnic Relations and Political Power in Late Qing and Early Republican China, 1861-1928. University of Washington Press, 2000.
Jonathan D. Spence, God’s Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan. W.W. Norton, 1996.
Frederick Wakeman, Jr., The Fall of Imperial China. Free Press, 1975.
J.Y. Wong, Deadly Dreams: Opium, Imperialism, and the Arrow War (1856-1860) in China. Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Zhou Xun, Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China. University of Chicago Press, 2004.
Zheng Yangwen, The Social Life of Opium in China. Cambridge University Press, 2005.
The Meiji Restoration
Michael R. Auslin, Negotiating with Imperialism: The Unequal Treaties and the Culture of Japanese Diplomacy. Harvard University Press, 2004.
James R. Bartholomew, The Formation of Science in Japan. Yale University Press, 1989.
Herbert P. Bix, Peasant Protest in Japan, 1590-1884. Yale University Press, 1986.
Irokawa Daikichi, The Culture of the Meiji Period. Princeton University Press, 1985.
Carol Gluck, Japan’s Modern Myths. Princeton University Press, 1985.
Helen Hardacre, Shinto and the State, 1868-1988. Princeton University Press, 1989.
Thomas G. Huber, The Revolutionary Origins of Modern Japan. Stanford University Press, 1982.
James L. Huffman, The Politics of the Meiji Press. University of Hawaii Press, 1980.
William W. Kelly, Deference and Defiance in Nineteenth Century Japan. Princeton University Press, 1985.
James Ketalar, Of Heretics and Martyrs in Meiji Japan: Buddhism and its Persecution. Princeton University Press, 1993.
Earl H. Kinmonth, The Self-Made Man in Meiji Japanese Thought. University of California Press, 1981.
Byron Marshall, Academic Freedom and the Japanese Imperial University, 1868-1939. University of California Press, 1992.
F.G. Notehelfer, American Samurai: Captain L.L. Janes and Japan. Princeton University Press, 1985.
Brian Platt, Burning and Building: Schooling and State Formation in Japan, 1750-1890. Harvard University Press, 2004.
Donald Roden, Schooldays in Imperial Japan. University of California Press, 1980.
Stefan Tanaka, Japan’s Orient. University of California Press, 1993.
Conrad Totman, The Collapse of the Tokugawa Bakufu, 1862-1868. University of Hawaii Press, 1980.
Stephen Vlastos, Peasant Protests and Uprisings in Tokugawa Japan. University of California Press, 1986.
Anne Walthall, Social Protest and Popular Culture in Eighteenth-Century Japan. University of Arizona Press, 1986.
Anne Walthall, Peasant Uprisings in Japan. University of Chicago Press, 1992.
Eleanor Westney, Imitation and Innovation: The Transfer of Western Organizational Patterns to Meiji Japan. Harvard University Press, 1987.
George M. Wilson, Patriots and Redeemers: Motives in the Meiji Restoration. University of Chicago Press, 1992.
The Economic Transformation of Japan
William Miles Fletcher III, The Japanese Business Community and National Trade Policy. University of North Carolina Press, 1989.
Penelope Francks, Technology and Agricultural Development in Prewar Japan. Yale University Press, 1984.
Sheldon Garon, The State and Labor in Modern Japan. Princeton University Press, 1987.
Andrew Gordon, Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan. University of California Press, 1991.
W. Dean Kinzley, Industrial Harmony in Modern Japan. Routledge, 1991.
Michael Lewis, Rioters and Citizens. University of California Press, 1990.
Ryoshin Minami, The Economic Development of Japan. St. Martin’s Press, 1993.
Takafusa Nakamura, Economic Growth in Prewar Japan. Yale University Press, 1983.
Richard J. Smethurst, Agricultural Development and Tenancy Disputes in Japan, 1870-1940. Princeton University Press, 1986.
William D. Wray, Mitsubishi and the N.Y.K., 1870-1914. Harvard University Press, 1984.
The Chinese Revolution and the Early Republic
Marie-Claire Bergere, Sun Yat-sen. Stanford University Press, 1998.
Lucien Bianco, Origins of the Chinese Revolution, 1915-1949. Stanford University Press, 1971.
Sherman Cochran, Big Business in China: Sino-Foreign Rivalry in the Cigarette Industry, 1890-1930. Harvard University Press, 1980.
Ono Kazuko, Chinese Women in a Century of Revolution, 1850-1950. Stanford University Press, 1989.
E. Perry Link, Jr., Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies: Popular Fiction in Early Twentieth Century Chinese Cities. University of California Press, 1981.
