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Agriculture
The Genius of China
by
Robert Temple; Joseph Needham (Introduction by)
Call Number: DS721 .T46 1986
ISBN: 0671620282
Publication Date: 1987-01-01
Early Chinese Civilization
by
K. C. Chang
Call Number: DS723 .C38
ISBN: 0674219996
Publication Date: 1976-01-01
Han Agriculture
by
Cho-yun Hsu; Jack L. Dull (Editor)
Call Number: DS748 .H28 vol. 2
ISBN: 0295956763
Publication Date: 1980-06-01
Archaeology
The Archaeology of China
by
Li Liu; Wenjian Wang
Call Number: GN855.C6 L64 2012
ISBN: 9780521643108
Publication Date: 2012-04-30
The Search for Immortality
by
James C. S. Lin (Editor)
Call Number: DS748.13 .S43 2012
ISBN: 9780300184341
Publication Date: 2012-09-25
Exploring China’s past : new discoveries and studies in archaeology and art
by
Roderick Whitfield and Wang Tao (translated and edited by)
Call Number: DS715 .E86 1999
ISBN: 1872843204
Publication Date: c. 1999
The Archaeology of Ancient China
by
Kwang-Chih Chang
Call Number: DS715 .C38 1986
ISBN: 0300037848
Publication Date: 1987-09-10
The Origins of Chinese Civilization
by
David N. Keightley
Call Number: DS741.65 .O74 1983
ISBN: 0520042298
Publication Date: 1983-01-01
Anyang
by
Li Ji
Call Number: DS796.A55 L5
ISBN: 0295954905
Publication Date: c1977
Architecture
Chinese Architecture
by
Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt (Editor); Xinian Fu; Daiheng Guo; Xujie Liu; Guxi Pan; Yun Qiao; Dazhang Sun
Call Number: folio NA1540 .C45 2002
ISBN: 0300095597
Publication Date: 2002-11-10
Monumentality in Early Chinese Art and Architecture
by
Hung Wu
Call Number: N7343.2 .W8 1995
ISBN: 0804724288
Publication Date: 1997-01-01
Ancient Chinese architecture / compiled by Chinese Academy of Architecture
by
Qiao Yun, Sun Dazhang (Project Editors); Wong Chi Kui, Chung Wah Nan (Translators)
Call Number: folio NA1540 .C54313 1982
ISBN: 9620402022
Publication Date: 1982
http://catalog.lib.ku.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=1096553
Chinese traditional architecture
by
Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt ; Fu Xinian ... [et al.]
Call Number: NA1540 .S74 1984
Publication Date: 1984
Art
The Art of the Yellow Springs
by
Hung Wu
Call Number: DS719 .W78 2010
ISBN: 9780824834265
Publication Date: 2010-05-31
Ancient Sichuan -Treasures from a Lost Civilization
by
Robert Bagley (Editor)
Call Number: folio DS793.S8 A528 2001
ISBN: 0691088519
Publication Date: 2001-05-13
Treasures from the Bronze Age of China
by
Gerard Pryor (Illustrator); Kitty S. Gilbert (Compiled by)
Call Number: NK7983.22 .T74 1980
ISBN: 0870992309
Publication Date: 1980-04-01
Ancient China
by
Jessica Rawson
Call Number: N7343.22 .R38
ISBN: 0714114154
Publication Date: 1980-01-01
Astronomy, Calendars, Astrology
Chinese Mathematical Astrology
by
Ho Peng-Yoke
Call Number: BF1714.C5 H66 2003
ISBN: 0415297591
Publication Date: 2003-06-24
Astrology and Cosmology in Early China
by
David W. Pankenier
Call Number: BF1714.C5 P38 2013
ISBN: 9781107006720
Publication Date: 2013-10-10
The Cambridge Illustrated History of Astronomy
by
Michael Hoskin (Editor)
Call Number: QB15 .C36 1997
ISBN: 0521411580
Publication Date: 1996-11-28
Astrology and Cosmology in the World's Religions
by
Nicholas Campion
