China

Modern & Contemporary Art & Visual Media

  • “Art of the Chinese Diaspora.” Special issue of Art of AsiaPacific 1, no. 2 (1994).
  • Calendar Posters of the Modern Chinese Woman 1910s-1930s. Hong Kong: Joint Publishing Co., 1994.
  • Andrews, Julia F. and Kuiyi Shen. The Art of Modern China. University of California Press, 2012.
  • Andrews, Julia F. A Century in Crisis: Modernity and Tradition in the Art of Twentieth-Century China. New York: Guggenheim Museum, 1998.
  • Andrews, Julia F., Painters and Politics in the People’s Republic of China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
  • Andrews, Julia F., and Gao Minglu. “The Avant-Garde’s Challenge to Official Art.” In Urban Spaces: Autonomy and Community in Contemporary China, ed. Deborah Davis et al. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995, pp. 221-78.
  • Barmé, Geremie, ed. Shades of Mao: The Posthumous Cult of the Great Leader. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1996.
  • Berry, Chris, ed.Perspectives on Chinese Cinema. London: BFI, 1991.
  • Cai, Guo,Qiang: Flying Dragon in the Heavens. Humlebaek, Denmark: Louisiana Museum, 1997.
  • Chang, Arnold,Painting in the People’s Republic of China: The Politics of Style. Boulder: Westview Press, 1980.
  • Chang, Tsong-zung et al.Quotation Marks: Contemporary Chinese Paintings. Singapore: Singapore Art Museum, 1997.
  • Chang, Tsong-zung.Man and Earth: Contemporary Paintings from Taiwan. Denver: Asian Art Coordinating Council, 1994.China’s New Art, Post-1989. Hong Kong: Hanart T Z Gallery, 1993.
  • Clark, John A. Modernities of Chinese Art. Leiden: Brill, 2010.
  • Clark, John.“Problems of Modernity in Chinese Painting.”Oriental Art, new series, vol. 32, no. 3 (1986): 270-283.
  • Clunas, Craig. Art in China. Oxford University Press, 2009.
  • Cohen, Joan Lebold.The New Chinese Painting, 1949-1986. New York: Abrams, 1987.
  • Cohen, Myron.“Cultural and Political Inventions in Modern China: The Case of the Chinese Peasant.” Daedalus122, no. 2 (1993), pp. 151-70.
  • Croizier, Ralph.Art and Revolution in Modern China: The Lingnan (Cantonese) School of Painting, 1906-1951. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.
  • Dai, Jinhua.“Redemption and Consumption: Depicting Culture in the 1990s.” Positions4, no. 1 (1996), pp. 127-43.
  • Friedman, Edward.Democracy and “Mao Fever”. Journal of Contemporary China6 (Summer 1994), pp. 84-95.
  • Fu, Shen.Challenging the Past: The Paintings of Chang Dai-chien. Washington, D.C.: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 1991.
  • Galikowski, Maria.Art and Politics in China 1949-1984. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 1998.
  • Gao, Minglu, ed.Inside Out: New Chinese Art (catalog). Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.
  • Gao, Minglu. “Chronology of Chinese Avant-Garde Art, 1979-1993.” In Fragmented Memory: The Chinese Avant-Garde in Exile. Columbus, Ohio: Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, 1993. Pp. 14-19.
  • Rolf. Chinese Animation: A History and Filmography, 1922-2012. Illustrated by Bryn Barnard, 2015.
  • Groom, Simon and Karen Smith. The Real Thing: Contemporary Art from China. London: Tate, 2007.
  • Hearn, Maxwell K. and Judith G. Smith, eds. Chinese Art: Modern Expressions. New York: Department of Asian Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001.
  • Hou, Hanru. “Beyond the Cynical.” Art and Asia Pacific3, no. 1 (1996).
  • Hou, Hanru. “Towards an “Un-Unofficial Art”: De-Ideologicalisation of China’s Contemporary Art in the 1990s.”Third Text, no. 34 (Spring 1996), pp. 37-52.
  • Hou, Hanru and Hans Ulrich Obrist, eds. Cities on the Move(catalog). Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany: Verlag Gerd Hatje, 1997.
  • Hung, Wu. Zooming In: Histories of Photography in China.London:Reaktion Boods Ltd. Distributed in the USA by the University of Chicago Press, 2016.
  • Hung, Wu, ed. Tenth-century China and Beyond: Art and Visual Culture in a Multi-centered Age. Chicago: Art Media Resources, Inc. 2013.
  • Hung, Wu. A Story of Ruins, Presence and Absence in Chinese Art and Visual Culture. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012.
  • Hung, Wu and Peggy Wang, eds. Contemporary Chinese Art: Primary Documents (MoMA Primary Documents). Duke University Press, 2010.
  • Hung, Wu. Body and Face in Chinese Visual Culture. Harvard University Asia Center, Harvard University Press, 2005.
  • Hung, Wu. Making History: Wu Hung on Contemporary Art. Hong Kong: Timezone 8, 2008.
  • Karetzky, Patricia Eichenbaum. Chinese Religious Art. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2014.
  • Kao, Mayching, ed. Twentieth-Century Chinese Painting. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1988.
  • Kraus, Richard. Brushes with Power: Modern Politics and Chinese Art of Calligraphy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.
  • Laikwan Pang, Building a New China in Cinema: The Chinese Left-Wing Cinema Movement, 1932-1937, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc 2002.
  • Laing, Ellen Johnston.“Chinese Peasant Painting, 1958-1976: Amateur and Professional.” Art International27, no. 1 (January-March 1984), pp. 1-12.
  • Laing, Ellen Johnston.An Index to Reproductions of Paintings by Twentieth-Century Chinese Artists. Eugene: University of Oregon Asian Studies Program, Publication no. 6, 1984.
  • Laing, Ellen Johnston.The Winking Owl: Art in the People’s Republic of China. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1988.
  • Landsberger, Stefan.Chinese Propoganda Posters, from Revolution to Modernization. New York: M. E. Sharpe, 1995.
  • Li, Chu-tsing.Trends in Modern Chinese Painting (The C.A. Drenowatz Collection). Ascona: Artibus Asiae Supplementum 36, 1979.
  • Lu, Peng. A History of Art in 20th-century China. Milano: Charta, 2010.
  • Ma, Alexandra. “These Vintage Propaganda Posters Show a Past China Wants to Ignore,” Huffington Post, May 5, 2016. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/china-vintage-cultural-revolution-posters_us_5739f4f1e4b060aa781acf74
  • Powell, Patricia and Joseph Wang, “Propaganda Posters from the Chinese Cultural Revolution.” The Historian. 59 (June 1997). Pp. 777-794.
  • Smith, Karen. Nine Lives: The Birth of Avant-Garde Art in New China. China, Timezone 8, 2008.
  • Sullivan, Michael. Modern Chinese Artists: A Biographical Dictionary. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006.
  • Sullivan, Michael.“New Directions in Chinese Art.” Art International, vol. 25 (1982), pp. 40-58.
  • Silbergeld, Jerome, with Gong Jisui.Contradictions: Artistic Life, the Socialist State, and the Chinese Painter Li Huasheng. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1993.
  • Sullivan, Michael.Art and Artists of Twentieth-Century China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.
  • Szeemann, Harald.“Interview: Ai Weiwei on CCAA, Identity and His Recent Conceptual Work,” ‘Chinese Type’ Contemporary Art Online Magazine, vol. 1, issue 6 (January 1999).
  • Tang, Xiaobing. Visual Culture in Contemporary China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
  • Tseng, Yu-ho.Some Contemporary Elements in Classical Chinese Art. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1963.
  • Wang, Meiqin. Urbanization and Contemporary Chinese Art. Routledge, 2016.
  • Wang, Yuejin.“Anxiety of Portraiture: Quest for/Questioning Ancestral Icons in Post-Mao China.” In Politics, Ideology, and Literary Discourse in Modern China, ed. Liu Kang and Xiaobing Tang (Durham: Duke University Press, 1993).
  • Widmer, Ellen, and David Der-Wei Wang.From May Fourth to June Fourth: Fiction and Film in Twentieth-Century China. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1993.
    Wu, Hung. ‘Tiananmen Square: A Political History of Monuments.’ Representations 35 (Summer 1991), pp. 84-117.

General/ Chinese Art History / Calligraphy

  • Bagley, Robert (ed.), Ancient Sichuan: Treasures from a Lost Civilization, Princeton University Press, 2001.
  • Barnhart, Richard. Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting. New Haven: Yale University Press; Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1997.
  • Barnhart, Richard, et al. Painters of the Great Ming: The Imperial Court and Zhe School. Dallas Museum of Art, 1993.
  • Blunden, Caroline, and Mark Elvin, The Cultural Atlas of the World: China, Time-Life Books, 1990
  • Bussagli, Mario, Central Asian Painting, Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 1979
  • Brown, Claudia. Great Qing: Painting in China, 1644-1911. University of Washington Press, 2014.
  • Cahill, James, Chinese Painting, Editions d’Art, 1995
  • Cahill, James. Hills Beyond a River: Chinese Painting of the Yuan Dynasty, 1279-1368. New York: Weatherhill, 1976.
  • Cahill, James. Distant Mountains: Chinese Paintings of the Late Ming Dynasty, 1570-1644. New York: Weatherhill, 1982.
  • Cahill, James. An Index of Early Chinese Painters and Paintings. Floating World Editions, 2003.
  • Chang, Joseph Y. and Qianshen Bai. In Pursuit of Heavenly Harmony: Paintings and Calligraphy by Bada Shanren. Freer Gallery of Art, in association with Weatherhill, 2003.
  • Clunas, Craig. Ming 50 years that changed China. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2014.
  • Clunas, Craig. Screen of Kings Royal Art and Power in Ming China. London: Reaktion Books Ltd., 2013.
  • Clunas, Craig. Empire of Great Brightness, Visual and Material Culture of Ming China, 1368-1644. University of Hawaii Press, 2007.
  • Ellsworth, Robert H. Later Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, 1800-1950.
  • Fang Jing Pei, Symbols and Rebuses in Chinese Art, Ten Speed Press, 2004
  • Hearn, Maxwell K. How to Read Chinese Paintings. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008.
  • Hearn, Maxwell K., Splendors of Imperial China: Treasures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1996
  • Hou-mei, Sung. Decoded Messages: The Symbolic Language of Chinese Animal Painting. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009.
  • Howard, Angela Falco; Wu Hung; Li Song; and Yang Hong;Chinese Sculpture, Yale University Press, 2006
  • Kleutghen, Kristina. Imperial Illusions, Crossing Pictorial Boundaries in the Qing Palaces. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2015.
  • Lee, Sherman E., ed. Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981.
  • Li Zhiguo, The Grotto Art of Yungang, 2008.
  • Li, Song, Weinuo Jin, Yongnian Xue, Guoqian Shan. A History of Chinese Art. Cambridge University Press, 2016.
  • Little, Stephen, Taoism And The Arts Of China, Art Institute of Chicago, 2000.
  • Loeher, Max. The Great Painters of China. Oxford: Phaidon, 1980.
  • Masterpieces of Chinese and Japanese Art, Freer Gallery of Art, 1976.
  • McCausland, Shane. The Mongol Century, Visual Cultures of Yuan China, 1271-1368. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2015.
  • Meyer, Karl E. and Shareen Blair Brysac. The China Collectors. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
  • “Nature in Chinese Culture”: https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/cnat/hd_cnat.htm
  • Ortiz, Valerie M. Dreaming the Southern Song Landscape. Leiden: Brill, 1999.
  • Pearlstein, E. L., et al, Asian Art In The Art Institute Of Chicago, The Art Institute Of Chicago, 1993.
  • Powers, Martin J. and Katherine R. Tsiang, eds. A Companion to Chinese Art. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2015.
  • Smith, Caron, et. al., Raging Thunder: Tomb Treasures From Ancient China, San Diego Museum of Art, 1999.
  • Spence, Jonathan D., Emperor Of China: Self-Portrait Of Kang-Hsi, Vintage Books, 1988.
  • Steuber, Jason. China: 3000 years of Art and Literature. New York: Welcome Books, 2007.
  • Steuber, Jason, ed. and Guolong Lai. Collectors, Collections, and Collecting the Arts of China. Gainseville: University Press of Florida, 2014.
  • Sullivan, Michael. The Arts of China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008.
  • Thorp, R. L., and Vinograd, R. E., Chinese Art & Culture, Prentice Hall and Harry N. Abrams, 2001
  • Thorp, R. L., Son Of Heaven: Imperial Arts Of China, Son Of Heaven Press, 1988.
  • Treasures From A Swallow Garden: Arthur M. Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology, Peking University, Cultural Relics Publishing House, 1
  • Wang Yao-t’ing, Looking At Chinese Painting, Nigensha Publishing Company, 1996.
  • Welch, Patricia Bjaaland. Chinese Art: A Guide to Motifs and Visual Imagery. Tuttle Publishing, 2013. Portions of book available on Google Books here: https://books.google.com/books?id=dAPQAgAAQBAJ&dq=symbolism+in+chinese+buddhist+art&source=gbs_navlinks_s
  • Williams, C.A.S. Chinese Symbolism and Art Motifs: A Comprehensive Handbook on Symbolism in Chinese Art through the Ages. Tuttle Publishing, 2012. Most of the book available to read on Google Books here: https://books.google.com/books?id=xwnRAgAAQBAJ&dq=symbolism+in+chinese+buddhist+art&source=gbs_navlinks_s
  • Wu, Hung. The Double Screen: Medium and Representation in Chinese Painting. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
  • Yang, Xiaoneng. Tracing the Past, Drawing the Future: Master Ink Painters in Twentieth-Century China. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2010.
  • Yang Xin et. al., Three Thousand Years Of Chinese Painting, Yale University Press, 1997
  • Zhang, Hongxing. Masterpieces of Chinese Painting 700-1900. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2013.

