General
a. Reference
Japanese Scholarship on Early China, 1987-1991: Summaries from Shigaku Zasshi. Early China Special Moniograph Series No. 6. Ed. Lothar von Falkenhausen. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, 2002. Translated summaries of Japanese scholarship on early China from Shigaku Zasshi for the period not covered in Early China. See preceding entry.
Han Dynasty History Project. "Official Titles of the Han Dynasty: A
Tentative List" mimeo. Seattle: University of Washington, n.d.
A working list developed for the now defunct Han Project at the University of
Washington. Contains some titles not found in Bielenstein or Hucker. Renderings
are based on Dubs. Downloadable copy at http://e-asia.uoregon.edu/homer/
Honey, David B. Incense at the Altar: Pioneering Sinologists and the Development of Cllassical Chinese Philology.
New Haven: American Oriental Society, 2001. An
introduction (and paean) to early Western sinologists emphasizing the
important contributions of those who based their studies on solid
textual work. The work of many of these men (e.g., Pelliot and
Maspero) on Early Imperial China is stilled unsurpassed and should be
consulted by beginning and experienced researchers alike. Many of
these works are available on line at the Les classiques des sciences sociales web site described below. See also the review by Edwin G. Pulleyblank, JAOS 122(.3 (Jul.-Sept. 2002): 620-4.
Hucker, Charles O. A Dictionary of Official Titles in Imperial China.
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1985.
Gives renderings into English of Official titles for all of imperial China from
the Qin through the Qing. There are brief introductory essays describing
bureaucratic institutional developments for each period. Renderings tend to be
functional rather than literal, which makes them quite different from those
based on Dubs' renderings (see below) and inclined to change as the
functions of the office changed through time. Rev. Hans Bielenstein,
HJAS 46 2 (Dec.1986):611-8.
Loewe, Michael. A Biographical Dictionary of the Qin, Han and Xin Periods,
221 BC - AD 24. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2000.
A magisterial work that in addition to extraordinary biographical entries
includes other useful reference information on Han administration, genealogical
tables, etc. There is a list official titles that are modified and improved over
those of Dubs.
_______. “The History of Early Imperial China: The Western Contribution.” In
Europe Studies China: Papers from an
International Conference on the History of European Sinology, ed by Ming
Wilson and John Cayley. London: Han-Shan Tang Books, 1995, 245-63. Discussion of
the main problems, directions, themes and challenges of studying of researching
the Han. A bit dated but still useful to anyone entering the field.
_______. “Introduction: The History of the Early Empires.” In
Divination, Mythology and Monarch in Han China.
University of Cambridge Oriental Publications 48. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1994., 1-37. Complementary to, and more detailed than, the
foregoing. An excellent description of the state of the field of Qin-Han studies
as of 1994 covering important works, discoveries and directions for future
research.
Loewe, Michael, ed. Early Chinese Texts: A Bibliographical Guide. Early
China Special Monograph Series no. 2. Berkeley: The Society for the Study of
Early China and The Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of
California, Berkeley, 1993.
Extremely useful introductions to Han and Pre-Han texts written by specialists
on the texts covered.
Nienhauser, William H., Jr. et al., eds. The
Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature. vol. 1. Rev. ed.
Taipei: Southern Materials Center, 1986. Review article: David R, Knechtges and
Taiping Chang. "Notes on a Recent Handbook on Chinese Literature," JAOS 107.2
(April 1987):293-304.
_______. The Indiana Companion to Traditional
Chinese Literature. vol. 2. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998.
Shaughnessy, Edward L. , ed. New Sources of Early Chinese History: An Introduction to the Reading of Inscriptions and Manuscripts. Berkeley: Early China Special Monograph Series no. 3. Berkeley: The Society for the Study of Early China and The Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, 1997. This is a complement to the Loewe Early Chinese Texts. An invaluable review article is Enno Giele. "Early Chinee Manuscripts: Including Addenda and Corrigenda to New Sources of Early Chinese History: An Introduction to the Reading of Inscriptions and Manuscripts," EC 23-24 (!998-99): 246-337.
