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Hist 410/510: Colonialism, China & Japan

Resources on Colonialism, China & Japan

de Bary, William Theodore. Sources of Japanese Tradition, Volume 2: 1600 to 2000. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005.

Huffman, John. Modern Japan: A History in Documents. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Livingston, Jon. Imperial Japan, 1800–1945. New York: Pantheon Books, 1974.

Lu, David. Sources of Japanese History. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974. 2 vols.

Mason, Michele and Helen J. S. Lee. Reading Colonial Japan: Text, Context, and Critique. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012.

Young, Louise. Japan's total empire : Manchuria and the culture of wartime imperialism, 1998

Keay, John. Empire's end : a history of the Far East from high colonialism to Hong Kong, 1997

Bertram, James. Unconquered: Journal of a Year’s Adventures among the Fighting Peasants of North China. New York: Da Capo Press, 1939.

Bisson, Thomas. Japan in China. New York: Macmillan and Company, 1938.

Brook, Timothy. Documents on the Rape of Nanking (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999.

Chiang Kai-shek. The Collected Wartime Messages of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, 1937–1945. New York: The John Day Company, 1946.

Jeffreys, W. Hamilton. The Diseases of China: Including Formosa and Korea. Shanghai, 1929.

Lin Yutang, The Vigil of a Nation. New York: J. Day, 1945.

Lu Suping. They Were in Nanjing: The Nanjing Massacre Witnessed by American and British Nationals. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2004.

Sanborn, James. Shanghai Remembered: Growing up in a Japanese Concentration Camp. New York: Vantage Press, 2009.

Snow, Edgar. The Battle for Asia. New York: Random House, 1941.

Tsai, Chien-hsin, A passage to China : literature, loyalism, and colonial Taiwan, Cambridge, Massachusetts : the Harvard University Asia Center, 2017.

Vautrin, Minnie. Terror in Minnie Vautrin’s Nanjing: Diaries and Correspondence, 1937–38. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008.

Xu Shuxi. The War Conduct of the Japanese. Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh, 1938.

Wood, G. Zay. The Twenty-One Demands: Japan versus China. New York: F. H. Revell, 1921.

Chosen Ginko. Economic History of Chosen. Seoul: Bank of Chosen, 1921.

Choson Unhaeng. Pictorial Chosen and Manchuria. Seoul: Bank of Chosen, 1919.

Government-General of Chosen. Annual Report on Reform and Progress in Chosen (Korea). Seoul: Government-General of Chosen, 1911–1923.

Government-General of Chosen. The New Administration in Chosen. Seoul: Government-General of Chosen, 1921.

Lee, Peter, William Theodore de Bary, and Yong-ho Ch’oe. Sources of Korean Tradition, Volume II (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000).

Kang, Hildi. Under the Black Umbrella: Voices from Colonial Korea, 1910–1945. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001.

Korea Gakumukyoku. Manual of Education in Chosen. Seoul: Bureau of Education, Government-General of Chosen, 1920.

Records of the Department of State Relating to Internal Affairs of Korea (Chosen), 1910–1929. Washington, D.C.: National Archives, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, 1962.

Satow, Ernest Mason. Korea and Manchuria between Russia and Japan, 1895–1904. Tallahassee: Diplomatic Press, 1966.

Satow, Ernest Mason. The Diaries and Letters of Sir Ernest Mason Satow (1843–1929), A Scholar-Diplomat in East Asia. Lewiston: E. Mellen Press, 1998.

Seuru Puressusha. Administrative Reforms in Korea. Seoul: Seoul Press, 1919.  

Seuru Puressusha. The Korean “Independence” Agitation. Seoul: Seoul Press, 1919.

Sherrill, Charles Hitchcock and John Powell Irish. Korea and Shantung versus the White Peril. Seoul: Seoul Press Office, 1920. 

Terauchi Masatake. Results of Three Years: Administration of Chosen Since Annexation. Seoul: Government-General of Chosen, 1914.