China Buddhism and Buddhist Art

  • Abe Stanley K. “Art and Practice in a Fifth-Century Chinese Buddhist Cave Temple.” Ars Orientalis, Vol. 20 (1990), pp. 1-31.
  • Abe, Stanley K. “Provenance, Patronage, and Desire: Northern Wei Sculpture from Shaanxi Province.” Ars Orientalis 31 (2001): 1-30.
  • Abe, Stanley K. Ordinary Images. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.
  • Bai, Su.; Brinker, Helmut; Mayer, Alexander L.; Nickel, Lukas; Zonghu, Zhang. The Return of the Buddha, Chinese Buddhist Sculpture: New Discoveries from Quingzhou, Shandong Province. New York: Harry N. Abrams Incorporated, 2002.
  • Baker, Ian. The heart of the world:A Journey to the Last Secret Place. New York: Penguin, 2004.
  • Baker, The flowering of a foreign faith: new studies in Chinese Buddhist art.
  • New Delhi : Marg Publication, 1998.
  • Banerjee, Anukul C. Studies in Chinese Buddhism.Columbia, MO: South Asia Books, 1977.
  • Beal, Samuel. Buddhist literature in China.Livingston, NJ: Orient Book Distributors, 1987.
  • Beal, Samuel. Buddhism in China.North Stratford, NH: Ayer Company Publishers, Incorporated, 1977.
  • Benn, James A. Burning for the Buddha:Self-immolation in Chinese Buddhism. Studies in East Asian Buddhism. Honolulu, HI.: University of Hawai’i Press, 2007.
  • Berger, Patricia Ann. Empire of emptiness: Buddhist Art and Political Authority in Qing China. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2003.
  • Bishop, Peter. Dreams of power:Tibetan Buddhism, Western Imagination. Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1993.
  • Blofeld, John E. The jewel in the Lotus:Outline of Present Day Buddhism in China. Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1986.
  • Brauen, Martin. Mandala: Sacred Circle in Tibetan Buddhism. New York: Rubin Museum of Art, Stuttgart: Arnoldsche Art Publishers, 2009.
  • Brook, Timothy. Praying for power:Buddhism and the Formation of Gentry Society in Late-Ming China. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994.
  • Brown, Mick. The Dance of 17 lives:The Incredible True Story of Tibet’s 17th Karmapa. New York: Bloomsbury, 2004.
  • Bryant, Barry. The Wheel of Time, Sand Mandala:Visual Scripture of Tibet. (ed. Dalai Lama, H. H.; contr. Monastery, Namgyal). San Francisco, CA: Harper San Francisco, 1993.
  • Buddhism in the Sung.(ed. Gregory, Peter N.). Studies in East Asian Buddhism, Vol. 13. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1999.
  • Buddhist and Taoist Practice in Medieval Chinese Society:Buddhist and Taoist Studies II. (ed. Chappell, David W.). Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai’i Press, 1987.
  • Buddhist studies in the People’s Republic of China, 1990-1991.(ed. trans. Saso, Michael R.). Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai’i Press, 1993.
  • The Buddhist tradition:In India, China and Japan.(ed. De Bary, William T.). New York: Random House, Incorporated, 1972.
  • Caswell, James O. Written and Unwritten: A New History of the Buddhist Caves at Yungang. Vancouver: University of British Columbia, 1988.
  • Ch’en, Kenneth. Buddhism in China: AHistorical Survey. 1. Studies in History of Religion. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1974.
  • Chan Buddhism in Ritual Context.(ed. Faure, Bernard). RoutledgeCurzon studies in Asian religion. London; New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.
  • Chan, Sin-wai. Buddhism in Late Ch’ing Political Thought.Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 1985.
  • Chen, Huaiyu. The Revival of Buddhist Monasticism in Medieval China.New York: Peter Lang, 2007.
  • Chhaya, Mayank. Dalai Lama:Man, Monk, Mystic. Doubleday, New York: 2007.
  • Chou, Wen-shing. Mount Wutai: Visions of a Sacred Buddhist Mountain. Princeton University Press, 2018.
  • Cole, R. Alan. Mothers and Sons in Chinese Buddhism.Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998.
  • Collins, Sharon. To the Light:A Journey through Buddhist Asia. New York: W.W. Norton, 2003.
  • Cuevas, Bryan J. The Buddhist Dead:Practices, Discourses, Representations. HI: University of Hawai’i Press, 2007.
  • Duan, Wenjie (TUAN Wen-chieh). Dunhuang art through the eyes of Duan Wenjie. Translated by Tan Chung. New Delhi: Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts and Abhinav Publications, 1994.
  • Fraser, Sarah E. Performing the Visual: the Practice of Buddhist Wall Painting in China and Central Asia, 618-960. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004.
  • Frederic, Louis, Buddhism: Flammarion Iconographic Guides, Paris, 1995.
  • Gernet, Jacques. Buddhism in Chinese Society: an economic history from the fifth to the tenth centuries. Translated by Franciscus Verellen. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995.
  • Gethin, Rupert. The Foundations of Buddhism. Oxford University Press, 1998.
  • Howard, Angela. “Buddhist Cave Sculpture of the Northern Qi Dynasty: Shaping a New Style, Formulating New Iconographies.” Archives of Asian Art XLIX (1996), pp. 7-25.
  • Howard, Angela. The imagery of the Cosmological Buddha. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1986.
  • Howard, Angela Falco, Summit of Treasures: Buddhist Cave Art of Dazu, China, Weatherhill, 2001
  • Hsu, Eileen Hsiang-ling. “Visualization Meditation and the Siwei Icon in Chinese Buddhist Sculpture.” Artibus Asiae 62(1) (2002): 5-32.
  • Hsu, Eileen Hsiang-ling. “The Sengchou Cave and Early Imagery of Sukhavati.” Artibus Asiae, Vol. 71, No. 2 (2011), pp. 283-323.
  • Juliano, Annette L. and Judith Lerner. “The Miho Couch Revisited in Light of Recent Discoveries.” OrientationsOctober 2001: 54-61.
  • Juliano, Annette L., Judith Lerner, et al. Monks and merchants : Silk Road treasures from Northwest China Gansu and Ningxia 4th-7th century. New York, Harry N. Abrams with the Asia Society, 2001.
  • Karetzky, Patricia Eichenbaum. “Esoteric Buddhism and the Famensi Finds.” Archives of Asian Art47 (1994): 78-85.
  • Karetzky, Patricia Eichenbaum. Chinese Buddhist art. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
  • Kyan, “Family Space: Buddhist Materiality and Ancestral Fashioning in Mogao Cave 23.” The Art Bulletin 92(1/2) (March–June 2010): 61-82.
  • Kieschnick, The impact of Buddhism on Chinese material culture. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003.
  • Lee, Songya S. Surviving Nirvana: Death of the Buddha in Chinese Visual Culture. Hong Kong University Press, 2010.
  • Lee, Sonya S. “Transmitting Buddhism to a Future Age: The Leiyin Cave at Fangshan and Cave-Temples with Stone Scriptures in Sixth-Century China.” Archives of Asian Art 60 (2010): 43-78.
  • Leidy, Denise Patry and Donna Strahan. Wisdom Embodied: Chinese Buddhist and Daoist Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. FREE PDF DOWNLOAD: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/metpublications/Wisdom_Embodied_Chinese_Buddhist_and_Daoist_Sculpture_in_The_Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art
  • Leidy, Denise Patry. “Chinese Buddhist Sculpture.”
  • Leidy,Denise Patry. “The Ssu-wei Figure in Sixth-Century A.D. Chinese Buddhist Sculpture.” Archives of Asian Art XLIII (1990), pp. 21-37. https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/chbu/hd_chbu.htm
  • Lerner, Judith A. and Annette L. Juliano. Monks and Merchants: Silk Road Treasures from Northwest China. New York: Harry N. Abrams with The Asia Society, 2001.
  • Lin,Wei-cheng. Building a Sacred Mountain: The Buddhist Architecture of China’s Mount Wutai. University of Washington Press, 2014.
  • Lingley,Kate A. “The Multivalent Donor: Zhang Yuanfei at Shuiyusi.” Archives of Asian Art, 56 (2006): 11-30.
  • Lingley, Kate A. “The Patron and the Community in Eastern Wei Shanxi: the Gaomiaoshan Cave Temple Yi-society.” Asia Major 23(1) (2010): 127-172.
  • Lingley, Kate A. “Lady Yuchi in the First Person: Patronage, History, and Voice in the Guyang Cave.” Early Medieval China 18 (2012): 25-47.
  • Liu, Cary Y. Recarving China’s Past: Art, Archaeology, Architecture of the Wu Family Shrines. Yale University Press, 2005.
  • McNair, Amy. Donors of Longmen: Faith, Politics, and Patronage in Medieval Chinese Buddhist Sculpture. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2007.
  • Ma, Shichang, “Buddhist Cave-Temples and the Cao Family at Mogao Ku, Dunhuang.” World Archaeology 27(2), Buddhist Archaeology (Oct. 1995): 303-317.
  • McNair, “On the Patronage by Tang-dynasty Nuns at Wanfo Grotto, Longmen.” Artibus Asiae 59(3/4): 161-188.
  • McNair, Donors of Longmen: Faith, Politics and Patronage in Medieval Chinese Buddhist Sculpture. Honolulu, University of Hawai’i Press, 2007.
  • Menzies, Jackie, Buddha: Radiant Awakening, Art Gallery NSW, Sydney, 2001.
  • Munsterberg, Chinese Buddhist Bronzes. Rutland VT: Charles Tuttle, 1967.
  • Naquin, Susan and Chun-fang Yu, eds. Pilgrims and sacred sites in China. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1992.
  • Nickel, Lukas, Return of the Buddha: The Qingzhou Discoveries, Royal Academy of Arts, 2002
  • Ning, “Diplomatic Icons: Social and Political Meanings of Khotanese Images in Dunhuang Cave 220.” Oriental Art n.s. 44(4): 2-15.
  • Ning, Qiang. Art, Religion, and Politics in Medieval China: The Dunhuang Cave of the Zhai Family. Univeristy of Hawaii Press, 2004.
  • Sharf, Robert H. “The Buddha’s Finger Bones at Famensi and the Art of Chinese Esoteric Buddhism.” The Art Bulletin 93(1) (March 2011): 38-59.
  • Soper, Alexander Coburn. Literary evidence for early Buddhist art in China II: Pseudo- foreign images. Artibus Asiae, 16(1/2) (1953): 83-110.
  • Soper, Alexander Coburn. Literary evidence for early Buddhist art in China. Artibus Asiae supplementum 19. Ascona, Artibus Asiae, 1959.
  • Soper, “South Chinese Influence on the Buddhist Art of the Six Dynasties Period.” Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities (Stockholm) 32 (1960): 47-112 + plates.
  • Soper, “Imperial Cave-chapels of the Northern Dynasties: Donors, Beneficiaries, Dates.” Artibus Asiae 28(4) (1960): 241-270.
  • Sullivan, Michael. The cave temples of Maichishan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969.
  • Teiser, Stephen F. Reinventing the Wheel: Paintings of Rebirth in Medieval Buddhist Temples. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2006.
  • Tsai, Kathryn A. Lives of the Nuns: Biographies of Chinese Buddhist Nuns from the Fourth to Sixth Centuries. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1994.
  • Tsiang, Katherine R. “Monumentalization of Buddhist Texts in the Northern Qi Dynasty: The Engraving of Sutras in Stone at the Xiangtangshan Caves and Other Sites in the Sixth Century.” Artibus Asiae 56(3/4) (1996): 233-261.
  • Tsiang, Katherine R. “Changing Patterns of Divinity and Reform in the Late Northern Wei.” Art Bulletin 84(2) (1996): 222-245.
  • Tsiang, Katherine R. Echoes of the Past: The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtangshan. Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, 2010.
  • Wang, Eugene Y. “Whose Paradise Is It Anyway?–The Lotus Sutra Tableau in Cave 217 at Dunhuang.” Orientations (November, 1996): 44-49.
  • Wang, Eugene Y. “Of the True Body: The Buddha’s Relics and Corporeal Transformation in Tang Imperial Culture.” In Body and Face in Chinese Visual Culture, edited by Wu Hung and Katherine T. Mino. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004.
  • Wang, Eugene Y. “Pictorial Program in the Making of Monastic Space.” In Buddhist Monasticism in East Asia: Places of Practice. Edited by James A. Benn et al. London; New York: Routledge, 2010.
  • Wang, Eugene Yuejin. Shaping the Lotus Sutra: Buddhist Visual Culture in Medieval China. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005.
  • Wang, Eugene Yuejin. Pagoda and Transformation: The Making of Medieval Chinese Visuality. Harvard University Press, 1997.
  • Wang, Michelle C. Mandalas in the Making: the Visual Culture of Esoteric Buddhism at Dunhuang. Brill, 2018.
  • Weidner, Marsha, et al. (eds.), Latter Days of the Law: Images of Chinese Buddhism 850-1850. University of Hawai’i Press, 1994.
  • Wen Fong (ed.), The Great Bronze Age of China, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980
  • Whitfield,Cave temples of Mogao: art and history on the silk road. Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute and the Getty Museum, 2000.
  • Whitfield, The art of Central Asia: the Stein collection in the British Museum. Tokyo: Kodansha, 1982.
  • Whitfield, The caves of the thousand Buddhas: Chinese art from the silk route. London: The British Museum, 1990.
  • Whitfield, Roderick. Dunhuang, Caves of the Singing Sands: Buddhist Art from the Silk Road. London: Textile & Art Pubs., 1995.
  • Wong, Dorothy C. Chinese Steles: Pre-Buddhist and Buddhist use of a Symbolic Form. University of Hawaii Press, 2004.
  • Wong, “Ethnicity and Identity: Northern nomads as Buddhist art patrons during the period of Northern and Southern dynasties.” In Nicola Di Cosmo and Don J. Wyatt, eds., Political Frontiers, Ethnic Boundaries, and Human Geographies in Chinese History. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.
  • Wu, “What is Bianxiang? — On the Relationship between Dunhuang Art and Dunhuang Literature,” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 52(1) (1992): 111-92.
  • Wu, “Reborn in Paradise: A Case Study of Dunhuang Sutra Painting and its Religious, Ritual, and Artistic Contexts,” Orientations 23(5) (1992): 52-60.
  • Wu, “Rethinking Liu Sahe: The Creation of a Buddhist Saint and the Invention of a ‘Miraculous Image’,” Orientations27(10) (November 1996): 32-43.
  • Wu, Hung. “Buddhist Elements in Early Chinese Art (2ndand 3rdCenturies A.D.),” Artibus Asiae 47, No. ¾ (1986), pp. 263-303, 305-352.
  • Wu, Hung. The Art of the Yellow Springs: Understanding Chinese Tombs. The Art Institute of Chicago, with Indiana University Press, 1986.
  • Yan, Zhitui. Family instructions for the Yen clan. (original c. 591) Translated and with an introduction by TENG Ssu-yu. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1968.
  • Yi, Joy Lidu. Yungang: Art, History, Archaeology, Liturgy. Routledge, 2017.

