Thought and Institutions (Chicago, 1957) 探讨了中国思想史，John K. Fairbank, ed., The Chinese World Order: Traditional Chinese Foreign Relations (Cambridge, Mass., 1968) 也富有启迪意义。
Osvald Siren, A History of Later Chinese Painting, 2 vols. (London, 1938) 提供了现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而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T’sao Chan, Dream of the Red Chamber (New York, 1958).
至于日本近代历史的研究，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 (Engliwood 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。