China

General works

Denis Twitchett and John K. Fairbank (eds.), The Cambridge History of China (1978– ), is the standard multivolume reference for Chinese history. The following are comprehensive works in their fields: John K. Fairbank and Merle Goldman, China: A New History, 2nd enlarged ed. (2006), a magisterial survey, offering new ideas from many of the dissertations Fairbanks advised; Jacques Gernet, A History of Chinese Civilization, 2nd ed. (1999; originally published in French, 1972), a detailed survey of China’s intellectual, social, and economic history from the neolithic cultures up to the late 20th century; Charles O. Hucker, China’s Imperial Past: An Introduction to Chinese History and Culture (1975), to 1850; and F.W. Mote, Imperial China, 900–1800 (1999), covering nearly a millennium. Also useful are Edwin Pak-wah Leung (ed.), Historical Dictionary of Revolutionary China, 1839–1976 (1992); and Lawrence R. Sullivan, Historical Dictionary of the People’s Republic of China, 2nd ed. (2007).