Bronzes / Porcelain & Ceramics

  • Adhyatman, Sumarah. Zhangzhou (Swatow) Ceramics. The Oriental Ceramic Society, London, 1990
  • Ayers, J.G. et al.Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul. London 1986,
  • Bagley, Robert.Ancient Sichuan: Treasures from a Lost Civilization. Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, Princeton University Press, 2001.
  • Barnard, Noel.Bronze Casting and Bronze Alloys in Ancient China. Canberra: Australian National University, 1961.
  • Barnard, Noel.Archaic Chinese Bronzes in Australian and New Zealand Collection. Melbourne: Council of Trustees, National Gallery of Victoria, 1975.
  • Beurdeley, M & C.Chinese Ceramics(Trans. Katherine Watson).Thames & Hudson, London, 1974.
  • Brankston, A.J.Early Ming Wares from Ching-te-chen. Peking, 1937. Reprinted 1970.
  • Bulbeck, David.Ancient Chinese and Southeast Asian Bronze Age Cultures. Washington, D.C.: University of Washington Press, 1996.
  • Bulling, A.The Decoration of Mirrors of the Han Period, A Chronology. Ascona: Artibus Asiae Publishers, 1960.
  • Bushell, Stephen.W. Chinese Pottery and Porcelain; being a translation of the T’ao-shuo. Oxford University Press, Kuala Lumpur, 1977 (Reprint of the original edition of 1910).
  • Carswell, John.Ceramics in the Sadberk Hanim Museum.Vehbi KoV Foundation, Istanbul, 1995.
  • Carswell, John. Chinese Blue and White Ceramics. British Museum, London, 2000.
  • Chou, Ju-Hsi.Circle of Reflection: The Carter Collection of Chinese Bronze Mirrors. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000.
  • Consten, Eleanor von Erdberg.Chinese Bronzes from the Collection of Chester Dale and Dolly Carter. Ascona: Artibus Asiae, 1978.
  • Curtis, Julia B.Chinese Porcelains of the Seventeenth Century. Landscapes, Scholars’ Motifs and Narratives. Chinese Institute in America, New York, 1995.
  • De Matos, Maria, Antonia Pinto. Chinese Export Porcelain. Philip Wilson, London, 1996
  • Deydier, Christian.Chinese Bronzes. New York: Rizzoli, 1980.
  • Fairbank, Wilma.Adventures in Retrieval: Han Murals and Shang Bronze Molds. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1972.
  • Fang Wen and Robert W. Bagley.The Great Bronze Age of China: An Exhibition from the People’s Republic of China. London: Thames and Hudson, 1980.
  • Freer Gallery of Art.The Freer Chinese Bronzes. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1967-69.
  • Goddio, F., Pierson, S. and Crick, M.Sunken Treasure, Lena Cargo. Periplus, London, 2000.
  • Gompertz, G.St.G.M.Chinese Celadon Wares. Faber Monograph Series, London, 1980.
  • Gray, B.Sung Pottery and Porcelain. Faber Monograph Series, London, 1984.
  • He Li.Chinese Ceramics. The New StandardGuide. Thames and Hudson, London, 1996.
  • Higuchi, Takayasu.Bronze Mirrors In China and Japan. Tokyo: Shinchosha, 1979.
  • Honolulu Academy of Arts.Ancient Chinese Bronzes, Ceramics, and Jade in the Collection of the Honolulu Academy of Arts. Honolulu: The Academy, 1979.
  • Jorg, C. J. A. and van Campen, J.Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Philip Wilson, London, 1997.
  • Kerr, Rose.Chinese Ceramics. Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty 1644-1911. Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1986.
  • Kerr, Rose.Later Chinese Bronzes. London: Bamboo, the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1990.
  • Kerr, Rose.Later Chinese Bronzes. New York: Antique Collectors Club, 1990.
  • Krahl, Regina (editor).The Emperor’s Broken China. Reconstructing Chenghua Porcelain. Sotheby’s, London, 1995.
  • Lawton, Thomas.Ancient Chinese Bronzes in the Saint Louis Art Museum. St. Louis: Saint Louis Art Museum, 1997.
  • Little, Stephen. Chinese Ceramics of the Transitional Period: 1620-1683. China Institute in America, New York, 1984.
  • Li Xueqin, Chinese Bronzes, Foreign Languages Press, Beijing, 1995.
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art.Treasures from the Bronze Age of China: An Exhibition from the People’s Republic of China. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980.
  • Mowry, Robert D. China’s Renaissance in Bronze: The Robert H. Clague Collection of Later Chinese Bronzes, 1100-1900. Phoenix: Phoenix Art Museum, 1993.
  • Munsterberg, Hugo.Chinese Buddhist Bronzes. Rutland, VT: Tuttle, 1967.
  • New Archaeological Finds in China: Discoveries during the Cultural Revolution. Beijing: Waiyu, 1972.
  • The Percival David Foundation. Imperial Taste. Chinese Ceramics from the Percival David Foundation.Chronicle Books & Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1989.
  • Pierson, Stacey. Designs as Signs: Decoration and Chinese Ceramics. The Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, 2001.
  • Rawson, Jessica. Chinese Bronzes: Art and Ritual. British Museum Publications, 1987.
  • Rinaldi, Maura. Kraak Porcelain. A Moment in the History of Time. Bamboo Publishing, London, 1989.
  • Schroeder, Ulrich von.Indo-Tibetan Bronzes. Hong Kong: Visual Dharma Publications, 1981.
  • Shapiro, Daniel. Ancient Chinese Bronzes. London: Sylph Editions, 2013.
  • Scott, Rosemary E.Elegant Form and Harmonious Decoration. Four Dynasties of Porcelain Decoration.Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, 1992.
  • Sheaf, Colin and Kilburn, Richard. The Hatcher Porcelain Cargoes. The Complete Record.Phaidon Christie’s, London, 1988
  • Swallow, Robert W.Ancient Chinese Bronze Mirrors. Peiping: Vetch, 1937.
  • Thorp, Robert L. China in the Early Bronze Age: Shang Civilization. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.
  • Valenstein, G. Suzanne. A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics.Weidenfeld & Nicolson and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1989.
  • Von Falkenhausen, Lothar, K. E. Brashier and Susan Cahill. The Lloyd Costen Study Collection of Chinese Bronze Mirrors. UCLA Costen Institute of Archaeology Press, 2009-2011.
  • Watson, William. Pre-Tang Ceramics of China. Chinese pottery from 4000BC to 600 AD. Faber and Faber, London, 1991.
  • Williamson, Leslie.Archaic Chinese Script and Ritual Bronzes. Bridgewater: Yi Pub, 1990.
  • Wilson, Ming. Rare Marks on Chinese Ceramics.The Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1998.
  • Wood, Nigel.Chinese Glazes. A & C Black, London, and the University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1999.
  • Yang Liu and Edmund Capon.Masks of Mystery: Ancient Chinese Bonzes from Sanxingdui. Sydney : Art Gallery of New South Wales, c2000.

Chinese Society & Aesthetics 

  • Cai, Zongqi. Chinese Aesthetics: The Ordering of Literature, the Arts, and the Universe in the Six Dynasties. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2004.
  • Chan, Anita, Richard Madsen, and Jonathan Unger. Chen Village: Revolution to globalization. 3d ed. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press, 2009.
  • Chinese intellectual life post-Mao:Education, ideology, literature and the arts.  (ed. Arendrup, Birthe). Copenhagen papers in East and Southeast Asian Studies, Copenhagen: Center for East and Southeast Asian Studies, Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen, 1988.
  • Cohen, Joan Lebold; Cohen, Jerome Alan. China today and her ancient treasures. 3rd ed. New York: Abrams, 1985.
  • Chinese Art and Culture.Paramus: Prentice Hall PTR, 2000.
  • De Mente, Boye. The Chinese Mind: Understanding Traditional Chinese Beliefs and Their Influence on Contemporary Culture. 1st ed. North Clarendon, Vt.: Tuttle Pub., 2009.
  • Ebrey, Patricia Buckley, Chinese Civilization: A Sourcebook, 2d Edition, The Free Press, Simon & Schuster, 1993.
  • Embodied modernities:corporeality, representation, and Chinese culture.  (eds. Martin, Fran; Heinrich, Larissa). Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai’i Press, 2006.
  • Emperor Ch’ien-lung’s grand cultural enterprise.(ed. Feng, Mingzhu). Catalog of exhibition held at the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, 2002. (Chinese and English). Taibei Shi: Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan, 2002.
  • Fei, Xiaotong. From the soil, the foundations of Chinese society: A translation of Fei Xiaotong’sXiangtu Zhongguo, with an introduction and epilogue. Translated by Gary G. Hamilton and Wang Zheng. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press, 1992.
  • Flath, James A. The Cult of Happiness: Nianhua, Art, and History in Rural North China.  Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2004.
  • Huot, Claire M. China’s New Cultural Scene:A Handbook of Changes. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999.
  • Kipnis, Andrew, Luigi Tomba, and Jonathan Unger, eds. Contemporary Chinese society and politics. 4 vols. London: Routledge, 2009.
  • Leung, Helen Hok-sze.Undercurrents:  Queer Culture and Postcolonial Hong Kong. Vancouver, B.C.: University of British Columbia Press, 2009.
  • Li Peilin, Li Qiang, and Ma Rong, eds. She hui xue yu Zhongguo she hui. Beijing: Social Sciences Academic Press, 2008.
  • Li, Zehou., and Samei, Maija Bell. The Chinese Aesthetic Tradition. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2010.
  • Liscomb, Kathlyn Maurean. China and beyond: the legacy of a culture.(contr. Markus, Elizabeth Jane). Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, Sept. 3-Dec. 24, 2002, and at the Vancouver Museum, Mar. 8-Sept. 1, 2003. Victoria, B.C.: Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, 2002.
  • Liu, Kang. Aesthetics and Marxism: Chinese Aesthetic Marxists and Their Western Contemporaries. Post-Contemporary Interventions Series. Durham: Duke University Press, 2000.
  • Murphy, J. David. Plunder and preservation: cultural property law and practice in the People’s Republic of China. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
  • Perry, Elizabeth, and Mark Selden, eds. Chinese society: Change, conflict and resistance. 3d ed. New York: Routledge, 2010.
  • Shi, Shumei. Visuality and identity:Sinophone articulations across the Pacific.  Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2007.
  • Skinner, GW. Modern Chinese Society 1644-1970: An Analytical Bibliography. Stanford, 1973.
  • Stockman, Norman. Understanding Chinese society. Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2000.
  • Stuart, Jan; Rawski, Evelyn Sakakida. Worshiping the Ancestors: Chinese Commemorative Portraits. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001.
  • Tang, Wenfang, and William L. Parish. Chinese urban life under reform: The changing social contract. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2000.
  • Xudong, Zhang. Chinese modernism in the era of reforms: cultural fever, avant-garde fiction and the new Chinese cinema. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997.Zang, Xiaowei, ed. Understanding Chinese society. London and New York: Routledge, 2011.