Schipper, Kristofer and Franciscus Verellen, eds. The Taoist Canon: A Historical Companion to the Daozang . 3 vols. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Rev. Judith Magee Boltz. TP 92 (2006): 495-511. Part 1 of Volume 1(pp. 55-208) covers the Eastern Zhou through the Six Dynasties, and Volume 3 contains biographies and bibliography for the same periods.
Thote, Alain. “Paul Pelliot: A Bridge between Western Sinology and Chinese Scholarship,” Orientations 26.6 (1995): 38-45.
Wilkinson, Endymion. Chinese History: A Manual. Revised and enlarged. Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Cambridge: Harvard University Center, 2000. The work is a must for anyone researching early imperial China (or any other period, for that matter). Chapter 44 introduces primary sources for the Qin-Han period, and chapter 45, for the Wei, Jin, Nan-Bei chao period.
Zhang, Yonglu 张永禄,ed. Han dai Chang'an ci dian 汉代长安词典 [Dictionary on Han Time Chang'an]. Xi'an di fang zhi cong shu 西安地方志丛书. Xi'an: Shanxi ren min chu ban she, 1993. The title is somewhat misleading, since this volume contains entries pertaining to Chang'an from the Qin to the beginning of the Tang -- indeed, even later, if one counts the entries for later works relating to the city and its environs.
Ancient Chinese Civilization: Bibliography of
Materials in Western Languages.
Website. Compiled by Paul R. Goldin of the University of Pennsylvania
for the Society for the Study of Early China. This bibliography
aims to be inclusive from the Bronze Age through the pre-Buddhist era
and contains more than 7200 entries. It is regularly updated.
Organized in alphabetical order by authors' last names. Professor
Goldin's home page contains some other valuable references. http://paulrgoldin.com/
Database of Early Chinese Manuscripts.
Web site. Constructed by Dr.Enno Giele of the University of Muenster. The
Database of Early Chinese Manuscripts consists of two HTML files, one a list of
158 SITES (sites.htm) that have yielded manuscript materials, the other a list
of 287 Manuscripts (mss.htm).
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/earlychina/res/databases/decm/
Hong Kong Journals On-Line. Web site.
Description from the site. "Hong Kong Journals Online (HKJO) is a full-text
image database providing access to selected academic and professional journals,
both in English and Chinese, published in Hong Kong." Some of the journals
included in this database contain important articles on Early Imperial China.
http://sunzi1.lib.hku.hk/hkjo/index.jsp
Jian bo yanjiu wang zhan 简帛研究网站 (Bamboo
Strips and Silk Documents Research). Web site. An invaluable site for the study
and use of documents on bamboo or silk from the early imperial period. The site
includes links to related sites and data bases, as well as original articles. http://www.jianbo.org/
Silk Road Seattle. Web site. Maintained
by the Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington. "Silk
Road Seattle is an ongoing public education project using the "Silk Road" theme
to explore cultural interaction across Eurasia from the beginning of the Common
Era (A. D.) to the Seventeenth Century. Our principal goal is to provide via the
Internet materials for learning and teaching about the Silk Road. Much is
available here already: historical texts, well illustrated web pages on historic
cities and architecture and on traditional culture of the Central Asian nomads,
extensive annotated bibliographies of resources, an electronic atlas, and a
stunning virtual art exhibit drawing on museum collections from around the
world." This site links to a broad range of primary and secondary materials and
is useful for all levels from K-12 to advanced researchers. Maps. Links. Texts.
