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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 March 2011
Before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the study of Eastern Asia occupied a marginal position in American education. Each crisis in the Far East, such as the Manchurian “incident” of 1931 and the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese conflict in 1937, had increased interest in China and Japan in American schools and among Americans at large, but even so the development of Far Eastern studies in the United States had been unimpressive. In general, the higher one rose in the school system of the United States the better chance one had of learning something about the peoples and cultures of Eastern Asia. In elementary and secondary schools the Far East was almost entirely overlooked; at the undergraduate level in colleges and universities there were a relatively few courses offered; in a few graduate schools it was possible to secure the M.A. or the Ph.D. with emphasis on some phase of Far Eastern studies.
1 Beginning with 1947 the quarterly issues of this bibliography are to be assembled, provided with an index, and issued as a separate annual volume entitled Far Eastern bibliography.
2 Among other important libraries should be mentioned those of the University of Washington. Clarcmont Colleges Oriental Library, Duke University, University of Michigan, University of Colorado, Vale University. New York Public Library, University of Pennsylvania, and Stanford University.
3 Other important museums include the Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, the University Museum, Philadelphia, he Art Institute. Chicago, the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Mass., the Cleveland Art Museum, the Toledo Art Museum, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Minneapolis Art Institute, the Seattle Art Museum, the Portland Art Museum, and the Museum of Historic Art, Princeton.
4 See Appendix, p. 133.
5 See Appendix, p. 133.
6 Prepared by Earl H. Pritchard and Meribeth E. Cameron.
7 Places giving advanced instruction in one or more Far Eastern languages as well as in several other fields such as history, government, geography, religion, art, etc., and granting advanced degrees.
8 Places having a well-developed program in one or more fields.