Chinese Music 

  • Baranovitch, Nimrod. China’s New Voices: Popular Music, Ethnicity, Gender, and Politics, 1978-1997. University of California Press, 2003.
  • Chan, Margaret. “Dangerous Tunes: The Politics of Chinese Music in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the People’s Republic of China since 1949.” Canadian University Music Review, 2 (2002).
  • Gunde, Richard. Culture and Customs of China. Greenwood Press, 2002.
  • Helen, Rees. “Sounds from Wartime Taiwan (1943): Kurosawa and Masu’s Recordings of Taiwan Aboriginal and Han Chinese Music.” Yearbook for Traditional Music. 42 (2010).
  • Huang, Renge. “The Exploration of the Root-Source of the Chinese Music.” Canadian Social Science. 5 (2007).
  • Jing, Jia. “A Comparison of the Origin and Development of Chinese and European Musics.” Canadian Social Science. 1 (2014).
  • Jones, Stephen.Folk Music of China: Living Instrumental Traditions. Oxford: Clarendon, 1995.
  • Kraus, Richard Curt. Pianos and Politics in China: Middle-Class Ambitions and the Struggle over Western Music. Oxford University Press, 1989.
  • Lau, Frederick.Music in China: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
  • Lawrence, Witzleben J. “Chinese Shadows: The Amazing World of Shadow Puppetry in Rural Northwest China.” Yearbook for Traditional Music. 43 (2011).
  • Liang, David Mingyue.Music of the Billion: An Introduction to Chinese Musical Culture. New York: Heinrichshofen, 1985.
  • Riddle, Ronald. Flying Dragons, Flowing Streams: Music in the Life of San Francisco’s Chinese. Greenwood Press, 1983.
  • Siu, Wang-Ngai, and Peter Lovrick.Chinese Opera, Images and Stories. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997.
  • “Superstar of the Chinese Music Scene.” International Musician. 2 (2010).
  • Thrasher, Alan Robert.Chinese Musical Instruments. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
  • Tung, Constantine and Colin Mackerras. Drama in the People’s Republic of China. State University of New York Press, 1987.
  • Um, Hae-Kyung. Diasporas and Intercultualism in Asian Performing Arts: Translating Traditions. RoutledgeCurzon, 2004.
  • Wai-Tong, Lau. “Twentieth-Century School Music Literature in China: A Departure from Tradition.” Journal of Historical Research in Music Education. 1 (2005).
  • Ward, Lisa-Jane. “An Approach to Chinese-English Bilingual Music Education.” Victorian Journal of Music Education. (2014).
  • Wellesz, Egon. The New Oxford History of Music. Oxford University Press, 1999. (See vol. 1, ch. 2: “The Music of Far Eastern Asia: China”)
  • Xiaowei, Lan and Qiu Zihua. “The Influence of Chan Buddhism Spirit on Chinese Music.” Canadian Social Science. 2 (2008).
  • Yung, Bell, Evelyn S. Rawski, and Rubie S. Watson. Harmony and Counterpoint: Ritual Music in Chinese Context. Stanford University Press, 1996.
  • Zucker, A. E.The Chinese Theatre. Boston: Little, Brown, 1925.

Chinese Architecture & Gardens

  • Beijing Ancient Architecture Engineering Company, and Beijing Mei Shu She Ying Chu Ban She.Ancient Architecture in Beijing. Beijing: Beijing Arts and Photography Pub. House: Distributed by China International Book Trading (Gouji Shudian), 1986.
  • Bingham-Hall, Patrick., and Ruan, Xing.New China Architecture. Singapore: Periplus, 2006.
  • Bryant, Shelly.The Classical Gardens of Shanghai. RAS China in Shanghai Series of China Monographs. Hong Kong [China]: Hong Kong University Press, 2016.
  • Chan, Bernard.New Architecture in China. London ; New York: Merrell, 2005.
  • Chinese Architecture Today. Basel; Boston: Beijing: Birkhäuser; China Architecture & Building Press, 2016.
  • China Construction Design International.CCDI Architecture: Design for China’s Future.Millennium (Mulgrave, Vic.). Mulgrave, Vic.: Images, 2008.
  • “Chinese Gardens and Collectors’ Rocks,” https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/cgrk/hd_cgrk.htm
  • Chinese Gardens: http://depts.washington.edu/chinaciv/home/3garintr.htm
  • Engel, David H. Creating a Chinese Garden. London: Portland, Ore.: Croom Helm; Timber Press, 1986.
  • Fang, Xiaofeng.The Great Gardens of China : History, Concepts, Techniques. 1st American ed. New York]: Monacelli Press, 2010.
  • Henderson, Ron.The Gardens of Suzhou. 1st ed. Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013.
  • Inaji, Toshirō, and Virgilio, Pamela. The Garden as Architecture: Form and Spirit in the Gardens of Japan, China, and Korea. 1st ed. Tokyo; New York: Kodansha International, 1998.
  • Ji, Cheng, Hardie, Alison, Zhong, Ming, and Keswick, Maggie.The Craft of Gardens. New York: Better Link Press, 2012.
  • Jie, Hu.The Splendid Chinese Garden: Origins, Aesthetics and Architecture. Cultural China (Better Link Press). New York, NY: Betterlink Press, 2013.
  • Kalkreuth, Sophie. “Chinese contemporary architecture: Reinterpreting traditional designs in the modern, urban China.” June 4, 2017. http://www.luxuo.com/properties/interiors/chinese-contemporary-architecture-reinterpreting-traditional-designs-in-the-modern-urban-china.html
  • Keswick, Maggie, The Chinese Garden(revised edition), Harvard University Press, 2003.
  • Liu, Tuo., and Qiu, Maoru.Classical Gardens in China. English ed. Discovering China (Better Link Press). New York: Better Link Press, 2012.
  • Lou, Qingxi.Chinese Gardens. Introductions to Chinese Culture. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
  • Morris, Edwin T.The Gardens of China: History, Art, and Meanings = [Chung-hua Yüan Lin]. New York: Scribner, 1983.
  • Murck, Alfreda. A Chinese Garden Court: The Astor Court at the Metropolitan Museum of Art: https://books.google.com/books?id=NmDFgXWXdogC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
  • Overstreet, Kaley. “Investigating the ‘Scalelessness’ of Contemporary Chinese Architecture and Urbanism.” An excerpt of “Scalelessness: Impressions of Contemporary China”. https://www.archdaily.com/783301/investigating-the-scalelessness-of-chinas-contemporary-architecture-and-urbanism
  • Rambach, Pierre, and Rambach, Suzanne.Gardens of Longevity in China and Japan: The Art of the Stone Raisers. Geneva, Switzerland: New York: Skira ; Rizzoli, 1987.
  • Sickman, Laurence C. S., and Soper, Alexander Coburn.The Art and Architecture of China. Pelican History of Art; Z10. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin Books, 1971.
  • Shi Yongnan and Wang Tianzing (ed.), The Former Imperial Palace In Beijing, China Esperanto Press, Beijing, 1995.
  • Sirén, Osvald.Gardens of China. New York: Ronald Press, 1949.
  • Steinhardt, Nancy S. (ed.), Chinese Architecture, Yale University Press, 2002
  • Steinhardt, Nancy Shatzman., and China House Gallery.Chinese Traditional Architecture. New York City: China Institute in America, China House Gallery, 1984.
  • Sun, Lesley L. “Architecture of Modern China.”Urban Design International 17, no. 1 (2012): 76-77.
  • Taylor Alan, “Chinese Architecture, Old and New.” The Atlantic. (2012). https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2012/11/chinese-architecture-old-and-new/100409/
  • Titley, Norah M., and Wood, Frances.Oriental Gardens: An Illustrated History. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1992.
  • Valder, Peter.Gardens in China. Portland, Or.: Timber Press, 2002.
  • Yang, Hongxun, and Wang, Hui Min.The Classical Gardens of China: History and Design Techniques. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1982.

Chinese Pop Culture

  • Boyle, Joe. “When Manga meets communism,” BBC News UK, March 13, 2008. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7292158.stm
  • Chang, Peter T.C. “The Power of Culture: Encounters between China and the United States.” International Journal of China Studies. 3 (2016).
  • Chien, Julia. “Tales of Taiwan’s Comic Artists: Persecution, Isolation and Endless Talent,” TheNewsLens, January 25, 2018. https://international.thenewslens.com/article/88234
  • Craig, Timothy J., and King, Richard.Global Goes Local: Popular Culture in Asia. Vancouver, B.C.: University of British Columbia Press, 2002.
  • Edelstein, Alex S.Total Propaganda: From Mass Culture to Popular Culture. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1997.
  • Francesco, Carpinini. “Spectacle and the City: Chinese Urbanities in Art and Popular Culture.” International Journal of China Studies. 3 (2015).
  • Funnell, Lisa, and Yuya Kiuchi. “Introduction: Asian Popular Culture.”Journal of Popular Culture 49, no. 5 (2016): 963-66.
  • Guo, Qitao.Ritual Opera and Mercantile Lineage: The Confucian Transformation of Popular Culture in Late Imperial Huizhou. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2005.
  • Hung, Chang-tai. War and Popular Culture: Resistance in Modern China, 1937-1945. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
  • Johnson, David G., Nathan, Andrew J., Rawski, Evelyn Sakakida, Berling, Judith A, and American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Studies of Chinese Civilization. Popular Culture in Late Imperial China. Studies on China; 4. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985.
  • Langfitt, Frank. “Provocative Chinese Cartoonists Find an Outlet Online,” NPR March 16, 2012. https://www.npr.org/2012/03/16/148695679/provocative-chinese-cartoonists-find-an-outlet-online
  • Lent, John A. Asian Popular Culture. Westview Press, 1995.
  • Link, Perry, Richard Madsen, and Paul G. Pickowicz, eds.Unofficial China: Popular Culture and Thought in the People’s Republic. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1989.
  • Lo, Kwai-Cheung.Chinese Face/Off: The Transnational Popular Culture of Hong Kong. Popular Culture and Politics in Asia Pacific. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005.
  • Louie, Kam. “Popular Culture and Masculinity Ideals in East Asia, with Special Reference to China.”Journal of Asian Studies 71, no. 4 (2012): 929-43.
  • Mair, Victor H., and Mark Bender, eds.The Columbia Anthology of Chinese Folk and Popular Literature. Translations from the Asian Classics. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011.
  • McIntosh, Heather. “Gender & Popular Culture.”Journal of Popular Culture 46, no. 1 (2013): 218-220.
  • McLaren, Anne E.Chinese Popular Culture and Ming Chantefables. Sinica Leidensia; v. 41. Leiden [Netherlands] ; Boston: Brill, 1998.
  • Notar, Beth E.Displacing Desire Travel and Popular Culture in China. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2006.
  • Ng, Wai-ming. “Japanese Elements in Hong Kong Comics: History, Art, and Industry.” International Journal of Comic Art5, no. 2 (2003): 184-93.
  • Pollak, Michael. “The Jews of Kaifeng, China: History, Culture, and Religion, by Xu Xin.” Shofar, 3 (2005).
  • Unofficial China: Popular culture and thought in the People’s Republic of China.  (eds. Link, Perry; Madsen, Richard; Pickowicz, Paul). Boulder: Westview Press, 1989.
  • Wang, Jing.Locating China Space, Place and Popular Culture. Routledge Studies on China in Transition. London; New York: Routledge, 2005.
  • Wong, W. Hong Kong comics: A history of manhua. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2002 (Introduction available on Google Books).
  • Wu, Dingbo., and Murphy, Patrick D.Handbook of Chinese Popular Culture. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994.
  • Young, Mary E. Mules and Dragons: Popular Culture Images in the Selected Writings of African-American and Chinese-American Women Writers. Greenwood Press, 1993.

Chinese Literature

  • Berry, Margaret. The Chinese Classic Novels: An Annotated Bibliography of Chiefly English-language Studies. New York, 1988.
  • Berninghausen, John David. Revolutionary Literature in China: An Anthology. E. Sharpe, 1976.
  • Cheek, Timothy. Propaganda and Culture in Mao’s China: Deng Tuo and the Intelligentsia. Clarendon Press, 1997.
  • Crisler, Jesse S. “Through Western Eyes: Young Adult Literature Set in China.” Fu Jen Studies: Literature & Linguistics. 40 (2006).
  • De Bary, Wm. Theodore and Amslie T. Embree (eds.), A Guide to Oriental Classics (New York, 1964, revised eds. 1970, 1989).
  • Dooling, Amy D. Writing Women in Modern China: The Revolutionary Years, 1936-1976. Columbia University Press, 2004.
  • Farquhar, Mary Ann. Children’s Literature in China: From Lu Xun to Mao Zedong. E. Sharpe, 1999.
  • Gibbs, Donald A. and Li-Yun-chen. A Bibliograpy of Studies and Translations of Modern Chinese Literature, 1918-1942. Cambridge, 1975.
  • Hightower, James Robert. Topics in Chinese Literature: Outlines and Bibliographies. Cambridge, 1953.
  • Huike, Wen. “Uneven Modernity: Literature, Film, and Intellectual Discourse in Postsocialist China.” Film & History.1 (2015).
  • Iovene, Paola. Tales of Futures Past: Anticipation and the Ends of Literature in Contemporary China. Stanford University Press, 2014.
  • Jie, Li. “Modernity with a Cold War Face: Reimagining the Nation in Chinese Literature across the 1949 Divide.” Chinese Literature, Essays, Articles, Reviews. 36 (2014).
  • Jing, Li. “The Columbia Anthology of Chinese Folk and Popular Literature.” Western Folklore. ¾ (2013).
  • Kinkley, Jeffrey C. Corruption and Realism in Late Socialist China: The Return of the Political Novel. Stanford University Press, 2007.
  • Kong, Shuyu. Consuming Literature: Best Sellers and the Commercialization of Literary Production in Contemporary China. Stanford University Press, 2005.
  • Larson, Wendy. Women and Writing in Modern China.Stanford University Press, 1998.
  • Liu, Lydia H. Translingual Practice: Literature, National Culture, and Translated Modernity—China, 1900-1937. Stanford University Press, 1995.
  • Lopez, Manuel D. Chinese Drama: An Annotated Bibliography of Commentary, Criticism, and Plays in English Translation. Methuchen, NJ, 1992.
  • Louie, Kam and Louise Edwards. Bibliography of English Translations and Critiques of Contemporary Chinese Fiction (1945-1992).Taipei, 1993.
  • Lu, Tonglin. Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature and Society. State University of New York Press, 1993.
  • Nienhauser, William H. Jr., et al. (eds). The Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature. Bloomington, 1986.
  • Nienhauser, William. Bibliography of Selected Western Works on T’ang Dynasty Literature. Taipei, 1988.
  • Pogeski, Mario. The Records of Mazu and the Making of Classical Chan Literature. Oxford University Press, 2015.
  • A Selective Guide to Chinese Literature, 1900-1949. 4 volumes. Leiden, 1988-1990.
  • Shih, Shu-Mei, The Lure of the Modern: Writing Modernism in Semicolonial China, 1917-1937. University of California Press, 2001.
  • Shuang, Xu. “Internet Literature in China.” China Perspectives. 1 (2016).
  • Smith, Christopher J. China in the Post-Utopian Age. Westview Press, 2000.
  • Steuber, Jason. China: 3000 years of Art and Literature. New York: Welcome Books, 2007.
  • Waley, Arthur, Translations From The Chinese, Alfred A. Knopf, 1919/1941.
  • Yang, Lihui, Deming An, and Jessica Anderson Turner.Handbook of Chinese Mythology. Handbooks of World Mythology. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2005.
  • Xiaofei, Tian. “The Twilight of the Masters: Masters Literature (Zishu) in Early Medieval China.” The Journal of the American Oriental Society. 4 (2006).
  • Yang, Winston LY., Peter li, and Nathan K. Mao. Modern Chinese Fiction: A Guide to its Study and Appreciation, Essays, and Bibliographies. Boston, 1981.
  • Yee, E. “Ming Drama: A Selected and Annotated Bibliography.” Ming Studies 28 (1989): 46-64.
  • Yungzhong, Shu. “Tales of Futures Past: Anticipation and the Ends of Literature in Contemporary China.” Chinese Literature, Essays, Articles, Reviews. 37 (2015).

