a. Reference 

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  Dubs' unpublished meticulously executed and copiously annotated translation of Han shu 19A 白官公卿表.  http://e-asia.uoregon.edu/homer/

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 the preceding two works. Renderings are based on Dubs. Downloadeable copy at http://e-asia.uoregon.edu/homer/

He, Qinggu 何清谷.  Sanfu huang tu jiaoshi 三輔黃圖校釋 [Collated Exegeses of the Sanfu huangtu].  Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 2005.  Invaluable for the study of the Qin and Former Han capitals.

Loewe, Michael. A Biographical Dictionary of the Qin, Han and Xin Periods, 221 BC - AD 24. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2000.  A magisterial work by the leading Western scholar of the Han. In addition to biographical entries, this work includes other useful reference information on Han administration, genealogical tables, etc. There is also a list official titles that are modified and improved over those of Dubs.

_____.  The Men who Governed  Han China: Companion to A Biographical Dictionary of the Qin, Former Han and Xin Periods.  Leiden: Brill, 2004.  Rev. Jean Levi,  TP 92 (2006): 166-88.

b. History

_____. “The Restoration of the Han Dynasty. Vol. 4, The Government.” BMFEA 51 (1979): 1–300. Intended to be used in conjunction with the author's The Han Bureaucracy. (See next section.)

_____. “Wang Mang, the Restoration of the Han Dynasty, and Later Han.” In CHC, 1:223–290.  Bielenstein, in this article, repeats his assertion that Wang Mang's fall was caused by Yellow River flooding. He does not address the points made by Yu Yingshi. (See above.)

Bodde, Derk. China's First Unifier: A Study of the Ch'in Dynasty as Seen in the Life of Li Ssu. Leiden: Brill, 1938; rpt., Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 1967. 

Ariba  Suguya 有馬卓也.  "Kainam ō koku no hachijunen: Ei Fu yori Ryū Chō, Ryū An e"  淮南王國の八十年：英布より劉長，劉安へ [Eighty Years of the Kingdom of Huainan from Ying Bu to Liu Chang, Liu An].  Chūgoku kenkyū shūkan 中國研究集刊 25 (1999.12):21-42.

Goi Naosuhiro 五井直弘.  Kandai no goozoku shakai to kokka 漢代の豪族社会と国家　[Han Dynasty Elite Society and the State].  Tokyo: Meicho kankoo kai, 2001. Seven articles originally published between 1953 and 1970 by a leading Japanese historian.  Focus the political role of the elite families haozu  from the founding of the Qin Empire to the fall of the Han and the rise of Cao Cao.

Hsü, Cho-yun. “The Changing Relationship between Local Society and the Central Political Power in Former Han 206 B.C.-8 A.D.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 7.4 (1965).

_____. “The Interaction of Social Power and Political Authority during the Former Han Dynasty.” Bulletin. Institute of History and Philology, 35 (1964).

Kawachi Jyūzo 河地重造. "Ō Bō seiken no shutsugen"  王莽政権の出現　[Rise of Wang Mang].  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, 367-402.

Loewe, Michael. Everyday Life in Early Imperial China during the Han Period, 202 B.C.-A.D. 220. London: Batsford, 1968; rpt., New York: Dorset, 1988.

_____. “The Former Han Dynasty.” In CIC, 1:103–222.

_____.  The Men who Governed  Han China: Companion to A Biographical Dictionary of the Qin, Former Han and Xin Periods.  Leiden: Brill, 2004.  Rev. Jean Levi,  TP 92 (2006): 166-88.

Loewe, Michael and Edward L. Shaughnessy, eds. The Cambridge History of Ancient China: From the Origins of Civilization to 221 B.C. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1999.  This work provides excellent background to understanding developments and institutions of the early Imperial period.  Chapter 14, "The Heritage Left to the Empires" by Michael Loewe, makes the links explicit.  A valuable aid to understanding the issues addressed herein is David Schaberg's review in MS 49 (2001):463-515.

Ōba Osamu 大庭脩. Shin Kan teikoku no iyō 秦漢帝国の威容 [The Majesty of the Qin-Han Empire]. Tōkyō : Kōdansha, 1977。

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. Abbreviated as CHC 1. 

Wallacker, Benjamin E. “Liu An, Second King of Huai-nan (180?-122 B.C.),” JAOS 92 (1972):36-51.

Wang, Aihe. Cosmology and Political Culture in Early China.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.  Rev. Martin Kern. JESHO 44.2 (2001):239-41.

_____.  “Creators of an Emperor: The Political Group behind the Founding of the Han Empire,” AM (third series) 14.1 (2001): 19-50.

Hsing I-tien (Xing yitian) 邢義田. "Cong gudai Tianxiaguan kan Qin-Han changcheng de xiangzheng yiyi" 從古代天下觀看秦漢長城的象徵意義 [The Symbolic Significance of the Qin-Han Great Wall as Seen from the Ancient Concept of 'All under Heaven,'" Yanjing xuebao 燕京學報 13 (2002):15-64.

c. Government

Buxbaum, David C., ed. Chinese Family Law and Social Change. Asian Law Series 3. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1978.

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/

Dull, Jack L. “Determining Orthodoxy: Imperial Roles.” In Imperial Rulership and Cultural Change in Traditional China, ed. by Frederick P. Brandauer and Chün-chieh Huang. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1994, 3-27. 

_____. "Kao-tsu's Founding and Wang Mang's Failure." http://e-asia.uoregon.edu/homer/

_____. "The Legitimation of the Ch'in." http://e-asia.uoregon.edu/homer/ 

_____. "A Study of the Han Dynasty Prefecture." MA Thesis, 1959. Based on Yan Gengwang (see below), this remains useful and about the only thing available on the subject in English. 

Gale, Esson M., tr. Discourses on Salt and Iron: A Debate on State Control of Commerce and Industry in Ancient China. Sinica Leidensia 2. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1931.

Gale, Esson M., et al. “Discourses on Salt and Iron [Yen T’ieh Lun: Chaps. XXXXVIII],” JNCBRAS 65 (1934): 73-110.

Houn, Franklin. "The Civil Service recruitment System of the Han Dynasty," Tsng-hua hsüeh-pao, New Series 1 (1956):138-64.

Lao, Gan 勞幹.  Handai zhengzhi lunwenji 漢代政治論文集 [Collected Articles on Han Government]. Taibei Xian Banqiao: Yi Wen yinshuguan, 1976.

_____.  Juyan Han jian 居延漢簡 [Supplied Title:  Documents of the Han Dynasty on Wooden Slips from Edsin Gol,  Part 2:  Transliterations and Commentaries]. Zhongyang yanjiuyuan lishi yuyan yanjiusuo zhuankan, 40. Taibei: Zhongyan yanjiuyuan lishi yuyan yanjiusuo, 1960.  Transcriptions and study of Former Han administrative documents from Juyan (Edsin Gol).  See also below Loewe, Records of Han Administration.

Loewe, Michael. Chinese Ideas of Life and Death: Faith, Myth and Reason in the Han Period (202 bc–ad 220). London: George Allen & Unwin, 1982.  

_____. “The Conduct of Government and the Issues at Stake (A.D. 57–167).” CIC, 1:291–316.

_____. Crisis and Conflict in Han China, 104 B.C. to A.D. 9. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1974.

_____. Divination, Mythology and Monarchy in Han China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. 

_____. Records of Han Administration. University of Cambridge oriental publications, nos. 11-12. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1967.

Nishijima Sadao 西島定生.  "Kōtei shihai no seiritsu" 皇帝支配の成立「Establishment of Imperial Control]. 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, 217-56.

Ōba Osamu 大庭脩.  "Kan ō chō no shihai kikō" 漢王朝の支配機構 [Administrative Organs of the Han Court].  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, 257-94.

Tsai, Yen-zen. “Scripture and Authority: The Political Dimension of Han Wu-ti’s Canonization of the Five Classics.” In Ching-I Tu, ed. Classics and Interpretations: The Hermeneutic Traditions in Chinese Culture. New Brunswick, N.J., and London: Transaction, 2000, 85-105.

Wallacker, Benjamin E. “Dethronement and Due Process in Early Imperial China.” Journal of Asian History (Wiesbaden). 21.1 (1987): 48–67. Discusses the role of empresses dowagers in legitmating the deposing of a sitting emperor.  

Walter, Georges, et al., trs. Dispute sur le sel et le fer: Chine, an -81. Paris: J. Lanzmann et Seghers, 1978.

Xiao Fan 蕭璠. "Guanyu Handai de huan guan" 關於漢代的宦官 [On Eunuchs during the Han]. In Lao Zhenyi xiansheng ba zhi rongqing lunwen ji 勞貞一先生八秩榮慶論文集 [Fetschrift for Lao Zhenyi (Lao Gan) on His Eightieth Birthday]. Taibei: Shangwu yinshuguan, 1986, 563-612.

