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  • Birrell, Anne. Popular Songs and Ballads of Han China. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1993.
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  • Ch'u, T'ung-tsu. Han Social Structure, Vol. I. Edited by Jack Dull. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1972.
  • Connery, Christopher Leigh. The Empire of the Text: Writing and Authority in Early Imperial China. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1998.
  • Cutter, Robert, & William Gordon, trans. Empresses and Consorts: Selections from Chen Shou's Records of the Three States with Pei Songzhi's Commentary. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1999.
  • de Crespigny, Rafe, trans. Emperor Huan and Emperor Ling: Being the Chronicle of Later Han for the Years 157 to 189 A.D. as recorded in Chapters 54-59 of the Zizhi Tongjian of Sima Guang. Australian National University Monograph. Canberra: Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1989.
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  • ---. Northern Frontier: The Policies and Strategy of the Later Han Empire. Australian National University Monograph. Canberra: Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1984.
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  • Dien, Albert, ed. State and Society in Early Medieval China. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990.
  • Dubbs, Homer H., trans. History of the Former Han Dynasty. 3 vols. Baltimore: Waverly Press, 1938, 1944, 1955.
  • Durrant, Stephen. The Cloudy Mirror: Tension and Conflict in the Writings of Sima Qian. Albany: SUNY Press.
  • Eberhard, Wolfram. "The Political Function of Astronomy and Astronomers in Han China." In John K. Fairbank, ed. Chinese Thought and Institutions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1957. pp. 33-70.
  • Ebrey, Patricia. The Aristocratic Families of Early Imperial China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978.
  • Fuehrer, Bernhard. "Glimpses into Zhong Hong's Educational Background, with Remarks on Manifestations of the Zhouyi in His Writings." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies Vol. 67 No. 1 2004: 64-78.
  • Gale, Esson M., trans. Discourses on Salt and Iron: A Debate on State Control of Commerce and Industry in Ancient China. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1931.
  • Goodman, Howard. Ts'ao P'i Transcendant: Political Culture and Dynasty-Founding in China at the End of the Han. Curzon Books, University of Hawaii Press, 1999.
  • Hardy, Grant. Worlds of Bronze and Bamboo: Sima Qian's Conquest of History. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.
  • He Dezhang. "The Expansion of Water Communication and Transportation between North and South China during the Six Dynasties." Frontiers of History in China v. 1 no. 2 (June 2006): 236-53
  • Herman, John. "The Kingdoms of Nanzhong China's Southwest Border Region Prior to the Eighth Century." T'oung Pao Volume 95 Numbers 4-5 2009: 241-286.
  • Holcombe, Charles. In the Shadow of the Han: Literati Thought and Society at the Beginning of the Southern Dynasties. Honolulu: University of Hawaii, 1994.
  • Hinsch, Bret. "Myth and the Construction of Foreign Ethnic Identity in Early and Medieval China." Asian Ethnicity Vol. 5 Issue 1 February 2004: 81-103.
  • Hulsewe, A. F. P. Remnants of Han Law, Vol. I. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1955.
  • Hsu, Hsin-Mei Agnes and Martin-Montgomery, Anne. "An Emic Perspective on the Mapmaker's Art in Western Han China."Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Volume 17 Issue 04 October 2007: 443-457.
  • Kinney, Anne Behnke. Representations of Childhood and Youth in Early China. Stanford University Press, 2004.
  • Kleeman, Terry. Great Perfection: Religion and Ethnicity in a Chinese Millennial Kingdom. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1998.
  • Kroll, Paul W. and Knechtges, David R. (ed.). Studies in Early Medieval Chinese Literature and Cultural History: In Honor of Richard B. Mather and Donald Holzman. Provo, Utah: T'ang Studies Society, 2003.
  • Lewis, Mark. Writing and Authority in Early China, Albany: SUNY Press, 1999.
  • Lagerwey, John (ed.). Ancient and Medieval China. Vol. 1 of Religion and Chinese Society. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press; Paris: Ecole francaise d'Extr?me-Orient, 2004.
  • Loewe, Michael. Everyday Life in Early Imperial China. New York: Harper and Row, 1970.
  • ---. Records of Han Administration. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975.
  • ---. Chinese Ideas of Life and Death: Faith, Myth and Reason in the Han Period (202 BC - AD 220). London: Allen and Unwin, 1982.
  • ---. Divination, Mythology, and Monarchy in Han China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
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  • Lewis, Mark Edward. The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007.
  • Major, John. Heaven and Earth in Early Han Thought: Chapters Three, Four, and Five of the Huainanzi. Albany: SUNY Press.
  • Lippiello, Tiziana. Auspicious Omens and Miracles in Ancient China: Han, Three Kingdoms, and Six Dynasties. Monumenta Serica Monograph Series, no. 39. Sankt Augustin, Ger.: Monumenta Serica Institute, 2001.
  • Queen, Sarah. From Chronicle to Canon: The Hermeneutics of the Spring and Autumn Annals, According to Tung Chung-shu. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
  • Loewe, Michael. "On the Terms bao zi, yin gong, yin guan, huan, and shou Was Zhao Gao a Eunuch?" T'oung Pao Volume 91 Numbers 4-5 2005: 301-319.
  • ---. "The Cosmological Context of Sovereignty in Han Times." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies Vol. 65 No. 2 2002: 342-349.
  • ---. "The Organs of Han Imperial Government: zhongdu guan, duguan, xianguan and xiandao guan." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies Volume 71 Issue 03 October 2008: 509-528.
  • McNair, Amy. Donors of Longmen: Faith, Politics, and Patronage in Medieval Chinese Buddhist Sculpture. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2007.
  • Senor, Denis. The Cambridge History of Early Inner Asia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
  • Qiang, Ning. Art, Religion, and Politics in Medieval China: The Dunhuang Cave of the Zhai Family. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2004.
  • Smith, Kidder and Sima, Tan. "Sima Tan and the Invention of Daoism, 'Legalism,' 'et cetera.'" The Journal of Asian Studies Vol. 62 No. 1 (Feb., 2003): 129-156.
  • Swann, Nancy Lee. Food and Money in Ancient China. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1950.
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  • Twitchett, Denis, & Michael Loewe, eds. Cambridge History of China. Vol. 1. The Ch'in and Han Empires 221 B.C. - A.D. 220. Cambridge; Cambridge University Press, 1986.
  • Wang, Yu-ch'uan. "An Outline of the Central Government of the Former Han Dynasty," Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies XII (1949), 134-187.
  • Watson, Burton, trans. Records of the Grand Historian of China. 2 vols. New York: Columbia University Press, 1961.
  • Wilbur, C. Martin, Slavery in China During the Former Han Dynasty. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1943.
  • Yang, Lien-sheng. Money and Credit in China. Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph series XII. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1952.
  • Young, Gregory. Three Generals of Later Han. Australian National University Monograph. Canberra: Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1990.
  • Yu, Ying-shih. Trade and Expansion in Han China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967.
  • Zhang, Xiugui et al. "Ancient 'Red Cliff' Battlefield: A Historical-Geographic Study." Frontiers of History in China v. 1 no. 2 (June 2006): 214-35.
  • Zhou, Jinghong. "The Visualization of Wang Zhaojun in the Vicissitude of Time." Frontiers of History in China v. 4 no. 3 (September 2009): 470-8.