Chinese (non-Buddhist) Religion & Philosophy

  • Allen, Barry. “Daoism and Chinese Martial Arts.”Dao-A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 13, no. 2 (2014): 251-66.
  • Bell, Daniel.China’s New Confucianism: Politics and Everyday Life in a Changing Society. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2008.
  • Bol, Peter Kees.Neo-confucianism in History. Harvard East Asian Monographs; 307. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center: Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2008.
  • Boltz, Judith M. A Survey of Taoist Literature: Tenth to Seventeenth Centuries. Berkeley, 1987.
  • Bush, Richard Clarence.Religion in Communist China. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1970.
  • Chang Wing-tsit, An Outline and an Annotated Bibliography of Chinese Philosophy. New Haven, 1959.
  • Chang Wing-tsit and Charles Wei-hsun Fu. Guide to Chinese Philosophy. Boston, 1979.
  • Chau, Adam Yuet.Religion in Contemporary China: Revitalization and Innovation. Routledge Contemporary China Series; 59. Milton Park, Abingdon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2011.
  • Cheng Manchao, The Origin Of Chinese Deities, Foreign Languages Press, Beijing, 1995.
  • Cui Zhengsen, 108 Temples of Mt. Wutai, Shanxi Science and Technology Press, 2008.
  • Day, Clarence Burton.Popular Religion in Pre-Communist China. Occasional Series (Chinese Materials and Research Aids Service Center) ; No. 30. San Francisco: Chinese Materials Center, 1975.
  • Gardner, Daniel K.Confucianism: A Very Short Introduction. Very Short Introductions; 395. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.
  • Han, Ruihui. “Difference of Body Treatments in Buddhism and Daoism of China.”British Journal of Education, Society & Behavioural Science 17, no. 1 (2016): 1-12.
  • Hwang, Dongyoun. “Daoism and Anarchism: Critiques of State Autonomy in Ancient and Modern China.”The China Journal, no. 71 (2014): 269-70.
  • Israeli, Raphael. Islam in China: A Critical Bibliography. Westport, 1994.
  • Knight, Nick.Li Da and Marxist Philosophy in China. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1996.
  • Lagerwey, John.China: A Religious State. Understanding China. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2010.
  • Lagerwey, John., École Française D’Extrême-Orient, and Chinese University of Hong Kong. Centre for the Study of Religion Chinese Society.Religion and Chinese Society. Hong Kong : Paris: Chinese University Press ; École Française D’Extrême-Orient, 2004.
  • Lu, Jun, and Qin Gao. “Contesting Chineseness: An Examination of Religion and National Identity in Mainland China.”Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 57, no. 2 (2018): 318-40.
  • Lu, Yunfeng. “Understanding the Rise of Religion in China.”Chinese Sociological Review 45, no. 2 (2012): 3-7.
  • MacInnis, Donald E.Religion in China Today: Policy and Practice. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1989.
  • Nivison, David S., and Van Norden, Bryan W.The Ways of Confucianism: Investigations in Chinese Philosophy. Chicago: Open Court, 1996.
  • Overmyer, Daniel L.Religion in China Today. China Quarterly Special Issues; New Ser., No. 3. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
  • Palmer, Martin, & Zhao Xiaomin, Essential Chinese Mythology, Thorsons, 1997.
  • Paramore, Kiri.Japanese Confucianism: A Cultural History. New Approaches to Asian History; 14. Cambridge, United Kingdom; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
  • Paramore, Kiri. “‘Civil Religion’ and Confucianism: Japan’s Past, China’s Present, and the Current Boom in Scholarship on Confucianism.”Journal of Asian Studies 74, no. 2 (2015): 269-82.
  • Pas, Julian F. A Select Bibliography on Taoism. Stonybrook, NY, 1988.
  • Sterckx, Roel.Of Tripod and Palate: Food, Politics and Religion in Traditional China. 1st ed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
  • Thompson, Lawrence G., Chinese Religion in Western Languages: A Comprehensive and Classified Bibliography of Publications in English, French, and German through 1980. Tuscon, 1985. (Updated as Chinese Religion: Publications in Western Languages 1981-1990. Ann Arbor, 1993).
  • Tucker, Mary Evelyn. “China’s Green Religion: Daoism and the Quest for a Sustainable Future.”Journal of the American Academy of Religion 86, no. 1 (2018): 266-69.
  • Van Der Veer, Peter. “Religion, Secularism and National Development in India and China.”Third World Quarterly 33, no. 4 (2012): 721-34.
  • Yang, Der-Ruey. “New Agents and New Ethos of Daoism in China Today.”Chinese Sociological Review 45, no. 2 (2012): 48-64.
  • Yang, Fenggang, and Anning Hu. “Mapping Chinese Folk Religion in Mainland China and Taiwan.”Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 51, no. 3 (2012): 505-21.
  • Yang, Fenggang.Religion in China Survival and Revival under Communist Rule. New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
  • Yang, Fenggang., and Tamney, Joseph B.Confucianism and Spiritual Traditions in Modern China and beyond. Religion in Chinese Societies. Leiden ; Boston: Brill, 2012.
  • Yu, David. Guide to Chinese Religion. Boston, 1985.
  • Yu, David C.Religion in Postwar China: A Critical Analysis and Annotated Bibliography. Bibliographies and Indexes in Religious Studies; No. 28. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994.
  • Zhang Hongbin, Datong Huayan Monastery, 2000.
  • Zhang, Jie, and Eric Y. Liu. “Confucianism and Youth Suicide in Rural China.”Review of Religious Research 54, no. 1 (2012): 93-111.

Chinese History

Ancient China

  • Allan, Sarah. The shape of the turtle:Myth, art, and cosmos in early China.  SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1991.
  • Ames, Roger T. The Art of Rulership:A Study in Ancient Chinese Political Thought.  Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai’i Press, 1983.
  • Andersson, Johan Gunnar. Children of the yellow earth; studies in prehistoric China.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press 1973.
  • Bagley, Robert, Ancient Sichuan:Treasures from a lost civilization. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2001.
  • Barfield, Thomas J. The perilous frontier:nomadic empires and China. Studies in Social Discontinuity. Malden: Blackwell, 1992.
  • Barnard, Noel. Metallurgical remains of ancient China.Tokyo: Nichiosha, 1975.
  • Barnes, Gina L.The Rise of Civilization in East Asia: The Archaeology of China, Korea and Japan. 2nd Edition. New York: Thames & Hudson, 1999.
  • Bilskey, Lester J. The state religion of ancient China.Pasadena, CA: The Oriental Book Store, 1975.
  • Brooman, Josh. Imperial China: From the First Emperor to Kublai Khan.  White Plains, NY: Longman Publishing Group, 1991.
  • Chang, Kwang-chih & Xu, Pingfang. The formation of Chinese civilization:  an archaeological perspective.  (trans. Allan, Sarah.). New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005.
  • Chang, Kwang-chih. Chinese archeology and ancient history:selections with preface.  Research Manual Series. Princeton: Chinese Linguistics Project. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University, 1983.
  • Chang, Kwang-chih. Art, myth, and ritual: the path to political authority in ancient China.Cambridge, MA.; London: Harvard University Press, 1983.
  • Ch’ien Mu. Traditional government in imperial China.  (trans. Hsueh, Chun-tu; Totten, George O.). Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 1982.
  • Cohen, Joan Lebold; Cohen, Jerome Alan. China today and her ancient treasures.3rd ed. New York: Abrams, 1985.
  • Creel, Herrlee Glessner. The birth of China:A study of the formative period of Chinese civilization.  New York: F. Ungar Publishing Co., (1937);1970.
  • Crowther, Nigel B Crowther, Nigel B. Sport in ancient times.series on the ancient world Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2007.
  • Cullen, Christopher. Astronomy and Mathematics in Ancient China:The Zhou Bi Suan Jing. 1. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
  • Debaine-Francfort, Corinne. The Search for Ancient China.Discoveries Series. New York: Harry N. Abrams Incorporated, 1999.
  • Doctors, diviners, and magicians of ancient China.(trans. DeWoskin, Kenneth J.). New York: Columbia University Press, 1983.
  • Dyson, Verne.Forgotten tales of ancient China. New York: Gordon Press Publishers, 1972.
  • Ebrey, Patricia B. The Aristocratic Families of Early Imperial China. A Case Study of the Po-Ling Tsui Family. Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature, and Institutions. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1978.
  • Fang Ch’eng. Humorous tales from ancient China.National Peking University & Chinese Assn. for Folklore. Pasadena, CA: The Oriental Book Store, 1985.
  • Fitzgerald, C. P. Ancient China:3500 Years of China’s Civilization. New York: ibooks, Incorporated, 2006.
  • Granet, M. Festivals and songs of ancient China. New York: Krishna Press, 1973.
  • Hall, Eleanor J. Ancient Chinese Dynasties.World History Series. Farmington Hills: Gale Group, 2000.
  • Han, Zhongmin; Delahaye, Hubert. A journey through ancient China:from the neolithic to the Ming. London: Muller, Blond & White, 1985.
  • Hansen, Chad. Language and logic in ancient China.Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. 1983.
  • Hibbert, Christopher. The emperors of China.Treasures of the world. Chicago, IL: Stonehenge Press, c1981.
  • Hsu, Chin-hsiung. Ancient Chinese society:An epigraphic and archaeological interpretation.  (trans. Ward, Alfred H. C.). South San Francisco: Yee Wen Publishing Company, 1984.
  • Jagchid, Sechin; Symons, Van Jay. Peace, War, and Trade Along the Great Wall:Nomadic-Chinese Interaction through Two Millennia. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1989.
  • Jiao, Tianlong.Lost maritime cultures: China and the Pacific. Honolulu, HI: Bishop Museum Press, 2007.
  • Jiao, Tianlong. The Neolithic of southeast China:cultural transformation and regional interaction on the coast. Youngstown, NY: Cambria Press, 2007.
  • Karlgren, Bernard. Legends and cults in ancient China. Philadelphia, PA: Porcupine Press, Incorporated, 1985.
  • Karlgren, Bernhard. Philology and ancient China. Philadelphia, PA: Porcupine Press, Incorporated, 1981.
  • Laufer, Berthold. Paper and printing in ancient China. New York: Burt Franklin Publisher, 1973.
  • Lee, Lily Xiao Hong and Stefanowska, A.D., eds. Biographical dictionary of Chinese women:antiquity through Sui, 1600 B.C.E.-618 C.E.An East Gate Book. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 2007.
  • Lewis, Mark Edward. The flood myths of early China.SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006.
  • Lewis, Mark Edward. Writing and Authority in Early China.Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999.
  • Liu, Caho-Hui J. Ancient China:2000 years of mystery and adventure to unlock and discover. Philadelphia, PA: Running Press Book Publishers, 1996.
  • Liu, Li. The Chinese Neolithic:Trajectories to Early States. New Studies in Archaeology (also E-book format). Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
  • Liu, Li and Chen, Xingcan. State formation in early China.Duckworth debates in archaeology. London: Duckworth, 2003.
  • Liu, Xinru. Ancient India and ancient China:trade and religious exchanges AD 1-600.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
  • Lloyd, G. E. Adversaries and Authorities:Investigations into Ancient Greek and Chinese Science.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
  • Lloyd, G. E. R. Ancient worlds, modern reflections:philosophical perspectives on Greek and Chinese science and culture.  Oxford: Clarendon Press; Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
  • Lloyd, G. E. R. The ambitions of curiosity:understanding the world in ancient Greece and China. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
  • Lowe, Joseph D. International relations in ancient China.  Berkeley, CA: Joseph D. Lowe Publisher, 1994.
  • Maisels, Charles Keith. The archaeology of politics and power:  where, when, and why the first states formed.  Oxford; Oakville: Oxbow Books, 2010.
  • Müller, Shing; Höllmann, O. & Gui, Putao, eds. Guangdong:archaeology and early texts. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2004.
  • Paludan, Ann. Chinese tomb figurines.  New York: Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 1994.
  • Peerenboom, R. P. Law and morality in ancient China:  the silk manuscripts of Huang-Lao.  Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1993.
  • Peers, Chris J. Imperial Chinese Armies 100 BC-AD 589.  Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1995.
  • Peers, Chris. Warlords of China 700 BC to AD 1662.  London: Arms & Armour Press, 1998.
  • Sage, Steven F. Ancient Sichuan and the unification of China.  SUNY Series in Chinese Local Studies. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992.
  • Schwartz, Benjamin I. The world of thought in ancient China. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989.
  • Sterckx, Roel. The animal and the daemon in early China.  SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002.
  • Sun, Dazhang. Ritual and ceremonious buildings.  (trans. Zhong Guodong; Zhang Long). Ancient Chinese Architecture. New York: Springer, 2002.
  • Sung-Ling, Pu. Strange tales from ancient China.  Torrance, CA: Heian International Publishing, 1987.
  • Tsien, Tsuen-hsuin. Written on bamboo & silk:  the beginnings of Chinese books & inscriptions.  2nd edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.
  • Underhill, Anne P. Craft production and social change in northern China.  Fundamental issues in archaeology. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2003.
  • Wheatley, Paul. The origins and character of the Chinese city:  The Chinese City in Comparative Perspective.  Volume 2. Edison, NJ: Aldine Transaction, 2008.
  • Wheatley, Paul. The origins and character of the Chinese city:  The City in Ancient China.  Volume 1. Edison, NJ: Aldine Transaction, 2008.
  • Yang Hong. Weapons in ancient China.  Elmhurst, NY: Science Press New York, Limited, 1992.