Illustrations. Maps. Timelines.
http://depts.washington.edu/uwch/silkroad/index.html/
Shixue lianxian 史學連缐 (Historiography
Connection). Web site. Chinese. This site, maintained by the Institute of
History and Philology of the Academia Sinica provides links to a host of
resources and organizations on history in general and on Chinese history in
particular. The Chinese History Division contains sections on Qin-Han and on Wei
Jin Nan-Bei chao history. http://saturn.ihp.sinica.edu.tw/%7Eliutk/shih/
Guoxue.com Website. In Chinese and
focused on the PRC, this is an incredibly rich site that includes links to data
bases (e.g., the twenty-five dynastic histories), reference materials, articles
and discussion groups. It also contains information on current research trends,
new publications, and the activities of different schools and institutes. This
site is very much worth consulting by anyone working in Early Imperial or Early
Medieval China. http://guoxue.com/
Les classiques des sciences sociales.
Web site. Go to this site, which is owned by the Université du Québec à
Chicoutimi, and perform a search on “chine” This will take you to a page with
downloadable versions of many of the most important works of early French
Sinologists, including Biot, Chavannes, Cordier, Couvreur, Granet, Grousset,
Maspero and Wieger. Some work by DeGroot and Duyvendak is also included. A real
treasure. http://classiques.uqac.ca/
Xiangyata 象牙塔. Web site. An
extraordinarily rich site for early Chinese history. Contains news of the field,
scholarly articles, new on new publications, and links to useful sites. Should
be consulted by anyone doing research on the period. http://www.xiangyata.net/
Zhongguo lidai nianhao suoyi biao
中国历代年号索引表 [Concordance of Chinese Reign Titles Through History]. Web site.
http://www.cnread.net/cnread1/lszl/y/yiming/qt/003.htm
Zhongguo lishixue nianjian
中国历史学年鉴 [Chinese Historical Studies Annual]. Published since 1980.
Contains overviews for the year broken down by historical period,
reports on conferences, archeological discoveries, bibliographies, and
news of the field. Very useful.
Zhongguo shi yanjiu dongtai 中国史研究动态 [
English title: Trends of Recent Researches on the History of China].
Published monthly by the History Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social
Sciences. Carries an annual overview of research on Qin-Han history as well as
notices of conferences and new publications. Very useful.
Zhongguo qing-shao nian xin shiji du shu wang
["China Youth Readings Net"]. Website. Although this site is not intended for a
scholarly readership, it does contain digital (and searchable) versions of a
number of important texts from the Han-Tang period. For example, the section on
thought includes Lu Jia's Xin yu, Jia Yi's Xin shu, Dong Zhongshu's Chunqiu
fanlu, Liu Xiang's Shuo yuan & Xin xu, Yang Xiong's Fa yan, Huan Kuan's Yan tie
lun, and Xun Yue's Shen Jian. The section on literature includes poetry and
prose, and the section on historical materials has the standard histories and other materials. Simplified characters. http://blog.cnread.net/
b. History
He, Ziquan (Ho Tz'u-chuan) 何兹全. He Ziquan wen ji 何兹全文集 [Collected Works of He Ziquan]. Beijing: Zhonghua shu ju, 2006. A student of Tao Hsi-sheng 陶希聖 and a member of the Shihuo banyuekan 食或半月刊 group during the Thirties, He Ziquan has been a proponent of a version of the Asian mode of production. (See the next item.) He has been very influential.
_____. Zhongguo gu dai she hui.
中国古代社会. Zhengzhou shi: Henan ren min chu ban she,
1991.
Hsing I-tien (Xing Yitian) 邢義田. Qin Han shi lun
gao 秦漢史論稿 [Draft Articles on Qin-Han History]. Taipei: Dongda tushu gongsi, 1987.
Lao, Gan 勞榦. Lao Gan xue shu lun wen ji 勞幹學術論文集 [Collected Scholarly Work of Lao Gan]. Taibei: Yiwen yinshuguan, 1976. Lao Gan was one of the World's leading and most prolific scholars on the Han.
Pirazzoli-t'Serstevens, Michèle. The Han Dynasty. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1982.
