The Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures Series

14 primary works • 14 total works
The first Japanese-born and Japanese-speaking U.S. Ambassador to Japan (1961–1966), Edwin O. Reischauer started his career teaching at Harvard University and eventually became the director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute. Following his stint at the embassy in Tokyo, Reischauer returned to academic life at Harvard and spent his remaining years giv…
East Asian Civilizations: A Dialogue in Five Stages
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4.00 · 3 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1988 · 12 editions
De Bary constructs a magisterial overview of three…

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    The Four Little Dragons: The Spread of Industrialization in East Asia
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    3.88     · 67 Ratings · 15 Reviews · published 1992 · 9 editions
    Japan and the four little dragons―Taiwan, South Ko…

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    The Lyric Journey: Poetic Painting in China and Japan
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    4.23     · 13 Ratings · published 1996 · 7 editions
    Creating paintings with poetic resonances, sometim…

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    China and Japan in the Global Setting
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    3.44     · 9 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1992 · 3 editions
    The relationship between China and Japan remains a…

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    Politics of Development: Perspectives on Twentieth-Century Asia
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    0.00     · published 1989 · 2 editions
    The renowned political scientist Robert Scalapino …

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    The Asian American Century
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    3.08     · 13 Ratings · published 2002 · 4 editions
    Warren Cohen reviews the role of the United States…

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    The Chinese Overseas: From Earthbound China to the Quest for Autonomy
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    3.73     · 26 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 2000 · 8 editions
    The Chinese overseas now number 25 to 30 million, …

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    Lost Modernities: China, Vietnam, Korea, and the Hazards of World History
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    3.75     · 20 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2006 · 6 editions
    In Lost Modernities Alexander Woodside offers a pr…

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    Visible Cities: Canton, Nagasaki, and Batavia and the Coming of the Americans
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    3.38     · 26 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2008 · 6 editions
    The eighteenth century witnessed the rise of the C…

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    Articulating the Sinosphere: Sino-Japanese Relations in Space and Time
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    3.71     · 7 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2009 · 4 editions
    Joshua Fogel offers an incisive historical look at…

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    Cultivating Global Citizens: Population in the Rise of China
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    3.86     · 7 Ratings · published 2010 · 5 editions
    Current accounts of China’s global rise emphasize …

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    East Asian Development: Foundations and Strategies
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    4.05     · 20 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2013 · 7 editions
    In the early 1960s, fewer than five percent of Jap…

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    Empire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of China-Korea Relations
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    3.98     · 48 Ratings · 8 Reviews · 3 editions
    From an award-winning historian, a concise overvie…

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    The Borders of Chinese Architecture
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    An internationally acclaimed expert explains why C…

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