The Han Dynasty

  • Barbieri-Low, Anthony J.. Artisans in early imperial China.  Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press, 2007.
  • Birrell, Anne. Popular Songs and Ballads of Han China.  Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai’i Press, 1993.
  • Brindley, Erica. Individualism in early China:  human agency and the self in thought and politics.  Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2010.
  • Brown, Miranda. The Politics of Mourning in Early China.  Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 2008.
  • The Cambridge History of China: The Ch’in and Han Empires, 221 BC-AD 220.  (eds. Twitchett, Denis C.; Loewe, Michael). Vol. 1. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
  • Campany, Robert Ford. Making transcendents:  ascetics and social memory in early medieval China.  Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawaii, 2009.
  • Crowther, Nigel B Crowther, Nigel B. Sport in ancient times.  series on the ancient world Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2007.
  • Cullen, Christopher. Astronomy and Mathematics in Ancient China:  The Zhou Bi Suan Jing. 1. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
  • Di Cosmo, Nicola. Ancient China and its enemies:  the rise of nomadic power in East Asia history.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
  • Dien, Albert E. Six dynasties civilization.  (220 to 589 AD). New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007.
  • Ebrey, Patricia Buckley. The Aristocratic Families in Early Imperial China:  A Case Study of the Po-ling Ts’ui Family.  Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
  • Eternal China: Splendors from the First Dynasties.  (ed. Li, Jian). Dayton: Dayton Art Institute, 1998.
  • Farmer, J. Michael. Talent of Shu:  Qiao Zhou and the Intellectual World of Early Medieval Sichuan.  (Suny Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture). Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008.
  • Giele, Enno. Imperial decision-making and communication in early China:  a study of Cai Yong’s Duduan.  Opera sinologica, ISSN 0949-7927; 20. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2006.
  • Hardy, Grant & Kinney, Anne Behnke. The establishment of the Han empire and imperial China.  Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2005.
  • Hinsch, Bret. Women in early imperial China.  Asian Voices. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002.
  • Holcombe, Charles. In the shadow of the Han:  literati thought and society at the beginning of the Southern dynasties.  Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai’i Press, 1994.
  • Hopkirk, Peter. Foreign devils on the Silk Road:  the search for the lost cities and treasures of Chinese central Asia.  Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1984.
  • Hsu, Cho-yun. Han agriculture:  the formation of early Chinese agrarian economy, 206 B.C.-A.D. 220.  (ed. Dull, Jack L.). Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1980.
  • Knapp, Keith N. Selfless Offspring:  Filial Children and Social Order in Medieval China.  Honolulu: University of Hawai`i Press, 2005.
  • Knechtges, David R. Court Culture and Literature in Early China.  Variorum Collected Studies Series. Burlington: Ashgate Publishing, 2002.
  • Lewis, Candace J. Into the afterlife:  Han and Six Dynasties Chinese tomb sculpture from the Schloss collection.  Poughkeepsie, NY: Vassar College Art Gallery, 1990.
  • Lewis, Mark Edward. The Early Chinese Empires:  Qin and Han.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007.
  • Liu, An. The Huainanzi:  guide to the theory and practice of government in early Han China.  (Trans. Major, John S.; Meyer, Andrew.; Queen, Sarah.; Roth, Harold R.) New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2009.
  • Liu, Xinru. Ancient India and ancient China:  trade and religious exchanges AD 1-600.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
  • Loewe, Michael. Divination, Mythology and Monarchy in Han China.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
  • Loewe, Michael. Chinese ideas of life and death:  faith, myth, and reason in the Han period (202 BC-AD 220).  London; Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1982.
  • Loewe, Michael. Divination, mythology and monarchy in Han China.  University of Cambridge Oriental Publications; No. 48. Cambridge, UK: New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
  • Loewe, Michael. Everyday life in early Imperial China during the Han period 202 BC- AD 220.  (Reprint: London: Batsford; New York: Putnam, 1968). New York: Dorset Press, 1988.
  • Powers, Martin Joseph. Pattern and person:  ornament, society, and self in classical China.  Harvard East Asian monographs; 262. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2006.
  • Powers, Martin Joseph. Art and political expression in early China.  New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, c1991.
  • The Silk Road: Fabrics from the Han to the T’ang dynasty.  San Francisco, CA: China Books & Periodicals, Incorporated, 1972.
  • Wang, Zhenping. Ambassadors from the Island of Immortals:  China-Japan Relations in the Han-Tang Period.  Asian Interactions and Comparisons. Honolulu: University of Hawai`i Press, 2005.
  • Wyatt, Don J.. Battlefronts real and imagined:  war, border, and identity in the Chinese middle period.  Basingstoke, New Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
  • Yuan, Haiwang. The magic lotus lantern and other tales from the Han Chinese.  World folklore series. Westport, Conn.: Libraries Unlimited, 2006.

The Tang Dynasty

  • Abramson, Marc Samuel. Deep eyes and high noses:  Constructing ethnicity in Tang China (618–907).  Thesis (Ph. D.) — Princeton University, 2001. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International, 2001.
  • Adshead, Samuel Adrian M. T’ang China:  the rise of the East in world history.  Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
  • Benn, Charles D. Daily life in traditional China:  the Tang dynasty.  Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003.
  • Benn, Charles. China’s Golden Age:  Everyday Life in the Tang Dynasty.  Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
  • Bernstein, Richard. Ultimate journey:  retracing the path of an ancient buddhist monk who crossed Asia in search of enlightenment.  New York: A.A. Knopf, 2001.
  • Bielenstein, Hans. Diplomacy and Trade in the Chinese World, 589-1276.  Leiden; Boston; Bedfordshire: Brill, 2005.
  • Bol, Peter K. This culture of ours:  intellectual transitions in T’ang and Sung China.  Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1994.
  • Brooman, Josh. Imperial China:  From the First Emperor to Kublai Khan.  White Plains, NY: Longman Publishing Group, 1991.
  • Capon, Edmund. Tang China:  vision and splendour of a golden age.  Echoes of the Ancient World. London: Macdonald Orbis, 1989.
  • Chua, Amy. Day of Empire:  How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance–and Why They Fall.  Harpswell, Maine: Anchor, 2009.
  • Clark, Hugh R. Community, Trade, and Networks:  Southern Fujian Province from the Third to the Thirteenth Centuries.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
  • Clements, Jonathan. Wu:  the Chinese empress who schemed, seduced and murdered her way to become a living god.  Stroud: Sutton Publishing: 2007.
  • De Pee, Christian. The writing of weddings in middle-period China:  Text and ritual practice in the eighth through fourteenth centuries.  Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2007.
  • Drompp, Michael R. Tang China and the Collapse of the Uighur Empire:  A Documentary History.  Leiden; Boston; Bedfordshire: Brill, 2005.
  • Forte, Antonino. Political Propaganda and Ideology in China at the End of the Seventh Century.  Boston, MA: Cheng & Tsui Company, 2007.
  • Heng, Chye Kiang. Cities of aristocrats and bureaucrats:  The development of medieval Chinese cities.  Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1999.
  • Holdsworth, May. Women of the Tang Dynasty.  Genius of China Close-Up Guides. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2000.
  • Kroll, Paul W.. Essays in Medieval Chinese Literature and Cultural History.  Surrey, United Kingdom: Variorum, 2009.
  • Liu, Xinru. The silk road:  overland trade and cultural interactions in Eurasia.  Washington, D.C.: American Historical Association, 1998.
  • Liu, Xinru. Ancient India and ancient China:  trade and religious exchanges AD 1-600.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
  • Lo, Vivienne & Cullen, Christopher. Medieval Chinese medicine:  the Dunhuang medical manuscripts.  New York: Routledge, 2004.
  • Lorge, Peter. Chinese Warfare 900-1795:  Empire Without Nation.  London; New York: Routledge, 2005.
  • McMullen, David. State and scholars in Tang China.  Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature & Institutions. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
  • Ning, Qiang. Art, religion, and politics in medieval China:  the Dunhuang cave of the Zhai Family.  Honolulu: University of Hawai? Press, 2004.
  • Rothschild, N. Harry. Wu Zhao:  China’s Only Woman Emperor.  New York: Pearson/Longman, 2008.
  • Tung, Jowen R. Fables for the patriarchs:  Gender politics in Tang discourse.  Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, 2000.
  • Wang, Gungwu. Building Central Power in China:  Foundation for Reunification (883-947 B. C.).  Singapore: Marshall Cavendish International, 2006.
  • Wardwell, Anne E.; Watt, James C. Y. When Silk Was Gold:  Central Asian and Chinese Textiles.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.
  • Wechsler, Howard J. Offerings of jade and silk:  ritual and symbol in the legitimation of the T’ang dynasty.  New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1985.
  • Xiong, Victor C. Sui-Tang Chang’an:  A study in the urban history of medieval China.  Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies, No. 85. Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, 2001.

The Song Dynasty

  • Bao, Yuheng. Renaissance in China:  the culture and art of the Song dynasty, 907-1279 = [Zhongguo di wen yi fu xing : Song wen hua yu yi shu, 907-1279].  Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen PRess, 2007.
  • Biran, Michal. The Empire of the Qara Khitai in Eurasian History:  Between China and the Islamic World.  Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
  • Bol, Peter K. This culture of ours:  intellectual transitions in T’ang and Sung China.  Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1994.
  • Bossler, Beverly J. Powerful Relations, Kinship, Status, and the State in Sung China (960-1279).  Harvard-Yenching Institute Monographs, Vol. 43. Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998.
  • Brooman, Josh. Imperial China:  From the First Emperor to Kublai Khan.  White Plains, NY: Longman Publishing Group, 1991.
  • The Cambridge History of China: Alien Regimes and Border States, 710-1368.  (eds. Twitchett, Denis C.; Franke, Herbert). New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
  • Chaffee, John W. Branches of Heaven:  A History of the Imperial Clan of Sung China.  Harvard East Asia Monographs, Vol. 183. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999.
  • Chaffee, John W. The thorny gates of learning in Sung China:  a social history of examinations (960-1279 AD).  New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
  • Davis, Edward L. Society and the supernatural in Song China.  Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2001.
  • Davis, Richard L. Wind against the mountain:  The crisis of politics and culture in thirteenth-century China.  Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series; 42. Cambridge: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University Press, 1996.
  • Gernet, Jacques. Daily Life in China, on the Eve of the Mongol Invasion, 1250-1276.  Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1970.
  • Gerritsen, Anne. Ji’an Literati and the local in Song-Yuan-Ming China.  Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2007.
  • Godden, Geoffrey. Oriental export market porcelain and its influence on European wares.  Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press International, Incorporated, 1980.
  • Heng, Chye Kiang. Cities of Aristocrats and Bureaucrats:  The Development of Medieval Chinese Cityscapes.  Singapore: Singapore University Press Proprietary, Limited, 1999.
  • Levine, Ari Daniel. Divided by a common language:  factional conflict in late Northern Song China.  Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press, 2008.
  • Li, Huishu. Empresses, art, & agency in Song dynasty China.  Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2010.
  • So, Billy K. L. Prosperity, region, and institutions in maritime China:  The South Fukien pattern, 946-1368.  Harvard East Asian Monographs; 195. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center: Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2000.
  • Tanigawa, Michio. Medieval Chinese society and the local community.  (trans. ed. Fogel, Joshua A.). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1985.
  • Tsao, Hsingyuan. Differences preserved:  Reconstructed tombs from the Liao and Song Dynasties.  Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000.
  • Von Glahn, Richard. Fountain of fortune:  money and monetary policy in China, eleventh to seventeenth centuries. 1000-1700  Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996.
  • Walton, Linda. Academies and society in Southern Sung China.  Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1999.
  • Wang, Robin. Images of women in Chinese thought and culture:  writings from the pre-Qin period to the Song dynasty.  Indianapolis: Hackett Pub. Co., 2003.
  • Yuan, Tsai. Family and property in Sung China:  Yuan Tsai’s Precepts for social life.  (trans. Ebrey, Patricia Buckley). Princeton Library of Asian Translations. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984.
  • Zurndorfer, H. T. Change and Continuity in Chinese Local History:  The Development of Hui-Chou Prefecture 800 to 1800.  Sinica Leidensia Series, 20. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 1989.