Hsing I-tien (Xing Yitian ) 邢義田. "Cong jiandu kan Handai de xingzheng wenshu fanben -- 'shi'" '從簡牘看漢代的行政文書範本—「式」[Examining the Han time administrative document model "shi" in the wooden strips]. In  嚴耕望先生紀念論文集. Taibei: Daoxiang chubanshe, 1998, 387-404; reprinted in 簡帛研究 第三輯. Guangxi jiaoyu chubanshe, 1998, 295-311, and  in 紀念王國維先生誕辰120周年學術論文集. Guangdong: Guangdong jiaoyu chubanshe, 1999, 90-107

_____, with Xiao Fan 蕭璠, Lin Suoqing 林素清, and Liu Zenggui 劉增貴. Juyan Han jian bubian 居延漢簡補編 [Han Bamboo Strips from Juyan: Supplement]. Institute of History and Philology Special Publication No. 99. Taibei: Institute of History and Philiology, Academia Sinica, 1998.

_____. "Yunmeng Qin jian jianjie – fu: dui 'wei li zhi dao' ji muzhu xi zhiwu xingzhi de yize" 雲夢秦簡簡介 – 附：對「為吏之道」及墓主喜職務性質的臆測 [Brief Introduction to the Yun Bamboo Strips – Appendix: Conjectures about the Nexus between "the way of an official" and the Nature of the Official Duties of Tomb Occupant Xi], Shihuo yuekan 食貨月刊 9.4 (1979):33-39.

_____. "Yun wen yun wu: Handai guanli de yi zhong dianxing" 允文允武:漢代官吏的一種典型 [Skilled in Military and Civil Affairs: One Model of the Han-Tiem Official],  Lishiyuyan yanjiusuo jikan 歷史語言研究所集刊 75:2（2004):1-66.

Yates, Robin D.S. “State Control of Bureaucrats under the Qin: Techniques and Procedures.” EC 20 (1995): 331-65. 

    Law:

Loewe, Michael.  "On the Terms bao zi, yin gong, yin guan, huan, and  shou: Was Zhao Gao a Eunuch?" TP 91.4-5 (2005): 301-19.

McLeod, Katrina C. D. & Robin D. S. Yates "Forms of Ch'in Law: An Annotated Translation of The Feng-chen shih," HJAS 41.1 (June 1981):111-163.

Ōba Osamu 大庭 脩. Shin Kan hōseishi no kenkyū 秦漢法制史の硏究 [Studies in the History of the Qin-Han Legal System]. Tōkyō: Sōbunsha, 1982.

Turner, Karen.  “The Theory of Law in the Ching-fa,” EC 14 (1989): 55-76.

_____.  “Rule of Law Ideals in Early China?” Journal of Chinese Law 6.1 (1992): 1-44.

_____.  “War, Punishment, and The Law of Nature in Early Chinese Concepts of The State," HJAS 53.2 (Dec., 1993):285-324. 

Vandermeersch, Léon. “Le statut des terres en China à l’époque des Han.” In Lionello Lanciotti, ed. Il diritto in Cina: Teoria e applicazioni durante le dinastie imperiali e problematica del diritto Cinese contemporaneo. Civiltà Veneziana: Studi 34. Florence: Leo S. Olschki,, 39-56.

Vankeerberghen, Griet. “Family and Law in Former Han China (206 BCE-8 CE): Arguments Pro and Contra Punishing the Relatives of a Criminal,” Cultural Dynamics 12.1 (2000): 111-25.

Wallacker, Benjamin E. “The Spring and Autumn Annals as a Source of Law in Han China,” Journal of Chinese Studies 2.1 (1985): 59-72.

Hsing I-tien (Xing Yitian) 邢義田. "Cong antu zhongqian lun Qin Han shidai de ximin yu qianxi xing – fu lu: lun qianxi xing zhi yu rouxing zhi bu fu" 從安土重遷論秦漢時代的徙民與遷徙刑 – 附錄：論遷徙刑之用與肉刑之不復 [The Qin-Han Punishment of Exile and the Relocation of People Considering the Concept of "Secure on the Land and Reluctant to Relocate" – Addendum: Discussion of the Use of Exile and the Non-restoration of Mutilation], Lishi yuyan yanjiusuo jikan 歷史語言研究所集刊 57 (1986):321-349.

____. "Cong Zhang Jiashan Han jian er nian lüling lun Qin-Han de xingqi wenti" 從張家山漢簡二年律令論秦漢的刑期問題 [Discussion of Qin-Han Terms of Punishment Based on the ernian lingl of the Zhangjia shan Bamboo Strips], Taida lishi xuebao 台大歷史學報 31 (2003):311-323.

_____. "Qin Han lüling xue – jian lun Cao Wei lü boshi de chu xian" 秦漢的律令學 – 兼論曹魏律博士的出現 [Qin-Han Legal Studies, with A discussion of the Rise of the Law Erudit of the Cao Wei], Lishi yuyan yanjiusuo jikan 歷史語言研究所集刊 54.3 (1983): 51-101.

_____. "Zhang Jiashan Han jian 'er nian lüling' du ji" 張家山漢簡＜二年律令＞讀記 [Notes on the "ernian luling"], Yanjing xuebao 燕京學報 n.s. 15(2003):1-46.

Yao, Shan-yu. “The Cosmological and Anthropological Philosophy of Tung Chungshu,” JNCBRAS 73 (1948): 40-68.

Yates, Robin D.S. "Social Status in The Ch'in: Evidence From The Yun-meng Legal Documents. Part One: Commoners," HJAS 47.1 (June 1987):197-237. 

    Military:

Kierman, Frank A., Jr. "Phases and Modes of Combat in Early China." In Kierman and John K. Fairbank, Chinese Ways in Warfare. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974, 27-66.  

_____, and John K. Fairbank, eds. Chinese Ways in Warfare. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974. 

Lewis, Mark Edward.  "The Han Abolition of Universal Military Service."  In  Hans van de Ven, ed.  Warfare in Chinese History.  Leiden: Brill, 2000.

Loewe, Michael. "The Campaigns of Han Wu-ti." In Frank A. Kierman and John K. Fairbank, Chinese Ways in Warfare. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974, 67-122. 

Hsing I-tien (Xing Yitian) 邢義田. "Lue lun Handai hu jun de xingzhi" 略論漢代護軍的性質 [Brief Discussion of the Character of the Military Protector of Han Times], Dalu zazhi 大陸雜誌 82.3 (1991):12-113.

_____. "Cong Juyan jian kan Handai jundui de ruogan renshi zhidu – du "Juyan xinjian zha ji zhi yi" 從居延簡看漢代軍隊的若干人事制度 – 讀＜居延新簡＞札記之一 [Some Han Military Personnel Systems Seen from the Juyan Bamboo Strips – Notes on Juyan xin jian], Xin shixue 新史學 3.1 (1992): 95-130. 

d. Language and Literature:

_____. "Ritual, Text, and the Formation of the Canon: Historical Transitions of Wen in Early China," TP 87 (2001):43-91.

_____ . The Stele Inscriptions of Ch'in Shih-huang: Text and Ritual in Early Chinese Imperial Representation. New Haven: American Oriental Society, 2000. 

_____.  Text and Ritual in Early China. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005.  Rev. Yuri Pines, JAOS 125.4 (2005): 553-56. 

Knechtges, David R. "The Poetry of an Imperial Concubine: The Favorite Beauty Ban." OE 36 (1993): 127-44.

_____. "The Emperor and Literature: Emperor Wu of the Han." In Frederick P. Brandauer and Chün-chieh Huang, eds. Imperial Rulership and Cultural Change in Traditional China. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1994, 51-76.

_____. "Ssu-ma Hsiang-ju's 'Tall Gate Palace Rhapsody,'" HJAS 41.1 (June 1981): 47-64.

Lewis, Mark Edward. Writing and Authority in Early China. Albany: SUNY Press, 1999.  Rev. Hans van Ess, MS 50 (2002):655-59; Robert Ford Campany, HJAS 61.1 (June 2001):198-201; Michael Nylan, EC 25 (2000):205-58.

    Classics:

_____. "On the Autheticity and Nature of the Tso-chuan," Götesborgs högsskolas arsskrift 32 (1926).

Nylan, Michael.  The Five "Confucian" Classics. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2001.

Svensson, Martin. “What Happened When Mao Heng Read the Poems? A Study of the Exercise of Hermeneutic Authority in Han Dynasty China,” Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia  30 (1998): 78-94; 31 (1999): 51-78.

_____. “A Second Look at the Great Preface on the Way to a New Understanding of Han Dynasty Poetics,” CLEAR 21 (1999): 1-33.

    Historiography:

Beasley, W. G., and Edwin G. Pulleyblank. Historians of China and Japan. London: Oxford University Press, 1961.

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.

Van Der Loon. “The Ancient Chinese Chronicles and the Growth of Historical Ideals.” In W. G. Beasley, and Edwin G. Pulleyblank. Historians of China and Japan. London: Oxford University Press, 1961, 24-30. 

