(1) General

• Davidson, Martha. A List of Published Translations from Chinese into English, French, and German. New Haven: Far Eastern Publications, 1957.

• Karlgren, Bernhard. "Legends and Cults of Ancient China." Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities 18 (1946) 199-365. (review by Eberhard in Artibus Asiae 9 (1946) 355-364.)

• ---. "The Authenticity of Ancient Chinese Texts." Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities 1 (1929) 165-183.

• Loewe, Michael, ed. Early Chinese Texts: A Bibliographical Guide. Berkeley: Society for the Study of Early China and the Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, 1993.

• Maspero, Henri. La Chine antique. Nouvelle edition. Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1955.

(2) Zhou yi 周 易 or Yi jing 易 經 (The Book of Changes, or, Change(s) Classic, etc.)

• Legge, James. The Texts of Confucianism. Pt. II: The Yi King. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1899.

• Lynn, Richard John, trans. The Columbia I-ching on CD-ROM. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.

• The Multimedia I Ching: The I Ching or Book of Changes, from the original Wilhelm/Baynes Translation. New on CD-ROM. Princeton University Press, 1997.

• Needham, Joseph. Science and Civilization in China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1956. Vol. II, pp. 304-329.

• Nylan, Michael, trans. The Elemental Changes: The Ancient Companion to the I Ching: The T'ai Hsuan China. Albany: SUNY Press, 1995.

• Ritsema , Rudolf & Stephan Karcher, trans. I Ching: The Classic Chinese Oracle of Change: The First Complete Translation With Concordance. Rockport, MA: Element Books. 1994. A translation inspired by C.G. Jung's theories of the psyche. The concordance is based on English terms only.

• Rutt, Richard, trans. Zhou Yi: A New Translation with Commentary of the Book of Changes. Durham East Asia Series, 1996.

• Shaughnessy, Edward, trans. I Ching: The Classic of Changes. New York: Ballantine Books, 1997. Translation by a highly regarded specialist in early Chou bronzes and texts.

• Shchutskii, Iulian. Researches on the I-ching. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979.

• Smith, Kidder, Jr., et al. Sung Dynasty Uses of the I ching. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990.

• Waley, Arthur. "The Book of Changes." Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities 5 (1934): 121-42.

• Wilhelm, Hellmut. Change. Eight Lectures on the I Ching. Trans. by Cary F. Baynes. New York: Pantheon Books, 1960.

• ---. Heaven, Earth, and Man in the Book of Changes. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1977.

• ---. Die Wandlung: acht vortrage zum I-Ging. Beijing: Vetch, 1944.

• Wilhelm, Richard. The I Ching, or Book of Changes. Trans. by Cary F. Baynes. 2 vols. New York: Pantheon Books, 1950.

(3) The Rites 禮 記

• Biot, Edouard. Le Tcheou-Li ou Rites des Tcheou. Paris: L'imprimerie Nationale, 1851.

• Couvreur, S. Li Ki. Ho Kien Fan: Imprimerie de la Mission Catholique, 1913.

• Karlgren, Bernhard. "The Early History of the Chou Li and Tso Chuan Texts." Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities 3 (1931): 1-59.

• Legge, James, The Texts of Confucianism. Li Ki. Oxford: Clarendon, 1885.

• Noma Fumichika, compiler. Shurai sakuin 周 禮 索 引 (Index to the Rites of Chou). Fukuoka-shi: Chugoku shoten, 1989.

• Steele, John. The I-li or Book of Etiqette and Ceremonial. London: Probsthain, 1917.

• Wilhelm, Richard, Li Gi, Das Buch der Sitte des alteren und Jungeren Dai. Jena: Eugen Diederichs, 1930.

(4) Shang shu 尚 書 or Shu jing 書 經 (Documents Classic, or, Book of History)

• Chavannes, Edouard. Les Memoires historiques de Se-ma Ts'ien. Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1895. Vol. I, Introduction, pp. cxiii-cxxxvi.

• Creel, H. Studies in Early Chinese Culture. Baltimore: Waverly Press, 1937, pp. 55-89.

• ---. Confucius. The Man and the Myth. New York: John Day, 1949.

• Karlgren, Bernhard. "The Book of Documents," Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities 22 (1950): 1-81.

• ---. "Glosses on the Book of Documents." Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities 20 (1948): 39-315 and 21 (1949).

• Legge, James. The Shoo King or the Book of Historical Documents. The Chinese Classics, Vols III, IV. London: Oxford University Press, 1865.

• Nylan, Michael. The Shifting Center: The Original "Great Plan" and Later Readings. Sankt Augustin: Institute Monumenta Serica, 1992. Explores the exegetical tradition underlying this early source of political, cosmological, and social theory included as a "New Text" chapter in the Documents Classic.