The Yuan Dynasty

  • Allsen, Thomas T. Commodity and exchange in the Mongol empire:  a cultural history of Islamic textiles.  Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
  • Allsen, Thomas T. Conquest and Culture in Mongol Eurasia.  Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
  • Barfield, Thomas J. The perilous frontier:  nomadic empires and China.  Studies in Social Discontinuity. Malden: Blackwell, 1992.
  • Barnes, Linda L. Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts:  China, Healing, and the West To 1848.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005.
  • Bernhardt, Kathryn. Women and Property in China, 960-1949.  Law, Society, and Culture in China Series. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999.
  • Biran, Michal. The Empire of the Qara Khitai in Eurasian History:  Between China and the Islamic World.  Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
  • Brook, Timothy. The troubled empire:  China in the Yuan and Ming dynasties.  Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010.
  • Brooman, Josh. Imperial China:  From the First Emperor to Kublai Khan.  White Plains, NY: Longman Publishing Group, 1991.
  • Chang, Chun-shu; Chang, Shelley Hsueh-lun. Crisis and transformation in seventeenth-century China:  society, culture, and modernity in Li Yu’s world.  Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1992.
  • Chen, Yuan. Western and central Asians in China under the Mongols:  their transformation into Chinese = [Yuan hsi yu jen Hua hua kao.  Monumenta Serica Monograph Series, 15. Pbk. ed. Nettetal: Steyler Verlag, 1989.
  • Chua, Amy. Day of Empire:  How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance–and Why They Fall.  Harpswell, Maine: Anchor, 2009.
  • Craughwell, Thomas J. The rise and fall of the second largest empire in history:  how Genghis Khan’s Mongols almost conquered the world.  Beverly, MA.: Fair Winds Press, 2010.
  • Dunnell, Ruth W. Chinggis Khan:  world conqueror.  Boston: Longman, 2010.
  • Endicott-West, Elizabeth. Mongolian Rule in China:  Local Administration in the Yuan Dynasty.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989.
  • Gernet, Jacques. Daily Life in China, on the Eve of the Mongol Invasion, 1250-1276.  Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1970.
  • Haw, Stephen. Marco Polo in China:  A Venetian in the Realm of Khubilal Khan.  London, New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2005.
  • Herman, John E.. Amid the clouds and mist:  China’s colonization of Guizhou.  LinkHarvard East Asian monographs ; 293. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2007.
  • Idema, Wilt L.. Judge Bao and the Rule of Law:  Eight Ballad-stories from the Period 1250-1450.  Toh Tuck Link, Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Group, 2009.
  • Kahn, Paul. The Secret History of the Mongols:  The Origin of Chingis Khan.  Boston: Cheng & Tsui Company, 1998.
  • Lane, George. Genghis Khan and Mongol rule.  Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2004.
  • Mote, Frederick W. Imperial China, 900-1800.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000.
  • Polo, Marco. The Travels of Marco Polo.  New York: Everyman’s Library 2008.
  • Rossabi, Morris. The Jurchens in the Yuan and Ming.  Ithaca, NY: Cornell University East Asia Program, 1982.
  • So, Billy K. L. Prosperity, region, and institutions in maritime China:  The South Fukien pattern, 946-1368.  Harvard East Asian Monographs; 195. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center: Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2000.
  • Von Glahn, Richard. Fountain of fortune:  money and monetary policy in China, eleventh to seventeenth centuries. 1000-1700  Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996.

The Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 CE)

  • Antony, Robert J. Like froth floating on the sea:  the world of pirates and seafarers in late imperial south China.  China research monograph; 56. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, 2003.
  • Becker, Jasper. City of heavenly tranquility:  Beijing in the history of China.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
  • Berg, Daria. The Quest for Gentility in China:  Negotiations Beyond Gender and Class.  New York: Routledge, 2009.
  • Birch, Cyril. Scenes for Mandarins:  The Elite Theater of the Ming.  Translations from the Asian Classics. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995.
  • Bray, Francesca. Technology and Society in Ming China (1368-1644).  Historical Perspectives on Technology, Society and Culture Series. Washington: American Historical Association, 2000.
  • Brokaw, Cynthia Joanne. The Ledgers of Merit and Demerit:  Social Change and Moral Order in Late Imperial China.  Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991.
  • Brook, Timothy. The troubled empire:  China in the Yuan and Ming dynasties.  Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010.
  • Brook, Timothy. The Chinese state in Ming society.  London; New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2005.
  • Brook, Timothy. The Confusions of Pleasure, Commerce and Culture in Ming China.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
  • The Cambridge History of China: The Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644.  (eds. Twitchett, Denis C.; Mote, Frederick W.). New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
  • Cass, Victoria. Dangerous Women, Warriors, Grannies and Geishas of the Ming.  Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1999.
  • Chan, Albert S. The glory and fall of the Ming dynasty.  Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1982.
  • Chan, Hok-lam. China and the Mongols:  History and legend under the Yuan and Ming.  Variorum Collected Studies, No. CS647. Burlington: Ashgate Publishing Company; 1999.
  • Chang, Chun-Shu; Chang, Shelley H. Crisis and Transformation in Seventeenth-Century China:  Society, Culture, and Modernity in Li Yu’s World.  Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998.
  • Clunas, Craig. Pictures and Visuality in Early Modern China.  Reaktion Books. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.
  • Clunas, Craig. Empire of great brightness:  visual and material cultures of Ming China, 1368-1644.  Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 2007.
  • Clunas, Craig. Superfluous things:  Material culture and social status in early modern China.  Cambridge: Polity, 1991.
  • Cooper, Michael. Rodriques the Interpreter:  An Early Jesuit in Japan and China.  New York: Weatherhill, Incorporated, 1994.
  • Cummins, J. S. A Question of Rites:  Friar Domingo Navarrete and the Jesuits in China.  Brookfield, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 1992.
  • Dardess, John W. Blood and History in China:  The Donglin Faction and Its Repression.  Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2002.
  • de Bary, Wm. Theodore; Lufrano, Richard J. Sources of Chinese Tradition:  From 1600 Through the Twentieth Century.  2nd Edition. Introduction to Asian Civilizations Series, Vol. 2. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001.
  • Des Forges, Roger V. Cultural centrality and political change in Chinese history:  northeast Henan in the fall of the Ming.  Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003.
  • Di Cosmo, Nicola; Bao, Dalizhabu. Manchu-Mongol relations on the eve of the Qing conquest:  A documentary history, 1636-1644.  Inner Asian Library, Vol. 1. Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, Incorporated, 2001.
  • Dixin, Xu; Wu Chengming. Chinese Capitalism, 1522-1840.  Studies on the Chinese Economy. New York: Saint Martin’s Press, 1999.
  • Dreyer, Edward L. Zheng He:  China and the oceans in the early Ming dynasty, 1405-1433  New York: Pearson Longman, 2007.
  • Eastman, Lloyd E. Family, fields, and ancestors:  constancy and change in China’s social and economic history, 1550-1949.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
  • Faure, David. Emperor and ancestor:  state and lineage in South China.  Stanford, CA.: Stanford University Press, 2007.
  • Fei, Si-yen. Negotiating Urban Space:  Urbanization and Late Ming Nanjing.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2009.
  • Feng, Meng-lung; Yang, Shuhui; Yang, Yunqin. Stories Old and New:  A Ming Dynasty Collection.  Ming Dynasty Collection. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000.
  • Finnane, Antonia. Speaking of Yangzhou:  a Chinese city, 1550-1850.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004.
  • Gerritsen, Anne. Ji’an Literati and the local in Song-Yuan-Ming China.  Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2007.
  • Hattaway, Paul. China’s Christian martyrs:  1300 years of Christians in China who have died for their faith.  Oxford: Monarch, 2007.
  • Holdsworth, May. Adorning the empress.  Hong Kong: FormAsia, 2002.
  • Horner, Charles. Rising China and its postmodern fate:  memories of empire in a new global context.  Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2009.
  • Lauer, Uta. A Master of his own:  The Calligraphy of the Chan Abbot Zhongfeng Mingben (1262-1323).  Studien zur ostasiatischen Schriftkunst Band 5. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2002.
  • Lee, James Z. Political economy of a frontier:  Southwest China, 1250-1850.  Harvard East Asian Monographs, Vol. 190. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000.
  • Li, Kangying. The Ming maritime trade policy in transition, 1368 to 1567.  Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2010.
  • Lorge, Peter. War, Politics and Society in Early Modern China, 900-1795:  Empire Without Nation.  London; New York: Routledge, 2005.
  • Lowry, Kathryn A. The Tapestry of Popular Songs in 16th- and 17th-Century China:  Reading, Imitation, and Desire.  Leiden; Boston; Bedfordshire: Brill, 2005.
  • Mote, Frederick W. Imperial China, 900-1800.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000.
  • Mungello, David E. The great encounter of China and the West, 1500-1800.  2nd edition. Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005.
  • Nappi, Carla Suzan. The monkey and the inkpot:  natural history and its transformations in early modern China.  Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2009.
  • Naquin, Susan. Peking:  Temples, public space and urban identities, 1400-1900.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.
  • Rapp, John A.; Andrew, Anita M. Autocracy and China’s Rebel Founding Emperors:  Comparing Chairman Mao and Ming Taizu.  Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2000.
  • Robinson, David M. Bandits, eunuchs, and the son of heaven:  rebellion and the economy of violence in mid-Ming China.  Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2001.
  • Robinson, David M.. Culture, courtiers, and competition:  the Ming court (1368-1644).  Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Asia Center, 2008.
  • Schafer, Dagmar. Weaving an economic pattern in Ming times, 1368-1644:  the production of silk weaves in the state-owned silk workshops.  English with some Chinese. Heidelberg: Edition Forum, 2003.
  • Schneewind, Sarah. A tale of two melons:  emperor and subject in Ming China.  Indianapolis: Hackett Pub. Co., 2006.
  • Shen, Guangren. Elite theatre in Ming China, 1368-1644.  London; New York: Routledge, 2005.
  • Shin, Leo Kwok-yueh. The making of the Chinese state:  ethnicity and expansion on the Ming borderlands.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
  • Swope, Kenneth. A dragon’s head and a serpent’s tail:  Ming China and the first great East Asian war, 1592-1598.  Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 2009.
  • Tsai, Shih-Shan Henry. Perpetual happiness:  The Ming Emperor Yongle.  Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001.
  • Vollmer, John M. Clothed to Rule the Universe:  Ming to Qing Textiles at the Art Institute of Chicago.  Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000.
  • Xiao, Li-ling. The eternal present of the past:  illustration, theatre, and reading in the Wanli period, 1573-1619.  Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishing, 2007.
  • Zheng, Zhenman. Family lineage organization and social change in Ming and Qing Fujian.  Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2001.