    Shiji :

    Studies 

Crawford, Robert B. “The Social and Political Philosophy of the Shih-chi.” JAS 22.4 (1963): 401-16. 

Durrant, Stephen W. The Cloudy Mirror: Tension and Conflict in the Writings of Sima Qian. Albany: SUNY Press, 1995. Rev. Michael Puett. HJAS 57.1, (June 1997):290-301; Hans Van Ess. MS 49 (2001):517-28; Bernhard Fürher. MS 46 (1998):419-20.

_____. “Ssu-ma Ch’ien’s Conception of Tso chuan.” JAOS 112.2 (1992): 295–301.

_____. “Ssu-ma Ch’ien’s Portrayal of the First Ch’in Emperor.” In Frederick P. Brandauer and Chün-chieh Huang, eds. Imperial Rulership and Cultural Change in Traditional China . Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1994, 28-50. 

_____.  “Truth Claims in Shiji.”  In Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer,  et al., eds. Historical Truth, Historical Criticism, and Ideology: Chinese Historiography and Historical Culture from a New Comparative Perspective. Leiden Studies in Comparative Historiography 1. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2005., 93-113.

Hardy, Grant. Worlds of Bronze and Bamboo : Sima Qian's Conquest of History. New York : Columbia University Press, 1999.  Rev. David Schaberg. HJAS 61.1 (2001):249-60; Hans Van Ess. MS 49 (2001):517-28; Michael Loewe, TP 88 (2001): 221-30. 

Hervouet, Yves. "La valeur relative des textes du Che-ki et du Han-chou." Mélanges de Sinologie offerts à Monsieur Paul Demiéville, II, 55-76. 

Honey, David B.  "The Han shu Manuscript Evidence, and the Textual Criticism of the Shih-chi: The Case of the Hsiung-nu lieh-chuan," CLEAR 21 (1999), 67-97.

Hulsewe, A.F.P.  “The Problem of the Authenticity of Shih chi ch. 123, the Memoir on Ta-yüan.” TP 61.1-3 (1975): 83-147. Cf. article by Lu Zongli below.

_____. "A Striking Discrepancy between the Shih chi and the Han shu." TP 76.4-5 (1990): 322-23. 

Kern, Martin. "A Note on the Authenticity and Ideology of Shih-chi 24, 'The Book on Music,'" JAOS 119.4 (1999):673-77.

Kierman, Frank Algerton, Jr. Ssu-ma Ch'ien's Historiographical Attitude as Reflected in Four Late Warring States Biographies. Studies on Asia. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1962.

Li, Wai-Yee. “The Idea of Authority in the Shih chi (Records of the Historian), HJAS 54. 2 (Dec., 1994):345-405.

Lu, Zongli. "Problems Concerning the Authenticity of Shih-Chi 123 Reconsidered." CLEAR 17 (1995): 51-68.

Nienhauser, William. "A Reexamination of ‘The Biographies of the Reasonable Officials' in the Records of the Grand Historian." EC 16 (1991): 209-33.

_____. "Travels with Édouard—V.M. Alekseev's Account of the Chavannes Mission of 1907 as a Biographical Source." Asian Culture 22 (1994): 81-95.

_____. "Historians of China." CLEAR 17 (1995): 207-16.

_____. "The Implied Reader and Translation: The Shih chi as Example." In Eugene Eoyang and Lin Yao-fu, eds. Translating Chinese Literature. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1995, 15-40.

_____. "The Study of the Shih-chi (The Grand Scribe's Records) in the People's Republic of China." In Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer, Das andere China: Festschrift für Wolfgang Bauer zum 65. Geburtstag. Wolfenbütteler Forschungen 62. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1995., 381-403.

_____. "A Century (1895-1995) of Shih chi 史記 Studies in the West." Asian Culture Quarterly 24.1 (1996):1-51. A helpful survey of translations and scholarship in English, French and German on the Shi ji by the leader of the "Wisconsin Group" that has undertaken a complete translation of the Shi ji.

_____. "A Note on a Textual Problem in the Shih chi and Some Speculations Concerning the Compilation of the 'Hereditary Houses.'" TP 89.1-3 (2003): 39-58.

Nylan, Michael. "Sima Qian: A True Historian?" EC 23-24 (1998-99):203-46. 

Okazaki, Fumio 岡崎文夫. Shiba Sen 司馬遷 [Sima Qian]. Kyōyō bunko. Tōkyō: Kōbundō Shobō, 1947.

Pokora, Timoteus. “Ch'u Shao-sun—The Narrator of Stories in the Shih-chi.” Annali, Istituto Orientale di Napoli 41 (1981): 403–430.

Schaab-Hanke, Dorothee. "The Power of an Alleged Tradition: A Prophecy Flattering Han Emperor Wu and its Relation to the Sima Clan," BMFEA 74 (2002): 243-90. 

Smith, Kidder.  “Sima Tan and the Invention of Daoism, ‘Legalism,’ et cetera,” JAS 62.1 (2003): 129-56.

Van Ess, Hans.  "Praise and Slander: The Evocation of Empress Lü in the Shiji and the Hanshu," Nan nü 8.2 (2006): 221-54.

Watson, Burton. “The Shih Chi and I,” CLEAR 17 (1995): 199-206. 

_____. “Some Remarks on Early Chinese Historical Works.” In Kao, Translation of Things Past, 35-48.

_____. Ssu-ma Ch’ien: Grand Historian of China. New York: Columbia University Press, 1958.

    Translations (including baihua):  

Chavannes, Edouard, trans. Les Mémoires historiques de Se-ma Tsien. 6 vols. 1895–1905. Reprint (with supplement). Paris: Adrien Maisonneuve, 1967–1969.  Also available on line at http://classiques.uqac.ca/ by doing a search for "chine."

De Francis, John. "Biography of the Marquis of Huai-yin," HJAS 10.2 (Sept. 1947):179-215.

Hervouet, Yves. Le chapitre 117 du Che-ki (Biographie de Sseu-ma Siang Jou). Bibliotheque de l'Institute des Hautes Etudes Chinoises, vol. 23. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1972.

Nienhauser, William H., Jr., ed. The Grand Scribe’s Records. Vol. 1, The Basic Annals of Pre-Han China. Translated by Tsai-fa Cheng et al. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994. This and the following vols. are the fruits of a project to produce a complete translation of the Shi ji.  Rev. Michael Loewe. TP 84 (1998):153-67.

______, ed. The Grand Scribe's Records. Vol. 2. The Basic Annals of the Han Dynasty. Translated by William H. Nienhauser, Tsai-fa Cheng, Weiguo Cao, Scott W. Galer, and David Pankenier. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002.  

______, ed. The Grand Scribe's Records. Vol 5.1. The Hereditary Houses of Pre-Han China, Part 1. Translated by Weiguo Cao, Zhi Chen, Scott Cook, Hongyu Huang, Bruce Knickerbocker, William H. Nienhauser, Jr., Wang Jing, Zhang Zhenjun, and Zhao Hua. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006.

    Han shu:

Studies:

Bielenstein, Hans. “Pan Ku’s Accusations against Wang Mang.” In Chinese Ideas about Nature and Society: Studies in Honour of Derk Bodde. Ed. Charles Le Blanc and Susan Blader. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1987, 265-70.

_____.  Bielenstein, Hans. “An Interpretation of the Portents in the Ts’ien Han shu,” BMFEA 22 (1950): 127-43.

Honey, David B.  "The Han shu Manuscript Evidence, and the Textual Criticism of the Shih-chi: The Case of the Hsiung-nu lieh-chuan," CLEAR 21 (1999), 67-97.

Hulsewe, A.F.P. "A Striking Discrepancy between the Shih chi and the Han shu." TP 76.4-5 (1990): 322-23. 

Stange, Hans O.H. Die monographie ƒber Wang Mang. Abhandlungen fƒr die kunde des morgenlandes XXIII, 3, 1939.

_____.  Leben und persÜnlichkeit und werk Wang Mangs. Berlin, 1914.

Tinios, Ellis. “Sure Guidance for One’s Own Time: Pan Ku and the Tsan to Han-shu 94.” EC 9-10 (1983-85): 184-203.

Van der Sprenkel, O. B. Pan Piao, Pan Ku, and the Han History. Centre for Oriental Studies Occasional Paper, no. 3. Canberra: Australian National University, 1964. A dated and somewhat superficial study. 

Yan Pingfan 闫平凡.  "Tan qian Han shu jiu zhu jiyi yu yanjiu shuping" 唐前<<汉书>>旧注辑佚与研究述评 [Review of Pre-Tang Reconstructions of Commentaries and Studies of the Han shu], Zhongguo shi dongtai 中国史动态 2007.:18-22.  Surely an invaluable resource for those beginnign research on the Han shu.  Deals primarily with collections of fragrements of  pre-Tang commentariues on the Han shu .  Helpful table listing recent reprints of colelctions.

