Ancient China (EALC 415/ 615): Recommended Books (by Topic)

The Genius of China by Robert Temple; Joseph Needham (Introduction by)

Early Chinese Civilization by K. C. Chang

Han Agriculture by Cho-yun Hsu; Jack L. Dull (Editor)

The Archaeology of China by Li Liu; Wenjian Wang

The Search for Immortality by James C. S. Lin (Editor)

Exploring China’s past : new discoveries and studies in archaeology and art by Roderick Whitfield and Wang Tao (translated and edited by)

The Archaeology of Ancient China by Kwang-Chih Chang

The Origins of Chinese Civilization by David N. Keightley

Anyang by Li Ji

Chinese Architecture by Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt (Editor); Xinian Fu; Daiheng Guo; Xujie Liu; Guxi Pan; Yun Qiao; Dazhang Sun

Monumentality in Early Chinese Art and Architecture by Hung Wu

Ancient Chinese architecture / compiled by Chinese Academy of Architecture by Qiao Yun, Sun Dazhang (Project Editors); Wong Chi Kui, Chung Wah Nan (Translators)

Chinese traditional architecture by Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt ; Fu Xinian ... [et al.]

The Art of the Yellow Springs by Hung Wu

Ancient Sichuan -Treasures from a Lost Civilization by Robert Bagley (Editor)

Treasures from the Bronze Age of China by Gerard Pryor (Illustrator); Kitty S. Gilbert (Compiled by)

Ancient China by Jessica Rawson

Chinese Mathematical Astrology by Ho Peng-Yoke

Astrology and Cosmology in Early China by David W. Pankenier

The Cambridge Illustrated History of Astronomy by Michael Hoskin (Editor)

Astrology and Cosmology in the World's Religions by Nicholas Campion

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)

A bronze menagerie: mat weights of early China by Michelle C. Wang; with Guolong Lai, Roel Sterckx, Eugene Y. Wang

Ancient Chinese Bronzes by Ma Chengyuan; Hsio-Yen Shih (Editor)

Chinese Bronzes by Li Xueqin

Sources of Western Zhou History by Edward L. Shaughnessy

Four Thousand Years of Chinese Calligraphy by Leon L. Chang; Peter Miller

Chinese Calligraphy by Wen C. Fong; Zhongshi Ouyang; Shizheng Wang

Brushes with Power by Richard Curt Kraus

Chinese Calligraphy by T. C. Lai; Jiu-Fong L. Chang (Introduction by)

Ancient Chinese Divination by Stephen Field

Divination and Prediction in Early China and Ancient Greece by Lisa Raphals

Sources of Shang History by David N. Keightley

Chinese Ritual and Politics by Emily M. Ahern

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)

Education in Traditional China by Thomas H. C. Lee

Writing and the Ancient State by Haicheng Wang

The retreat of the elephants [electronic resource] by Mark Elvin

China by Robert B. Marks

Ancestral Memory in Early China by K. E. Brashier

Chinese Family and Kinship by Hugh Baker

Food in Chinese Culture by K. C. Chang (Editor)

Food, Sacrifice, and Sagehood in Early China by Roel Sterckx

Enduring Art of Jade Age China by Elizabeth Childs-Johnson (Editor)

Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing by Jessica Rawson

Law Codes in Dynastic China by John W. Head; Yanping Wang

Origins of Chinese Law by Yongping Liu

The Spirit of Traditional Chinese Law by Geoffrey MacCormack

Early Chinese Literature by Burton Watson

The Shorter Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature by Victor H. Mair (Editor)

Li: rites and propriety in literature and life; a perspective for a cultural history of ancient China by Noah Edward Fehl

Early Chinese Medical Literature by Donald John Harper

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.

