The Chan's Great Continent
Below is a sampling of the wide range of sources (people and titles) cited in The Chan's Great Continent, a book that relies solely on non-Chinese language primary documents to analyze East Asian History. It is a good example of how this type of research can take you into every imaginable discipline and time era. Unfortunately, the book does not include a bibliography, which is why I've compiled the list below. If you're looking for a particular name, use Ctrl-F. (The page number where the reference occurs is in parenthesis.)
- William Rubruck (1)
- Marco Polo (3)
- The Romance of Bauduin de Sebaurc, Third King of Jerusalem
- Christopher Columbus' Notes (esp. about Prestor John)
- Galeote Pereira (20)
- Magellen
- Vasco da Gamma
- Jesuits in China
- Gaspar da Cruz in 1556 (24)
- Mandeville (27)
- Pinto (28)
- Tome Pires (31)
- Matteo Ricci (31)
- Navareette (37, 40)
- Mendoza (41)
- Martini (41)
- Portuguese and Dutch Embassies to Asia
- Russians, John Bell (44)
- This was the first time that idleness and effeminacy were used to describe Chinese people
- George Anson, 1743 (51)
- Macartney (56)
- History written by Jean du Halde, Catherine the Great (56)
- John Evelyn (63)
- Godwin and Milton mention China in their literature (64)
- John Webb, Shen Fu-tsung, A Midsummer Night's Dream (65)
- Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (66)
- John Mandeville (71)
- Oliver Goldsmith (72)
- Jean du Halde (74)
- John Bell (79)
- Horace Walpole (79)
- Leibniz, Novissima Sinica (Latest News from China) (82, 83)
- Montesquieu (88)
- Spirit of Laws (92)
- Volaire (95)
- Herder (99)
- Austin (101)
- Medhurst, Sophia, Gillett (104)
- Carlo Gozzi (105)
- Jane Edkins (109)
- Mary Crawford Fraser (114)
- Sarah Conger (115)
- Eva Jane Price (118)
- Charles Price (122)
- Bret Harte and Mark Twain (123)
- Parsloe/Campbell (137)
- Genthe's Photographs (138)
- Doyle (139)
- Rohmer, Fu Manchu - 'Universal Empire'; 'Yellow Peril' (140)
- Jack London (141)
- United States Supreme Court: Yick Wo v. Hopkins, 1886 (144)
- Louis XIV invested heavily in Missionaries to China (145)
- Chinoiserie (146)
- Giquel (146)
- Flaubert (147)
- Pierre Loti, Julien Viaud (148)
- Paul Claudel (153)
- Segalen (156)
- Chavannes (157)
- Introduces The Exotic: Passionate, Aesthetic, Melancholy, Violent
- China is presented as an adventure ground, where foreigners can play (163)
- Griffith - Broken Blossoms, film, De Mille, Olcutt (166)
- Burke (167)
- Ezra Pound (168)
- de Mailla (The Comprehensive Mirror) (169)
- O'Neill (175)
- Pearl buck (180)
- Finney (183)
- Yellow Peril (185)
- Steinbeck (185)
- Malraux (188)
- Edgar Snow (198)
- Brecht (199)
- Graham Peck (203)
- Wittfogel (207)
- Herter, Smith, Hegel (210)
- Weber, Spengler (211)
- Oriental Despotism (213)
- Nixon, Kissinger (218)
- Levi (222)
- Kafka, Borges, Calvino (226)
Research Guides to Chinese Newspapers
Western Language Periodicals on China (A selective list), by Richard Walker. New Haven, Institute of Far Eastern Languages, ale University, 1949. Provides a bibliography of newspapers published in China.
The Cambridge History of Modern China,Vol. 12 ed. John K. Fairbank. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [DS 735 C3145 V.12]. Pg. 834 provides a list of English Language Newspapers after 1911. Most are unavailable in the Tri-Co library system.
A research Guide to China-coast newspapers, 1822-1911, by Frank H. H King editor, and Prescott Clarke. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1965.