Call Number: Available via the Internet
ISBN: 0814708420
Publication Date: 2012-05-01
Border Regions
Contact and Exchange in the Ancient World
by
Victor H. Mair (Editor, Contribution by); Thomas T. Allsen (Contribution by); Jerry H. Bentley (Contribution by); Peter B. Golden (Contribution by); Irene Good (Contribution by); Carl Johannessen (Contribution by); Elfriede Regina Knauer (Contribution by); Andrew Sherratt (Contribution by)
Call Number: GN799.C45 C66 2006
ISBN: 9780824828844
Publication Date: 2005-11-01
Bronze
A bronze menagerie: mat weights of early China
by
Michelle C. Wang; with Guolong Lai, Roel Sterckx, Eugene Y. Wang
Call Number: NK7983.2 .W36 2006
ISBN: 9780914660255
Publication Date: 2006
Ancient Chinese Bronzes
by
Ma Chengyuan; Hsio-Yen Shih (Editor)
Call Number: NK7983.22 .M313 1986
ISBN: 0195837959
Publication Date: 1986-07-10
Chinese Bronzes
by
Li Xueqin
Call Number: folio NK7983.A1 L3913 1995
ISBN: 7119013874
Publication Date: 1995-01-01
Sources of Western Zhou History
by
Edward L. Shaughnessy
Call Number: DS747.13 .S52 1991
ISBN: 0520070283
Publication Date: 1992-01-08
Calligraphy
Four Thousand Years of Chinese Calligraphy
by
Leon L. Chang; Peter Miller
Call Number: folio NK3634.A2 C44 1990
ISBN: 0226101118
Publication Date: 1990-08-07
Chinese Calligraphy
by
Wen C. Fong; Zhongshi Ouyang; Shizheng Wang
Call Number: folio NK3634.A2 C4665 2008
ISBN: 9780300121070
Publication Date: 2008-09-23
Brushes with Power
by
Richard Curt Kraus
Call Number: NK3634.A2 K73 1991
ISBN: 0520072855
Publication Date: 1991-07-24
Chinese Calligraphy
by
T. C. Lai; Jiu-Fong L. Chang (Introduction by)
Call Number: NK3634.A2 L34 1982
ISBN: 0295959401
Publication Date: 1975-03-01
Divination
Ancient Chinese Divination
by
Stephen Field
Call Number: BF1762 .F54 2008
ISBN: 9780824832452
Publication Date: 2008-10-01
Divination and Prediction in Early China and Ancient Greece
by
Lisa Raphals
Call Number: BL613 .R37 2013
ISBN: 9781107010758
Publication Date: 2013-10-17
Sources of Shang History
by
David N. Keightley
Call Number: folio PL2447 .K4
ISBN: 0520029690
Publication Date: 1979-01-01
Chinese Ritual and Politics
by
Emily M. Ahern
Call Number: BL1802 .A33
ISBN: 0521236908
Publication Date: 1981-12-03
Economy, Trade, Money, Weights and Measures
Food & money in ancient China; the earliest economic history of China to A.D. 25, Han shu 24, with related texts, Han shu 91 and Shih-chi 129
by
Nancy Lee Swann (translator and editor)
Call Number: HC427 .P313
Publication Date: 1950
Education
Education in Traditional China
by
Thomas H. C. Lee
Call Number: LA1131 .L29 2000
ISBN: 9004103635
Publication Date: 2000-10-06
Writing and the Ancient State
by
Haicheng Wang
Call Number: DS741.75 .W36 2014
ISBN: 9781107028128
Publication Date: 2014-05-12
Environment
The retreat of the elephants [electronic resource]
by
Mark Elvin
Call Number: Available via the Internet
Publication Date: 2004
China
by
Robert B. Marks
Call Number: GF656 .M37 2012
ISBN: 9781442212756
Publication Date: 2011-12-16
Family
Ancestral Memory in Early China
by
K. E. Brashier
Call Number: BL467 .B73 2011
ISBN: 9780674056077
Publication Date: 2011-05-16
Chinese Family and Kinship
by
Hugh Baker
Call Number: HQ684 .A15 1979
ISBN: 0231047681
Publication Date: 1980-05-01