• Pelliot, Paul. "Le Chou King en characteres anciens et le Chang Chou Che Wen." Memoires concernant l'Asie Orientale, L'Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. Vol. II, pp. 123-176. Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1916.

• Tjan, Tjoe Som (Tseng Chu-sen). Po Hu T'ung, The Comprehensive Discussions in the White Tiger Hall. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1949 & 1952.

(5) Chun qiu Zuo zhuan 春 秋 左 傳 (Spring and Autumn Annals and Tso Commentary)

• Cheng, Ann. Etude sur le Confucianisme Han. Paris: College de France, Institut des Hautes Etudes chinoises, 1985.

• Ch'i, Ssu-ho. "Professor Hung on the Ch'un ch'iu." Yenching Journal of Social Studies 1 & 2 (June 1938 & Feb. 1940) 49-71.

• Couvreur, Seraphin. Tch'ouen ts'iou et Tso-tchouan. Ho Kien Fu: Mission catholique, 1914.

• Elman, Benjamin A. Classicism, Politics, and Kinship: The Ch'ang-chou School of New Text Confucianism in Late Imperial China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.

• Karlgren, Bernhard. On the Authenticity and Nature of the Tso Chuan. Goteborg: Elanders Boktryckeri Aktiebolag, 1926.

• Kennedy, George. "Interpretation of the Ch'un Ch'iu." Journal of the American Oriental Society 62 (1942) 40-48.

• Legge, James. The Ch'un Ts'eu, with Tso Chuen. The Chinese Classics, Vol. V. London: Trubner, 1872.

• Maspero, Henri. "La composition et la date du Tso Tchouan." Melanqes chinois et bouddhiques 1 (1931-32) 137-215.

• Queen, Sarah. From Chronicle to Canon: The Hermeneutics of the Spring and Autumn Annals, According to Tung Chung-shu. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

• Woo, Kang. (Wu Kang). Les trois theories politiques du Tch'ouen Ts'ieou. Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1932.

• Yang, Bojun. 楊 伯 峻, comp. Chun qiu Zuo zhuan ci dian 春 秋 左 傳 詞 典 (Phrase dictionary of the Spring and Autumn Annals and Tso Commentary). Beijing: Xin hua Bookstore, 1985.

(6) Bibliography of Philosophers

~ I. General Introduction and Collected Translations

• Chan, Wing-tsit. A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1963.

• Creel, H. Chinese Thought from Confucius to Mao Tse-tung. Chicago: University of Chicago press, 1953. Paperback ed., New York: Mentor Books, 1960.

• de Bary, Wm. Theodore, Wing Tsit-chan, & Burton Watson. Sources of Chinese Tradition. New York: Columbia University Press, 1960. Paperback ed. in 2 vols., 1964.

• Fung, Yu-lan. A History of Chinese Philosophy. Trans. by Derk Bodde. 2 vols. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1953.

• ---. A Short History of Chinese Philosophy. ed. by Derk Bodde. New York: Macmillan, 1948. Paperback ed., 1966.

• ---. The Spirit of Chinese Philosophy. London: Kegan Paul, 1947. Paperback ed. Boston: Beacon Press, 1962.

• Hughes, Ernest R. Chinese Philosophy in Classical Times. London: J.M. Dent & Sons, Ltd., 1942.

• Loewe, Michael. Early Chinese Texts: A Bibliographical Guide. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley, 1993.

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

• Rickett, Allyn W. The Kuan-tzu, A Repository of Early Chinese Thought. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1965.

• ---. Guanzi: Political, Economic, and Philosophical Essays from Early China. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985.

• Waley, Arthur. Three Ways of Thought in Ancient China. New York: Macmillan, 1939. Paperback ed. Garden City, New York: Doubleday Anchor Books, 1956.

~ II. Confucianism 儒 學 (See also Confucianism and Neo-Confucianism elsewhere in this bibliography.)

• Bol, Peter K. This Culture of Ours: Intellectual Transitions in T'ang and Sung China. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992.

• Chin, Ann-ping and Mansfield Freeman, trans. Tai Chen On Mencius. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990.

• de Bary, William Theodore, trans. Waiting for the Dawn: A Plan for the Prince. Huang Tsung-hsi's Ming-i tai-fang lu. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.

• Ebrey, Patricia. Confucianism and Family Rituals in Imperial China: A Social History of Writing About Rites. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991.

• Elman, Benjamin. From Philosophy to Philology: Social and Intellectual Aspects of Change in Late Imperial China. Cambridge: Harvard University Council on East Asian Studies, 1984, 1990.