Hanchao Lu, Beyond the Neon Lights: Everyday Life in Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century. University of California Press, 1999.
Brian G. Martin, The Shanghai Green Gang: Politics and Organized Crime, 1919-1937. University of California Press, 1996.
Elizabeth J. Perry, Shanghai on Strike: The Politics of Chinese Labor. Stanford University Press, 1993.
Edward J.M. Rhoads, Manchus and Han: Ethnic Relations and Political Power in Late Qing and Early Republican China, 1861-1928. University of Washington Press, 2000.
Vera Schwarcz, The Chinese Enlightenment. University of California Press, 1986.
Kristin Stapleton, Civilizing Chengdu: Chinese Urban Reform, 1895-1937. Harvard University East Asian Center, 2000.
Michael Sullivan, Art and Artists of Twentieth Century China. University of California Press, 1996.
Chow Tse-tsung, The May 4th Movement: Intellectual Revolution in Modern China. Harvard University Press, 1960.
Guoqi Xu, China and the Great War: China’s Pursuit of a New National Identity and Internationalization. Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Ernest P. Young, The Presidency of Yuan Shih-k’ai: Liberalism and Dictatorship in Early Republican China. University of Michigan Press, 1977.
Wang Zheng, Women in the Chinese Enlightenment: Oral and Textual Histories. University of California Press, 1999.
Japanese Politics in the Meiji and Taisho Periods
James C. Baxter, The Meiji Unification through the Lens of Ishikawa Prefecture. Harvard University Press, 1995.
Roger W. Bowen, Rebellion and Democracy in Meiji Japan. University of California Press, 1980.
Thomas W. Burkman, Japan and the League of Nations. University of Hawaii Press, 2007.
Germaine Hoston, The State, Identity, and the National Question in China and Japan. Princeton University Press, 1987.
Leonard A. Humphreys, The Way of Heavenly Sword: The Japanese Army in the 1920s. Stanford University Press, 1995.
Stephen S. Large, Organized Workers and Socialist Politics in Interwar Japan. Cambridge University Press, 1981.
Sharon Minichiello, Retreat from Reform. University of Hawaii Press, 1984.
J. Charles Schencking, Making Waves: Politics, Propaganda, and the Emergence of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1868-1922. Stanford University Press, 2005.
Miriam Silverberg, Changing Song: The Marxist Manifestos of Nakano Shigeharu
Richard J. Smethurst, From Foot Soldier to Finance Minister. Harvard University Press, 2007.
Michio Umegaki, After the Restoration. New York University Press, 1988.
Neil L. Waters, Japan’s Local Pragmatists: The Transition from Bakumatsu to Meiji in the Kawasaki Region. Harvard University Press, 1983.
China under the Guomindang
John Hunter Boyle, China and Japan at War, 1937-1945. Stanford University Press, 1972.
His-sheng Ch’I, Nationalist China at War: Military Defeats and Political Collapse, 1937-45. University of Michigan Press, 1982.
Jonathan Fenby, Chiang Kai-shek: China’s Generalissimo and the Nation He Lost. Carroll & Graff Publishers, 2003.
Joshua A. Fogel, ed., The Nanjing Massacre in History and Historiography. University of California Press, 2000.
Emily Honig, Creating Ethnicity: Subei People in Shanghai, 1850-1980. Yale University Press, 1982.
Honda Katshuichi, The Nanjing Massacre: A Japanese Journalist Confronts Japan’s National Shame. M.E. Sharpe, 1999.
Diana Lary and Stephen MacKinnon, eds., Scars of War: The Impact of Warfare on Modern China. University of British Columbia Press, 2001.
Leo Ou-fan Lee, Shanghai Modern: The Flowering of a New Urban Culture in China, 1930-1945. Harvard University Press, 1999.
Stephen R. MacKinnon, Wuhan, 1938: War, Refugees, and the Making of Modern China. University of California Press, 2008.
Dai Qing, Wang Shiwei and Wild Lilies: Rectification and Purges in the Chinese Communist Party, 1942-1944. M.E. Sharpe, 1994.
Harrison E. Salisbury, The Long March: The Untold Story. Harper & Row Publishers, 1985.
Hans Van de Ven, From Friend to Comrade: The Founding of the Chinese Communist Party, 1920-1927. University of California Press, 1991.
Hans Van de Ven, War and Nationalism in China, 1925-1945. Routledge, 2003.
Frederick Wakeman, Jr., Policing Shanghai, 1927-1937. University of California, 1995.
Odd Arne Westad, Decisive Encounters: The Chinese Civil War, 1946-1950. Stanford University Press, 2003.
