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Contains over 140,000 ebooks that you can read online or download. Titles also appear in the Library Catalog, but going direct through this link will let you search the full-text of all the books and browse every title. (Formerly ebrary.)
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Course Reserve List -- HIST 472
A list of all the items available on reserve at the Lilly Circulation Desk.

Sources of Chinese Tradition by William T. DeBary
ISBN: 0231022557
Publication Date: 1964
Translated primary documents covering wide range of sources on history and society in China.
Print volume 2 also on Reserve.
Sources of Japanese Tradition : Volume 2, 1600 to 2000 by Wm. Theodore de Bary
ISBN: 9780231129848
Publication Date: 2005
Authoritative sourcebook for Japan from the eighteenth century to the post-World War II period and the entire twentieth century

Primary Source for Chinese History by Columbia University
Archive.Org
Includes over 100,000 recordings of live concert performances, and nearly 2 million additional audio recordings, including a collection of freely downloadable/streamable, often Creative Commons-licensed catalogs of 'virtual record labels' recordings.
The Collected Letters of Henry Smith Leiper: The China Years (1918-1922) - v. 1
Letters by the relatives of Earlham Professor Welling Hall.
The Collected Letters of Henry Smith Leiper: The China Years (1918-1922) v.2
Letters by the relatives of Earlham Professor Welling Hall.
Travels of a consular officer in north-west China. With original maps of Shensi and Kansu and illus. by photographs taken by the author

Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography, Volumes 1 - 3 by Kerry Brown
ISBN: 9781933782669
Publication Date: 2014
Biographies of emperors, politicians, poets, writers, artists, scientists, explorers, and philosophers who have shaped and transformed China over the course of five thousand years. 135 entries, ranging from 1,000 to 8,000 words and written by some of the world's leading China scholars
Encyclopedia of Modern Asia by Karen Christensen and David Levinson
ISBN: 9780684806174
Publication Date: 2002
Presents more than 2,600 entries covering such subjects as countries, cities, regions, natural features, religions, social issues, languages, people, events, customs, politics, and economics.
Southeast Asia by Ooi Keat Gin
ISBN: 1576077705
Publication Date: 2004
An in-depth, historical encyclopedia of Southeast Asia, with coverage from prehistoric times to the end of the 20th century for each country in the region.
A History of Art in 20th Century China by Lu Peng
ISBN: 9788881587797
Publication Date: 2010
China Today by Jing Luo
ISBN: 0313321701
Publication Date: 2005
Modern China: an encyclopedia of history, culture, and nationalism by Ke-wen Wang
ISBN: 0815307209
Publication Date: 1997
Encyclopedia of Chinese-American relations by Yuwu Song
ISBN: 1780346069
Publication Date: 2009