• ---. Classicism, Politics, and Kinship: The Ch'ang-chou School of New Text Confucianism in Late Imperial China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.

• Ewell, John, trans. Re-Inventing the Way: Dai Zhen's "Evidential Commentary on the Meanings of Terms in Mencius." Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990.

• Henderson, John. Scripture, Canon, and Commentary: A Comparison of Confucian and Western Exegesis. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991.

• ---. The Development and Decline of Chinese Cosmology. New York: Columbia University Press, 1984.

• ---. The Construction of Orthodoxy and Heresy: Neo-Confucian, Islamic, Jewish, and Early Christian Patterns. Albany: SUNY Press, 1999.

• Ko, Dorothy. Teachers of the Inner Chambers: Women and Culture in Seventeenth-Century China. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994.

• Teng, Ssu-yu, trans. Family Traditions for the Yen Clan. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1988. Translation of the Yan shi jia xun 顏 氏 家 訓.

• Tseng, Chi-feng. Testimony of a Confucian Women. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1993.

• Yu, Ying-shih. "Some Preliminary Observations on the Rise of Ch'ing Confucian Intellectualism," Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies, New Series 11 (1973): 105-144.

~ III. Confucius 孔 子

• Brooks, E. Bruce, & A. Takeo Brooks, trans. The Original Analects: Sayings of Confucius and His Successors. N.Y. Columbia University Press, 1998. Study of the Analects evolving over 230 years following Confucius' death.

• Creel, H. G. Confucius, the Man and the Myth. New York: John Day, 1949. Paperback ed. under the title Confucius and the Chinese Way. New York: Harper, 1960.

• Eno, Robert. The Confucian Creation of Heaven: Philosophy and the Defense of Ritual Mastery. Albany: SUNY Press, 1990.

• Hall, David, & Roger Ames. Thinking Through Confucius. Albany: SUNY Press, 1987.

• Fingarette, Herbert. Confucius:The Secular as Sacred. New York: Harper & Row, 1972.

• Jensen, Lionel. Manufacturing Confucianism: Chinese Traditions and Universal Civilization. Duke University Press, 1997. Controversial, selective, and polemical account of Jesuit's impact on European studies in the 17th century and early 20th century Chinese views of so-called "Confucianism." First two chapters are recommended.

• Lao, D. C., trans. The Analects. Harmonsdsworth; New York: Penguin, 1979.

• Legge, James. Confucian Analects. In Vol. I of Chinese Classics. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1893-95.

• Rule, Paul. K'ung-tzu or Confucius: The Jesuit Interpretation of Confucianism. Sydney: Allen and Unwin Australia, 1986.

• Soothill, W. E. The Analects of Confucius. London: Oxford University Press, 1937.

• Waley, Arthur, The Analects of Confucius. London: Allen & Unwin, 1938. Paperback ed., New York: Random House, 1938.

• Ware, James R. The Sayings of Confucius: The Teachings of China's Greatest Sage. Paperback. New York: Mentor Books, 1955.

~ IV. Mencius 孟 子

• Chin, Ann-ping and Mansfield Freeman, trans. Tai Chen On Mencius. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990.

• Dobson, W. A. C. H. Mencius, A New Translation Arranged and Annotated for the General Reader. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1963. Paperback ed., Canadian University Paperbooks, No. 52.

• Ewell, John, trans. Re-Inventing the Way: Dai Zhen's "Evidential Commentary on the Meanings of Terms in Mencius ."Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1990.

• Lau, D. C. Mencius. New York: Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1970.

• Legge, James. The Works of Mencius. Chinese Classics vol. II. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1893-95.

• Lyall, Leonard A. Mencius. London: Longmans, Green, 1932.

• Richards, I. A. Mencius on the Mind. New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Co., 1932. Reprint Richmond, Surrey: Curzon, 1996 reprint of 1932 edition.

• Ware, James. The Sayings of Mencius. New York: Mentor Books, 1960. Paperback.

~ V. Hsun Tzu 荀 子

• Dubs, Homer. Hsuntze, the Moulder of Ancient Confucianism. London: Probsthain, 1927.

• Knoblock, John, trans. Hsun-tzu: A Translation and Study of the Complete Works. 3 vols. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988-1994.

• Watson, Burton. Hsun Tzu. Basic Writings. Paperback ed. New York: Columbia University Press, 1963.

~ VI. Zhu Xi 朱 熹 , Dao xue 道 學, and Neo-Confucianism 新 儒 學

• Birdwhistell, Anne. Transition to Neo-Confucianism: Shao Yung on Knowledge and Symbols of Reality. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1989.

• Bol, Peter K. This Culture of Ours: Intellectual Transitions in T'ang and Sung China. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992.