Ropp, Paul S., ed. Heritage of China:
Contemporary Perspectives on Chinese Civilization. Berkeley: University
of California Press, 1990. Offers several thoughtful articles on early imperial
China by leading scholars.
Twitchett, Denis and Michael Loewe, eds. The
Cambridge History of China. Vol. 1, The Ch’in and Han Empires (221 B.C..–A.D.
220). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Rev. Cho-yun Hsu,
HJAS 48.2 (Dec., 1988):535-538. Michael Loewe is the leading Western authority on the Han. (Denis Twitchett was
a renowned authority on the Tang.) Loewe has been a prolific scholar; a
comprehensive bibliography of his publications may be found in "Publications of
Michael Loewe," AM (third series) 14.2
(2001), 253-56.
Wang, Zhongshu.
Han Civilization. New
Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1982. Makes extensive use of
archeological data in describing the material culture of Han China.
Institut für Sinologie und Ostasienkunde WWU Münster. Web page of the Institute
for Sinology and East Asian Culture at the University of Muenster, Germany. The
“Reference” section includes a useful concordance to translated sections from
the Shi ji and the
Han shu. There are also brief
descriptions of Han taxation and the Han system of social ranks.
http://www.uni-muenster.de/Sinologie/
"Han Dynasty." Web site. A collectively
written article in the open content encyclopedia,
Wikipedia, a work in progress whose
quality depends on its contributors. Map. Chronology of reigns of emperors. Can
be a handy reference, but should not be relied upon for class papers or serious
research. Those thinking of using this source should look at the discussions of it on H-Asia (www.h-net.org). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_Dynasty
eMuseum @ Minnesota State University, Mankato. Web site. Brief overview
descriptions of each dynasty, timeline and general maps.
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/china/index.html
c. Government
_____. "The Restoration of the Han Dynasty, Volume IV: The Government," BMFEA 51 (1971): 1-300.
Dubs, Homer H., et al. trans. "Introduction to the Tables of the Hundred Officials in the Ch'ien Han-shu." Dubs' unpublished, meticulously executed and copiously annotated translation of Han shu 19A 白官公卿表. An important complement to the foregoing works by Hans Bielenstein. http://e-asia.uoregon.edu/homer/
Hucker, Charles O. A Dictionary
of Official Titles in Imperial China. Stanford: Stanford University
Press, 1985.
Gives renderings into English of Official titles for all of imperial China from
the Qin through the Qing. There are brief introductory essays describing
bureaucratic institutional developments for each period.
Loewe, Michael. "The Orders of Aristocratic Rank of Han China."
TP 48.1-3 (1960): 97-174.
_____. Records of Han Administration. 2
vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1967-68.
d. Literature
Classics:
Legge, James, et al. The Chinese Classics with a Translation, Critical and Exegetical Notes, Prolegomena and Copious Indexes. 5 vols. Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong, 1960. There are many editions and reprints of this.
Nylan, Michael. The Five "Confucian" Classics. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2001. Discusses role and understanding of the "Classics" during Han times. Rev. Robin McNeal. EC 29 (2004): 269-301.
Historiography:
Kern, Martin. "The Poetry of Han Historiography,: EMC 10-11.1 (2004): 23-65.
Lian, Min 廉敏. "2005, 2006 nian zhong Zhongguo guday shixueshi yanjiu" 2005, 2006 年中中国古代史学史研究 [Research on Ancient Chinese Historiography for The Years 2005, 2006 ], Zhongguoshi yanjiu dongtai 中国史研究动态 2007.7:2-9. Useful introduction to some of the new directions in Qing-Han and Wei Jin Nan-Bei chao historiography.
Li, Zongtong 李宗侗. Zhongguo shixue shi
中國史學史 [History of Chinese Historiography]. Yangmingshan, Taiwan: Huagang
chubanbu, 1973.
Lu, Sheldon Hsiao-peng. From Historicity to
Fictionality: The Chinese Poetics of Narrative. Stanford: Stanford
University Press, 1994.
