Suggested Readings
General Background
- Eberhard, Wolfram
- History of China, University of California Press
- Hucker, Charles O
- China to 1850: A Short History, Stanford University Press
- Needham, Joseph
- Science in Traditional China, 144p, 1982, Harvard University Press
- Rodzinsky, Witold
- History of China, Vol. 1, Pergamon
- Yee, Dennis K, Defrancis, John Ed.
- Chinese Romanization Self-Study Guide, University of Hawaii Press
Specialized Readings in English
- Berry, Margaret
- Chinese Classic Novels: An Annotated Bibliography of Chiefly English Language Studies, 1988, Garland Publishers
- Birch, Cyril, Ed
- Stories From a Ming Collection (Feng Menglong, Ed)
- Bodde, Derk and Morris, Clarence
- Law in Imperial China, Pennsylvania Paperback Series, University of Pa Press
- Chang, K C
- Art, Myth and Ritual: The Path to Political Authority in Ancient China
- DeBary, William T
- Self and Society in Ming Thought
- Glahn, Richard Von
- The Country of Streams and Grottoes: Expansion, Settlement and the Civilizing of the Sichuan Frontier in Song Times
- Guisso, R W
- Wu Tse-t'ien and the Politics of Legitimation in Tang China Occasional Papers II (Illus) 1978 WWUCEAS
- Haeger, John W, ed
- Crisis and Prosperity in Song China
- Hanan, Patrick
- Chinese Vernacular Story, 1981, Harvard University
- Hansen, Valerie
- Changing Gods in Medieval China, Princeton Univ Press 1989
- Hegel, Robert E
- The Novel in 17th Century China
- Hsia, C T
- The Classic Chinese Novel: A Critical Introduction, Indiana Univ Press
- Hsu, Kylie
- Discourse Analysis of Temporal Markers in Written and Spoken Mandarin Chinese : The Interaction of Semantics, Syntax, and Pragmatics, Edwin Mellen Press
- Hudson, Thomas, Ed
- Chinese Scholar's Studio: Artistic Life in the Late Ming Period, Li Chu-tsing et al
- Liu, Xinru
- Ancient India and Ancient China: Trade and Religious Exchange, AD 1-1600 (illus) 248p 1988 Oxford University Press
- Mair, Victor H
- T'ang Transformation Texts: A Study of the Buddhist Contribution to the Rise of Vernacular Fiction and Drama in China Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series No 28, 1989 Harvard University Press
- Murck, Alfreda
- Poetry and Painting in Song China: The Subtle Art of Dissent
- Naquin, Susan
- Shantung Rebellion: The Wang Lun Uprising of 1774, 256p 1981 Yale Univ Press
- Needham, Joseph
- Science and Civilisation in China, Vol 5, Chemical and Chemical Technology: Part 2, Spagyrical Discovery and Invention, Magisteries of Gold and Immortality; Part 3, Spagyrical Discovery and Invention, Historical Survey from Cinnabar Elixars to Synthetic Insulin; Part 5, Physiological Alchemy; Part 7, Military Technology: The Epic of Gunpowder. Oxford University Press.
- Schaefer, Edward H
- Pacing the Void: T'ang Approaches to the Stars, 1978, University of California Press
- Short, Mick Ed
- Reading, Analysing and Teaching Literature, Longman
- Sivin, Nathan, Ed
- Science and Technology in East Asia, 1977, Watson Pub Intl
- Change and Continuity in Early Cosmology: The Great Commentary to the Book of Changes, In Kyoto University Journal of Research in the Humanities, March 1991
- State, Cosmos and Body in the Last Three Centuries B.C. Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies Vol. 55, No 1 (June 1995)
- Sturman, Peter Charles
- Mi Fu: Style and the Art of Calligraphy in Northern Song China
- Yang, Shuhui
- Appropriation and Representation: Feng Menglong and the Chinese Vernacular Story, Michigan Papers in Chinese Studies No 79
- Stories Old and New: A Ming Dynasty Collection, Compiled by Feng Menglong
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