Food and Drink
Food in Chinese Culture
by
K. C. Chang (Editor)
Call Number: GT2853.C6 F66
ISBN: 0300019386
Publication Date: 1977-01-01
Food, Sacrifice, and Sagehood in Early China
by
Roel Sterckx
Call Number: BL1859.F66 S74 2011
ISBN: 9781107001718
Publication Date: 2011-03-28
Jade
Enduring Art of Jade Age China
by
Elizabeth Childs-Johnson (Editor)
Call Number: NK5750.2.C6 C449 2001
ISBN: 8475064973
Publication Date: 2002-01-01
Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing
by
Jessica Rawson
Call Number: NK5750.2.C6 R39 1995
ISBN: 0714114693
Publication Date: 1995-06-01
Law
Law Codes in Dynastic China
by
John W. Head; Yanping Wang
Call Number: KNN122 .H43 2005
ISBN: 1594600392
Publication Date: 2005-06-01
Origins of Chinese Law
by
Yongping Liu
Call Number: KNN120 .L58 1998
ISBN: 0195903447
Publication Date: 1999-02-25
The Spirit of Traditional Chinese Law
by
Geoffrey MacCormack
Call Number: KNN122 .M33 1996
ISBN: 0820317225
Publication Date: 1996-02-01
Literature
Early Chinese Literature
by
Burton Watson
Call Number: PL2280 .W3 1962
Publication Date: 1962
The Shorter Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature
by
Victor H. Mair (Editor)
Call Number: PL2658.E1 S53 2000
ISBN: 0231119984
Publication Date: 2001-01-03
Li: rites and propriety in literature and life; a perspective for a cultural history of ancient China
by
Noah Edward Fehl
Call Number: DS723 .F4
Publication Date: 1971
Medicine and Health
Chinese Philosophy and Chinese Medicine (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
by Lisa Raphals
Early Chinese Medical Literature
by
Donald John Harper
Call Number: R127.1 .H37 1998
ISBN: 0710305826
Publication Date: 1998-01-11
Science and civilisation in China. Vol.6. Pt.6, Biology and biological technology. Medicine
by
Joseph Needham; Edited and with an introduction by Nathan Sivin.
Call Number: Available via the Internet
Publication Date: 2000
The way and the word [electronic resource] : science and medicine in early China and Greece
by
Geoffrey Lloyd and Nathan Sivin
Call Number: Available via the Internet
Publication Date: 2002
The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine - Essential Questions: : translation of huangdi neijing suwen
by
Jinghua Fu
Call Number: R127.1.S93 F813 2019
ISBN: 9789813273573
Publication Date: Singapore world scientific, 2019
Music
Music in the Age of Confucius
by
Jenny F. So
Call Number: ML336.2 .M87 2000
ISBN: 0295979534
Publication Date: 2000-01-01
Music, Cosmology, and the Politics of Harmony in Early China
by
Erica Brindley
Call Number: ML3917.C6 B75 2012
ISBN: 9781438443133
Publication Date: 2012-09-01
Suspended Music
by
Lothar von Falkenhausen
Call Number: CC250.C6 F35 1993
ISBN: 0520073789
Publication Date: 1994-03-16
Chinese Music
by
Jie Jin
Call Number: ML336 .J5413 2011
ISBN: 9780521186919
Publication Date: 2011-03-03
A Song for One or Two
by
Kenneth DeWoskin
Call Number: ML336.2 .D48 1982
ISBN: 0892640421
Publication Date: 1982-01-01
Philosophy
Chinese Philosophy
by
Haiming Wen
Call Number: B5231 .W46 2012
ISBN: 9780521186766
Publication Date: 2012-03-09
Disputers of the Tao
by
Graham, A. C. (Angus Charles)
Call Number: B127.T3 G69 1989
ISBN: 0812690877
Publication Date: La Salle, Ill. : Open Court, 1989.