• Chan, Wing-tsit, trans. Reflections On Things At Hand: The Neo-Confucian Anthology Compiled by Chu Hsi and lu Tsu-ch'ien. New York: Columbia University Press, 1967.

• ---, trans. Instructions For Practical Living and Other Neo-Confucian Writings by Wang Yang-ming. New York: Columbia University Press, 1963.

• ---, ed. Chu Hsi and Neo-Confucianism. Honolulu: University of Hawaii, 1986.

• ---. Chu Hsi: New Studies. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1988.

• Ching, Julia. To Acquire Wisdom: The Way of Wang Yang-ming. New York: Columbia University Press, 1976.

• de Bary, Wm. T., ed. Self and Society in Ming Thought. New York: Columbia University Press, 1970.

• --- and Tu Wei-ming, eds. Confucianism and Human Rights. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. Contributors: Sumner B. Twiss, Henry Rosemont, Jr., Julia Ching, Daniel W.Y. Kwok, Irene Bloom, Wejen Chang, Chung-ying Cheng, Yu Fen, Ron Guey Chu, Wm. Theodore de Bary, Alison W. Conner, Joan Judge, Peter Zarrow, Randall Peerenboom, Merle Goldman, Jeremy T. Paltiel, Louis Henkin, and Tu Weiming.

• ---, ed. The Unfolding of Neo-Confucianism. New York: Columbia University Press, 1975.

• ---, & John Chaffee, eds. Neo-Confucian Education. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.

• Gardner, Daniel K. Chu Hsi: Learning to Be a Sage. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. Selections of the Zhuzi yu lei 朱 子 語 類 (Conversations of Master Chu, Arranged Topially).

• ---. Chu Hsi and the Ta-hsueh: Neo-Confucian Reflection on the Confucian Canon. Cambridge: Harvard Council on East Asian Studies, 1986.

• Langlois, John, Jr. ed. China Under Mongol Rule. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981.

• Metzger, Thomas A. Escape From Predicament: Neo-Confucianism and China's Evolving Political Culture. New York: Columbia University Press, 1977.

• Tillman, Hoyt C. Confucian Discourse and Chu Hsi's Ascendancy. Honolulu: University of Hawaii, 1992.

• ---, & Stephen West, eds., China Under Jurchen Rule. Albany: SUNY Press,1995.

• Tu, Wei-ming. Neo-Confucian Thought in Action: Wang Yang-ming's Youth (1472-1529). Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976.

• Wilson, Thomas A. Genealogy of the Way: The Construction and Uses of the Confucian Tradition in late Imperial China. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995.

• Wittenborn, Allen, trans. Further Reflections on Things at Hand, by Chang Po-hsing. Lanlam: University Press of America, 1991.

• Wyatt, Don. The Recluse of Loyang: Shao Yung and the Moral Evolution of Early Sung Thought. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1996.

~ VII. Mohism 墨 子

• Mei, Y.P., The Ethical and Political Works of Motse. London: Probsthain, 1929.

~ VIII. Daoism 道 家 道 教 & Daoist Writings 老 莊 玄 學 (See also under Taoism 道 家 (Daoism): Selected English Bibliography For Chinese Civilization)

• Bokenkamp, Stephen. Early Daoist Scriptures. With a contribution by Peter Nickerson. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.

• Kohn, Livia. Laughing At the Tao: Debates Among Buddhists and Taoists in Medieval China. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. Translation of Zhen Luan's 甄 鸞 Xiao dao lun 笑 道 論.

• ---, ed. Daoism Handbook. 2 vols. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2004.

• Legge, James. The Texts of Taoism. New York: Julian Press, 1959. Reprinted from Sacred Books of the East, Vols. 39-40. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 189.

• Porke, Anton. Yang Chu's Garden of Pleasure. New York: Dutton, 1912.

• Schipper, Kristofer, and Franciscus Verellen, eds., The Taoist Canon: A Historical Companion o the Daozang. 3 vols. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.

• Thompson, Paul, trans. The Shen-tzu 慎 子 Fragments. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979.

• Welch, Holmes. The Parting of the Way: Lao Tzu and the Taoist Movement. Boston: Beacon Press, 1957.

~ IX. Lao Tzu 老 子

• Bahm, Archie. Tao Teh King by Lao Tzu, Interpreted as Nature and Intelligence. Paperback. New York: Frederick Ungar Pub. Co., 1958.

• Carus, Paul. The Canon of Reason and Virtue. Paperback. Chicago: Open Court, 1945.

• Chan, Wing-tsit. The Way of Lao Tzu. Paperback. New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1963.

• Chu, Ta-kao. Tao Te Ching. 5th ed. London: Allen and Unwin, 1959.