Ng, On-cho and Q. Edward Wang. Mirroring the
Past: the Writing and Use of History in Imperial China. Honolulu:
University of Hawai'i Press, 2005. A sweeping and superficial overview that must
be used with great care. Rev. T.H. Barrett. BSOAS 69.3 (2006):496-7; Wm G. Crowell, EMC 12 (2006): 183-204.
Schaberg, David. “Song and the Historical Imagination in Early China,”
HJAS 59.1 (June, 1999): 305-61.
Poetry/Rhapsody:
Knechtges, David R. "Ssu-ma Hsiang-ju's 'Tall Gate Palace Rhapsody,'"
HJAS 41.1 (June 1981): 47-64
_____, trans. Wen xuan, or Selections of
Refined Literature. Volume 1, Rhapsodies on Metropolises and Capitals.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982. Masterfully translated, Prof.
Knechtges' Wen xuan volumes should be
consulted not only for the important works of literature it contains but for the discussions
of genre and the copious notes which, with the excellent indexes, form an
extremely useful reference to all manner of terms for the early imperial period.
Rev. Daniel Bryant. HJAS 44.1 (June
1984):249-57.
_____, trans. Wen xuan, or Selections of
Refined Literature. Volume 2, Rhapsodies on Sacrifices, Hunting, Travel,
Sightseeing, Palaces and Halls, Rivers and Seas. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1987. Rev. Daniel Bryant, HJAS 50.1,
Jun., 1990 341-346.
_____. Wen xuan, or Selections of Refined
Literature. Volume 3, Rhapsodies on Natural Phenomena, Birds and Animals,
Aspirations and Feelings, Sorrowful Laments, Literature, Music, and Passions.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996 . Rev. Wilt L. Idema, TP 85.4/5: 453-55.
e. Thought and Religion
Campany, Robert Ford. "The Meanings of Cuisines of Transcendence in Late Classical and Early Medieval China," TP 91.1-3 (2005):1-57.
Chan, Wing-tsit.
A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1963.
Chen, Ligui, ed. 陳麗桂. Liang Han zhu zi yan jiu
lun zhu mu lu, 1912-1996 兩漢諸子硏究論著目錄, 1912-1996. Taibei: Hanxue yanjiu
zhongxin, 1998. Contains 6809 items, mostly in Chinese but with some titles in
Japanese and English. An extremely useful bibliography for Han thought, broadly
defined. E.g., contains a section on Sima Qian.
China Confucianism Net. Web site.
Maintained by the Chinese Philosophy Research Office of the Philosophy
Department of Sichuan University. This site covers all aspects and periods of
Confucianism and includes a number of articles on Confucianism of the early
imperial period. There also links to electronic versions of the Confucian
classics and other texts. A very useful site.
http://www.confuchina.com/
Fung Yu-lan. A History of Chinese
Philosophy, trans. by Derk Bodde. 2 vols. (Princeton: Princeton
University Press 1952). The classic study of the subject by one of the major
20th scholars of the history of Chinese thought.
Hsiao Kung-chüan. A History of Chinese
Political Thought. Volume 1, From the Beginnings to the Sixth Century A.D.
trans. by F. W. Mote (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979). An
important work. Mote studied under Hsiao and consulted with Hsiao in the course
of the translation. Unfortunately only volume 1 was completed.
Loewe, Michael. Chinese Ideas of Life and
Death: Faith, Myth and Reason in the Han Period (206 BC-AD 220). London:
George Allen & Unwin, 1982.
_____. "State Funerals of the Han Empire,"
BMFEA 71 (1999):5-72.
_____. Ways to Paradise: The Chinese Quest for
Immortality. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1979.
Nielsen, Bent. A Companion to Yi jing Numerology and Cosmology. Chinese Studies of Images and Numbers from Han (202 BCE-220 CE) to Song (960-1279 CE). London: Routledge Curzon, 2003. Rev. Marc Kalinowski, TP 90.4-5 (2004):471-4.