    Translations (including baihua):

    Prose:

    Poetry/Rhapsody:

Cai, Zongqi. "Dramatic and Narrative Modes of Presentation in Han yüeh-fu," MS 44 (1996):101-40.

Gong, Kechang. Studies on the Han fu, tr. by David R. Knechtges with Stuart Aque, et al. New Haven: American Oriental Society, 1997. Rev. Cai Zongqi. MS 47 (1999):531-2.

Hervouet, Yves. Le chapitre 117 du Che-ki (Biographie de Sseu-ma Siang Jou). Bibliotheque de l'Institute des Hautes Etudes Chinoises, vol. 23. Paris: Presses Univeritaires de France, 1972.

_____. Un poète de coeur sous les Han: Sseu-ma Siang-jou. Bibliothèque de l'Institut des Hautes Études Chinoises 19. Paris, 1964.

Martin Kern "The Poetry of Han Historiography," EMC 10-11.1 (2004): 23-66.

Knechtges, David R. Two Studies on the Han fu. Parerga 1. Seattle: Far Eastern and Russian Institute, 1968

_____, 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 they contain 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, No. 1, Jun., 1990 341-346.

_____, trans. 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.

Pankenier, David. "'The Scholar's Frustration' Reconsidered: Melancholia or Credo?" JAOS 110.3 (1990):434-59.

Watson, Burton, tr. Chinese Rhyme-Prose: Poems in the Fu Form from the Han and Six Dynasties Periods. Translations from the Oriental Classics. New York and London: Columbia University Press, 1971.

Wilhelm, Helmut. "The Scholar's Frustration: Notes on a Type of Fu." In J.K. Fairbank, ed.  Chinese Thought and Institutions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1957, 310-19. 

Zhang Cangshou and Jonathan Pease. “The Roots of the Han Rhapsody in Philosophical Prose.” MS 41 (1993):1-27. 

e. Thought/Religion

Bilsky, Lester James. The State Religion of Ancient China. 2 vols. Asian Folklore and Social Life Monographs 70-71. Taipei: The Orient Cultural Service, 1975.

Bodde, Derk. "The Cosmic Magic That Is Known as ‘Watching the Ethers.'" In Soren Egerod and Else Glahn, eds. Studia Serica Bernhard Karlgren Dedicata. Copenhagen: Munksgaard, 1959, 14-35.

_____. Festivals in Classical China: New Year and Other Annual Observances during the Han Dynasty. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975. Rev. Jack L. Dull. JAS 36.1 (Nov. 1976):124-6; Bodde rejoinder JAS 37.1 (Nov. 1977): 185-6.

_____ . "Myths of Ancient China." In Stanley Noah Kramer, ed. Mythologies of the Ancient World. Chicago: Quadrangle, 1961, 368-408.

Bokenkamp, Stephen R. Early Daoist Texts. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.

_____. “Taoist Literature, Part 1: Through the T’ang Dynasty." In William H. Nienhauser, The Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature, 1.138–152. 

Brashier, K.E.. “Longevity like Metal and Stone: The Role of the Mirror in Han Burials.” TP 81.4-5 (1995): 201-29.

_____. “Breaking the Ties between Land and Religion in the Western Han (202 B.C.E.-9 C.E.).” Bulletin of the British Association for Chinese Studies 1996.

_____. “Han Thanatology and the Division of ‘Souls.’” EC 21 (1996): 125- 58.

Bujard, Marianne. “Célébration et promotion des cultes locaux: Six stèles des Han occidentaux.” BEFEO 87.1 (2000):247-66.

_____. Le sacrifice au Ciel dans la Chine ancienne: Théorie et pratique sous les Han occidentaux. Monographies de l’École Française d’Extrême-Orient 187.  Paris, 2000. Rev. Hans Van Ess, TP 88.4-5 (2002): 439-42.

_____. “Le ‘Traité des Sacrifices’ du Hanshu et la mise en place de la religion d’État des Han.” BEFEO 84 (1997):111-27.

Chan, Alan K.L. “The Essential Meaning of the Way and Virtue: Yan Zun and ‘Laozi Learning’ in Early Han China.” MS 46 (1998): 105-27.

Cheng, Anne. Étude sur le Confucianisme Han: l’élaboration d’une tradition exégétique sur les classiques. Mémoires de l’Institut des Hautes Études Chinoises 26. Paris: Collège de France, 1985.

_____ . "L'apologie de la vengeance dans le Gongyang zhuan." InJacques Gernet and Marc Kalinowski. eds. En suivante la Voie Royale:Mélanges offerts en hommage a Leon Vandermeersch. Paris: École française d'Extrême-Orient, 1996, 85-96. 

Cohen, Alvin P. “Avenging Ghosts and Moral Judgement in Ancient Chinese Historiography: Three Examples from Shih-chi.” In Sarah Allan and Alvin P. Cohen, eds. Legend, Lore, and Religions in China: Essays in Honor of Wolfram Eberhard on His Seventieth Birthday. San Francisco: Chinese Materials Center, 1979., 97-108.

Czikszentmihalyi, Mark. “Confucius and the Analects during the Han.” In Bryan Van Norden, ed. Confucius and the Analects. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002, 134-62.

_______. "The Morals of Jia Yi: An Annotated Translation." M.A. thesis, Stanford University, 1991. 

_____, tr. Readings in Han Chinese Thought. Indianapolis and Cambridge, Mass.: Hackett, 2006. 

_____ and Michael Nylan. "Constructing Lineages and Inventing Traditions through Exemplary Figures in Early China," TP 89.1-3 (2003):59-99.

Daoist Studies. Web site. Rich source of information on the study of Daoism, including scholars, research, conferences and bibliography. http://www.daoiststudies.org/

Defoort, Carine. The Pheasant Cap Master (He guan zi): A Rhetorical Reading. Albany: SUNY Press, 1997.  Rev. Romain Graziani, TP 86.1-3: 208-14.

Dull, Jack L. "A Historical Introduction to the Apochryphal (Ch'an-wei) Texts of the Han Dynasty." Ph.D. diss. University of Washington, 1966. DAI 66-11990.  The seminal study in a Western language on a difficult topic. 

_____. "Kao-tsu's Founding and Wang Mang's Failure." http://e-asia.uoregon.edu/homer/

_____. "The Legitimation of the Ch'in." http://e-asia.uoregon.edu/homer/ 

Eber, Irene. Confucianism: the Dynamics of Tradition. New York: Macmillan, 1986.

Espesset, Gregoire. "Revelation Between Orality and Writing in Early Imperial China: The Epistomology of the Taiping jjing."BMFEA 74 (2002): 66-100.

Fung Yu-lan. A History of Chinese Philosophy, trans. by Derk Bodde. 2 vols.  Princeton: Princeton University Press 1952.

Girardot, N. J. Myth and Meaning in Early Taoism: The Theme of Chaos (Hun-tun). Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983.

Graham, A. C. Yin-Yang and the Nature of Correlative Thinking. Singapore, Institute of East Asian Philosophies, 1986.

_____ . Disputers of the Tao: Philosophical Argument in Ancient China. La Salle, Ill.: The Open Court Press, 1989.

Harper, Donald. "A Chinese Demonography of the Third Century B. C.," HJAS 45.2, (Dec. 1985):459-498

_____. “The Sexual Arts of Ancient China as Described in a Manuscript of the Second Century B.C.” HJAS 47.2 (1987): 539–593.

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. 

Hsu, Cho-yun. “The Concept of Predetermination and Fate in the Han.” EC 1 (1975): 51-56.

Itano Chōhachi 板野長八.  "Jukyō no seiritsu" 儒教の成立 [The Establishment of Confucianism]. 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, 333-66.

Kalinowski, Marc, ed.  Divination et société dans la Chine médiévale: Étude des mauscrits de Dunhuang de la Bibliothèque nationale de France et de la British Library.  Paris:  Bibliothèque nationale de France, 2003.  Rev. Richard J. Smith, TP 92 (2006): 514-20.

Kao, Ch'ü-hsün. "The Ching lu shen Shrines of Han Sword Worship in Hsiung Nu Religion," CAJ  5 (1959):221-32.

Kern, Martin-.  Text and Ritual in Early China. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005.  Rev. Yuri Pines, JAOS 125.4 (2005): 553-56.

Knoblock, John and Jeffrey Riegel, trs. The Annals of Lü Buwei: A Complete Translation and Study. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000.

Li, Ling. "An Archaeological Study of Taiyi (Grand One) Worship," EMC 2(1995-96):1-39.

Le Blanc, Charles, and Susan Blader, eds. Chinese Ideas about Nature and Society: Studies in Honour of Derk Bodde. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1987.

Loewe, Michael. Chinese Ideas of Life and Death: Faith, Myth and Reason in the Han Period (202 bc–ad 220). London: George Allen & Unwin, 1982.

_______. Ways to Paradise: The Chinese Quest for Immortality. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1979. Rev. Derk Bodde, HJAS 42.1 (June 1982):321-326.