Maochun Yu, The Dragon’s War: Allied Operations and the Fate of China, 1937-1947. Naval OInstitute Press, 2006.
Margherita Zanasi, Saving the Nation: Economic Modernity in Republican China. The University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Imperialism and War in Japan
Michael A. Barnhart, Japan Prepares for Total War. Cornell University Press, 1987.
Andrew Barshay, State and Intellectual in Imperial Japan. University of California Press, 1988.
Herbert P. Bix, Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan. HarperCollins, 2000.
Alvin D. Coox, Nomonhan: Japan against Russia, 1939. Stanford University Press, 1985.
Kevin Doak, Dreams of Difference: The Japan Romantic School and the Crisis of Modernity. University of California Press, 1994.
John W. Dower, War without Mercy. New York University Press, 1986.
Peter Duus, The Abacus and the Sword: The Japanese Penetration of Korea, 1895-1910. University of California Press, 1995.
Peter Duus, Ramon H. Myers, and Mark R. Peattie, eds., The Japanese Informal Empire in China, 1895-1937. Princeton University Press, 1989.
Miles Fletcher, The Search for a New Order. University of North Carolina Press, 1982.
Akira Iriye, The Origins of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific. Longman Press, 1987.
Akira Iriye, Power and Culture. Harvard University Press, 1981.
Gregory J. Kasza, The State and the Mass Media in Japan, 1918-1945. University of California Press, 1988.
Takeda Kiyoko, The Dual-Image of the Japanese Emperor. New York University Press, 1988.
Barak Kushner, The Thought War: Japanese Imperial Propaganda. University of Hawaii Press, 2006.
Stephen S. Large, Emperor Hirohito and Showa Japan. Routledge, 1992.
Richard H. Mitchell, Censorship in Imperial Japan. Princeton University Press, 1983.
Hiromi Mizuno, Science for the Empire: Scientific Nationalism in Modern Japan. Stanford University Press, 2009.
Ramon H. Myers and Mark R. Peattie, eds., The Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895-1945. Princeton University Press, 1984.
Ian Nish, Origins of the Russo-Japanese War. Longman Press, 1985.
Ian Nish, Japan’s Struggle with Internationalism. Kegan Paul, 1993.
Yoshitake Oka, Konoe Fumimaro. Tokyo, 1983.
Mark R. Peattie, Nan’yo: The Rise and Fall of the Japanese in Micronesia, 1885-1945. University of Hawaii Press, 1988.
Mark R. Peattie, Ishiwara Kanji and Japan’s Confrontation with the West. Princeton University Press, 1975.
Ben-Ami Shillony, Politics and Culture in Wartime Japan. Oxford University Press, 1981.
Patricia Steinhoff, Tenko: Ideology and Societal Integration in Prewar Japan. Garland Press, 1991.
Brij Tankha, Kita Ikki and the Making of Modern Japan. University of Hawaii Press, 2006.
Elise Tipton, Japanese Police State. University of Hawaii Press, 1991.
China under Mao
Julia F. Andres and Kuiyi Shen, eds., A Century in Crisis: Modernity and Tradition in the Art of Twentieth Century China. Guggenheim Museum, 1998.
Jasper Becker, Hungry Ghosts: China’s Secret Famine. John Murray, 1996.
Warren I. Cohen, America’s Response to China: A History of Sino-American Relations. Columbia University Press, 2000.
Neil J. Diamant, Revolutionizing the Family: Politics, Love, and Divorce in Urban and Rural China, 1949-1968. University of California Press, 2000.
Yi-tsi Mei Feuerwerker, Ding Ling’s Fiction: Ideology and Narrative in Modern Chinese Literature. Harvard University Press, 1982.
Chen Jian, China’s Road to the Korean War: The Making of the Sino-American Confrontation. Columbia University Press, 1994.
Yang Jiang, Six Chapters from My Life “Downunder.” University of Washington Press, 1983.
Xiaobing L I, A History of the Modern Chinese Army. The University Press of Kentucky, 2007.
Kenneth Lieberthal, Governing China: From Revolution through Reform. W.W. Norton, 2004.
Roderick MacFarquhar and Michael Schoenhals, Mao’s Lost Revolution. Belknap Press, 2008.
Maurice Meisner, Mao’s China and After: A History of the People’s Republic. Free Press, 1999.
Denny Roy, Taiwan: A Political History. Cornell University, 2003.
Bao Ruo-wang (Jean Pasqualini) and Rudolph Chelminski, Prisoner of Mao. Penguin Books, 1976.
James D. Seymour and Richard Anderson, New Ghosts, Old Ghosts: Prisons and Labor Reform Camps in China. M.E. Sharpe, 1998.
