China

This China CD contains 67 classic works of fiction, history, and religion, plus the China Country Study.

The "Country Studies" were published as printed books by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress between 1987 and 1995 under a program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Army.

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Complete Table of Contents:

Country Studies

• China (1987)
• Macau (2000)

2006 CIA World Factbook (with maps, flags, and up-to-date information on every country in the world). This is an interlinked set of hundreds of HTML documents. You should open it with your Web browser.

• Country list
• Other files

History

• General
• Around the World on a Bicycle, volume 2 from Teheran to Yokohama by Thomas Stevens
• The Crest Wave of Evolution by Kenneth Monis
• Principal Navigations by Richard Haklyut
• volume 8, Asia part 1
• volume 9, Asia part 2
• Overland through Asia by Thomas Knox, 1871
• Chinese History
• Across China on Foot by Edwin Dingle, 1911
• Among the Tibetans by Isabella Bird
• Ancient China Simplified by Edward Harper Parker
• An Australian in China: Being the Narrataive of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma by George Ernest Morrison, 1902
• The Awakening of China by W.A.P. Martin
• A Bit of Old China by Charles Warren Stoddard (short)
• The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura
• Camps and Trails in China by Roy Andrews, 1918
• China by Demetrius Boulger
• China and the Chinese by Herbert Allen Giles
• China and the Manchus by Herbert Allen Giles
• The Chinese Boy and Girl by Isaac Taylor Headland
• Chinese Sketches by Herbert Giles
• The Civilization of China by Herbert Giles
• The Communist Threat int he Taiwan ARea by John Foster Dulles, 1958
• Court Life in China by Isaac Taylor Headland
• Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Tibet by Captain Knight
• En Chine, (in French) by Judith Gauthier, 1911
• Everlasting Pearl, One of Chinna's Women by Anna Magdalena Johannsen, 1913
• Farmers of Forty Centuries or Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan  by F.H. King
• The Fight for the Republic in China by L. Putnam Weale
• Forty Years in South China by John Talmage, 1894
• A History of China by Wolfram Eberhard
• History and Ecclesiastical Relations of the Churches of the Presbyterial Order at Amoy, China by Rev. J.V.N. Talmage, 1863
• In Macao by Charles Gunnison
• Indiscreet Letters from Peking [eye-witness account of Boxer Rebellion in 1900], by B.L. Putnam Weale, 1922
• New Forces in Old China by Arthur Judson Brown
• Notable Women of Modern China by Margaret E. Burton
• Profiles from China by Eunice Tietjens, 1917
• Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official by Major-General Sir W.H. Sleeman, 1915
• A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms, Being an Account by the Chinese Monk Fa-Hien of his Travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in Search of the Buddhist Books of Discipline
• Religions of Ancient China by Herbert Giles
• Seven Maids of Far Cathay. Being English Notes from a Chinese Class Book
• Sun Tzu on the Art of War, translated by Lionel Giles
• Tea Leaves by Francis Leggett and Company
• Travels of Marco Polo
• volume 1
• volume 2
• Under the Dragon Flag: My Experiences in the Chino-Japanese War by james Allan, 1898

Literature and Religion

• General
• The Garden of Bright Waters, 120 Asiatic Love Poems, translated by Edward Mathers
• The Light of Asia by Sir Edwin Arnold
• Sacred Books of the East edited by Epiphanius Wilson, 1900
• Chinese
• Buddhism and Buddhists in China
• Chinese Literature edited by Epiphanius Wilson
• A Chinese Wonder Book by Norman Hinsdale Pitman, 1919
• Confucian classics (translated by James Legge)
• Shu King -- Book of Historical Records
• Shih King -- Book of Odes or Poetry
• Hsiao King -- Classic of Filial Piety
• Li Ki -- Book of Rites
• part 1
• part 2
• I Ching -- Book of Changes
• Analects of Confucius
• Filial Respect in Confucius and Socrates -- and the divergence of Western and Chinese Philosophic Traditions
• Hung Lou Meng or The Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin, translated by H. Bencroft Joly
• volume 1
• volume 2
• More Translations from the Chinese by Arthur Waley, 1919
• Taoist classics
• Tao te Ching and first part of Chuang-tzu
• Second part of Chuang-tzu
• The Tao Teh King or The Tao and Its Characteristics by Lao-Tse
• Tao Yuanming
• Peach Blossom Shangri-la (short)
• A Lute of Jade:  Being Selections from the Classical Poets of China by L. Cranmer-Byng
• Myths and Legends of China by E.T. C. Werner
• The Religion of the Samurai, a Study of Zen Philosophy and Discipline in China and Japan
• fiction about China
• My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard by Elizabeth Cooper
• Some Chinese Ghosts by Lafcadio Hearn, 1887
• Les Tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine (in French) by Jules Verne