第四部分进一步阅读书目(第4/5页)

印度和东南亚。对印度历史的最好介绍是A.L.Basham,A Cultural History of India(Oxford,1975)。关于社会经济史,试试Dharma Kumar ed.,The Cambridge Economic History of India,Vol.2,1757~1970 (Cambridge,1983)。关于英国的殖民统治,见Penderel Moon,British Conquest and Dominion of India(London,1989);和L.S.S.OMalley,ed.,Modern India and the West:A Study of the Interaction of Their Civilizations(London,1968)。两部著名的小说比许多历史学著作更深刻地揭露了英国统治下的印度:E.M.Forster,A Passage to India(London,1924);和Rudyard Kipling,Kim(London,1901)。Mohandas K.Gandhi,The Story of My Experiments with Truth(Boston,1957);和Jawaharlal Nehru,Towards Freedom:The Autobiography of Jawaharlal Nehru(New York,1941)是现代独立印度两位主要缔造者的深刻有力的叙述。由于印度很可能超越中国而成为全球人口最多的国家,所以Tim Dyson,ed.,Indias Historical Demography:Studies in Famine,Disease and Society(London,1989),是特别有趣的著作。关于东南亚,David J.Steinberg,In Search of Southeast Asia:A Modern History,rev.ed.(Honolulu,Hi.,1987)是一本非常好的入门读物。

远东。3部杰出的中国现代史通论著作是:John J.Fairbank,China:A New History(Cambridge,1992);Immanuel C.Y.Hsu,The Rise of Modern China,4th ed(New York,1990);和Jonathan D.Spence, The Search for Modern China(New York,1990)。带有现代中美关系特色的涉及传教、商业和意识形态方面的综合著作是John J.Fairbank,The United States and China,4th ed.(Cambridge,Mass.,1983)。关于中国共产主义,见James P.Harrison,The Long March to Power:A History of the Chinese Communist Party,1921~1972(New York,1972);Edgar Snow,Red Star over China(New York,1973)和Ross Terrill, Mao:A Biography(New York,1980)。关于人口,Judith Bannister,Chinas Changing Population(Stanford,Cal.,1978);关于乡村生活,William L.Parish and Martin K.Whyte,Village and Family in Contemporary China(Chicago,1978)。

关于日本,William G.Beasley,The Rise of Modern Japan(New York,1990);Mikiso Hane,Modern Japan:A Historical Survey,2nd ed.(Boulder,Col.,1992);和Edwin O.Reischauer,Japan,The Story of a Nation(New York,1989),都是适合初学者的概论性优秀著作。适合大学使用的原始史料高级选编是John Livingston,Joe Moore,and Felicia Oldfather,eds.,The Japan Reader, 2 vols.(New York,1973~1974)。关于经济变迁,见Johannes Hirschmeier and Tsunehiko Yui,The Development of Japanese Business,1600~1980,2nd ed.(Bostton,1981);G.C.Allen,A Short Economic History of Modern Japan,4th ed.(New York,1981);和Thomas C.Smith,Political Change and Industrial Development in Japan:Government Enterprise(Stanford,Cal.,1974)。

关于日本的第二次世界大战的历史。Thomas R.H.Havens,Valley of Darkness:The Japanese People and the World War II(Lanham,Md.,1986);和John Heresy,Hiroshima(New York,1946),特别具有启发性。Gordon W.E.Prange,At Dawn We Slept:The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor(New York,1982),是来自交战双方的生动而详细的描述。对太平洋战争的优秀而均衡的总结,John Tolland, The Rising Sun(New York,1982)值得推荐。

关于日本社会的特性,Robert J.Smith,Japanese Society:Tradition,Self and the Social Order(Cambridge,1987);和Tadashi Fukutake,Japanese Society Today(Tokyo,1981),分别提供了一种美国观点和日本观点。Joseph M.Kitigawa,Religion in Japanese History(New York,1990);和Irene B.Taeuber,The Population of Japan(Princeton,1958)在各自领域里都是标准之作。

关于朝鲜,Andrew C.Nahm,Korea:Tradition and Transformation:A History of the Korean People(Elizabeth,N.J.,1988);和Donald Stone Macdonald,The Koreans:Contemporary Politics and Society(2nd ed.,Boulder,Col.,1990),是很有用的概论。关于朝鲜战争,Burton Ira Kaufman,The Korean War:Challenges in Crisis,Credibility and Command(Philadelphia,1986);和Bruce Cumings,The Origins of the Korean War,2 vols.(Princeton,1981~1990)是一种美国修正派的论述。