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  • Bao, Weimin et al. "Behind the Form: A Historical Analysis of the Agriculture Encouragement System in the Song Dynasty."Frontiers of History in China v. 1 no. 3 (September 2006): 427-48.
  • Chaffee, John. The Thorny Gates of Learning in Sung China. New Edition. Albany: SUNY, 1995.
  • ---. Branches of Heaven : A History of the Imperial Clan of Sung China. Cambridge: Harvard East Asian Monographs, #183, 1999.
  • Clark, Hugh. Community, Trade, and Networks: Southern Fujian Province from the Third to Thirteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
  • Davis, Edward L. Society and the Supernatural in Song China. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2001.
  • Davis, Richard, trans., Historical Records of the Five Dynasties. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004.
  • de Bary, Wm. T., & J. Chaffee, eds. Neo-Confucian Education. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.
  • De Weerdt, Hilde. "What Did Su Che See in the North? Publishing Regulations, State Security, and Political Culture in Song China."T'oung Pao Volume 92 Numbers 4-5 2006: 466-494.
  • Duan, Yuming. "Kaifeng Daoist Temples in the Southern Song Dynasty Hangzhou: Research in Actual Examples of Religious Cultural Changes." Frontiers of History in China Volume 1 2006 - Volume 5 2010: 145-165.
  • Ebrey, Patricia. The Inner Quarters. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
  • Franke, Herbert, ed. Sung Biographies. Wiesbaden: Steiner Verlag, 1976, 3 vols.
  • Haeger, John, ed. Crisis and Prosperity in Sung China. Arizona, 1975.
  • Hansen, Valerie. Changing Gods in Medieval China, 1127-1276. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990.
  • Hartwell, Robert. Guide to Sources of Chinese Economic History: 618-1368. Chicago: Committee on Far Eastern Civilizations, The University of Chicago.
  • Hon, Tze-ki. The Yijing and Chinese Politics: Classical Commentary and Literati Activism in the Northern Song Period, 960-1127. Albany: State Univer sity of New York Press, 2005.
  • Hymes, Robert, & C. Schirokauer, eds. Ordering the World: Approaches to State and Society in Sung Dynasty China. Berkeley: UC Press, 1993.
  • Hymes, Robert. Statesmen and Gentlemen: The Elite of Fu-chou, Chiang-hsi, in Northern and Southern Sung. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
  • Jay, Jennifer W. A Change in Dynasties : Loyalism in Thirteenth-Century China. Center for East Asian Studies, Studies on East Asia, Vol 18. June 1991; ISBN: 0914584189.
  • Ji, Xiaobin. Politics and Conservatism in Northern Song China: The Career and Thought of Sima Guang (1019-1086). New York: Columbia University Press, 2004.
  • Kurz, Johannes L. "The Politics of Collecting Knowledge: Song Taizong's Compilations Project." T'oung Pao Vol. 87 Fasc. 4/5 (2001): 289-316.
  • Liao, Hsien-Huei. "Exploring Weal and Woe: The Song Elite's Mantic Beliefs and Practices." T'oung Pao Volume 91 Numbers 4-5 2005: 347-395.
  • Liu, James T. C. China Turning Inward: Intellectual-Political Changes in the Early Twelfth Century. Cambridge: Harvard University Council on East Asian Studies, 1988.
  • Lorge, Peter. "From Warlord to Emperor: Song Taizu's Change of Heart During the Conquest of Shu." T'oung Pao Volume 91 Numbers 4-5 2005: 320-346.
  • L?, Bianting (Dean, Austin and Yang, Jinxu tr.). "Bridal Dowry Land and the Economic Status of Women from Wealthy Families in the Song Dynasty." Frontiers of History in China v. 5 no. 1 (March 2010): 106-24.
  • McKnight, Brian and James T.C. Liu, eds., The Enlightened Judgments : Ch'ing-Ming Chi, the Sung Dynasty Collection. SUNY, Albany Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture, 1999; ISBN: 0791442438. Legal materials that introduce everyday life in 13th century China.
  • McLaren, Anne E. "History repackaged in the age of print: the Sanguozhi and Sanguo yanyi." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies Volume 69 Issue 02 June 2006: 293-313.
  • So, Billy Kee-long. Prosperity, Region, and Institutions in Maritime China: The South Fukien Pattern, 946?1368. Harvard: Harvard University Press, 2000.
  • Walton, Linda. Academies and Society in Southern Sung China. University of Hawaii Press, 1999.
  • Walton, Linda. Academies and Society in Southern Sung China. University of Hawaii Press, 1999.
  • Ter Haar, Barend J. "Buddhist-Inspired Options: Aspects of Lay Religious Life in the Lower Yangzi from 1100 until 1340." T'oung Pao Vol. 87 Fasc. 1/3 (2001): 92-152.
  • Yang, Xiaoshan. "Partisan Rhetorics and the Changing Face of Impracticality in the Northern Song." T'oung Pao Vol. 88 Fasc. 1/3 (2002): 81-111.
  • You, Biao. "Clan, Ancestral Hall, and Sacrifice in the Song Dynasty." Frontiers of History in China Volume 1 2006 - Volume 5 2010: 166-180.
  • Zhu, Shangshu et al. "On the ?Meishan Phenomenon? in Song Culture." Frontiers of History in China v. 1 no. 4 (December 2006): 517-34.