第二部分进一步阅读书目(第4/6页)
历史学家对欧亚草原西部的论述则要好得多。M.I.Rostovtseff,Iranians and Greeks in South Russia(Oxford,1922)和Tamara Talbot Rice,The Scythians(London,1957)在第一部分进一步阅读书目中已经提及。Mortimer Wheeler,Rome beyond the Imperial Frontiers(New York,1955);E.A.Thompson,A History of Attila and the Huns(Oxford,1948);Otto Maenchen-Helfen,The World of the Huns(Berkeley,1973);和D.M.Dunlop,The History of the Jewish Khazars(Princeton,1954)不仅非常完满地论述了欧亚草原历史上的每个重要阶段,并论述了它与欧洲的关系。R.A.Stein,Tibetan Civilization(trans.Stanford,1972),是对这个主题的标准论述。关于蒙古,以下两部著作尤为出色:H.Desmond Martin,The Rise of Chings Khan and His Conquest of North China,ed.Elianor Lattimore(Baltimore,1950);和Christopher Dawson,ed.,The Mongol Mission(London and New York,1955)。Michael Prawdin(pseud.For Michael Charol),The Mongol Empire:Its Rise and Legacy(London,1940),是一部可读性强但缺乏事实证明的著作。
印度和东南亚。A.L.Basham,The Wonder That Was India,rev.ed.(New York,1963),是对印度文明最好的简介。近年的概论是Stanley Wolpert,A New History of India(New York,1977)。K.A.Nilakanta Sastri,A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar, 3rded.(Madras,1966),和E.H.Warmington,Commerce between the Roman Empire and India(Cambridge,1928),为地中海与印度洋世界互动关系提供了有趣的数据。
关于印度思想和文学,标准的著作是:Surendranath Dasgupta,A History of Indian Philosophy,5 vols.(Cambridge,1932~1955);A.B.Keith,A History of Sanskrit Literature(London,1928);和A.B.Keith,The Sanskrit Drama in Its Origin,Development,Theory,and Practice(Oxford,1924)。印度艺术被下列著作很好地论述了:Heinrich Zimmer and Joseph Campbell,The Art of India Asia,2 vols.(New York,1955);Benjamin Rowland,The Art and Architecture of India(Penguin,1953);和Calambur Sivaramamurti,The Art of India(New York,1977)。在可以得到的印度文学译本中,V.R.R.Dikshitar,ed.and tr.,The Lay of the Anklet(Silappadikāram)(Oxford,1939);Johannes A.B.van Buitenen,Tales of Ancient India(Chicago,1959);Franklin Edgerton,ed.and tr.,The Bhagavad Gita,translated and interpreted(Harvard Oriental Series,Cambridge,Mass.,1944);和N.A.Nikam and Richard P.McKeon,eds.and trs.,The Edicts of Ashoka(Chicago,1958)都是特别有趣的。Johannes van Buitenen的重要翻译多卷本Mahabharata(Chicago,1973~)在第一部分进一步阅读书目说明中已经提及。两部杰出的著作对印度宗教提供了很好的介绍:Robert C.Zaehner,Hinduism(Oxford,1966)和Mircea Eliade,Yoga:Immorality and Freedom,2nd ed.rev.(Princeton,1969)。
东南亚历史可参阅以下著作:D.G.E.Hall,A History of Southeast Asia(New York,1955);John F.Cady,Southeast Asia:Its Historical Development(New York,1964);H.G.Quaritch Wales,The Making of Greater India:A Study in Southeast Asian Culture Change(London,1950);J.C.van Leur,Indonesian Trade and Society(The Hague,1955);B.H.M.Vlekke,Nusantara:A History of the East Indian Archipelago(Cambridge,Mass.,1943);和G.Coedes,The Indianized State of Southeast Asia,trans.(Honolulu,1968)。
远东。L.C.Goodrich,A Short History of the Chinese People,3rded.(New York,1959)和Charles O.Hucker,Chinas Imperial Past(Stanford,1975)是很好的中国通史著作。George B.Sansom, Japan:A Short Cultural History (New York,1962)和John Hall,Japan:From Prehistory to Modern Times(New York,1970)也是很好的日本通史著作。关于朝鲜,M.Frederick Nelson,Korea and the Old Orders in Eastern Asia(Boston,Rouge,1945);Homer B.Hulbert,The History of Korea,rev.ed.by C.M.Weems,2 vols.(Hillary,N.Y.,n.d.;first published,Seoul,1905);和Woo-Kuen Han,The History of Korea(Seoul,1970)可以参阅。E.O.Reischauer,John K.Fairbank,and Albert Craig,East Asia:Tradition and Transformation(Boston,1973)从整体上论述远东历史。