Philip F. Williams and Yenna Wu, The Great Wall of Confinement: The Chinese Prison Camp through Contemporary Fiction and Reportage. University of California Press, 2004.
Shu Guang Zhang, Mao’s Military Romanticism: China and the Korean War, 1950-1953. University Press of Kansas, 1995.
Postwar Japan
David R. Ambaras, Bad Youth: Juvenile Delinquency and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Japan. University of California Press, 2005.
Roger Buckley, Occupation Diplomacy. Cambridge University Press, 1982.
Theodore Cohen, Remaking Japan—the American Occupation as New Deal. Free Press, 1987.
R.P. Dore, Land Reform in Japan. Schocken, 1985.
Laura Hein, Fueling Growth: The Energy Revolution and Economic Policy in Postwar Japan. Harvard University Press, 1990.
Dale M. Hellegers, We, the Japanese People: World War II and the Origins of the Japanese Constitution. Stanford University Press, 2002.
Kyoko Inoue, MacArthur’s Japanese Constitution. University of Chicago Press, 1991.
Chalmers Johnson, MITI and the Japanese Miracle. Stanford University Press, 1982.
Takafusa Nakamura, The Postwar Japanese Economy. Tokyo, 1995.
Thomas P. Rohlen, Japan’s High Schools. University of California Press, 1983.
Richard J. Samuels, Rich Nation Strong Army. Cornell University Press, 1994
Michael Schaller, The American Occupation of Japan. Oxford University Press, 1985.
Howard B. Schonberger, Aftermath of War. Kent State University Press, 1989.
Franziska Seraphim, War Memory and Social Politics in Japan, 1945-2005. Harvard University Press, 2006.
Yuma Totani, The Tokyo War Crimes Trial. Harvard University Press, 2009.
Gary H. Tsuchimochi, Education Reform in Postwar Japan. Tokyo, 1993.
Frank K. Upham, Law and Social Change in Postwar Japan. Harvard University Press, 1987.
Robert E. Ward and Sakamoto Yoshikazu, eds., Democratizing Japan. University of Hawaii Press, 1988.
Michael M. Yoshitsu, Japan and the San Francisco Peace Settlement. Columbia University Press, 1982.
China After Mao
Richard Baum, Burying Mao: Chinese Politics in the Age of Deng Xiaoping. Princeton University Press, 1994.
Bruce J. Dickson, Red Capitalists in China: The Party, Private Entrepreneurs and Prospects for Political Change. Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Elizabeth C. Economy, The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China’s Future. Cornell University Press, 2004.
Lee Feigon, Demystifying Tibet: Unlocking the Secrets of the Land of the Snows. Ivan R. Dee, 1996.
Merle Goldman and Roderick MacFarquhar, eds., The Paradox of China’s Post-Mao Reforms. Harvard University Press, 1999.
John Hassard, Jackie Sheehan, Meixiang Zhou, Jane Terpstra-Tong, and Jonathan Morris, China’s State Enterprise Reform: From Marx to the Market. Routledge, 2007.
Wei Jingsheng, The Courage to Stand Alone: Letters from Prison and Other Writings. Penguin Books, 1997.
William C. Kirby, ed., Realms of Freedom in Modern China. Stanford University Press, 2004.
Andrew J. Nathan, Chinese Democracy. University of California Press, 1985.
David Shambaugh, China’s Communist Party: Atrophy and Adaptation. Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1985.
Michael Sullivan, Art and Artists of Twentieth-Century China. University of California Press, 1996.
Susan Trevaskes, Courts and Criminal Justice in Contemporary China. Lexington Books, 2007.
Jing Wang, High Culture Fever: Politics, Aesthetics, and Ideology in Deng’s China. University of California Press, 1996.
The Role of Women in Japan
Gail Lee Bernstein, Haruko’s World. Stanford University Press, 1983.
Mary C. Brinton, Women and the Economic Miracle. University of California Press, 1994.
Mikiso Hane, Reflections on the Way to the Gallows. University of California Press, 1988.
Anne Imamura, Urban Japanese Housewives: At Home and in the Community. University of Hawaii Press, 1987.
Takie Lebra, Japanese Women: Constraint and Fulfillment. University of Hawaii, 1984.
Dorothy Robins-Mowry, The Hidden Sun: Women in Modern Japan. Westview Press, 1983.
Barbara Rose, Tsuda Umeko and Women’s Education in Japan. Yale University Press, 1992.
E. Patricia Tsurumi, Factory Girls: Women in the Thread Mills of Meiji Japan. Princeton University Press, 1990.