An Introduction to Chinese Philosophy
by
Karyn L. Lai
Call Number: B5231 .L34 2008
ISBN: 9780521846462
Publication Date: 2008-07-31
Introduction to Classical Chinese Philosophy
by
Bryan W. Van Norden
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781603844697
Publication Date: 2011-03-04
A Short History of Chinese Philosophy
by
Derk Bodde (Introduction by); Fung Yu-Lan (Preface by)
Call Number: B5231 .F43 1966
ISBN: 0029109809
Publication Date: 1966-07-01
Three Ways of Thought in Ancient China
by
Waley, Arthur.
Call Number: B126 .W3 1956
Publication Date: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1956.
The Way of Water and Sprouts of Virtue
by
Sarah Allan
Call Number: B126 .A45 1997
ISBN: 0791433854
Publication Date: 1997-06-12
The World of Thought in Ancient China [electronic resource]
by
Schwartz, Benjamin I. (Benjamin Isadore), 1916-1999.
Call Number: e-book
ISBN: 0674961900
Publication Date: 1985-10-01
Politics and Government
Ancient China
by
David T. Roy (Editor); Tsien Tsuen-hsuin (Editor); Irene Bain
Call Number: DS721 .A59
ISBN: 9622011446
Publication Date: 1978-01-22
Art, Myth, and Ritual
by
K. C. Chang
Call Number: DS741.65 .C53 1983
ISBN: 0674048075
Publication Date: 1983-12-07
The Art of Rulership
by
Roger T. Ames
Call Number: BL1900.H825 A43 1983
ISBN: 0824808258
Publication Date: 1983-03-01
Ancient Chinese Thought, Modern Chinese Power
by
Edmund Ryden (Translator); Xuetong Yan; Daniel A. Bell (Editor); Sun Zhe (Editor)
Call Number: JQ1510 .Y46113 2011
ISBN: 9780691148267
Publication Date: 2011-04-03
Religion and Ritual
Early Chinese Religion, Part One: Shang Through Han (1250 BC-220 AD) (2 Vols. )
by
John Lagerwey (Editor); Marc Kalinowski (Editor)
Call Number: BL1803 .E27 2009
ISBN: 9789004168350
Publication Date: 2008-12-24
Text and ritual in early China [electronic resource]
by
Martin Kern (editor)
Call Number: Available via the Internet
Publication Date: 2007
The Art of the Yellow Springs
by
Hung Wu
Call Number: DS719 .W78 2010
ISBN: 9780824834265
Publication Date: 2010-05-31
Statecraft and classical learning [electronic resource] : the Rituals of Zhou in East Asian history
by
Benjamin A. Elman and Martin Kern (editors)
Call Number: Available via the Internet
Publication Date: 2010
Science, Technology, Mathematics
Iron and Steel in Ancient China
by
Donald B. Wagner
Call Number: DS715 .W24 1993
ISBN: 9004096329
Publication Date: 1993-03-01
Chinese Thought, Society and Science
by
Derk Bodde
Call Number: Q127.C5 B63 1991
ISBN: 0824813340
Publication Date: 1991-08-01
Li, Qi and Shu
by
Ho Peng Yoke
Call Number: Q127.C5 H627 1985
ISBN: 9622091199
Publication Date: 1985-03-01
Early Chinese Work in Natural Science
by
Joseph Chen
Call Number: QC9.C6 C44 1996
ISBN: 962209385X
Publication Date: 1996-04-09
The Cradle of the East
by
Ping-Ti Ho; William H. McNeill (Introduction by)
Call Number: DS741 .H57 1975
ISBN: 9780226345246
Publication Date: 1976-03-01
Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong; Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Silk
Chinese Silk
by
S. J. Vainker
Call Number: TS1655.C6 V35 2004
ISBN: 0714114790
Publication Date: 2004-01-01
Chinese Silks
by
Wengying Li; Juanjuan Chen; James C. Y. Watt (Editor); Dieter Kuhn (Editor); Nengfu Huang; Hao Peng; Feng Zhao
Call Number: folio NK8899.5.S54 C47 2012
ISBN: 9780300111033
Publication Date: 2012-09-25
The secret of excellence in ancient Chinese silks : factors contributing to the extraordinary development of textile design and technology achieved in ancient China
by
Maryta M. Laumann
Call Number: TS1655.C6 L38 1984
Publication Date: 1984
Silk Road
Secrets of the Silk Road: An Exhibition of Discoveries from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China
by
Victor H. Mair (editor)
Publication Date: 2010
Society (organization, taxation, etc.)
