第三部分进一步阅读书目(第3/3页)

Osvald Siren,A History of Later Chinese Painting,2 vols.(London,1938)提供了近代中国艺术的最好标本。学生也可以通过选读传统的中国小说来熟悉中国社会的本质。其中2本最重要的小说可以得到英文译本:Wu Ching-tzu,The Scholars(New York,1972)和Tsao Chan,Dream of the Red Chamber(New York,1958)。

至于日本近代历史的研究,参见:George B.Sansom,The Western World and Japan(New York,1950);Donald Keene,The Japanese Discovery of Europe(New York,1954);Charles R.Boxer,The Christian Century in Japan,1549~1650 (Berkeley,1951);Conrad D.Totman,Politics in the Tokugawa Bakufu,1600~1843(Cambridge,Mass.,1967);Robert N.Bellah,Tokugawa Religion(Glencoe,III.,1957);Maruyama Masao,Studies in the Intellectual History of Tokugawa Japan(Princeton,1974);William R.Braisted,tr.,Meiroku Zasshi:Journal of the Japanese Enlightenment(Cambridge,Mass.,1976);Hugh Borton,Japans Modern Century(New York,1955);和Tetsuo Najita,Japan(Englewood Cliffs,N.J.,1974)。Thomas C.Smith,The Agrarian Origins of Modern Japan(Stanford,1959),是一部阐述早期近代日本社会的杰作。

Peter C.Swann, An Introduction to the Arts of Japan(Oxford,1958)是一本有帮助的著作。Ichitaro Kondo,ed.,Hiroshige,The Fifty-three Stages of the Tokaido(Honolulu,1965)提供了由最伟大的日本艺术家之一翻译的德川时代后期社会的景象。Howard Hibbert,The Floating World in Japanese Fiction(New York,1959)是对德川时代日本世俗小说的优秀介绍。