- Graff,Medieval Chinese Warfare, 176.
- Wei Zheng,Suishu, Taibei: Dingwen Shuju, 1997 , 1. 24.
- Liu Xu,Jiu Tangshu, Beijing: Zhonghua Shuju, 1975 , 2. 30 – 31.
- Ouyang Xiu and Song Qi,Xin Tangshu, Beijing: Zhonghua Shuju, 1975 ,
- 8 .Abuor double pace was 5 Chinese feet. A Tang foot was 11. 8 inches or 30. 3
centimeters. I am grateful to David Graff for correcting me on this issue and
preventing an embarrassing error.
9 .Tang Liudian, 16. 7 binSiku Quanshu, Hong Kong: Chinese University of
Hong Kong & Digital Heritage Publishing Ltd., 1999 –.
- I translate these terms with some trepidation. The“defense sword”comes from
the meaning ofzhangas a barrier, and because it was used for personal defense.
The“cross sword”comes from the meaning ofhengas“crosswise”rather than
its meaning of“east-west”as opposed to north-south. The“divided sword”
comes from the meaning ofmoas the raised path betweenfields running east-
west, and from its more symmetric division between blade and handle.
11 .I have translated this as“Long Blade”to avoid confusion with my translation of
the termjianas Long Sword.“Long Sword”would be a more direct translation.
- Li Quan,Taibai Yinjing, 4. 13 binSiku Quanshu, Hong Kong: Chinese
University of Hong Kong & Digital Heritage Publishing Ltd., 1999 –.
- Zhang Yu,“Madam Gong Sun,”in Barbara Bennett Peterson (ed.),Notable
Women of China, Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2000 , 209 – 11.
- Duan Chengshi (Carrie E. Reed, trans.),A Tang Miscellany, New York: Peter
Lang, 2003 , 108 – 9.
- Jacques Gernet (Franciscus Verellen, trans.),Buddhism in Chinese Society: An
Economic History from the Fifth to the Tenth Centuries, New York: Columbia
University Press, 1995.
- Huijiao,Gaoseng zhuan, Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1991 ; Daoxuan,Xu
Gaoseng zhuan, 2 vols., Shanghai: Guji chubanshe, 1995 and 1999 ;
Zanning,Da Song Gaoseng zhuan, Taibei: Shangwu yinshu guan, 1983.
- Bernard Faure,“Relics and Flesh Bodies: The Creation of Ch’an Pilgrimage
Sites,”in Susan Naquin and Chün-Fang Yu (eds.),Pilgrims and Sacred Sites in
China, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992 , 156.
- Heinrich Dumoulin,Zen Buddhism: A History, New York: Simon and
Schuster Macmillan, 1994 , 92 – 3.
19 .Faure,“Relics and Flesh Bodies,” 156 – 7. Quote modified from Wade-Giles to
Pinyin Romanization.
- John Kieschnick,The Eminent Monk, Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press,
1997 , 62.
- Meir Shahar,The Shaolin Monastery, Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press,
2008 , 21 – 2.
- Du You,Tongdian, Beijing: Zhonghua Shuju, 1988 , 18. 451. Lin Boyuan has
slightly misquoted this as“恐人忘戰”rather than the correct phrase“恐人之
忘戰.”See Lin Boyuan,Zhongguo Wushushi, Taibei: Wuzhou Chubanshe,
1996 , 187.
- Jonathan Skaff,“Barbarians at the Gates? The Tang Frontier Military and the
An Lushan Rebellion,”War and Society, 18 , no. 2 ( 2000 ), 23 – 35.
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