Northern Dynasties
Beichao wushi cidian 北朝五史辭典 [Dictionary of the Five Histories of the Northern Dynasties] , 2 vols., ed. Jian Xiuwei 簡修煒. Jinan: Shandong jiaoyu chubanshe, 2000. Dictionary of people, places and terms in the Bei shi, Wei shu, Bei Zhou shu, Bei Qi shu, and Sui shu.
Jia Yiken 贾衣肯。 “Xiongnu xi qian wenti yanjiu zong shu
(shang)" 匈奴洗钱问题研究综述(上) [ Overview of studies on the westward migration
of the Xiongnu, Part 1]. Zhongguo shi yanjiu dongtai 中国史研究动态 2006.9: 11-19; Part 2, Zhongguo shi yanjiu dongtai
中国史研究动态 2006.10: 11-16. Part 1 covers studies in
Western languages and Russian and Japanese; part 2 discusses studies in
Chinese.
Wuyun Gaowa 烏云高娃 and Liu Zhong
yu 刘中玉. "2003-2005 nian beifang minzu shi yanjiu zongshu"
2003-2005 年北方民族史研究动态综述 [Overview of studies on the history
of northern minorities 2003-2005], Zhongguo shi yanjiu dongtai 中国史研究动态 2006.4: 2-10.
b. History
Boodberg, Peter A. "Marginalia to the Histories of Northern Dynasties," HJAS 3:3-4 (1938):223-53; 4:3-4 (1939):230-83.
______. Selected Works of Peter A. Boodberg. Compiled by Alvin P. Cohen. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979. Contains research notes on the peoples and languages of the Sixteen States and translations of biographical information of a number of leading figures from the North. Also reprints several of Boodberg's published pieces on the northern peoples.
_____. “Two Notes on the History of the Chinese Frontier, ” HJAS 1 (1936):283-307.
Dien, Albert E. "A Note on Imperial Academies of the Northern Dynasties," International Association of Historians of Asia, Second Biennial Conference. Proceedings. October 1962. pp. 57-69.
Eisenberg, Andrew. "Warfare and political stability in medieval north Asian regimes." TP 83:4-5 (1997):300-28.
Holmgren, Jennifer. "Lineage Falsification under the Northern Dynasties: Wei Shou's Ancestry," PFEH 21 (1980):1-16.
_______. Marriage, kinship, and power in northern China. Aldershot: Variorum, 1995.
Pearce, Scott. "Status, labor, and law: special service households under the Northern Dynasties." HJAS 51:1 (June 1991):89-138.
Thorp, Robert L. "The Sui Xian Tomb: Re-thinking the Fifth Century." Artibus Asiae 43 (1981/82): 67-110.
Wang Yi-t'ung. "Slaves and other comparable groups during the Northern dynasties," HJAS 16 (1953):293-364.
c. Government
Dien, Albert. “Civil Service Examinations: Evidence from the Northwest.” In Scott Pearce, Audrey Spiro, and Patricia Ebrey, eds. Culture and Power in the Reconstitution of the Chinese Realm, 200-600. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2003, 99-121.
d. Literature/Language
Boodberg, Peter A. "Marginalia to the histories of Northern dynasties," HJAS 3:3-4 (1938):223-53; 4:3-4 (1939):230-83.
Lim, An-king. "On the Etymology of T'o-pa, CAJ 44.1 (2000):30-44.
Zheng, Xiaorong. "A History of Northern Dynasties Literature." Ph. D. diss. University of Washington, 2002. UnM: AAT 3063039.
Historiography (see also under individual dynasties)
Bei shi:
Li Yanshou 李延壽 (7th C.). Bei shi 北史 [History of the Northern Dynasties]. Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1995.
d. Thought
Sun Shuqi 孙述圻. Liu chao sixiang shi 六朝思想史 [Intellectual History of the Six Dynasties]. Nanjing: Nanjing chubanshe, 1992.
Buddhism
Daniel L. Overmyer. "Buddhism in The Trenches: Attitudes Toward Popular Religion in Chinese Scriptures Found at Tun-Huang," HJAS 50.1 (Jun., 1990):197-222.
Hou Xudong 侯旭東. Wu liu shiji beifang minzhong fojiao xing yang 五六世纪北方民众佛教信仰 [Common People’s Buddhist Beliefs in Northern China during the Fifth and Sixth Centuries (title supplied)]. Beijing: Zhongguo shehui kexue chubanshe, 1998.
e. Society
Holmgren, Jennifer. Marriage, kinship, and power in northern China. Aldershot: Variorum, 1995.
Pearce, Scott. "Status, labor, and law: special service households under the Northern Dynasties." HJAS 51:1 (June 1991):89-138.
Wang Yi-t'ung. "Slaves and other comparable groups during the Northern dynasties," HJAS 16 (1953):293-364.
f. Economy
He Ziquan (Ho Tzu-chuan) 何玆全, ed. Wushi nian lai Han-Tang fojiao siyuan jingji yanjiu 五十年来汉唐佛教寺院经济研究 [Fifty Years of Studies on Han-Tang Buddhist Temple Economy]. Beijing: Beijing shifan daxue chubanshe, 1986.
Hori Toshikazu. 堀敏一. Kindensei no kenkyū : Chūgoku kodai kokka no tochi seisaku to tochi shoyūsei 均田制の研究 : 中国古代国家の土地政策と土地所有制 [Researches on the Equal Field System: State Land Policies and Lend Tenure in Ancient China]. Tōkyō : Iwanami Shoten, 1975. An important work on the origins and development of the much studied and much debated equal field system (juntian zhidu).
g. Art and Archeology
Wu Hung. “What is Bianxiang? On The Relationship Between Dunhuang Art and Dunhuang Literature”, HJAS 52.1 (June 1992):111-192.
Thorp, Robert L. "The Sui Xian tomb: Re-thinking the Fifth Century." Artibus Asiae 43 (1981/82): 67-110.
h. Electronic Texts of
Primary Sources
Bei shi 北史 electronic text. Scripta Sinica (see above) searchable text and commentary of Li Yanshou's Bei shi. Based on the Zhonghua shuju punctuated edition. May be accessed through the 二十五史 link at http://www.sinica.edu.tw/ftms-bin/ftmsw3 Simplified character version http://www.cnread.net/cnread1/lszl/l/liyanshou/bs/index.html
