Browsing the "University of Oregon (e-Asia)" category: 101 books
Stories and Studies of Strange Things! Originally Published:Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1907.Free eBook with direct download. Courtesy of the University of Oregon e-Asia project. e-Asia strives to contribute to the research and scho ...more »
ISBN: OKWAIDAN / University of Oregon Library / Pub Date: Jan 1907 / File Size: 190K
Originally published: New York: Moffat, Yard, and Co., 1911. Be aware that the authenticity of this work has been challenged. See, for example: Trevor-Roper, Hugh. The Hermit of Peking (1976), chapter ten.Free eBook with direct downl ...more »
ISBN: ODERLING / University of Oregon Library / Pub Date: Jan 1911 / File Size: 965K
Among the first to die in the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor were the sailors manning the Japanese mini-subs that penetrated the harbor's defenses. This article provides brief biographies of the young sailors on a mission of no return. Appeared in: C ...more »
ISBN: O9HEROES / University of Oregon Library / Pub Date: Jan 1942 / File Size: 110K
Primarily a historical account of the considerable role that eunuchs played in Chinese history, but there is some cross-cultural perspective. This account contains Chinese characters; to read it properly, you will need to have a unicode font on your ...more »
ISBN: OEUNUCHS / University of Oregon Library / Pub Date: Jan 1877 / File Size: 145K
Published the month after "The Battle of Hawaii," this article expounds on the unprecedented victory at Pearl Harbor, the greatest of all sneak attack in the annals of naval warefare. Published in:Contemporary Japan, VOL> XI, no. 1 (January, 1942), ...more »
ISBN: OJVICTORY / University of Oregon Library / Pub Date: Jan 1942 / File Size: 159K
This brief biography of the scholar and noted international newspaper correspondent, Lee Chia, is testimony to the life of an extraordinary individual whose work covered an extraordinary period in world history.
As one of the most well ...more »
ISBN: OLEECHIA / University of Oregon Library / Pub Date: Oct 2002 / File Size: 771K
Written by the late Ming dynasty writer, Feng Menglong (1574-1645), Ping Yao Zhuan is, according to translator Nathan Sturman, one of the world's first pyschological novels. Sturman's translation is the first ever done of the Ping Yao Zhuan, and it ...more »
ISBN: OPYZ / University of Oregon Library / Pub Date: Jan 2000 / File Size: 630K
This is an extremely useful and easy-to-understand compilation of conversion tables between Chinese and Western calendars. Because of the nature of the original work, this compilation was digitized mostly as images; the file size of this book is rat ...more »
ISBN: OCALENDAR2 / University of Oregon Library / Pub Date: Jan 1953 / File Size: 7216K
The author begins with the observation that "Of all the nations of the world, America is the most interesting to the Chinese. Some of Wu's observations would today certainly strike us as odd; however, in the early 20th centruy, American views of Ch ...more »
ISBN: OAMERICA / University of Oregon Library / Pub Date: Jan 1914 / File Size: 283K
A February 2002 report by the U.S. Embassy, Beijing, detailing the Chinese practice of extracting bile from captive bears for traditional medicinal purposesFree eBook with direct download. Courtesy of the University of Oregon e-Asia pr ...more »
ISBN: OBEARBILE / University of Oregon Library / Pub Date: Jan 2002 / File Size: 134K
An (unfortunately) very brief but still useful article on the peculiarities of library development in Japan. Originally published in: The Japan Magazine, Vol. IX, no.9 (January, 1919), pp,476-477.Free eBook with direct download. Cour ...more »
ISBN: OJLIBS / University of Oregon Library / Pub Date: Jan 1919 / File Size: 105K
(December 30, 1948) Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung (Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1969), vol. IV, pp. 299-307.Free eBook with direct download. Courtesy of the University of Oregon e-Asia project. e-Asia strives to contribute to th ...more »
ISBN: OCARRYEND / University of Oregon Library / Pub Date: Jan 1967 / File Size: 117K
Published in 1928 for use by the Bureau of Immigration, this very large book (almost 15 MEG since it is composed primarily of chart images) is extremely useful. Very accurate since it was needed to verify the birth dates of immigrants.Fre ...more »
