University of Cambridge Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Preparatory Reading

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The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Japan (1993) by Richard Bowring
Background Reading
The Japanese Way of Politics (1988) by Gerald L. Curtis
Background Reading
The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories (1997) by Theodore W. Goossen
Background Reading
The Tale of Genji (2015) by Shikibu Murasaki
Background Reading
The art and architecture of Japan (1955) by Robert Treat Paine
Background Reading
Regime Shift: Comparative Dynamics of the Japanese Political Economy (Cornell Studies in Political Economy) (1998) by T. J. Pempel
Background Reading
Governing Japan: Divided Politics in a Major Economy (Modern Governments) (1999) by J. A. A. Stockwin
Background Reading
An Introduction to Japanese Society (1997) by Yoshio Sugimoto
Background Reading
China in World History, Third Edition (1988) by Samuel Adrian M. Adshead
China
Buddhism in China: A Historical Survey (1964) by Kenneth Ch'en
China
The Cambridge Illustrated History of China (1996) by Patricia Buckley Ebrey
China
The Open Empire: A History of China to 1600 (2000) by Valerie Hansen
China
A Bitter Revolution: China's Struggle with the Modern World (2004) by Rana Mitter
China
The Five "Confucian" Classics (2001) by Michael Nylan
China
Taoism: Growth of a Religion (1991) by Isabelle Robinet
China
The Search for Modern China (1990) by Jonathan D. Spence
China
The Buddhist Conquest of China : The Spread and Adaptation of Buddhism in Early Medieval China (1959) by E. Zürcher
China
T'ang China: The Rise of the East in World History (2004) by Samuel Adrian M. Adshead
East Asia in general
The rise of civilization in East Asia : the archaeology of China, Korea and Japan (1993) by Gina L. Barnes
East Asia in general
The Cold War: A New History (2005) by John Lewis Gaddis
East Asia in general
Genesis of East Asia, 221 B.C.-A.D. 907 (Asian Interactions and Comparisons) (2001) by Charles Holcombe
East Asia in general
A World of Regions: Asia and Europe in the American Imperium (2005) by Peter J. Katzenstein
East Asia in general
Sentimental imperialists : the American experience in East Asia (1981) by James Claude Thomson
East Asia in general
Japan and the World Since 1868 (International Relations and the Great Powers) (1995) by Michael A. Barnhart
Japan
War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War (1986) by John W. Dower
Japan
Modern Japan: A Historical Survey (2001) by Mikiso Hane
Japan
The Emergence of Modern Japan: An Introductory History Since 1853 (1989) by Janet Hunter
Japan
The Origins of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific (1987) by Akira Iriye
Japan
Japan: A Modern History (2001) by James L. McClain
Japan
Altered States: The United States and Japan since the Occupation (1997) by Michael Schaller
Japan
Early Modern Japan (1993) by Conrad Totman
Japan
A History of Japan (2000) by Conrad Totman
Japan
Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History (1997) by Bruce Cumings
Korea
The Wrong War: American Policy and the Dimensions of the Korean Conflict, 1950-1953 (1985) by Rosemary Foot
Korea
A New History of Korea (1837) by Ki-Baik Lee
Korea
Everlasting Flower: A History of Korea (2006) by Keith Pratt
Korea
The Korean War in world history (2004) by William Whitney Stueck
Korea
The Waiting Years (1957) by Fumiko Enchi
Modern Fiction
Snow Country (1947) by Yasunari Kawabata
Modern Fiction
Confessions of a Mask (1949) by Yukio Mishima
Modern Fiction
Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness: Four Short Novels (1969) by Kenzaburō Ōe
Modern Fiction
Kokoro (1914) by Natsume Soseki
Modern Fiction
Sanshirō (1908) by Natsume Soseki
Modern Fiction
Some Prefer Nettles (1929) by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
Modern Fiction
Child of Fortune (1978) by Yūko Tsushima
Modern Fiction

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