Lü, Buwei, John Knoblock, and Jeffrey K. Riegel. The Annals of Lü Buwei = [Lü Shi Chun Qiu] : a Complete Translation and Study. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 2000.

Major, John S. "Notes on the Nomenclature of Winds and Directions in the Early Han." TP 65 (1979): 66-80.

Mansvelt Beck, B.J. The Treatises of Later Han: Their Author, Sources, Contents and Place in Chinese Historiography. Sinica Leidensia no. 21. Leiden: Brill, 1990. The chapters on astrology and five elements cite extensively from the Han shu and present material on Dong Zhongshu, Liu Xiang and Liu Xin.

Nylan, Michael. “Confucian Piety and Individualism in Han China.” JAOS 116.1 (1996): 1–27.

Poo, Mu-chou. “Ideas Concerning Death and Burial in Pre-Han and Han China.” AM, 3rd series, 3.2 (1990): 25–62. 

Sanft, Charles. "Rituals that don't Reach, Punishments that don't Impugn: Jia Yi on the Exclusions from Punishment and Ritual," JAOS 125.1 (2005):31-44.

_____. "Rule:  A Study of Xin shu. "  Doctoral dissertation.  Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität, Münster. 2005. miami.uni-muenster.de/servlets/DerivateServlet/Derivate-2582/diss_sanft/diss_sanft.pdf
 
Schaab-Hanke, Dorothee. "The Power of an Alleged Tradition: A Prophecy Flattering Han Emperor Wu and Its Relation to the Sima Clan," BMFEA 74 (2002): 243-90.

Sivin, Nathan. “State, Cosmos, and Body in The Last Three Centuries B. C.," HJAS 55.1, June, 1995): 5-37

Smith, Kidder, Jr., ed. Sagehood and Systematizing Thought in Warring States and Han China. Brunswick, Maine: Bowdoin College, Asian Studies Program, 1990. 

Smith, Kidder.  “Sima Tan and the Invention of Daoism, ‘Legalism,’ et cetera,” JAS 62.1 (2003): 129-56.

Snaft, Charles. “Rituals That Don’t Reach, Punishments That Don’t Impugn: Jia Yi on the Exclusions from Punishment and Ritual,” JAOS 125.1 (2005): 31-44.

Soothill, William Edward (1861-1935). The Hall of Light: A Study of Early Chinese Kingship. Lutterworth Library 38; Missionary Research Series 18.  London, 1951.

Steinhardt, Nancy Shatzman. “The Han Ritual Hall.” In Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt et al, ed. Chinese Traditional Architecture. New York: China Institute, 1984, 69-78.

Steinhardt, Nancy Shatzman. “The Mingtang of Wang Mang,” Orientations (November 1984): 109-19.

Tsai, Yen-zen. “Scripture and Authority: The Political Dimension of Han Wu-ti’s Canonization of the Five Classics.” In Ching-I Tu, ed. Classics and Interpretations: The Hermeneutic Traditions in Chinese Culture. New Brunswick, N.J., and London: Transaction, 2000, 85-105.

Tseng, Lillian Lan-ying. "Representation and Appropriation: Rethinking the TLV Mirror in Han China," EC 29 (2004): 163-215.

Wallacker, Benjamin E. “Han Confucianism and Confucius in Han.” In David T. Roy and Tsuen-hsuin Tsien. Ancient China: Studies in Early Civilization.  Hong Kong:  The Chinese University Press, 1978, 215-28.

Wang, Aihe.  “Correlative Cosmology: From the Structure of Mind to Embodied Practice,” BMFEA 72 (2000): 110-32.

_____.  Cosmology and Political Culture in Early China. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Rev. Michael Loewe. BSOAS 65.2 (2002):342-49; Hans Van Ess. MS 53 (2005):483-4.

Welch, Holmes, and Anna Seidel, eds. Facets of Taoism: Essays in Chinese Religion. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979.

Welch, Holmes. Taoism: The Parting of the Way. Revised edition. Boston: Beacon Press, 1965.

Wilhelm, Richard, tr. Frühling und Herbst des Lü Bu We. Jena: Eugen Diederichs, 1928.

Yang, Lien-Sheng. “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

Yü, Ying-shih.  "Life and Immortality in Han China," HJAS 24 (1964-65):80-122.

_____. “O Soul Come Back! A Study of the Changing Conceptions of the Soul and Afterlife in Pre-Buddhist China,” HJAS 47.2 (1987): 363-95.

Zufferey, Nicolas. “Le Premier Empereur et les lettrés: L’exécution de 212 avant J.-C.,” Études chinoises 16.1 (1997): 59-100.

_____. “Érudits et Lettrés au debut de la dynastie Han,” Asiatische Studien 52.3 (1998):915-65.

_____. “Li Yiji, Shusun Tong, Lu Jia: Le confucianisme au début de la dynastie Han,” Journal Asiatique 288.1 (2000):153-203. 

    Dong Zhongshu:

Arbuckle, Gary. “Five Divine Lords or One (Human) Emperor? A Problematic Passage in the Material on Dong Zhongshu.” JAOS 113.2 (1993): 277-80.

_____. "Inevitable Treason: Dong Zhongshu's Theory of Historical Cycles and Early Attempts to Invalidate the Han Mandate." JAOS 115.4 (1995): 585-97.

_____. "A Note on the Authenticity of the Chunqiu fanlu." TP 75 (1989): 226-34. 

_____. “Some Remarks on a New Translation of the Chunqiu fanlu.” EC 17 (1992): 215-38.

_____. "Dong Zhongshu: A New Biography." B.C. Asian Review 5 (1991): 124-59.

_____. "Restoring Dong Zhongshu (BCE 195-115): An Experiment in Historical and Philosophical Reconstruction" (Ph.D. diss., University of British Columbia, 1991).

Bujard, Marianne. "La vie de Dong Zhongshu: Énigmes et hypothèses.” JA 280.1-2 (1992):145-217.

Davidson, Steve and Michael Loewe. “Ch’un ch’iu fan lu,” In Michael Loewe, ed. Early Chinese Texts: A Bibliographical Guide.   Berkeley: The Society for the Study of Early China and The Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, 1993 , 77–87.

Mansvelt Beck, B.J. The Treatises of Later Han: Their Author, Sources, Contents and Place in Chinese Historiography. Sinica Leidensia no. 21. Leiden: Brill, 1990. The chapters on astrology and five elements cite extensively from the Han shu and present material on Dong Zhongshu, Liu Xiang and Liu Xin.

Sarah A. Queen. From Chronicle to Canon: The Hermeneutics of The Spring and Autumn, According to Tung Chung-shu. Cambridge, Eng. &  New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Rev. Anne Cheng, EC 23-24 (1988-89):353-66; Michael Nylan, HJAS 57.2 (Dec.1997): 629-638.

Tain, Tzey-yueh. "Tung Chung-shu's System of Thought, Its Sources, and Its Influence on Han Scholars." Ph.D. diss., Univeristy of California, Los Angeles, 1974. 

Vuylsteke, Richard Ralph. "The Political Philosophy of Tung Chung-shu (179-104 B.C.)." Ph.D. diss., University of Hawai'i, 1982. 

Wang, Robin R. “Dong Zhongshu’s Transformation of yin-yang Theory and Contesting of Gender Identity,” PEW 55.2 (2005): 209-31.

Woo, Kang. Les Trois Théories politiques du Tch’ouen Tch’ieou, interprétées par Tong Tchong-chou, d’après les principes de l’École de Kong-yang. Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1932. 

    Huainanzi:

_____. “‘The Art of Rulership’ Chapter of the Huai Nan Tzu: A Practicable Taoism,” JCP 8.2 (1981): 225-44.

Howard, Jeffrey A. “Concepts of Comprehensiveness and Historical Change in the Huai-nan-tzu.” In Henry Rosemont, Explorations in Early Chinese Cosmology, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 50.2 (1984):119-31. 

Le Blanc, Charles, and Rémi Mathieu, eds. Mythe et philosophie a l'aube de la Chine imperiale: Etudes sur le Huainan zi. Montreal: Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 1992. 

_____, eds. Philosophes taoïstes, vol. II: Huainan zi. Bibliothèque de la Pléiade 494. Paris: Gallimard, 2003.  A complete translation.

Major, John S., trans., Heaven and Earth in Early Han Thought: Chapters Three, Four, and Five of the Huainanzi. Albany: SUNY Press, 1993.  Rev. Michael Loewe, "Huang-Lao Thought and the Huainanzi: A Review Article." JRAS 4.3 (1994): 377-95; Harold Roth. Journal of Chinese Philosophy 25.1 (1998): 161-7.

_____. "Numerology in the Huai-nan-tzu." In Kidder Smith, Jr., ed., Sagehood and Systematizing Thought in Warring States and Han China. Brunswick, Maine: Bowdoin College, Asian Studies Program, 1990:3-10. 