Chinese Society in the Age of Confucius (1000-250 BC)
by
Lothar Von Falkenhausen
Call Number: HN733 .F35 2006
ISBN: 9781931745307
Publication Date: 2006-11-01
Sexual Life in Ancient China
by
Robert H. Van Gulik
Call Number: HQ18.C6 G8 1974
ISBN: 9004039171
Publication Date: 1974-01-01
Ancient Chinese Society: An Epigraphic and Archaeological Interpretation
by
Chin-hsiung Hsu and Alfred H.C. Ward
Publication Date: 1984
Textiles and Clothing
The Development of Cotton Textile Production in China
by
Kang Chao
Call Number: TS1565.C6 C45
ISBN: 0674200217
Publication Date: 1977-01-01
Tombs
Death in ancient China [electronic resource] : the tale of one man’s journey
by
Constance A. Cook
Call Number: Available via the Internet
Publication Date: 2006
Ancient Mortuary Traditions of China
by
George Kuwayama (Editor)
Call Number: NK4165 .A53 1991
ISBN: 0875871577
Publication Date: 1991-09-01
Urban Development
Magic Square
by
Alfred Schinz
Call Number: folio HT147.C48 S356 1996
ISBN: 3930698021
Publication Date: 1996-12-10
Chinese Imperial City Planning
by
Nancy S. Steinhardt
Call Number: NA9265 .S8 1990
ISBN: 0824812441
Publication Date: 1990-05-01
The Ancient City
by
Joyce Marcus; Jeremy A. Sabloff
Call Number: HT114 .A784 2005
ISBN: 9781934691021
Publication Date: 2008-07-01
The construction of space in early China [electronic resource]
by
Mark Edward Lewis
Call Number: Available via the Internet
Publication Date: 2006
Urban Design in Ancient China
by
Gideon S. Golany
Publication Date: 2001
War
Chinese Ways in Warfare
by
Frank A. Kierman (Editor); John K. Fairbank
Call Number: U43.C6 C47
ISBN: 0674125754
Publication Date: 1974-01-01
Cultural Realism
by
Alastair I. Johnston
Call Number: DS753 .J64 1995
ISBN: 0691029962
Publication Date: 1995-10-22
A Military History of China
by
David A. Graff (Editor); Robin Higham (Editor)
Call Number: DS738 .M55 2012
ISBN: 9780813135847
Publication Date: 2012-03-09
Warfare in Chinese History
by
Hans J. Van de Ven
Call Number: DS738 .W36 2000
ISBN: 9004117741
Publication Date: 2000-09-21
Sanctioned Violence in Early China
by
Mark Edward Lewis
Call Number: HN740.Z9 V55 1990
ISBN: 079140076X
Publication Date: 1989-08-15
Women
Women in Early Imperial China
by
Bret Hinsch
Call Number: HQ1767 .H55 2011
ISBN: 9780742568228
Publication Date: 2010-08-16
Sharing the Light
by
Lisa Raphals
Call Number: HQ1767 .R36 1998
ISBN: 0791438554
Publication Date: 1998-08-06
Images of Women in Chinese Thought and Culture
by
Robin Wang
Call Number: HQ1767 .W384 2003
ISBN: 0872206521
Publication Date: 2003-06-01
Writing and language
Orthography of early Chinese writing: evidence from newly excavated manuscripts
by
Imre Galambos
Call Number: PL1171 .G35 2006
ISBN: 9634638112
Publication Date: 2006
Writing and Literacy in Early China
by
Feng Li (Editor); David Prager Branner (Editor)
Call Number: PL1077 .W65 2011
ISBN: 9780295991528
Publication Date: 2011-11-23
Writing and the Ancient State
by
Haicheng Wang
Call Number: DS741.75 .W36 2014
ISBN: 9781107028128
Publication Date: 2014-05-12
The origin and early development of the Chinese writing system
by
William G. Boltz
Call Number: PL1171 .B67 1994
Publication Date: 1994
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