Faculty Bookshelf

Thomas Conlan on “Kings in All but Name”

All too often “traditional” Japan has been perceived as an isolated, agricultural land at the edge of Asia, but this book reveals a past that we did not know.
Martin Kern "Performance and Interpretation: Studies in Early Chinese Poetics"

The volume includes his principal studies on early Chinese poetry and poetics as well as reflections on methodological and ethical questions in the study of ancient China.
Xin Wen: "The King's Road: Diplomacy and the Remaking of the Silk Road"

Provides an exciting and richly detailed new history of the Silk Road that tells how it became more important as a route for diplomacy than for trade.
Thomas Conlan “Samurai and the Warrior Culture of Japan, 471–1877: A sourcebook

A new viewpoint of Japanese history which allows you to come in direct contact with the lost voices of Japan’s samurai.
He Bian "Know Your Remedies: Pharmacy and Culture in Early Modern China"

A cultural history of the concept of pharmacy, both the material nature of drugs and the trade in medicine, in early modern China.

Author	Title	Year	Publisher	Department
Federico Marcon	Fascism: The History of a Word	2025	University of Chicago Press	EAS and History
Thomas Conlan	Kings in All but Name	2024	Oxford University Press	EAS and History
Martin Kern	Zuozhuan and Early Chinese Historiography	2023	Brill Press	EAS
Martin Kern	Qu Yuan and the Chuci: New Approaches	2023	Brill Press	EAS
Martin Kern	Biaoyan yu chanshi: Zaoqi Zhongguo shixue yanjiu 表演與闡釋：早期中國詩學研究 [Performance and Interpretation: Studies in Early Chinese Poetics]	2023	Sanlian shudian	EAS
Xin Wen	The King’s Road: Diplomacy and the Remaking of the Silk Road	2023	Princeton University Press	EAS and History
Thomas Conlan	Samurai Weapons & Fighting Techniques	2022	Amber Books	EAS and History
Thomas Conlan	Samurai and the Warrior Culture of Japan, 471–1877: A sourcebook	2022	Hackett Publishing	EAS and History
He Bian	Know Your Remedies: Pharmacy and Culture in Early Modern China	2022	Princeton University Press	History and EAS
Susan Naquin	Gods of Mount Tai: Familiarity and the Material Culture of North China, 1000-2000	2022	Brill Press	History and EAS
Atsuko Ueda	Language, Nation, Race Linguistic Reform in Meiji Japan (1868-1912)	2021	University of California Press	EAS
Ying-Shih Yü	From Rural China to the Ivy League: Reminiscences of Transformations in Modern Chinese History	2021	Cambria Press	EAS
Ksenia Chizhova	Kinship Novels of Early Modern Korea - Between Genealogical Time and the Domestic Everyday	2021	Columbia University Press	EAS
Erin Huang	Urban Horror: Neoliberal Post-Socialism and the Limits of Visibility	2020	Duke University Press	EAS and Comparative Literature
Franz Prichard	Residual Futures: The Urban Ecologies of Literary and Visual Media of 1960s and 1970s Japan	2019	Columbia University Press	EAS
Martin Kern	Confucius and the Analects Revisited	2018	Brill Academic	EAS
Martin Kern	Qin Shihuang shike: Zaoqi Zhongguo de wenben yu yishi	2018	上海古籍出版社	EAS
Martin Kern	Origins of Chinese Political Philosophy: Studies in the Composition and Thought of the Shangshu	2017	Brill Academic	EAS
Brian Steininger	Chinese Literary Forms in Heian Japan: Poetics and Practice	2017	Harvard University Asia Center	EAS
Benjamin Elman	The 'Global' and the 'Local' in Early Modern and Modern East Asia	2017	Brill Academic	EAS and History
Ying-shih Yü	Chinese History and Culture, volume 1: Sixth Century B.C.E. to Seventeenth Century	2016	Columbia University Press	EAS
