Edwin Reischauer '27  &  Haru Matsukata Reischauer '33    Bibliography
                                       

    
              Authors:    A    B    C-D    E-G    H-K    L    M-O    P-R    S-Z      Biography


           

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edwin Reischauer:

(Translator) Ennin's Diary: The Record of a Pilgrimage to China. Ronald Press, 1955. 
A translation of a trip to T'ang China taken by a Japanese monk. 

(with John K. Fairbank) East Asia: The Great Tradition.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1960. 
A history of East Asian civilization that examines China, Japan and Korea from early times to the first half of the 19th century (Vol. 1). 

Japan, Past and Present. Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing, 1964. 
A popular introduction to Japan. 

(with John K. Fairbank and Albert M.Craig)  East Asia: The Modern Transfor-
mation
. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965. 
The history of East Asia from the mid-19th century (Vol. 2). 

Beyond Vietnam: The United States and Asia. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968. 
A book suggesting that the war in Vietnam was a symptom of an underlying problem in American foreign policy - that the U.S. failed to understand Asia and its point-of-view. 

Transpacific Relations. Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing, 1968. 
 
One of the first books to point to the importance of America's relationship with countries on the other side of the Pacific. 

Japan: The Story of a Nation.  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970. 
An expanded version of Japan, Past and Present

(Translator, with Joseph Yamagiwa) Translations from Early Japanese 
Literature
. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972. 
Includes translations of The Izayoi Nikki, The Tsutsumi Chunagon Monogatari, The Okagami, and The Heiji Momogatari

(with John K. Fairbank and 
Albert M. Craig)  East Asia: Tradition and Transformation.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973. A reworking, updating and condensing of the previous two volumes of the history of East Asian civilization. 

Toward the Twenty-First Century: Education for a Changing World.  New 
York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973. 

The Japanese. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977. 
A portrait of the Japanese including culture, background, and the values of the country.

My Life between Japan and America. New York: Harper and Row, 1986. 
Autobiography. 

The Japanese Today: Change and Continuity. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1988. 
A picture of Japan in the late 20th century. 

The United States and Japan.  A useful introduction to Japanese/American relations. 

Haru Matsukata Reischauer:

Samurai and Silk: A Japanese and American Heritage. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1986. The author writes about her grandparents. 

 

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