_____. "Substance, Process, Phase: Wuxing 五行 in the Huainanzi." In Henry Rosemont, ed. Chinese Texts and Philosophical Contexts: Essays Dedicated to Angus C. Graham. Critics and Their Critics 1. La Salle, Ill.: Open Court,
1991, 67-78. 

Murray, Judson.  "A Study of 'Yaolue' 要略, 'A Summary of Essentials': Understanding the Huainanzi through the Point of View of the Author of the Postface," EC 29 (2004):45-109. 

Puett, Michael. "Violent Misreadings: The Hermeneutics of Cosmology in the Huainanzi," BMFEA 72 (2000):29-47.

Roth, Harold D. "The Concept of Human Nature in the Huai-nan Tzu." JCP 12.1 (1985): 1-22.

_____. The Textual History of the Huai-nan Tzu. Ann Arbor: Association for Asian Studies, 1992.  Rev. Gary Arbuckle. "A Strong but Uneven Light: A Discussion of Some Issues Raised by The Textual History of the Huai-nan-tzu." B.C. Asian Review 7.1 (1993-94): 114-24.

Suter, Rafael. “Der Begriff 性 xìng im Huái Nán Zi,” AS 59.4 (2005): 1267-1316

Vankeerberghen, Griet. The Huainanzi and Liu An’s Claim to Moral Authority.  Albany: SUNY Press, 2001.

_____. “Emotions and Actions of the Sage: Recommendations for an Orderly Heart in the Huainanzi,” PEW 45.4 (1995): 527-44.

Wallacker, Benjamin E., tr. The Huai-nan Tzu, Book Eleven: Behavior, Culture, and Cosmos. American Oriental Series 48.  New Haven: American Oriental Society, 1962. 

_____.  “Liu An, Second King of Huai-nan (180?-122 B.C.),” JAOS 92 (1972):36-51.

    Huang-Lao Thought:

Tu, Wei-ming. “The ‘Thought of Huang-Lao’: A Reflection on the Lao Tzu and Huang Ti Texts in the Silk Manuscripts of Ma-wang-tui.” JAS 39 (1979-80): 95-110. 

Yates, Robin D.S., tr. Five Lost Classics: Tao, Huang-Lao, and Yin-Yang in Han China. Classics of Ancient China. New York: Ballantine, 1997.

_____. “The Yin Yang Texts from Yinqueshan: An Introduction and Partial Reconstruction, with Notes on their Significance in Relation to Huang-Lao Daoism.” EC 19 (1994): 74-144.

Zhang Weihua. “Explaining the Term ‘Huang-Lao,’” Contemorary Chinese Thought 34.1 (2002): 61-81.

f. Society

Liu Yongzong 劉詠聰.  De,cai,se,quan: lun Zhongguo gudau nüxing  德, 才,色, 權: 論中國古代女性 [Virtue, Talent, Beauty, Power:  Women in Ancient China.  Taibei: Maitian chuban, 1998.  Qian Nanxiu. Nan Nü 2.1 (2000): 188-92.

Yates, Robin D.S. "Social Status in The Ch'in: Evidence From The Yun-meng Legal Documents. Part One: Commoners," HJAS 47.1 (June 1987):197-237. 

Wilbur, Clarence Martin. Slavery in China during the Former Han Dynasty. Publications of the Field Museum of Natural History: Anthropological Series 34. Chicago, 1943.  Rpt.  New York: Russell & Russell, 1967.

Hsing I-tien (Xing Yitian) 邢義田. "Cong Zhanguo zhi Xi Han de zuju, zuzang, shiye lun Zhongguo gudai zongzu shehui de yanxu" 從戰國至西漢的族居, 族葬, 世業論中國古代宗族社會的延續 [Examination of the Continuation of Ancient Chinese Clan Society from The Aspects of Warring States-Han Clan Residence, Clan Burial, and Hereditary Occupations], Xin shixue 新史學 6.2 (1995):1-42.

    Women:

______. "The Origins of Han-Dynasty Consort Kin Power," EAH 25/26 (Jun/Dec 2003):1-24.

_____. "The Textual History of Liu Xiang's Lienü zhuan," MS (2004):95-112. 

_____. Women in Early Imperial China.  Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002.  A flawed treatment. Rev. Wm G. Crowell, Nan Nü 5.2 (October 1003): 242-3.

Holmgren, Jennifer. “Imperial Marriage in the Native Chinese and Non-Han State.” In Ruby Watson and Patricia Ebrey.  Marriage and Inequality in Chinese Society. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991, 58–96.

O’Hara, Albert Richard, trans. The Position of Woman in Early China. Taipei: Mei Ya Publications, 1978. Translation of the Lie nü zhuan attributed to Liu Xiang. 

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.
 
Sung, Marina H. “The Chinese Lieh-nü Tradition.” HR 8.3 (Fall 1981): 63–74.

Swann, Nancy Lee. Pan Chao: Foremost Woman Scholar of China. New York: The Century Co., 1932.

_______. “A Woman among the Rich Merchants: The Widow of Pa (3rd Century B.C.).” JAOS 54 (1934): 186–193. 

Van Ess, Hans.  "Praise and Slander: The Evocation of Empress Lü in the Shiji and the Hanshu," Nan nü 8.2 (2006): 221-54.

Wallacker, Benjamin E. “Dethronement and Due Process in Early Imperial China,” JAH 21.1 (1987): 48-67.

Wang, Robin R., ed. Images of Women in Chinese Thought and Culture: Writings from the Pre-Qin Period through the Song Dynasty. Indianapolis and Cambridge, Mass.:Hackett, 2003.  Rev. Wm G. Crowell. JESHO 48.1:131-34.

Watson, Ruby and Patricia Ebrey.  Marriage and Inequality in Chinese Society. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.

Yang, Lien-sheng. “Female Rulers in Imperial China.” HJAS 23 ( 1960–1961): 47–61. 

Yates, Robin D.S. "Medicine for Women in Early China: A Preliminary Survey," Nan Nü 7.2 (2005):127-81. 

Traditions of Exemplary Women: Liu Xiang's Lienü zhuan. This project directed by Prof. Anne Behnke Kinney, "focuses on the Lienü zhuan (Traditions of Exemplary Women) of Liu Xiang (77-6 B.C.), the earliest extant book in the Chinese tradition solely devoted to the moral education of women. The book consists of biographical accounts of female role models in early China and became the standard textbook for women’s education for the next two millennia. The Lienü zhuan offers important insights into the culture, politics, and social structure of early China, as well as into the representation of women in various phases of China’s history. This project includes a translation of the text, a book-length study, and a digital archive that will serve as a publicly accessible tool for scholarly exploration (in both English and Chinese) of women’s social, legal, and ritual status as represented in the texts of specific periods in Chinese history." http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/xwomen/

g. Economy 

Bray, Francesca. "Agricultural Technology and Agrarian Change in Han China," EC 5 (1979-80): 3-13.

Chalfant, Rev. F. H. "Standard Weights and Measures of the Ch'in Dynasty." Reprint of article that originally appeared in the JNCBRAS 35 (1903-1904): 21-25. Available through the University of Oregon's e-asia on-line book project. http://e-asia.uoregon.edu/easia/chinarchive6.htm

Crowell, William G. “Government Land Policies and Systems in Early Imperial China.” Ph.D. diss. University of Washington, 1979.  DEM 80-02845

Dubs, Homer H.  “Wang Mang and His Economic Reforms,” TP 35 (1940).  Dubs also treats this subject in Appendix II of the thrid volume of The History of the Former Han Dynasty.

Gale, Esson M., tr. Discourses on Salt and Iron: A Debate on State Control of Commerce and Industry in Ancient China. Sinica Leidensia 2. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1931.

_____, Peter A. Boodberg and T.C. Lin. "Discourses on Salt and Iron [Yen T'ieh Lun: Chaps. XX-XXVIII]." JNCBRAS 65 (1934): 73-110.

Han, Fuzhi 韓復智. Liang Han de jingji sixiang 兩漢的經濟思想 [Economic Thought of the Han]. Taibei : Zhongguo xue shu zhu zuo jiang zhu wei yuan hui, 1969.  

Kageyama Tsuyoshi 影山剛. "Kinshutsu heishun to entetsu senbai" 均輸、平準 と塩鉄専売 [ Equal Supply, Price Equalization and the Iron and Salt Monopolies].  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, 295-331.

Nishijima, Sadao. "The Economic and Social History of Former Han," CHC 1.545-607.

Nishijima Sadao 西嶋定生. Chūgoku keizaishi kenkyū中國經濟史硏究 [Studies on Chinese Economic History]. Tōkyō: Tōkyō Daigaku Shuppankai, 1966. Nishijima was one of Japan's foremost authorities on early Chinese economic history. This title contains studies of early imperial agriculture and land systems.

Nishimura Gen'yū 西村元佑. Chūgoku keizaishi kenkyū. Kinden seido hen 中國經濟史研究. 均田制度篇 [Studies on Chinese Economic History: The Equal Field System]. Kyoto: Tōyōshi Kenkyūkai, 1968. Articles on Han policy for encouraging agriculture, Wei-Jin agricultural and land policies, the Northern Dynasties equal field systems, the equal-field systems of the N. Qi and N. Zhou, and the Tang equal field system. An important compilation.