ISBN: OCALENDAR / University of Oregon Library / Pub Date: Jan 1928 / File Size: 14608K
Edith Wherry's journal was written while she was in Peking (Beijing) at the age of 15. This brief diary describes the life of a teenager in transition with some mention of foreign notables (Sir Robert Hart) in China. The original manuscript is held ...more »
ISBN: OWHERRY / University of Oregon Library / Pub Date: Jan 2001 / File Size: 971K
Originally published: Peiping: The War Area Services Corps, National Military Council, 1946. Part of a pamphlet series on China and things Chinese.Free eBook with direct download. Courtesy of the University of Oregon e-Asia project. ...more »
ISBN: OMODCHIPRE / University of Oregon Library / Pub Date: Jan 1946 / File Size: 116K
(February 5, 1949) Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung (Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1969), vol. IV, pp. 361-375.Free eBook with direct download. Courtesy of the University of Oregon e-Asia project. e-Asia strives to contribute to the ...more »
ISBN: OPEACECRIM / University of Oregon Library / Pub Date: Jan 1969 / File Size: 112K
(February 8, 1949) Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung (Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1969), vol. IV, pp. 337-339.Free eBook with direct download. Courtesy of the University of Oregon e-Asia project. e-Asia strives to contribute to the ...more »
ISBN: OARMYWORK / University of Oregon Library / Pub Date: Jan 1969 / File Size: 112K
(January 5, 1949) Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung (Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1969), vol. IV, pp. 309-313.Free eBook with direct download. Courtesy of the University of Oregon e-Asia project. e-Asia strives to contribute to the ...more »
ISBN: OSUING / University of Oregon Library / Pub Date: Jan 1967 / File Size: 113K
(January 28, 1949) Yasuji Okamura, Former Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Forces of Agression in China, and to Arrest the Kuomintang Civil War Criminals --- Statement by the Spokesman for the Communist Party of China. Selected Works of Mao Tse-tun ...more »
ISBN: OREARREST / University of Oregon Library / Pub Date: Jan 1969 / File Size: 116K
(November, 1948) Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung (Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1969), vol. IV, pp. 283-286.Free eBook with direct download. Courtesy of the University of Oregon e-Asia project. e-Asia strives to contribute to the r ...more »
ISBN: OWORLDAGG / University of Oregon Library / Pub Date: Jan 1967 / File Size: 112K
(December 17, 1948) Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung (Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1969), vol. IV, pp. 295-297.Free eBook with direct download. Courtesy of the University of Oregon e-Asia project. e-Asia strives to contribute to th ...more »
ISBN: OURGESUR / University of Oregon Library / Pub Date: Jan 1967 / File Size: 112K
(January 14, 1949) Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung (Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1969), vol. IV, pp. 305-313.Free eBook with direct download. Courtesy of the University of Oregon e-Asia project. e-Asia strives to contribute to the ...more »
ISBN: OSPS / University of Oregon Library / Pub Date: Jan 1969 / File Size: 113K
(November, 1948) Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung (Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1969), vol. IV, pp. 287-288.Free eBook with direct download. Courtesy of the University of Oregon e-Asia project. e-Asia strives to contribute to the r ...more »
ISBN: OMOMENTMIL / University of Oregon Library / Pub Date: Jan 1967 / File Size: 111K
(January 21, 1949) Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung (Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1969), vol. IV, pp. 321-323.Free eBook with direct download. Courtesy of the University of Oregon e-Asia project. e-Asia strives to contribute to the ...more »
ISBN: ORESNANKIN / University of Oregon Library / Pub Date: Jan 1969 / File Size: 111K
(February 15, 1949) Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung (Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1969), vol. IV, pp. 341-345.Free eBook with direct download. Courtesy of the University of Oregon e-Asia project. e-Asia strives to contribute to th ...more »
ISBN: OPEACECLAM / University of Oregon Library / Pub Date: Jan 1969 / File Size: 114K