The way and the word [electronic resource] : science and medicine in early China and Greece by Geoffrey Lloyd and Nathan Sivin

The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine - Essential Questions: : translation of huangdi neijing suwen by Jinghua Fu

Music in the Age of Confucius by Jenny F. So

Music, Cosmology, and the Politics of Harmony in Early China by Erica Brindley

Suspended Music by Lothar von Falkenhausen

Chinese Music by Jie Jin

A Song for One or Two by Kenneth DeWoskin

Chinese Philosophy by Haiming Wen

Disputers of the Tao by Graham, A. C. (Angus Charles)

An Introduction to Chinese Philosophy by Karyn L. Lai

Introduction to Classical Chinese Philosophy by Bryan W. Van Norden

A Short History of Chinese Philosophy by Derk Bodde (Introduction by); Fung Yu-Lan (Preface by)

Three Ways of Thought in Ancient China by Waley, Arthur.

The Way of Water and Sprouts of Virtue by Sarah Allan

The World of Thought in Ancient China [electronic resource] by Schwartz, Benjamin I. (Benjamin Isadore), 1916-1999.

Ancient China by David T. Roy (Editor); Tsien Tsuen-hsuin (Editor); Irene Bain

Art, Myth, and Ritual by K. C. Chang

The Art of Rulership by Roger T. Ames

Ancient Chinese Thought, Modern Chinese Power by Edmund Ryden (Translator); Xuetong Yan; Daniel A. Bell (Editor); Sun Zhe (Editor)

Early Chinese Religion, Part One: Shang Through Han (1250 BC-220 AD) (2 Vols. ) by John Lagerwey (Editor); Marc Kalinowski (Editor)

Text and ritual in early China [electronic resource] by Martin Kern (editor)

The Art of the Yellow Springs by Hung Wu

Statecraft and classical learning [electronic resource] : the Rituals of Zhou in East Asian history by Benjamin A. Elman and Martin Kern (editors)

Iron and Steel in Ancient China by Donald B. Wagner

Chinese Thought, Society and Science by Derk Bodde

Li, Qi and Shu by Ho Peng Yoke

Early Chinese Work in Natural Science by Joseph Chen

The Cradle of the East by Ping-Ti Ho; William H. McNeill (Introduction by)

Chinese Silk by S. J. Vainker

Chinese Silks by Wengying Li; Juanjuan Chen; James C. Y. Watt (Editor); Dieter Kuhn (Editor); Nengfu Huang; Hao Peng; Feng Zhao

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

Secrets of the Silk Road: An Exhibition of Discoveries from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China by Victor H. Mair (editor)

Chinese Society in the Age of Confucius (1000-250 BC) by Lothar Von Falkenhausen

Sexual Life in Ancient China by Robert H. Van Gulik

Ancient Chinese Society: An Epigraphic and Archaeological Interpretation by Chin-hsiung Hsu and Alfred H.C. Ward

The Development of Cotton Textile Production in China by Kang Chao

Death in ancient China [electronic resource] : the tale of one man’s journey by Constance A. Cook

Ancient Mortuary Traditions of China by George Kuwayama (Editor)

Magic Square by Alfred Schinz

Chinese Imperial City Planning by Nancy S. Steinhardt

The Ancient City by Joyce Marcus; Jeremy A. Sabloff

The construction of space in early China [electronic resource] by Mark Edward Lewis

Urban Design in Ancient China by Gideon S. Golany

Chinese Ways in Warfare by Frank A. Kierman (Editor); John K. Fairbank

Cultural Realism by Alastair I. Johnston

A Military History of China by David A. Graff (Editor); Robin Higham (Editor)

Warfare in Chinese History by Hans J. Van de Ven

Sanctioned Violence in Early China by Mark Edward Lewis

Women in Early Imperial China by Bret Hinsch

Sharing the Light by Lisa Raphals

Images of Women in Chinese Thought and Culture by Robin Wang

Orthography of early Chinese writing: evidence from newly excavated manuscripts by Imre Galambos

Writing and Literacy in Early China by Feng Li (Editor); David Prager Branner (Editor)

Writing and the Ancient State by Haicheng Wang

The origin and early development of the Chinese writing system by William G. Boltz