ABSTRACT
The best broad survey is a two-volume work, E. O. Reischauer and J. K. Fairbank, East Asia: the great tradition and J. K. Fairbank and others. Outstanding studies of economic and social history remain few, but mention should be made of R. H. Tawney, Land and Labour in China and W. Hinton, Fanshen: a documentary of revolution in a Chinese village. So many books on Chinese and Japanese history have been published recently that most bibliographical guides are less helpful than the bibliographies in several of the general histories and monographs cited. Up-to-date reading lists can, however, be found in J. M. Gentzler, A Syllabus of Chinese Civilization and H. P. Varley, A Syllabus of Japanese Civilization. The best review coverage of new works is provided by the Journal of Asian Studies.
