Western Wei/Northern Zhou (A.D. 535-581)
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.
b. History
Dien, Albert E. "The Bestowal of Surnames under the Western Wei--Northern Chou: a Case of Counter-acculturation," TP 63:2-3 (1977):137-77.
_____. Biography of Yu-wen Hu (translation from the Chou Shu). Berkeley: University of California Press, 1962.
Goodrich, Chauncey S., tr. & annon. Biography of Su Ch'o. Chinese Dynastic History Translations, no. 3. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1953. Translation, with introduction, of Su's biography from Zhou shu 23.
Miller, Roy Andrew. Accounts of Western Nations in the History of the Northern Chou Dynasty. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1959.
c. Government
Dien, Albert E. "The Role of the Military in the Western Wei/Northern Chou State." In Albert E. Dien, ed. State and Society in Early Medieval China. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990, 331-67.
Pearce, Scott. “Form and Matter: Archaizing Reform in Sixth Century China.” In Pearce, Scott, Audrey Spiro, and Patricia Ebrey, eds. Culture and Power in the Reconstitution of the Chinese Realm, 200-600. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2003, 149-78.
Wang Zhongluo 王仲犖. Bei Zhou liu dian 北周六典 [The Six Institutions of the Northern Zhou], 2 vols. Beijing : Zhonghua shu ju, 1979. Comprehensive compilation of the offices and institutions established by the archaizing reforms of Yuwen Tai.
d. Literature
Zheng, Xiaorong. "A History of Northern Dynasties Literature." Ph. D. diss. University of Washington, 2002. UnM: AAT 3063039. Chapters 4 and 5 treat the Western Wei/Northern Zhou.
Historiography
Zhou shu
Linghu Defen 令狐德棻 (583-666). Zhou shu 周書 [History of the Northern Zhou]. Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1995.
Studies
Wang Zhongluo 王仲犖. Bei Zhou di i zhi 北周地理志 [Northern Zhou Treatise on Geography]. Beijing : Zhonghua shu ju , 1980.
e. Thought/Religion
Zhang Jian 张箭. "Bei Zhou fei fo tedian chu tan" 北周废佛特点初探 [Preliminary Examination of the Northern Zhou's Abolition of Buddhism]. Foxue yanjiu 佛学研究 12 (2003):162-69.
f. Electronic Texts of Primary Sources:
Zhou shu
周書
electronic text.
Scripta Sinica searchable text and commentary of Linghu Defen’s Zhou 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