Ying-shih Yü	Chinese History and Culture, volume 2: Seventeenth Century Through Twentieth Century	2016	Columbia University Press	EAS
Willard Peterson	The Cambridge History of China: Volume 9, The Ch'ing Dynasty to 1800, Part 2	2016	Cambridge University Press	EAS and History
Martin Kern	Shiji xue yu shijie Hanxue lunji xubian	2016	Tangshan chubanshe	EAS
Marius Jansen	Sakamato Ryoma and the Meiji Restoration (Princeton Legacy Library, 1913)	2016	Princeton University Press	EAS
Anna Shields	Crafting a Collection: The Cultural Contexts and Poetic Practice of the Huajian Ji	2016	Harvard University Asia Center	EAS
Martin Kern	Ideology of power and power of ideology in early China	2015	Brill Academic	EAS
Federico Marcon	The knowledge of nature and the nature of knowledge in early modern Japan	2015	University of Chicago Press	EAS and History
Benjamin Elman	Science in China, 1600-1900: Essays by Benjamin A. Elman	2015	World Scientific	EAS and History
Anna Shields	One who knows me : friendship and literary culture in Mid-Tang China	2015	Harvard University Asia Center	EAS
Andrew Plaks	Four Masterworks of the Ming Novel	2015	Princeton University Press	EAS and Comparative Literature
Steven Chung	Split screen Korea: Shin Sang-ok and postwar cinema	2014	Univ of Minnesota	EAS
Paize Keulemans	Sound rising from the paper : nineteenth-century martial arts fiction and the Chinese acoustic imagination	2014	Harvard University Asia Center	EAS
Chih-p'ing Chou	First Step: An Elementary Reader for Modern Chinese	2014	Princeton University Press	EAS
Benjamin Elman	Science and Technology in Modern China, 1880s-1940s	2014	Brill Academic	EAS and History
Thomas Conlan	図説戦国時代武器・防具・戦術百科	2013	原書房	EAS and History
Janet Chen	Guilty of Indigence: The Urban Poor in China, 1900-1953	2013	Princeton University Press	History and EAS
Janet Chen	The Search for Modern China: A Documentary Collection	2013	W.W. Norton	History and EAS
Benjamin Elman	Civil Examinations and Meritocracy in Late Imperial China	2013	Harvard University Press	EAS and History
Thomas Conlan	From Sovereign to Symbol: An Age of Ritual Determinism in Fourteenth Century Japan	2011	Oxford University Press	EAS and History
Sheldon Garon	Beyond Our Means : Why America Spends While the World Saves	2011	Princeton University Press	History and EAS
Richard Okada	The Tale of Genji	2011	Routledge	EAS
Chih-p'ing Chou	Oh, China!: An Elementary Reader of Modern Chinese for Advanced Beginners - Revised Edition	2011	Princeton University Press	EAS
Chih-p'ing Chou	Anything Goes: An Advanced Reader of Modern Chinese	2011	Princeton University Press	EAS
Chih-p'ing Chou	A New China: An Intermediate Reader of Modern Chinese	2011	Princeton University Press	EAS
Chih-p'ing Chou	All Things Considered: An Advanced Reader of Modern Chinese	2011	Princeton University Press	EAS
Thomas Conlan	In Little Need of Divine Intervention: Takezaki Suenaga's Scrolls of the Mongol Invasions of Japan	2010	Cornell East Asia Series	EAS and History
Frederick Mote	China and the Vocation of History in the Twentieth Century: A Personal Memoir	2010	Princeton University Press	EAS
Benjamin Elman	Statecraft and classical learning : the Rituals of Zhou in East Asian history	2009	Brill Academic	EAS and History
Thomas Conlan	Weapons & Fighting Techniques of the Samurai Warrior 1200-1877 AD	2008	Metro Books	EAS and History
Martin Kern	Text and Ritual in Early China	2008	University of Washington Press	EAS