Song, Shuwu 宋叙五. Xi Han huobi shi chugao 西漢貨幣史初稿 [Initial Draft History of Western Han Coinage]. Hong Kong. Sanlian shudian, 1971.

Song Jie. “The Historical Value of the Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art in Society and the Economy.” In  Chinese Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology. Eds. Fan Dainian and Robert S. Cohen. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 179. Dordrecht, Holland: Kluwer, 1996, 261-66.

Swann, Nancy Lee, tr. Food and Money in Ancient China: The Earliest Economic History of China to A.D. 25. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1950; rpt. New York: Octagon Books, 1974. Copious annotated translation of Han shu 24A and 24B, with Han shu 91 and Shi ji 129. Chinese texts are appended. Though somewhat dated, this work is still extremely useful to those studying Han economic history.  See item by Yang Lien-sheng below.

Walter, Georges, et al., trs. Dispute sur le sel et le fer: Chine, an -81. Paris: J. Lanzmann et Seghers, 1978.

Yan Guimei yan闫桂梅. “Jin wushinian Qin Han tudi zhidu yanjiu zongshu” 近五十来秦汉土地制度研究综述 [Overview of the Past 50 Years of Research on Qin-Han Land System] , Zhonguoshi yanjiu dongtai 中国史研究动态 2007.7:9-18.  An invaluable introduction to the historiography of Qin-Han land tenure and government land policy.  Particularly useful for showing the impact of  archaelogical discoveries of the last thrity years on our understanding of the subject.

Yang, Lien-sheng. “Notes on Dr. Swann’s Food and Money in Ancient China,” HJAS 13.3-4 (1950): 524-57. 

_____. “Notes sur le régime foncier en Chine ancienne (environ 1300 av. J.-C. à 200 av. J.-C.).” Mélanges de Sinologie offerts à Monsieur Paul Demiéville, Bibliothèque de l’Institut des Hautes Études Chinoises 20. Paris, 1966-74, I.291-300.

h. Art and Archeology

Cheng, Te-kun. “Yin-yang wu-hsing and Han Art,” HJAS 20 (1957):162-86. 

Erickson, Susan N. “Boshanlu—Mountain Censers of the Western Han Period: A Typological and Iconographic Analysis,” Archives of Asian Art 45 (1992): 6-28.

_____. “Money Trees of the Eastern Han Dynasty,” BMFEA 66 (1994):5-115.

_____. “‘Twirling Their Long Sleeves, They Dance Again and Again’:Jade Plaque Sleeve Dancers of the Western Han Dynasty,” Ars Orientalis 24 (1994): 39-63.

_____. “The Legacy and Innovation: Western Han Sculpture from Shaanxi Province.” In  Eternal China: Splendors from the First Dynasties. Ed. Li Jian.  Dayton, Oh.: Dayton Art Institute, 1998, 29-38.

_____. “Eastern Han Dynasty Cliff Tombs of Santai Xian, Sichuan Province,” Journal of East Asian Archeology 5 (2003): 401-69.

_____. “Images of Mountains: Boshanlu, Hill Jars, and Hu Vessels.” In Recarving China’s Past: Art, Archaeology, and Architecture of the “Wu Family Shrines”. Ed. Cary Y. Liu et al. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2005, 402-5. 

Hsing I-tien (Xing Yitian) 邢義田.  "Getao, bangti, wenxian yu huaxiang jieshi -- yi shichuan de 'Qinü wei fu baochou' Han hua gushi wei li" 格套, 榜題, 文獻與畫象解釋—以失傳的「七女為父報仇」漢畫故事為例 [Explication of Form, Inscription, Documentation and Illustration – Using the Lost Han Illustrated Story "Seven Daughters Avenge Their Father" as An Example]. In Zhongyang yanjiuyuan di san jie guoji Hanxue yilun ji lishi zu 中央研究院第三屆國際漢學會議論文集歷史組 [Proceedings of the Academia Sinica Third International International Sinology Conference, History Section]. Taibei: Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, 2002, 183-234.

_____.  "Han bei, Han hua he shi gong de guanxi" 漢碑, 漢畫和石工的關係 [The Nexus Between Stone Masons and Han Steles and Han Illustrations],  Gugong wen yuekan 故宮文物月刊 14.4 (1996):44-59.

_____. "Handai huaxiang neirong yu bangti de guanxi," 漢代畫象內容與榜題的關係, [The Relationship between the Content of Han Time Illustrations and their Inscriptions] Gugong wen yuekan 故宮文物月刊 14.5 (1996):70-83

_____. “Handai huaxiang zhong de she jue she hou tu” 漢代畫象中的射爵射侯圖 [Depictions of hunting rank and hunting status in Han Illustrations]  Lishi yuyan yanjiusuo jikan 歷史語言研究所集刊 71:1(2000):1-66.

_____. "Juyan chutu de Handai keci jiangan" 居延出土的漢代刻辭箭幹 [Han-Time Engraved Bamboo Strips Recovered at Juyan]. In Juyan Han jian bubian 居延漢簡補編 [Han Bamboo Strips from Juyan: Supplement]. Institute of History and Philology Special Publication No. 99. Taibei: Institute of History and Philiology, Academia Sinica, 1998. 20-29. 

_____.  with Xiao Fan 蕭璠, Lin Suoqing 林素清, and Liu Zenggui 劉增貴. Juyan Han jian bubian 居延漢簡補編 [Han Bamboo Strips from Juyan: Supplement]. Institute of History and Philology Special Publication No. 99. Taibei: Institute of History and Philiology, Academia Sinica, 1998.

_____. "Yue ling he Xi Han zhengzhi – cong Yiwan jipu zhong de 'yichun cheng hu' shuo qi," 月令和西漢政治–從尹灣集簿中的「以春令成戶」說起 [Monthly Ordinances and Han Government–Discussed from 'complete households according to the Spring ordinances' in the Yiwan Collected Documents], Xin shixue 新史學 9.1 (1998):1-54.

_____. Zhongyang yanjiu yuan lishi yuyan yanjiu suo suo zang Han dai shike huaxiang taben mulu 中央研究院歷史語言研究所藏漢代石刻畫象拓本目錄（與史語所文物圖象研究室漢代拓本整理小組合作) [Catalogues of Rubbings of Han Time Stone Illustrations Held by the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica (With the Cooperation of Han Rubbings Inventory Team of the IHP Cultural Relic Images Research Office)]. Taibei: Institute of History and Philiology, Academia Sinica, 2002.

_____. Zhongyang yanjiu yuan lishi yuyan yanjiu suo suo zang Han dai shike huaxiang taben jingxuan ji 中央研究院歷史語言研究所藏漢代石刻畫象拓本精選集(與史語所文物圖象研究室漢代拓本整理小組合作) [Selected Rubbings of Han Time Stone Illustrations Held by the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica (With the Cooperation of Han Rubbings Inventory Team of the IHP Cultural Relic Images Research Office)]. Taibei: Institute of History and Philiology, Academia Sinica, 2004.

Lao Gan 勞幹.  Juyan Han jian 居延漢簡 [Supplied Title:  Documents of the Han Dynasty on Wooden Slips from Edsin Gol,  Part 2:  Transliterations and Commentaries]. Zhongyang yanjiuyuan lishi yuyan yanjiusuo zhuankan, 40. Taibei: Zhongyan yanjiuyuan lishi yuyan yanjiusuo, 1960.  Transcriptions and study of Former Han administrative documents from Juyan (Edsin Gol).  See also below Loewe, Records of Han Administration.

Loewe, Michael  “The manuscripts from Tomb Number Three Ma-wang-tui.”  In Zhongyang yanjiuyuan guoji Hanxue huiyi lunwen ji [Proceedings of the international conference on Sinology]. Taipei, October 1981, 181-98.

Metropolitan Museum of Metropolitan Art. Website. Some photos of objects and links to related sites. Map. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/hand/hd_hand.htm 

Powers, Martin J. Art and Political Expression in Early China. New Haven : Yale University Press, 1991. Rev. Lothar Von Falkenhausen HJAS 5.1 (June 1995):273-289. 

Tseng, Lillian Lan-ying. "Representation and Appropriation: Rethinking the TLV Mirror in Han China," EC 29 (2004): 163-215.

Wang Zhongshu. Han Civilization. Early Chinese Civilization Series. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1982.

Wu, Hung. “Art in a Ritual Context: Rethinking Mawangdui.” EC 17 (1992): 111-44.

Xu, Pingfang. “The Archaeology of the Qin and Han Dynasties-Period Great Wall.” Tr. Taotao Huang and John Moffett. Journal of East Asian Archeology 3.1-2 (2001): 259–81.

Yang, Boda. “Han Dynasty Burial Pottery Houses from Henan, Guangzhou, and Sichuan,” Arts of Asia 31.5 (2001): 90–101.

