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Hammond, Kenneth J., and Kristen Stapleton, eds. The Human Tradition in Modern
China. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefi eld, 2008.
Idema, Wilt, and Beata Grant. The Red Brush: Writing Women of Imperial China.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2004.
Kang-i Sun Chang, and Haun Saussy, eds. Women Writers of Traditional China: An
Anthology of Poetry and Criticism. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1999.
Lau, Joseph S. M., and Howard Goldblatt. The Columbia Anthology of Modern
Chinese Literature. 2nd ed. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007.
Mair, Victor H., ed. The Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1996.
Mair, Victor H., Nancy S. Steinhardt, and Paul R. Goldin, eds. Hawai‘i Reader in
Traditional Chinese Culture. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2005.
Mann, Susan, and Yu-yin Cheng, eds. Under Confucian Eyes: Writings on Gender in
Chinese History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.
Ropp, Paul S., ed. Heritage of China: Contemporary Perspectives on Chinese
Civilization. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.

EARLY CHINA: BEGINNINGS TO 221 BCE
Di Cosmo, Nicola. Ancient China and Its Enemies: the Rise of Nomadic Power in East
Asian History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Loewe, Michael, and Edward L. Shaughnessy, eds. The Cambridge History of Ancient
China: From the Origins of Civilization to 221 B.C. New York: Cambridge
University Press, 1999.
Raphals, Lisa. Sharing the Light: Representations of Women and Virtue in Early
China. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998.
Thorpe, Robert L. China in the Early Bronze Age: Shang Civilization. Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.

EARLY IMPERIAL CHINA: QIN AND HAN DYNASTIES, 221 BCE–220CE
Csikszentmihalyi, Mark, ed. and trans. Readings in Han Chinese Thought.
Indianapolis, Ind.: Hackett, 2006.
Lewis, Mark Edward. The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han. Cambridge, Mass.:
Harvard University Press, 2007.
Loewe, Michael. Faith, Myth and Reason in Han China. Indianapolis, Ind.: Hackett, 1994.
Scheidel, Walter, ed. Rome and China: Comparative Perspectives on Ancient World
Empires. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Twitchett, Denis, and Michael Loewe, eds. The Cambridge History of China. Vol. 1. The
Ch’in and Han Empires, 221 B.C.–A.D. 220. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1986.
Wang Zhongshu. Han Civilization. Trans. K. C. Chang. New Haven, Conn.: Yale
University Press, 1982.

PERIOD OF NORTH-SOUTH DIVISION, 220–589 CE
Lewis, Mark Edward. China between Empires: The Northern and Southern Dynasties.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2009.
Pearce, Scott, Audrey Spiro, and Patricia Ebrey. Culture and Power in the
Reconstitution of the Chinese Realm, 200–600. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard
University Asia Center, 2001.
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