Atsuko Ueda	Concealment of Politics, Politics of Concealment: The Production of "Literature" in Meiji Japan	2007	Stanford University Press	EAS
Amy Borovoy	The Too-Good Wife: Alcohol, Codependency, and the Politics of Nurturance in Postwar Japan	2005	University of California Press	EAS
Thomas Conlan	State of War: The Violent Order of Fourteenth-Century Japan	2003	University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies	EAS and History
Frederick Mote	Imperial China 900-1800	2003	Harvard University Press	EAS
Willard Peterson	The Cambridge History of China Volume 9 : The Ch'ing Empire to 1800, Part 1	2002	Cambridge University Press	EAS and History
Marius Jansen	The Making of Modern Japan	2002	Belknap Press	EAS
Denis Twitchett	The Writing of Official History under the T'ang	2002	Cambridge University Press	EAS
Susan Naquin	Peking: Temples and City Life, 1400-1900	2000	University of California Press	History and EAS
Martin Kern	The Stele Inscriptions of Ch'in Shih-huang: Text and Ritual in Early Chinese Imperial Representation	2000	American Oriental Society	EAS
Seiichi Makino	Nakama 1: Japanese Communication, Culture, Context	1998	Cengage Learning	EAS
Denis Twitchett	The Cambridge History of China 2 Volume Hardback Set: Volume 8, The Ming Dynasty, Part 2	1998	Cambridge University Press	EAS
Martin Kern	Die Hymnen der chinesischen Staatsopfer: Literatur und Ritual in der politischen Repräsentation von der Han-Zeit bis zu den Sechs Dynastien	1997	Franz Steiner	EAS
Martin Kern	Zum Topos „Zimtbaum“ in der chinesischen Literatur: Rhetorische Funktion und poetischer Eigenwert des Naturbildes kuei	1994	Franz Steiner	EAS
Susan Naquin	Pilgrims and Sacred Sites in China	1992	University of California Press	History and EAS
Marius Jansen	China in the Tokugawa World	1992	Harvard University Press	EAS
Richard Okada	Figures of Resistance: Language, Poetry, and Narrating in The Tale of the Genji and Other Mid-Heian Texts	1991	Duke University Press	EAS
Marius Jansen	The Cambridge History of Japan, Volume 5: The Nineteenth Century	1989	Cambridge University Press	EAS
Martin Collcutt	Cultural Atlas of Japan	1988	Checkmark Books	EAS and History
Frederick Mote	The Cambridge History of China, Vol. 7: The Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644, Part 1	1988	Cambridge University Press	EAS
Seiichi Makino	A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar	1986	Japan Times	EAS
Martin Collcutt	Five Mountains: The Rinzai Zen Monastic Institution in Medieval Japan	1986	Harvard University Asia Center	EAS and History
Denis Twitchett	The Cambridge History of China: Volume 3, Sui and T'ang China, 589-906 AD, Part 1	1979	Cambridge University Press	EAS
James Liu	China Turning Inward	1974	Harvard University Asia Center	EAS
Frederick Mote	The Intellectual Foundations of China	1971	Alfred A. Knopf	EAS
Denis Twitchett	Financial Administration under the T'ang Dynasty	1971	Cambridge University Press	EAS
James Liu	Ou-Yang Hsiu: An Eleventh Century Neo-Confucianist	1967	Stanford University Press	EAS
Frederick Mote	The Poet Kao Ch’i, 1336-1374	1962	Princeton University Press	EAS
Marius Jansen	The Japanese and Sun Yat-sen	1954	Harvard University Press	EAS

Faculty Bookshelf

Thomas Conlan on “Kings in All but Name”

Martin Kern "Performance and Interpretation: Studies in Early Chinese Poetics"

Xin Wen: "The King's Road: Diplomacy and the Remaking of the Silk Road"

Thomas Conlan “Samurai and the Warrior Culture of Japan, 471–1877: A sourcebook

He Bian "Know Your Remedies: Pharmacy and Culture in Early Modern China"