• Csikszentmihalyi, Mark, & Philip Ivanhoe, eds. Religious and Philosophical Aspects of the Laozi. Albany: SUNY Press, 1999.

• Duyvendak, J. J. L. Tao Te Ching: The Book of the Way and Its Virtue. London: John Murray, 1954.

• Henricks, Robert G. Lao-tzu: Te-tao Ching. New York: Ballantine Books, 1989.

• Kohn, Livia, & Michael LaFargue, eds. Lao-tzu and the Tao-te-ching. Albany: SUNY Press.

• LaFargue, Michael. The Tao of the Tao-te-ching: A Translation and Commentary. Albany: SUNY Press, 1992.

• Lau, D. C., trans. Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching. Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1963.

• Waley, Arthur. The Way and Its Power: A Study of the Tao Te Ching and Its Place in Chinese Thought. New York: Macmillan, 1934. Paperback ed. New York: Grove Press, 1958.

~ X. Zhuangzi 莊 子

• Ames, Roger, ed. Wandering at Ease in the Zhuangzi. Albany: SUNY Press.

• Giles, Herbert. Chuang Tzu, Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer. Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh, 1926.

• Graham, A.C. Chuang Tzu: The Inner Chapters. Boston: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1981.

• ---, Chuang-tzu: Textual Notes to a Partial Translation. London: SOAS, 1982.

• Kjellberg, Paul, & Philip Ivanhoe, eds., Essays on Skepticism, Relativism, and Ethics in the Zhuangzi. Albany: SUNY Press, 1996.

• Mair, Victor, ed. Experimental Essays on Chuang-tzu. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1983.

• Watson, Burton. Chuang Tzu. Basic Writings. New York: Columbia University Press, 1964.

~ XI. Liezi 列 子

• Giles, Lionel. Taoist Teachings from the Book of Lieh Tzu. 2nd ed. London: John Murray, 1947.

• Graham, A.C. The Book of Lieh Tzu. London: John Murray, 1961.

~ XII. Huainanzi 淮 南 子

• Ames, Roger. The Art of Rulership. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1983.

• LeBlanc, Charles. Huai-nan Tzu: Philosophical Synthesis in Early Han Thought. Hong Kong University Press, 1985.

• Major, John. Heaven and Earth in Early Han Thought: Chapters Three, Four, and Five of the Huainanzi. Albany: SUNY Press.

• Morgan, Evan. Tao, the Great Luminant. London: Kogan Paul, 1935. Translated from the Huai-nan-tzu.

• Roth, Harold. The Textual History of the Huai-nan Tzu. Ann Arbor: AAS Monograph Series, 1992.

~ XIII. Buddhist Writings 佛 學

(See also under Buddhism 釋 迦 牟 尼 : Selected English Bibliography For Chinese Civilization)

• Donner, Neal, & Daniel Stevenson, trans. The Great Calming and Contemplation: A Study and Annotated Translation of the First Chapter of Chih'i-'s Mo-ho Chih-kuan. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1993.

• Gregory, Peter, trans. Inquiry Into the Origin of Humanity: An Annotated Translation of Tsung-mi's [ 宗 密 ] Yuan jen lun [ 原 人 論 ] with a Modern Commentary. University of Hawaii, 1995.

• Keenan, John. How Master Mou Removes Our Doubts: A Reader-Response Study and Translation of the Mou-tzu Li-huo Lun. Albany: SUNY Press, 1994.

• Watson, Burton, trans. The Lotus Sutra. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.

• ---, trans. The Vimalakirti Sutra. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996.

~ XIV. Legalism 法 家

• Bodde, Derk. China's First Unifier: A Study of the Ch'in Dynasty as Seen in the Life of Li Ssu, 280?-208 B.C. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1938.

• Creel, Herrlee. Shen Pu-hai. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974.

• Duyvendak, J. J. L. The Book of Lord Shang. London: Probsthain, 1939-59.

• Watson, Burton. Han Fei Tzu. Basic Writings. Paperback. New York: Columbia University Press, 1964.

(7) Classic of Poetry (Shi jing 詩 經), Traditional Chinese Poetry and Literature

(See also Other Literatures 文 學)

Works on the Classic of Poetry ( See the Big5 Code version or the GB Code version)

• Saussy, Haun, The Problem of a Chinese Aesthetic. Stanford University Press, 1993. Well-received study of the reading of the Classic of Poetry and the question of allegory and metaphor in Chinese poetics.

• Van Zoeren, Stephen, Poetry and Personality: Reading Exegesis and Hermeneutics in Traditional China. Stanford University Press, 1991. Focuses on the traditional commentaries to the Classic of Poetry (also called "Book of Odes").