Manchukuo and Inner Mongolia

Chang Kia-ngau. Last Change in Manchuria: The Diary of Chang Kia-ngau. Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, 1989.

Etherton, P. T. Manchuria: The Cockpit of Asia. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1932.

Gold, Hal. Unit 731 Testimony. Tokyo: Yen Books, 1996.

Haslund-Christiansen, Henning. Mongolian Journey. London: Routledge and K. Paul, 1949.

Ito Takeo. Life along the South Manchurian Railway: The Memoirs of Ito Takeo. Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 1988.

Japan Gaimusho. Relations of Japan with Manchuria and Mongolia. Tokyo: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1932.

Jones, Francis Clifford. Manchuria Since 1931. New York: Oxford University Press, 1949.

Kawakami Kiyoshi. Manchoukuo: Child of Conflict. New York: Macmillan, 1933.

Lattimore, Owen. Manchuria: Cradle of Conflict. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1932.

Lattimore, Owen. Mongol Journeys. New York: AMS Press, 1975.

Lattimore, Owen. Studies in Frontier History: Collected Papers, 1928–1958. London: Oxford University Press, 1962.

League of Nations, Special Assembly. The Verdict of the League: China and Japan in Manchuria. Boston: World Peace Foundation, 1933.

The Manchuria Year Book. Tokyo: East-Asiatic Economic Investigation Bureau, 1931–1933.

Minami Manshu Tetsudo Kabushiki Kaisha. Manchuria, Land of Opportunities. New York: South Manchuria Railway, 1922.

Minami Manshu Tetsudo Kabushiki Kaisha. Report on Progress in Manchuria. Dairen: The South Manchuria Railway Company, 1929.

Penlington, John. The Mukden Mandate: Acts and Aims in Manchuria. Tokyo: Maruzen Company, 1932.

Price, Ernest Batson. The Russo-Japanese Treaties of 1907–1916 Concerning Manchuria and Mongolia. New York: AMS Press, 1971.

Scherer, James. Manchukuo: A Bird’s-Eye View. Tokyo: Hokuseido Press, 1933.

Tanaka Giichi. Japan’s Dream of World Empire: The Tanaka Memorial. New York: Harper, 1942.

Yosano Akiko. Travels in Manchuria and Mongolia: A Feminist Poet from Japan Encounters Prewar China. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001.

Young, Arthur Morgan. Imperial Japan, 1926–1938. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1938.

Young, C. Walter. Japan’s Special Position in Manchuria: Its Assertion, Legal Interpretation, and Present Meaning. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1931.

Arnold, Julean Herbert. The Peoples of Formosa. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1910.

Arnold, Julean Herbert. Education in Formosa. Washington: G. P. O., 1908.

Bureau of Aboriginal Affairs. Report on the Control of the Aborigines in Formosa. Taipei: Government-General of Formosa, 1911.

Grad, Andrew. Formosa Today: An Analysis of the Economic Development and Strategic Importance of Japan’s Tropical Colony. New York: Institute of Pacific Relations, 1942.

Ishii Shinji. The Island of Formosa and its Primitive Inhabitants: A Paper Read at a Joint Meeting of the China Society and the Japan Society. London: China Society, 1916.

McGovern, Janet. Among the Head-hunters of Formosa. Boston: Small, Maybard, and Co., 1922.

Rutter, Owen. Through Formosa: An Account of Japan’s Island Colony. London: T. F. Unwin, 1923.

White, Trumbull. The War in the East: Japan, China, and Corea. Philadelphia: J. H. Moore Company, 1895.

Wu Zhuoliu, The Fig Tree: Memoirs of a Taiwanese Patriot, 1900–1947. Bochum: Projekt Verlag, 1994.

Yosaburo Takekoshi, Japanese Rule in Formosa. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1907.

臺灣史料集成編輯委員會. 明清臺灣檔案彙編, 2004