, 1976), 论述中华帝国后期居于支配地位的新儒家思想的正反两面。Historic Relics Unearthed in New China (Peking, 1972) and Murals from the Han to the T’ang Dynasty (Peking, 1974)提供了当代中国考古学家发掘的许多重要文物的彩色照片。Joseph Needham, Science and Civilization in China, Multivolumed (Cambridge, 1954--) and T. F. Carter and L. C. Goodrich, The Invention of Printing in China and Its Spread Westward, 2nd ed. (New York, 1955) 是这个主题的最权威著作。中国两位最著名的历史学家由以下著作进行了研究：Burton Watson, tr., Records of the Grand Historians of China, 2 vols. (New York, 1961) 和Homer H. Dubs, ed. and tr., The History of the Former Han Dynasty by Pan Ku (Baltimore, 1938—55). Arthur Waley, tr., The Poetry and Career of Li Po, 701—762 A. D. (London, 1951) 值得提及。
Donald L. Philippi, tr., Kojiki (Tokyo, 1968) 使日本古代重要史料可以得到。Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji, tr. Arthur Waley (Boston, 1935), 是平安时代文化的最好介绍读物。下列几部著作对研究前现代日本是有用的：Ivan Morris, The World of the Shining Prince (New York, 1964); Jeffrey Mass, Warrior Government in Early Medieval Japan: A Study of the Kamakura Bakufu, Shugo and Jito (New Haven, 1974); 和Alfrede Bloom, Shinran’s Gospel of Pure Grace (Tucson, 1965).
非洲。Roland Oliver and John D. Fage, A Short History of Africa (Penguin, 1962) 现在是标准的，但是Philip D. Curtin, African History (Boston, 1978) 给以前的著作带来了挑战。有趣的区域性论述包括：Zoe Marsh and G. W. Kingsnorth, An Introduction to the History of East Africa, 2nd ed. (Cambridge, 1961); John D. Fage, An Introduction to the History of West Africa, 2nd ed. (Cambridge, 1960); E. W. Bovill, Caravans of the Old Sahara: An Introduction to the History of theWestern Sudan (London, 1933); J. Spence Trimingham, A History of Islam in West Africa (London, 1962); A. H. M. Jones and Elizabeth Monroe, A History of Abyssinia (Oxford, 1935; reissued as A History of Ethiopia, 1955); 和Nehemia Lebtzion, Ancient Ghana and Mali (New York, 1973). Roland Oliver, ed., The Cambiridge History of Africa, III: from c.1500 to c.1600 (Cambridge, 1977) 反映了该主题现行学术动态。
美洲。Gorden R. Willey, New World Prehistory, Smithonian I