The Qing Dynasty

  • Adams, William H. D. In the Far East:  A Narrative of Exploration and Adventure in Cochin-China, Cambodia, Laos and Siam.  (Originally published 1883. Also on Google Books.). Whitefish, MT: Kessinger Publishing, 2007.
  • Aijmer, Goran. New year celebrations in Central China in late imperial times.  Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2003.
  • Antony, Robert J. Like froth floating on the sea:  the world of pirates and seafarers in late imperial south China.  China research monograph; 56. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, 2003.
  • Atwill, David G. The Chinese Sultanate:  Islam, Ethnicity, and the Panthay Rebellion in Southwest China, 1856-1873.  Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2005.
  • Austin, Alvyn. China’s millions:  the China Inland Mission and late Qing society, 1832-1905.  Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2007.
  • Bai, Limin. Shaping the ideal child:  children and their primers in late imperial China.  Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2005.
  • Barnes, Linda L. Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts:  China, Healing, and the West to 1848.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007.
  • Bello, David Anthony. Opium and the limits of empire:  drug prohibition in the Chinese interior, 1729-1850.  Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center; Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2005.
  • Bickers, Robert; Henriot, Christian. New Frontiers:  Imperialism’s New Communities in East Asia, 1842-1953.  Studies in Imperialism. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000.
  • Brook, Timothy; Wakabayashi, Bob T. Opium regimes:  China, Britain and Japan, 1839-1952.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.
  • Brunero, Donna. Britain’s Imperial Cornerstone in China:  The Chinese Maritime Customs Service, 1854-1949.  London, New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2005.
  • Buoye, Thomas M. Manslaughter, markets and moral economy:  Violent disputes over property rights in 18th-century China.  Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature & Institutions. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
  • Carroll, Peter J. Between heaven and modernity:  reconstructing Suzhou, 1895-1937.  Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2006.
  • Chang, Michael G. A court on horseback:  imperial touring and the construction of Qing rule, 1680-1785.  Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2007.
  • Chow, Kai-wing. Publishing, culture, and power in early modern China.  Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004.
  • Crossley, Pamela Kyle. The wobbling pivot,  China since 1800: an interpretive history.  Chichester, West Sussex, U.K.; Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
  • Curtis, Emily Byrne. Glass exchange between Europe and China, 1550-1800:  diplomatic, mercantile and technological interactions.  Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, 2009.
  • Dai, Yingcong. The Sichuan frontier and Tibet:  imperial strategy in the early Qing.  Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press, 2009
  • Di Cosmo, Nicola; Bao, Dalizhabu. Manchu-Mongol relations on the eve of the Qing conquest:  A documentary history, 1636-1644.  Inner Asian Library, Vol. 1. Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, Incorporated, 2001.
  • Dickinson, Gary; Wrigglesworth, Linda. Imperial Wardrobe.  New York: Ten Speed Press, 2000.
  • Diktter, Frank. Exotic commodities:  modern objects and everyday life in China.  New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2007.
  • Dodgen, Randall A. Controlling the dragon:  Confucian engineers and the Yellow River in late imperial China.  Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2001.
  • Dott, Brian R. Identity Reflections:  Pilgrimages to Mount Tai in Late Imperial China.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005.
  • Elleman, Bruce A. Modern Chinese warfare, 1795-1989.  Warfare and History. London: Routledge, 2001.
  • Elliiott, Jane E. Some Did It for Civilisation; Some Did It for Their Country:  A Revised View of the Boxer War.  Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2002.
  • Elliott, Mark C. The Manchu way:  The eight banners and ethnic identity in late imperial China.  Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001.
  • Enatsu, Yoshiki. Banner legacy:  the rise of the Fengtian local elite at the end of the Qing.  Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, The University of Michigan 2004.
  • Fan, Fa-Ti. British Naturalists in Qing China:  Science, Empire, and Cultural Encounter.  Belknap Press. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004.
  • Fenby, Jonathan. Modern China:  The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850 to the Present.  New York: HarperCollins, 2009.
  • Fong, Grace S.. Herself an author:  gender, agency, and writing in late Imperial China.  Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press, 2008.
  • Garrett, Valery M.. Chinese dress:  from the Qing Dynasty to the Present.  North Clarendon, Vermont: Tuttle Publishing, 2008.
  • Garrett, Valery M. Heaven is High and the Emperor Far Away:  Mandarins and Merchants in Old Canton.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
  • Giersch, Charles Patterson. Asian borderlands:  the transformation of Qing China’s Yunnan frontier.  Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006.
  • Grasso, June. Modernization and Revolution in China:  From the Opium Wars to the Olympics.  Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2009.
  • Ho, Chuimei & Bronson, Bennet. Splendors of China’s Forbidden City:  the glorious reign of Emperor Qianlong.  London; New York: Merrell; Chicago: In association with the Field Museum, 2004.
  • Holdsworth, May. Adorning the empress.  Hong Kong: FormAsia, 2002.
  • Horner, Charles. Rising China and its postmodern fate:  memories of empire in a new global context.  Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2009.
  • Hostetler, Laura. Qing Colonial Enterprise:  Ethnography and Cartography in Early Modern China.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.
  • Hsiung, Ping-chen. A tender voyage: children and childhood in late imperial China.  Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2005.
  • Huang, Martin W. Negotiating Masculinities in Late Imperial China.  Honolulu: University of Hawai`i Press, 2006.
  • Huters, Theodore. Bringing the world home: appropriating the West in late Qing and early Republican China.  Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2005.
  • Jones, Stephen. Plucking the winds:  lives of village musicians in old and new China.  Leiden: CHIME Foundation, 2004.
  • Kang, Xiaofei. The cult of the fox:  power, gender, and popular religion in late imperial and modern China.  New York: Columbia University Press, 2006.
  • Kayaoglu, Turan. Legal imperialism:  sovereignty and extraterritoriality in Japan, the Ottoman Empire, and China.  Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
  • Laidler, Keith. The last empress:  the She-Dragon of China.  Chichester: Wiley, 2003.
  • Larsen, Kirk W. Tradition, treaties, and trade:  Qing imperialism and Chosaeon Korea, 1850-1910.  Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Asia Center, 2008.
  • Lau, Grace. Picturing the Chinese:  early western photographs and postcards of China.  South Sanfrancisco, California: Long River Press, 2009.
  • Lee, Joseph Tse-Hei. The Bible and the gun:  Christianity in South China, 1860-1900.  New York: Routledge, 2003.
  • Leibold, James. Reconfiguring Chinese nationalism:  how the Qing frontier and its indigenes became Chinese.  Basingstoke, California: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
  • Liu, Chang. Peasants and Revolution in Rural China:  Rural Political Change in the North China Plain and the Yangzi Delta, 1850-1949.  New York: Routledge, 2009.
  • Merwin, Samuel. Drugging a Nation:  The Story of China and the Opium Curse.  Whitefish, MT: Kessinger Publishing, 2007.
  • Meyer-Fong, Tobie S. Building culture in early Qing Yangzhou.  Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003.
  • Muscolino, Micah S. Fishing Wars and Environmental Change in Late Imperial and Modern China.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009.
  • Ng, On Cho and Wang, Qingjia. Mirroring the Past:  The Writing and Use of History in Imperial China.  Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2005.
  • Paine, S. C. M. The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895:  perceptions, power, and primacy.  Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
  • Price, Sean. Cixi:  evil empress of China?.  London: Franklin Watts, 2009.
  • Pu Yi, Henry and Kramer, Paul. The last Manchu:  the autobiography of Henry Pu Yi, last emperor of China.  New York: Skyhorse Pub., 2010.
  • Reardon-Anderson, James. Reluctant pioneers:  China’s expansion northward, 1644-1937.  Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005.
  • Rogaski, Ruth. Hygienic modernity:  meanings of health and disease in treaty-port China.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.
  • Santangelo, Paolo. Materials for an anatomy of personality in late imperial China.  Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2010.
  • Swope, Kenneth. Warfare in China Since 1600.  Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, Limited, 2005.
  • Van Dyke, Paul A.. The Canton Trade:  Life and Enterprise on the China Coast, 1700-1845.  Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2008.
  • Vollmer, John. Ruling from the dragon throne:  costume of the Qing dynasty (1644-1911).  Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 2003.
  • Vollmer, John M. Clothed to Rule the Universe:  Ming to Qing Textiles at the Art Institute of Chicago.  Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000.
  • Yeh, Catherine Vance. Shanghai love:  courtesans, intellectuals, and entertainment culture, 1850-1910.  Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006.
  • Yener, Emir. From the sail to the steam:  naval modernization in the Ottoman, Russian, Chinese and Japanese empires, 1830-1905.  Saarbrucken: Lambert Academic Publishing, 2010.
  • Zachmann, Urs Matthias. China and Japan in the late Meiji period:  China policy and the Japanese discourse on national identity, 1895-1904.  New York, NY: Routledge, 2009.

The Republican Era

  • Astor, Gerald. The jungle war:  mavericks, marauders, and madmen in the China-Burma-India theater of World War II.  Hoboken, NJ: J. Wiley & Sons, 2004.
  • Atwood, Christopher Pratt. Young Mongols and vigilantes in inner Mongolia’s interregnum decades, 1911-1931.  Brill’s Inner Asian Library, Vol. 6 Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2002.
  • Averill, Stephen C. Revolution in the highlands:  China’s Jinggangshan base area.  State and society in East Asia. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006.
  • Bailey, Paul John. China in the twentieth century.  2nd ed. Historical Association Studies. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2001.
  • Barrett, David P.; Shyu, Lawrence N. Chinese Collaboration with Japan, 1932-1945:  The Limits of Accomodation.  Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001.
  • Peattie, Mark; Drea, Edward , and van de Ven, Hans, eds. The battle for China: Essays on the military history of the Sino-Japanese war of 1937-1945. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010.
  • Baumler, Alan. The Chinese and Opium under the Republic:  Worse Than Floods and Wild Beasts.  Albany New York: State University of New York Press, 2008.
  • Bays, Daniel H.. China’s Christian colleges:  cross-cultural connections, 1900-1950.  Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2009.
  • Bian, Morris L. The Making of the State Enterprise System in Modern China:  The Dynamics of Institutional Change.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006.
  • Borowy, Iris. Uneasy Encounters:  The Politics of Medicine and Health in China 1900-1937.  New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2009.
  • Bradley, James. The Imperial Cruise:  A True Story of Empire and War.  London: Little Brown and Company, 2009.
  • Brokaw, Cynthia Joanne. Commerce in culture:  the Sibao book trade in the Qing and Republican periods.  Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2007.
  • Brook, Timothy. Collaboration:  Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005.
  • The Cambridge history of China: Republican China 1912-1949.  (eds. Fairbank, John K.; Feuerwerke, Albert). New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
  • Chan, S. J.East River Column:  Hong Kong Guerrillas in the Second World War and After.  Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2009.
  • Chang, David W. The scholar and the tiger: a memoir of famine and war in revolutionary China.  Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2009.
  • Chang, Jung. Wild swans:  three daughters of China.  New York: Touchstone, 2003.
  • Cheek, Timothy. Mao Zedong and China’s Revolution:  A Brief History with Documents.  The Bedford Series in History and Culture. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
  • Chen, Xiaoming. From the May Fourth Movement to Communist Revolution:  Guo Moruo and the Chinese Path to Communism.  Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 2008.
  • Cong, Xiaoping. Teachers’ schools and the making of the modern Chinese nation-state, 1897-1937.  Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2007.
  • Curran, Thomas D. Educational Reform in Republican China:  The Failure of Educators to Create a Modern Nation.  Lewiston, New York; Ceredigion, UK: Edwin Mellen Press, 2005.
  • Diamant, Neil Jeffrey. Embattled glory:  veterans, military families, and the politics of patriotism in China, 1949-2007.  Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing, 2008.
  • Dingle, Edwin J.. China’s Revolution, 1911-1912:  A Historical and Political Record of the Civil War.  Whitefish, Montana: Kessinger Publishing, 2008.
  • Dirlik, Arif. Marxism in the Chinese revolution.  Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2005.
  • Dong, Madeleine Yue. Republican Beijing:  The City and Its Histories.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.
  • Donovan, Sandra. Madame Chiang Kai-shek:  face of modern China.  Minneapolis, Minn.: Compass Point Books, 2007.
  • Elleman, Bruce A. Wilson and China:  a revised history of the Shandong question.  Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 2002.
  • Elleman, Bruce A.. Moscow and the emergence of communist power in China, 1925-30:  the Nanchang Uprising and the birth of the Red Army.  New York: Routledge, 2009.
  • Fairbank, John King. The great Chinese revolution, 1800-1985:  1800-1985.  New York: HarperCollins, 2008.
  • Fenby, Jonathan. Modern China:  The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850 to the Present.  New York: HarperCollins, 2009.
  • Fenby, Jonathan. Chiang Kai-shek:  China’s generalissimo and the nation he lost.  1st Carroll & Graf edition. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2004.
  • Field, Andrew. A Dazzling Dance:  Cabaret Culture and Modernity in Old Shanghai, 1919-1954.  Hong Kong: The Chinese Universitry Press, 2009.
  • Fung, Edmund S. K. The intellectual foundations of Chinese modernity:  cultural and political thought in the Republican era.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
  • Gao, Wenqian. Zhou Enlai:  the last perfect revolutionary: a biography.  New York, NY: PublicAffairs (distrib. Perseus Book Group), 2007.
  • Goossaert, Vincent. The Taoists of Peking, 1800-1949:  a social history of urban clerics.  Cambridge, M.A.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2007.
  • Grasso, June. Modernization and Revolution in China:  From the Opium Wars to the Olympics.  Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2009.
  • Han, Xiaorong. Chinese discourses on the peasant, 1900-1949.  Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005.
  • Ho, Virgil. Understanding Canton:  Rethinking Popular Culture in the Republican Period.  Studies on Contemporary China. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
  • Huters, Theodore. Bringing the world home: appropriating the West in late Qing and early Republican China.  Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2005.
  • Ip, Hung-Yok. Intellectuals in Revolutionary China, 1921-1949:  Leaders, Heroes and Sophisticates.  New York: Routledge, 2009.
  • Isaacs, Harold Robert The tragedy of the Chinese Revolution.  Chicago, Ill.: Haymarket Books; Distribution in the U.S. through Consortium Book Sales and Distribution, 2010.
  • Karl, Rebecca E. Staging the world:  Chinese nationalism at the turn of the twentieth century.  Asia-Pacific. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002.
  • Knight, Nick. Marxist Philosophy in China:  From Qu Qiubai to Mao Zedong, 1923-1945.  New York: Springer, 2005.
  • Kushner, Barak. The thought war:  Japanese imperial propaganda.  Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2006.
  • Lary, Diana. China’s Republic.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
  • Lawrance, Alan. China since 1919:  Revolution and reform: a sourcebook.  London; New York: Routledge, 2004.
  • Li, Charles N.The bitter sea:  coming of age in a China before Mao.  New York: HarperCollins, 2008.
  • Li, Danke. Echoes of Chongqing:  women in wartime China.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010.
  • Li, Laura Tyson. Madame Chiang Kai-Shek:  China’s eternal first lady.  1st ed. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006.
  • Lindsay, Hsiao Li. Bold plum:  With the guerrillas in China’s war against Japan.  Morrisville, N.C.: Lulu Press, 2007.
  • Ma, Yuxin. Women journalists and feminism in China, 1898-1937.  Amherst, N.Y.: Cambria Press, 2010.
  • Mittler, Barbara. A newspaper for China?:  power, identity, and change in Shanghai’s news media, 1872-1912.  Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center: Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2004.
  • Pang, Laikwan. Building a new China in cinema:  the Chinese left-wing cinema movement, 1932-1937.  Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002.
  • Rowan, Roy. Chasing the dragon:  a veteran journalist’s firsthand account of the 1949 Chinese Revolution.  Guilford, Conn.: Lyons Press, 2004.
  • Schoppa, R. Keith. Twentieth Century China:  A History in Documents.  Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
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