General Anthologies and Other Works

• Birch, Cyril, ed. Anthology of Chinese Literature from Early Times to the fourteenth century. New York: Grove Press, 1965.

• ---, Scenes for Mandarins: The Elite Theater of the Ming. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995.

• Chang, Kang-i Sun. "A Guide to Ming Ch'ing Anthologies of Women's Poetry and Their Selection Strategies." Gest Library Journal 5, 2 (1992): 119-60.

• Chaves, Jonathan, trans. and ed. The Columbia Book of Later Chinese Poetry: Yuan, Ming, and Ch'ing Dynasties (1279-1911). New York. Columbia University Press, 1986.

• Ch'en, Li-Li, trans. Master Tung's Western Chamber Romance. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.

• Crump, J. I., trans. Chan-kuo Ts'e. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970.

• Eide, Elling, trans. Poems by Li Po. Lexington, Kentucky: Anvil Press, 1984. With separate volume, Translator's Note and Finding Lists.

• ---. Ballads and Stories From Tun-huang. London: Allen and Unwin, 1960.

• Hanan, Patrick, trans. The Carnal Prayer Mat, Li Yu. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1996.

• Hawkes, David, trans. Ch'u Tz'u: The Songs of the South. N. Y.: Oxford University Press, 1959. New York: Penguin, 1985.

• Holzman, Donald. Chinese Literature in Transition from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1998.

• Hung, William. Tu Fu: China's Greatest Poet. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1952. See also his Supplemental Volume of Notes. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1952.

• Knechtges, David, trans. Wen xuan or Selections of Refined Literature. 2 vols. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982. Volume 3: Rapsodies on Natural Phenomena, Birds and Animals, Aspirations and Feelings, Sorrowful Laments, Literature, Music, and Passions, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996.

• Landau, Julie, trans. Beyond Spring: Tzu Poems of the Sung Dynasty. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.

• Leslie, Donald. Islamic Literature in Chinese. Canberra: College of Advanced Education, 1981.

• Liu, Wu-chi and Irving Lo, eds. Sunflower Splendor: Three Thousand Years of Chinese Poetry. New York: Anchor Books, 1975.

• Mair, Victor, ed. The Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996.

• Roy, David, trans. The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei. Volume One: "The Gathering." Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.

• Waley, Arthur. The Life and Times of Po Chu-i. London: Allen and Unwin, 1949.

• Watson, Burton, trans. and ed. The Columbia Book of Chinese Poetry: From Early Times to the Thirteenth Century. New York: Columbia University Press, 1984.

• ---, trans. The Tso Chuan: Selections from China's Oldest Narrative History. New York: Columbia University Press, 1989.

• Wong, Siu-kit, trans. Early Chinese Literary Criticism. Taipei: Bookman Books, 1983.

• Wu, Ching-tzu. The Scholars. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.

• Wu, Yenna, The Lioness Roars: Shrew Stories from Late Imperial China. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005.

• Xu Gan. Balanced Discourses. Bilingual Edition. Translated by John Makeham, with introductions by Dang Shengyuan and John Makeham. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002.

• Yu, Anthony C. Rereading the Stone: Desire and the Making of Fiction in Dream of the Red Chamber. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997.

(8) Selected Bibliographies on China

(See also Bibliographies.)

~ I. Works in Chinese and Japanese

• Annual Bibliography of Oriental Studies 東 洋 學 文 獻 類 目 1955-56. Kyoto University Research Institute of Humanistic Sciences 京 都 大 學 人 文 科 學 研 究 所. Lists works in Western Languages as well as Chinese and Japanese. Also lists reviews in more important journals.

• Gendai Chugoku kankei Chugokugo bunken sogo mokuroku 現 代 中 國 關 係 中 國 語 文 獻 統 合 目 錄 [Union Catalog of Chinese Literature on Modern China]. Edited by the Institute of Asian Economic Affairs 亞 細 亞 經 濟 研 究 所. Tokyo: Asian Economic Press, 1967. Eight volumes covering books published since 1912.

• Lin Qingzhang 林 慶 璋 , et al., compilers. Jing xue yan jiu lun zhu mu lu (1912-1987) 經 學 研 究 論 著 目 錄 . 2 vols. Taipei: Center for Chinese Studies, 1989.

• --- , et al., compilers. Zhuzi xue yan jiu shu mu 朱 子 學 研 究 書 目 (1900-1991). Taibei: Wen jin Press, 1992.

• Nihon genson minjin bunshu mokuroku 日 本 現 存 明 人 文 集 目 錄. Kyoto: Toyoshi Kenkyukai 東 洋 史 研 究 會, 1972.

