Harvard-Yenching Institute Publications

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Cover: A New History of Korea

A New History of Korea

Lee, Ki-baik
Wagner, Edward W.

One of the first, most widely-read and respected histories of Korea, Ki-baik Lee’s Han’guksa Sillon has been translated into English by Edward W. Wagner. A New History of Korea offers Western readers a distillation of the best scholarship on Korean history and culture from the earliest times to the student revolution of 1960.

Cover: Chinese-English Dictionary (A Chinese-English Dictionary Compiled for the China Inland Mission): Revised American Edition

Chinese-English Dictionary (A Chinese-English Dictionary Compiled for the China Inland Mission): Revised American Edition

Mathews, Robert Henry

This small but comprehensive dictionary contains 7,773 Chinese characters and 104,000 compounds taken from the classics, general literature, magazines, and newspapers.

The Magnificent Boat: The Colonial Theft of a South Seas Cultural Treasure, by Götz Aly, translated by Jefferson Chase, from Harvard University Press

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