Poo, Mu-chou. In Search of Personal Welfare, A View of Ancient Chinese Religion. Albany: SUNY Press, 1998. Rev. Marianne Bujard, TP 86. 1-3 (200):194-202.
Raz, Gil. "Time Manipulation in Early Daoist Ritual: The East Well Chart and the Eight Archivists," AM 3rd series. 18.2 (20050; 67-102.
Rosemont, Henry, Jr., ed. Chinese Texts and Philosophical Contexts: Essays Dedicated to Angus C. Graham. La Salle, Ill.: Open Court, 1991.
Schipper, Kristofer and Franciscus Verellen, eds. The Taoist Canon: A Historical Companion to the Daozang . 3 vols. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Rev. Judith Magee Boltz. TP
92 (2006): 495-511. Part 1 of Volume 1(pp. 55-208) covers the Eastern
Zhou through the Six Dynasties, and Volume 3 contains biographies and
bibliography for the same periods.
Schwartz, Benjamin I. The World of Thought in
Ancient China. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, Harvard University Press,
1985.
Smith, Kidder, Jr., ed. Sagehood and
Systematizing Thought in Warring States and Han China. Brunswick, Maine:
Bowdoin College, Asian Studies Program, 1990.
Soothill, William Edward. The Hall of Light: A Study of Early Chinese Kingship. Lutterworth Library 38; Missionary Research Series 18. London, 1951.
Strickmann, Michel, ed. Tantric and Taoist Studies in Honour of R.A. Stein. 3 vols. Mélanges chinois et bouddhiques 20-22 (1981-85).
Vervoorn, Aat. Men of the Cliffs and Caves: The Development of the Chinese Eremitic Tradition to the End of the Han Dynasty. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 1990.
Yu, Ying-Shih. "'O Soul, Come Back!' A Study in The Changing Conceptions of
The Soul and Afterlife in Pre-Buddhist China,"
HJAS 47.2 (Dec. 1987): 363-395.
f. Society
Pulleyblank, E.g. "Origins and Nature of Chattel Slavery in China," JESHO 1.2 (April 1958): 185-220.
Raphals, Lisa. Sharing the Light: Representations of Women and Virtue in Early China. Albany: SUNY Press, 1998. Rev. Roel Sterckx, Nan Nü 2.2 (200): 305-8.
Sun, E-tu Zen and John De Francis. Chinese
Social History: Translations of Selected Studies. New York : Octagon
Books, 1972 [1956]. Provides abridged translations of seminal articles in
Chinese social history by pioneering modern Chinese historians. Though dated,
these studies still merit consulting.
Sun, Xiao and Pan
Shaoping. “Order and Chaos: The Social Position of Men and Women
in the Qin, Han and Six Dynasties Period.” In Jiayin Min, ed. The Chalice and the Blade in Chinese Culture: Gender Relations and Social Models. Beijing: China Social Sciences Publishing House, 1995, 226-69.
Utsunomiya Kiyoyoshi 宇都宮清吉. Kandai shakai
keizaishi kenkyū 漢代社會經濟史研究 [Studies in the History of Han Society and
Economy]. Tōkyō: Kōbundō
Shobō,1967. A classic study.
Wilbur, Clarence Martin. Slavery in China
during the Former Han Dynasty. Publications of the Field Museum of
Natural History: Anthropological Series 34. Chicago, 1943. A pioneering study
that is still useful. Contains translations of relevant primary source material.
g. Economy
Elvin, Mark. "Three Thousand Years of Unsustainable Growth," EAH 6 (Dec. 1993): 7-46.
Hsu, Cho-yun. Han Agriculture: The Formation of
Early Chinese Agrarian Economy (206 B.C.-A.D. 220). Ed. Jack L. Dull. Han
Dynasty China 2. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1980.
Review article. Chi-yun Chen. "Han Dynasty China: Economy, Society and State
Power. TP 70 (1984):127-48. Rev.
