45); Homer B. Hulbert, The History of Korea, rev. ed. by C. M. Weems, 2 vols.(Hillary, N. Y., n. d.; first published, Seoul, 1905); 和Woo-Kuen Han, The History of Korea (Seoul, 1970)可以得到。E. O. Reischauer, John K. Fairbank, and Albert Craig, East Asia: Tradition and Transformation (Boston, 1973) 从整体上论述远东历史。
中国漫长的政治和社会发展的特别主题由以下著作所论述：Derk Bodde, China’s First Inifier: A Study of the Ch’in Dynasty as Seen in the Life of Li Ssu (Leiden, 1938); Michael Loewe, Crisis and Conflict in Han China (London, 1974); Arthur F. Wright, Buddhism in Chinese History (Stanford, 1959); Kenneth Ch’en, Buddhism in China: An Historical Survey (Princeton, 1964)；Arthur Wright and Denis twitchett, Perspectives on the T’ang (New Haven, 1973); Edwin G. Pulleyblank, The Background of the Rebellion of An Lu-shan (London, 1955); Edwin A. Kracke, Jr., Civil Service in Early Sung China, 960—1067 (Cambridge, Mass., 1953); Shiba Yoshinobu, Commerce and Society in Sung China, trans. (Ann Arbor, 1970); James T. C. Liu, Reform in Sung China: Wang An-shih and His New Polices (Cambridge,Mass., 1959); Charles O.Hucker, ed., Chinese Government in Ming Times (New York, 1969); 和J. J. L. Duyvendak, China’s Discovery of Africa (London, 1949). Raymond Dawson, ed., The Legacy of China (Oxford, 1964) 包括了中国传统文明多方面的简要介绍，而且由该领域的一流权威学者所撰写。
中国的艺术和思想可以从下列著作中得到帮助：Osvald Siren, Chinese Painting: Leading Masters and Principles, 7 vols. (New York, 1956—58); Lawrence Sickman and Alexander Soper, The Art and Architecture of China (Pinguin, 1956); James Cahill, Chinese Painting (Cleveland, 1960; reissued in paperback, New York, 1977),是该主题最好的介绍；Feng Yu-lan, A History of Chinese Philosopy, tr. Derk Bodde, 2 vols.(Princeton, 1952—53); 和Wing-tsit Ch’an, A Sourcebook in Chinese Philosophy (Princeton, 1963). Wing-tsit Ch’an, tr., Reflections on Things at Hand: The Neo-Confucian Anthology Compiled by Chu His and Lu Tsu-Ch’ien (New York, 1967), 和Tu Wei-Ming, Neo-Confucian Thought in Action: Wang Yang-ming’s Youth (Berkeley