• Si ku quan shu ti yao 四 庫 全 書 提 要. Comp. by Chi yun 紀 昀 and others. Shanghai: Ta-tung shu-chu 1930.

• Sun, Dianqi 孫 殿 起 (1894-1958). Fan shu ou ji 販 書 偶 記 [Random Notes from Dealing in Books]. Shanghai: Zhonghua shu ju, 1959.

• Taiwan wen xian fen lei suo yin 台 灣 文 獻 分 類 索 引 Compiled and Published by the Taiwan Sheng wen xian wei yuan hui zheng li zu. Taipei, 1960 on.

• Tsang, Ying-ching (Zeng Yingjing) 曾 影 靖 . Zhongguo li shi yan jiu gong ju shu xu lu 中 國 歷 史 研 究 工 具 書 敘 錄 [Research Tools to Chinese History: An Annotated Bibliography]. Hong Kong, Lung-men Shu-tien, 1968.

• Yu, P. K. (Yu Bingquan) 余 秉 權 . Zhongguo shi xue lun wen yin de 中 國 史 學 論 文 引 得. Hong Kong: Ya dong xue she, 1963. Covers 1902-1962.

• --- 余 秉 權 . Zhongguo shi xue lun wen yin de 中 國 史 學 論 文 引 得 (Chinese History Index to Learned Articles). Volume II, 1905-1964. Based on collections in American and European Libraries. This continues Volume I based on the University of Hong Kong collection.

• Zasshi kiji sakuin (Jimbun kagaku-hen), 雜 誌 記 事 索 引 (人 文 科 學 篇). Compiled and published by the Tokyo Kokuritsu Kokkai Toshokan 東 京 國 立 國 會 圖 書 館 (National Diet Library). 1948 on.

• Zhongguo cong shu zong lu 中 國 叢 書 綜 錄. Shanghai Tu shu guan 上 海 圖 書 館 ed. Beijing: Zhonghua shu ju, 1959-62.

• Zhongguo gu dai ji zhong shi ji shi bao kan lun wen zi liao suo yin 中 國 古 代 及 中 世 紀 史 報 刊 論 文 資 料 索 引 [Index to Journal and Newspaper Articles Dealing with the History of Ancient and Medieval China]. Compiled by the Hua dong shi fan da xue li shi xi 華 東 師 範 大 學 歷 史 系 and the Zhongguo gu dai ji zhong shi ji shi jiao yan zu 中 國 古 代 及 中 世 紀 史 教 研 組, 1957.

• Zhongguo jin dai shi can kao shu mu chu bian 中 國 近 代 史 參 考 書 目 初 編 (1842-1919) [Index to Reference Books Dealing with Modern Chinese History, First Draft (1942-1919)]. Compiled by the Hua dong shi fan da xue li shi xi zi liao shi 華 東 師 範 大 學 歷 史 系 資 料 室, 1962.

• Zhongguo shi xue lun wen suo yin 中 國 史 學 論 文 索 引 [Index to Articles on Chinese History]. Beijing: Ke xue chu ban she, 1957.

~ II. Western Works

• Berton, Peter, & Eugene Wu. Contemporary China: A Research Guide. Stanford: The Hoover Institution, 1967. A comprehensive research guide to Mainland China since 1949 and Taiwan since 1945. Includes works in Chinese and Japanese as well as Western languages.

• Bol, Peter K. Research Tools for the Study of Sung History. Binghamton: Journal of Sung-Yuan Studies, 1990.

• Chan, Wing-tsit. An Outline and an Annotated Bibliography of Chinese Philosophy. New Haven: Far Eastern Publications, Yale University, 1961.

• Chow, Tse-zong. Research Guide to the May Fourth Movement. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1963.

• Cordier, Henri. Bibliotheca Sinica. (4 vols. and 1 supplement) Paris: E Guilimoto, 1904-1908; supplement, P. Geuthner, 1924. Covers books and articles up to 1923.

• Davidson, Martha. A List of Published Translations from Chinese into English, French, and German. Pt. I Literature, exclusive of Poetry. Ann Arbor: J.W Edwards, 1952. Pt. II, Poetry. New Haven: Far Eastern Publications, Yale University, 1957.

• Fairbank, John, & Masataka Banno. Japanese Studies of Modern China. Rutland Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1955.

• ----, Noriko Kamachi, & Chizo Ichiko. Japanese Studies of Modern China Since 1953. Cambridge: Harvard East Asia Research Center, 1975.

• ---- and Liu Kwang-ch'ing. Modern China: A Bibliographical Guide to Chinese Works 1898-1937. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1950.

• Far Eastern Quarterly (now Journal of Asian Studies), annual bibliography of Asian studies. Started in 1941 and carries on in Bulletin. Except for years during World War II complete to present. Both books and articles.

