NB! The students should choose readings from the below list that are relevant for their term paper.
Patricia Buckley Ebrey (Ed.): Chinese Civilization : A Sourcebook, 1993. Free Press. ISBN: 0-02-908752-x. p. 3-51, 64-69, 97-109, 142-164, 172-178, 205-208, 195-199, 256-263, 280-282, 297-301, 326-364, 401-411, 411-470, 496-501.
William Theodore De Bary (Ed.), Irene Bloom (Ed.), Joseph Adler: Sources of Chinese Tradition, Volume I (Introduction to Asian Civilizations), 2000. Columbia Univ. Press. Second edition; p. 24-213, 236-537, 568-639, 667-755, 841-874.
Kazuo Kasahara (ed.): A History of Japanese Religion, 2001. Tokyo: Kosei Publishing. 47-131, 227-285, 421-441, 495-525, 561-585.
Donald S. Lopez (ed.) : Buddhism in Practice, 1995. Princeton University Press. p. 39-87, 197-207, 228-241, 359-380, 427-455, 513-525, 553-563, 578-603.
Donald S. Lopez (ed.): Religions of China in Practice, 1996. Princeton University Press. p. 82-123, 203-223, 359-380, 390-397, 423-437.
Arif Dirlik: The Origins of Chinese Communism, 1989. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 0-19-505453-9. p. 19-121.
Yoshito S. Hakeda: The awakening of faith, 1967. Columbia Univ. Press. p.1-104.
Peter N. Gregory: Tsung-mi and the sinification of Buddhism, 2002. Princeton University Press. p. 206-223, 295-311.
Ian Reader, Esben Andreasen, Finn Stefansson: Japanese religions: Past and Present, 1993. University of Hawaii Press. p. 121-139.
Jonathan D. Spence: The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci, 1985. Faber. ISBN: 0-14-008098-8. p. xiii-xvi, 1-23, 128-200.
Charles E. Ronan and Bonnie B.C. Oh (ed.): East Meets West: The Jesuits in China, 1582-1773, 1988. Loyola University Press. ISBN: 0-8294-0572-0. p. 129-173.
D.Overmyer (ed.): Religion in China Today, 2003. Cambridge University Press.
Xue Yu: Buddhism, War and Nationalism: Chinese Monks in the Struggle against Japanese Aggressions, 1931-1945, 2005. Routledge. pp. 15-77, 136-150.