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1. Biographical Sources, Chronologies, Histories, and Atlases

• General
• China
• Japan
• Korea

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General

Chronologies in Old World Archaeology / edited by Robert W. Ehrich.
Widener WID-LC D54.5 .C48 1992

East Asia: The great tradition [by] Edwin O. Reischauer [and] John K. Fairbank.
Widener CH 189.60.20

East Asia, tradition & transformation / John K. Fairbank, Edwin O. Reischauer, Albert M. Craig.
Harvard-Yenching (W) DS511 .C73 1973
Widener WID-LC DS511 .F28 1978

The Encyclopedia of Asian History / prepared under the auspices of the Asia Society ; editor in chief, Ainslie T. Embree.
Widener RR3910.35

An Encyclopedia of World History : Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged / compiled and edited by William L. Langer.
Harvard-Yenching Ref (W) D21 .L27 1972
Widener H 39.40.15

The Far East and Australasia. Annual, 1969-
Harvard-Yenching (W) DS1 .F3 Latest Reading Room
Widener RR 4201.10.5 Latest

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China

Biographical dictionary of Republican China. Howard L. Boorman, editor; Richard C. Howard, associate editor.
Harvard-Yenching Ref (W) DS778.A1 B5
Harvard-Yenching (W) DS778.A1 B5
Widener Ch 153.910

The Cambridge History of Ancient China : from the origins of civilization to 221 B.C. / edited by Michael Loewe and Edward L. Shaughnessy.
Widener WID-LC DS741.5 .C35 1999

The Cambridge history of China / general editors, Denis Twitchett and John K. Fairbank.
Harvard-Yenching Ref (W) DS735 .C3145
Harvard-Yenching (W) DS735 .C3145
Widener WID-LC DS735 .C3145

China : a New history / John King Fairbank and Merle Goldman.
Harvard-Yenching (W) DS735 .F27 1998
Widener WID-LC DS735 .F27 1998

China : a Provincial Atlas / Chiao-min Hsieh, Jean Kan Hsieh.
Map Coll (Pusey) MAP-LC G2305 .H84 1995 F

China Historical GIS: a database of populated places and historical administrative units for the period of Chinese history between 222 BCE and 1911 CE.

Chinese history : a manual / Endymion Wilkinson.
Widener RR 3944.4.5

Cultural atlas of China / by Caroline Blunden and Mark Elvin.
Widener WID-LC DS721 .B56 1983b F

Dictionary of Ming biography, 1368-1644 / the Ming Biographical History Project of the Association for Asian Studies ; L. Carrington Goodrich, editor, Chaoying Fang, associate editor.
Harvard-Yenching Ref (W) DS753.5 .A84 1976
Harvard-Yenching (W) DS753.5 .A84 1976
Widener Ch 247.7 Holdings Availability

Eminent Chinese of the Ch’ing period (1644-1912) / The Library of Congress ; edited by Arthur W. Hummel.
Harvard-Yenching Ref (W) DS734 .U65
Harvard-Yenching (W) DS734 .U65 1964x
Widener Ch 68.10

An Historical Atlas of China, by Albert Herrmann.
Harvard-Yenching Ref (W) G2306.S1 H4 1966
Widener RR4047.792.5

Modern China : a chronology from 1842 to the present / Colin Mackerras, with the assistance of Robert Chan.
Widener WID-LC DS755 .M2 1982

Rulers of China, 221 B.C.- A.D. 1949; chronological tables. With an introductory section on the earlier rulers c. 2100-249 B.C. by W. Perceval Yetts.
Widener Ch 189.57 F

The United States and China / John King Fairbank.
Harvard-Yenching (W) DS735 .F3 1983
Widener WID-LC DS735 .F3 1983

Who's who in the People's Republic of China = Chung-hua jen min kung ho kuo jen ming lu.
Widener RR1658.4F Latest

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Japan

Chronology of Japan = [Nihon no rekishi] / edited by Toshiya Torao, Delmer M. Brown.
Widener WID-LC DS833 .C48 1987

Comparative chronological tables : of Japanese and European history.
Widener Educ 622.1.7

Concise dictionary of modern Japanese history / compiled by Janet Hunter.
Widener WID-LC DS881.9 .H86 1984

Cultural atlas of Japan / by Martin Collcutt, Marius Jansen, and Isao Kumakura.
Widener WID-LC DS821 .C62 1988b F

Japanese studies from pre-History to 1990 : a bibliographical guide / compiled by Richard Perren.
Widener RR3950.3

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Korea

Historical dictionary of North Korea / Ilpyong J. Kim.
Widener WID-LC DS933.7 .K55 2003

Historical dictionary of the Republic of Korea / by Andrew C. Nahm.
Widener WID-LC DS909 .N34 1993

A history of Korean civilization.
Widener WID-LC DS904 .J58

Korea : a historical and cultural dictionary / by Keith Pratt and Richard Rutt ; with additional material by James Hoare.
Widener RR 3952.32

Sourcebook of Korean civilization / edited by Peter H. Lee ; with Donald Baker ... [et al.].
Widener WID-LC DS904 .S68 1993