East Asia - Recommended History and Religion E-Books

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Entire Region

  1. East Asia by Hugh Dyson Walker - 674 pages
  2. Across the Ussuri Kray by Vladimir K. Arsenyev & Jonathan C. Slaght - 488 pages
  3. The Shin Buddhist Classical Tradition by Alfred Bloom - 2,440 pages
  4. The Bodhisattva Path of Wisdom and Compassion (volume 2) by Chogyam Trungpa & Judith L. Lief - 528 pages

Central Asia and China

  1. The Monkey and the Monk by Anthony C. Yu (602-664 AD) - 511 pages
  2. Buddhism Between Tibet and China by Matthew Kapstein (618-2000 AD) - 480 pages

Entire Medieval China

  1. Zen's Chinese Heritage by Andrew Ferguson (400s-1200s AD) - 568 pages
  2. 'This Culture of Ours' by Peter Bol (600s-1100s AD) - 532 pages

Late Medieval China

  1. Historical Records of the Five Dynasties by Richard Davis (907-979 AD) - 752 pages
  2. The Reunification of China by Peter Lorge (960-1127 AD) - 497 pages
  3. The Origins of the Chinese Nation by Nicolas Tackett (960-1279 AD) - 562 pages
  4. The Water Margin by Shi Naian, J.H. Jackson & Edwin Lowe (960-1279 AD) - 848 pages
  5. The Blue Cliff Record by J. C. Cleary & Thomas Cleary (1100s AD) - 688 pages

Early Modern China

  1. Ming China and its Allies by David M. Robinson (1368-1644 AD) - 530 pages
  2. Enlightenment in Dispute by Jiang Wu (1600s AD) - 480 pages
  3. Conflict and Commerce in Maritime East Asia by Xing Hang (1620-1720 AD) - 582 pages
  4. The Qing Dynasty and Traditional Chinese Culture by Richard J. Smith (1636-1912 AD) - 560 pages
  5. Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin & H. Bencraft Joly (1791 AD) - 1,347 pages

General China

  1. The Book of Master Mo by Mo Zi & Ian Johnston (470-391 BC) - 512 pages
  2. The Making of a New Rural Order in South China: Volume 1 Joseph P. McDermott (900-1600 AD) - 772 pages

Korea

  1. A History of Korea by Jinwung Kim - 720 pages
  2. Korea: A History by Bong-youn Choy & Younghill Kang (57 BC-2000 AD) - 474 pages
  3. Epistolary Korea by JaHyun Kim Haboush (1392-1910 AD) - 464 pages
  4. Early Modern China and Northeast Asia by Evelyn S. Rawski - 650 pages
  5. Buddhist Transformations and Interactions: Essays in Honor of Antonino Forte by Victor H. Mair - 598 pages

Early Medieval Japan

  1. 1000 Poems from the Manyoshu by Anonymous (347 AD-759 AD) - 464 pages
  2. Nihongi by W. G. Aston (to 697 AD) - 880 pages
  3. The Kojiki by Basil Hall Chamberlain (700s AD) - 592 pages

Late Medieval Japan

  1. The Promise of Amida Buddha by Joji Atone & Yoko Hayashi (1133-1212 AD) - 504 pages
  2. Dogen's Extensive Record by Eihei Dogen, Taigen Dan Leighton, Shohaku Okumura, Tenshin Reb Anderson, John Daido Loori & Steven Heine (1200-1253 AD) - 824 pages

Early Modern Japan

  1. Okinawa:The History of an Island People by George H. Kerr & Mitsugu Sakihara (1314-2000 AD) - 592 pages
  2. A Cultural History of Translation in Early Modern Japan by Rebekah Clements (1600-1868 AD) - 478 pages
  3. Early Modern Japanese Literature by Haruo Shirane (1600-1900 AD) - 1,392 pages
  4. Poison Blossoms From a Thicket of Thorn by Norman Waddell & Hakuin Zenji (1686-1769 AD) - 608 pages