• Feuerwerker, Albert, & S. Cheng. Chinese Communist Studies of Modern Chinese History. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1967.

• Frankel, Hans H. Catalog of Translations from the Chinese Dynastic Histories for the Period 220-960. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1957.

• Hartwell, Robert. A Guide to Sources of Chinese Economic History, A.D. 618-1368. Chicago: Committee on Far Eastern Civilizations, The University of Chicago, 1964.

• Hsueh, Chun-tu. The Chinese Communist Movement 1921-1937: An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Materials in the Chinese Collection of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace. Stanford: Hoover Institution, 1960.

• ----. The Chinese Communist Movement 1937-1949: An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Materials in the Chinese Collection of the Hoover Inststution on War, Revolution, and Peace. Stanford: Hoover Institution, 1962.

• Hucker, Charles. China: A Critical Bibliography. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1962. Selected books and articles with brief annotations.

• Japanese National Committee of Historical Sciences (Wakamori Taro, Chairman). Recent Trends in Japanese Historiography, Bibliographical Essays: Japan at the XIIIth Internation Congress of Historical Sciences in Moscow. 2 vols. Tokyo: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 1970.

• King, Frank H., & Prescott Clarke. A Research Guide to China-Coast Newspapers, 1822-1911. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1965.

• Liu, Chun-jo. Controversies in Modern Chinese Intellectual History. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1964.

• Lo, Karl. A Guide to the Ssu-pu ts'ung-k'an. Lawrence: University of Kansas Libraries, 1965.

• Lust, John. Index Sinicus. A catalog relating to China in periodicals and other collective publications 1920-1955. Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons, 1964.

• Pritchard, Earl, ed. Bulletin of Far Eastern Bibliography. 5 vols., 5 numbers in each, 1936-1940. Contains books and articles.

• Revue bibliographique de Sinologie. Paris: Mouton, 1957, 1959, 1962. Excellent annotations and devotes much space to works in Chinese and Japanese, but volumes published so far only cover years 1955-57.

• School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Library Catalog. Volume 27, Chinese Catalog Subjects and Volume 28, Japanese Catalog, pp. 463ff. "Subjects." Boston: G.K. Hall and Company, 1963.

• Stucki, Curtis W. American Doctoral Dissertations on Asia, 1933-1962; Including Appendix of Master's Theses at Cornell University. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1963.

• Sun, E-tu Zen, & John DeFrancis. Bibliography on Chinese Social History. New Haven: Institute for Far Eastern Languages, Yale University, 1952.

• Teng Ssu-yu. Japanese Studies on Japan and the Far East. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1961.

• ---, & Knight Biggerstaff. An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Chinese Reference Works (Revised Edition). Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1971.

• ---, & John K. Fairbank. Research Guide for China's Response to the West: A Documentary Survey 1839-1923. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1959.

• Thompson, Laurence, compiler. Chinese Religion in Western Languages . . . Through 1980. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1987.

• ----, compiler. Chinese Religions: Publications in Western Languages 1981-1990. Ann Arbor: Association of Asian Studies, 1993.

• Wu, Eugene. Leaders of Twentieth Century China: An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Chinese Bibliographical Works in the Hoover Library. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1956.

• Wylie, Alexander. Notes on Chinese Literature. 1st ed., Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press, 1867.

• Yuan, Tung-li. China in Western Literature. New Haven: Far Eastern Publications, Yale University, 1958. A continuation of Cordier but contains books only.

• Zurcher, Erik, Nicolas Standaert, & Adrianus Dudink, eds. Bibliography of the Jesuit Mission in China (ca. 1580-1680). Leiden: Leiden University, 1991.

• Zurndorfer, Harriet T. China Bibliography: A Research Guide to Reference Works about China Past and Present. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1995.

~ III. Poetry (See also: Other Literatures 文 學 .

• Chang, Kang-i Sun. "A Guide to Ming Ch'ing Anthologies of Women's Poetry and Their Selection Strategies." Gest Library Journal 5, 2 (1992): 119-60.

• Hu Wenkai 胡 文 楷, compiler. Li dai fu nu zhu zuo kao 歷 代 婦 女 著 作 考 (Study of works written by women over the various dynasties). Revised edition. Shanghai: Gu ji Press, 1985.

• Misao, Saku, compiler. Kanshi taikan 漢 詩 大 觀 (General Index for Han poetry). 佐 久 節. Tokyo: Ida Shoten 1943. Includes two-volume index.

• Tang Song ci jian shang ci dian 唐 宋 詞 鑒 賞 辭 典 (Dictionary of Tang-Song lyric poetry). Nanjing: Jiangsu gu ji chu ban she, 1986.

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