Chauncey S. Goodrich. JAOS 103.4
(1983):804-6.
Loewe, Michael. "The Measurement of Grain during the Han Period."
TP 49.1-3 (1961): 64-95.
Utsunomiya Kiyoyoshi 宇都宮清吉.
Kandai shakai keizaishi kenkyū 漢代社會經濟史研究
[Studies in the History of Han Society and Economy]. Tōkyō: Kōbundō Shobō,1967.
A classic study.
h. Art and Archeology
Yang, L. S. “A Note on the So-called TLV Mirrors and the Game Liu-po,” HJAS 9.3-4 (1947): 202-6.
_____. “An Additional Note on the Ancient Game Liu-po,” HJAS 15.1-2 (1952): 124-39.
Yang, Xiaoneng, ed. The Golden Age of Chinese Archaeology: Celebrated Discoveries from the People’s Republic of China. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999.
_____, ed. New Perspectives on China’s Past: Chinese Archaeology in the Twentieth Century. 2 vols. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.
i. Foreign Relations/Frontier Peoples
Digital Archive of Tokyo Bunko Rare Books. This
site presents digitized versions of narratives of exploaration of the
Silk Road primarily by late 19th and Early 20th century Western and
Japanese explorers. Includes the works of such men as Aurel
Stein, Albert von Le Coq, Paul Pelliot, Sergei Oldenburgand Sven Hedin
-- twenty-nine authors in all. Excellent reporductions of plates
and diagrams. Invaluable. http://dsr.nii.ac.jp/toyobunko/index.html.en
Hsing I-tien (Xing Yitian) 邢義田. "Gudai Zhongguo
ji Ouzhou wenxian, tuxiang yu kaogu ziliao zhong de 'Hu ren' waimao"
古代中國及歐亞文獻、圖像與考古資料中的「胡人」外貌 [The Appearance of the "Hu
people" in Ancient Chinese and European Documentary, Pictorial and
Archeological Materials], Guoli Taiwan daxue
meishushi yanjiu jikan 國立台灣大學美術史研究集刊 9(2000):15-99.
Kurihachi Tomonobu 栗原朋信. "Kan teikoku to shuhen shoku minzoku" 漢帝国と周辺諸民族 [The Han Empire and the Surrounding Peoples]. In Sekai rekishi 4 kodai Tō Ajia no seikei I 世界歴史 4 古代東アジアの成形 I. Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, 1970, 445-86.
McGovern, W.M.
The Early Empires of Central
Asia. Chapel Hill: University of North
Carolina Pres, 1939.
Psarras, Sophia-Karin. "Han and Xiongnu. A
Reexamination of Cultural and Political Relations (I),"
MS
51 (2003):55-236; (II)
MS 52 (2003):37-93.
_____. "Xiongnu Culture: Identification and Dating,"
CAJ 39 (1995).1:102-36.
Vovin, Alexander. "Did the Xiongnu Speak a Yeniseian Language,"
CAJ 44 (200)1:87-104.
j. Science and Technology
Sivin, Nathan. "Science and Medicine in Imperial China—The State of the Field," 1998. The Journal of Asian Studies 47.1 (1998), 41–90.
Sivin, Nathan and G.E.R Lloyd. The Way and the Word: Science and Medicine in Early China and Greece. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. Chapter 5 offers a suucinct and insightful overview of the fundamental issues of the history of early Chinese science.
Veith, Ilza. Huang Di nei jing su wen. The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966. A poor translation that is widely available. Those interested in this text should consult the Nathan Sivin article above or Sivin's entry in Loewe, Michael, ed. Early Chinese Texts: A Bibliographical Guide. Berkeley, 1993, 196-215.
Unschuld, Paul. Huang Di nei jing su wen: Nature, Knowledge, Imagery in an Ancient Chinese Medical Text. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.
k. Electronic Texts of Primary Sources