Yang, Hong. “Jade Suits of the Han Dynasty and Painted Pottery Figurines of the Tang Dynasty: Reflections of Han and Tang Aristocratic Burial Practices.” In Xiaoneng Yang, New Perspectives on China’s Past,  I, 345-61.

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.

i. Foreign Affairs/Frontier Peoples

Chang, Ch’un-shu. “Military Aspects of Han Wu-ti’s Northern and Northwestern Campaigns.” HJAS 26 (1966):148-73.

Dani, A. H., et al. History of civilizations of Central Asia. 6. vols. Paris: UNESCO Pub, 1994-2005

Dubs, Homer H. A Roman City in Ancient China. China Society Sinological Series no. 5. London: China Society, 1957. This small work has spawned a lot of nonsense. See, for example, Erling Hoh. "Lost Legion," Far Eastern Economic Review January 14, 1999:60-2 and "Do descendants of Roman soldiers live in Gansu?" China Daily, 7/31/1998. Cf.  the more sober comments by Yu Ying-shi, Trade and Expansion in Han China, 89-91, and Hsing I-tien, "Handai Zhongguo yu Luoma diguo guanxi de zai jiantao guanxi." (See below)  

Enoki, K., G.A. Koshelenko and Z. Haidary.  "The Yüeh-chih and their Migrations." In A.H. Dani, et al. eds., History of Civilizations of Central Asia.  Paris: UNESCO Pub, 1994, 2:171-190.

Hsing I-tien (Xing Yitian) 邢義田. "Handai Wudi fa Dayuan yuanyin zhi zai jiantao" 漢武帝伐大宛原因之再檢討 [The Reasons for Han Wudi's Attacking Ferghana Revisited]. Shihuo yuekan 食貨月刊 2.9 (1972):31-35.

_____. "Handai de yi yi zhi yi lun" 漢代的以夷制夷論 [The Han Time Concept of Using  Barbarians to Control Barbarians],  Shiyuan 史原 5 (1974):9-54.

_____. "Handai Wudi fa Dayuan yuanyin zhi zai jiantao yi wen de bubai" 漢武帝伐大宛原因之再檢討一文的補白 [Han Wudi's Motivations for Attacking Ferghana Revisited]. Shiyi 史繹 10 (1973).

_____. "Handai Zhongguo yu Luoma diguo guanxi de zai jiantao," 漢代中國與羅馬帝國關係的再檢討 (1985-95) [Relations between Han China and the Roman Empire Revisted (1985-95), Hanxue yanjiu 漢學研究 15.1 (1997):1-31. Reprinted in Xueshu jilin 學術集林. Shanghai: Yuandong chubanshe, 1998. 12:169-202. This is an extended review article of Western and Chinese writings in this subject.

Hulsewé, A.F.P. China in Central Asia. The Early Stage: 125 B.C.-A.D. 23. An Annotated Translation of the Chapters 61 and 96 of the History of the Former Han Dynasty. With an Introduction by M.A.N. Loewe, Sinica Leidensia XIV. Leiden: Brill, 1979.  Rev. Paolo Daffina. “The Han shu Hsi yü chuan retranslated. A review Article,” TP 68 (1982):309-39; Edwin G. Pulleyblank."Han China in Central Asia," International History Review 3 (1981):278-86. 

Kao, Ch'ü-hsün. "The Ching lu shen Shrines of Han Sword Worship in Hsiung Nu Religion," CAJ  5 (1959):221-32.

Ma Yong and Sun Yutang.  "The Western regions under the Hsiung-nu and the Han."  In In A.H. Dani, et al. eds., History of Civilizations of Central Asia.  Paris: UNESCO Pub, 1994, 2:227-46.

Psarras, Sophia-Karin. "Han and Xiongnu. A reexamination of Cultural and Political Relations (I)," MS 51 (2003):55-236; (II) MS 52 (2004):37-93.

Pulleyblank, E.G.  "The Wu-sun and Sakas and the Yueh-chih Migration, " BSOAS 33.1 (1970):154-60. 

Shiratori, Kurakichi.  "On the Territory of the Hsiung-nu Prince Hsiu-t'u Wang and His Metal Statues for Heaven Worship,"  MTB 5 (1930): 1-77.

_____.  "Sur l'origine des Hiong-nu," JA 202 (1923): 71-81.

T'ang, Ch'i. "Agrarianism and Urbanism, and Their Relationship to the Hsiung-nu Empire." CAJ 25 (1981):110-120.

Vovin, Alexander. "Did the Xiongnu Speak a Yeniseian Language?" CAJ 44.1 (2000)87-104. 

Waley, Arthur. “The Heavenly Horses of Ferghana: A New View,” History Today 5.2 (1955):95-103.

Yü Ying-shih. “Han Foreign Relations,” CHC 1.377–462.  

_____. “The Hsiung-nu.” In Denis Sinor, ed.  The Cambridge History of Early Inner Asia. Cambridge [Eng.]: Cambridge University Press, 1990, 118-40.

_____. Trade and Expansion in Han China: A Study in the Structure of Sino-Barbarian Economic Relations. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967.

Zhang Guang-da. "The City-States of the Tarim Basin."  In In A.H. Dani, et al. eds., History of Civilizations of Central Asia.  Paris: UNESCO Pub, 1994, 3:281-302.

English Language Resources on the Xiongnu. Contains links to sites related to the Xiongnu and the Huns and a bibliography of scholarly and non-scholarly works. http://www.angelfire.com/scifi/barbarianlibrarian/xiongnu.html

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/

Silk Road Foundation. Website. "The Silkroad Foundation is a non-profit organization, established in 1996, to promote the study and preservation of cultures and art on Inner Asia and the Silk Road. The Silkroad Foundation provides resources, information, and interactive exchange toward the pursuit of educating the Bay Area community about Inner Asia and the Silk Road." Contains some basic bibliography and useful links. Intended more for a general audience. http://www.silk-road.com/toc/index.html  

j. Science and technology

    (See also Thought and Religion)

Cullen, Christopher. Astronomy and Mathematics in Ancient China: The Zhou bi suan jing. Cambridge University Press, 1996.  Rev. Article: David Pankenier. "Seeing Stars in the Han Sky," EC 25 (2000):185-203.

Major, John S., trans.  Heaven and Earth in Early Chinese Thought: Chapters Three, Four, and Five of of the Huainanzi. Albany: SUNY Press, 1993. Rev. Michael Loewe, "Huang-Lao Thought and the Huainanzi: A Review Article." JRAS 4.3 (1994): 377-95.

Needham, Joseph, et al., eds. Science and Civilisation in China. 7 volumes projected. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1954-. Monumental. This is to be consulted for any subject pertaining to science or technology. Comprehensive bibliographies.

de Saussure, Leopold. Les origines de l'astronomie chinoise. Paris: Maisonneuve, 1930; rpt., Taibei: Ch'eng-wen, 1967. 

Song Jie. “The Historical Value of the Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art in Society and the Economy.” In  Chinese Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology. Eds. Fan Dainian and Robert S. Cohen. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 179. Dordrecht, Holland: Kluwer, 1996, 261-66.

Sun, Xiaochun and Jacob Kistemaker. The Chinese Sky during the Han: Constellating Stars and Society. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1997.  Rev. Article: David Pankenier. "Seeing Stars in the Han Sky," EC 25 (2000):185-203; B.J. Mansvelt, TP 87.4-5 (2001):463-4.

Wagner, Donald B. The State and the Iron Industry in Han China. Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Report Series 44. Copenhagen, 2001.

Xi, Zezong. “The Cometary Atlas in the Silk Book of the Han Tomb at Mawangdui,” Chinese Astronomy and Astrophysics 8 (1984): 1-7.

Yates, Robin D.S. "Medicine for Women in Early China: A Preliminary Survey," Nan Nü 7.2 (2005):127-81.

k. Electronic texts of Primary Sources  

Gu shi shijiu shou 古诗十九首. Simplified character version. http://www.cnread.net/cnread1/gdwx/y/yiming/000/005.htm

Han shu 漢書 electronic text. Scripta Sinica (see above) searchable text and commentary of Ban Gu’s Han shu. 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 characters. http://www.cnread.net/cnread1/lszl/b/bangu/hs/index.html   A version in simplified characters with notes in baihua is available at http://www.popbook.com/mz/hanshu/index.html

Jiuzhang suan shu 九章算書 electronic text. May be accessed through the 人文資料庫師生版1.1 link at http://www.sinica.edu.tw/ftms-bin/ftmsw3 by selecting 古籍三十四種.

Shi ji 史記 electronic text. Scripta Sinica (see above) searchable text and commentary of Sima Qian’s Shi ji. 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/s/simaqian/sj/001.htm

Zhou bi suan jing 周髀算經 electronic text.  May be accessed through the 人文資料庫師生版1.1 link at http://www.sinica.edu.tw/ftms-bin/ftmsw3 by selecting 古籍三十四種.