Research Guides: Classical Historiography for Chinese History: Sui (581-617) and Tang (618-907 CE) dynasties

Databases

Database for Tang dynasty road systems and geography 唐代交通地理資訊系統
Posted from January 1, 2009, the Geography Institute of Academia Sinica conflated Prof. Yan Gengwang's 嚴耕望 canonical studies and maps of the Tang dynasty, other more general historical maps and Google maps.

Dictionaries

Xiong, Victor Cunrui. Historical Dictionary of Medieval China. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2009.

Publications

Ai, Chong. "On the Correlation Between the Formation of the 'Maowusu Desert' and Land Use in Liuhu Sub-Prefecture in the Tang Dynasty." Frontiers of History in China v. 1 no. 3 (September 2006): 404-26
Barat, Kahar (trans., ed.). The Uygur-Turkic Biography of the Seventh-Century Chinese Buddhist Pilgrim Xuanzang: Ninth and Tenth Chapters. Bloomington: Indiana University Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, 2000.
Barrett, T. H. "Religion and the first recorded print run: Luoyang, July, 855." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African StudiesVolume 68, Issue 03, October 2005: 455-461.
---. Taoism Under the T'ang: Religion and Empire During the Golden Age of Chinese History. London: The Wellsweep Press, 1995.
Benn, Charles, ed. China's Golden Age: Everyday Life in the Tang Dynasty. Oxford University Press, 2004.
Chen, Jo-shui. Liu Tsung-yuan and Intellectual Change in T'ang China, 773-819. Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Chen, Jinhua. "A Daoist princess and a Buddhist temple: a new theory on the causes of the canon-delivering mission originally proposed by princess Jinxian (689?732) in 730." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies Volume 69 Issue 02 June 2006: 267-292.
Davis, Richard, trans. Historical Records of the Five Dynasties. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004.
Di Cosmo, Nicola (ed.). Warfare in Inner Asian History (500-1800). Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2002.
Dudbridge, Glen. Religious Experience and Lay Society in T'ang China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Drompp, Michael R. Tang China and the collapse of the Uighur Empire: A Documentary History. Leiden, Boston, Brill, 2005.
Eberhard, Wolfram. Conquerors and Rulers: Social Excess in Medieval China. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1952; 2nd rev. ed., 1965.
Ebrey, Patricia, & Peter Gregory, eds. Religion and Society in T'ang and Sung China. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1993.
Fraser, Sarah. Performing the Visual: The Practice of Buddhist Wall Painting in China and Central Asia, 618-960. Stanford University Press, 2004.
Graff, David A.. Medieval Chinese Warfare, 300-900. London and New York: Routledge, 2002.
Hartman, Charles. Han Yu and the T'ang Search for Unity. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986.
Heng, Chye Kiang. Cities of Aristocrats and Bureaucrats: The Development of Medieval Chinese Cityscapes. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press and Singapore University Press, 1999.
Herbert, P.A. Examine the Honest, Appraise the Able: Contemporary Assessments of Civil Service Selection in Early T'ang China. Australian National University Monograph. Canberra: Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1988.
---, Under the Brilliant Emperor: Imperial Authority in T'ang China as seen in the Writings of Chang Chiu-ling. Australian National University Monograph. Canberra: Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1978.
Holmgren, Jennifer. Annals of Tai: Early T'o-pa History according to the First Chapter of the Wei-shu. Australian National University Monograph. Canberra: Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1982.
Hu, Alex J. "An Overview of the History and Culture of the Xianbei ('Monguor'/'Tu')." Asian Ethnicity Feb2010 Vol. 11 Issue 1: 95-164.
Johnson, David. The Medieval Chinese Oligarchy. Boulder: Westview, 1977.
Lee, Thomas, ed. Sung Senses of the Past. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.
McMullen, David. State and Scholars in T'ang China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Mou, Huaichuan. Rediscovering Wen Tingyun: A Historical Key to a Poetic Labyrinth. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004.
Nienhauser, William Jr. Liu Tsung-yuan. New York: Twayne, 1973.
Pulleyblank, E. G. The Background to the Rebellion of An Lu-shan. London: Oxford University Press, 1955.
Sen, Tansen. Buddhism, Diplomacy, and Trade: The Realignment of Sino-Indian Relations, 600- 1400. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2003.
Schafer, Edward. Pacing the Void: T'ang Approaches to the Stars. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972.
---. The Golden Peaches of Samarkand: A Study of T'ang Exotics. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1963.
---. The Vermillion Bird: T'ang Images of the South. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967.
Sigwalt, Patrick. " Le rite fun?raire Lingbao ? travers le Wulian shengshi jing (Ve si?cle)." T'oung Pao Volume 92 Numbers 4-5 2006: 325-372.
Tanigawa, Michio. Medieval Chinese Society and the "Local Comunity." Translated by Joshua Fogel. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985.
Twitchett, Denis, ed. Cambridge History of China. Vol. 3. Sui and T'ang China 589-906, Part 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979.
---. Land Tenure and the Social Order in T'ang and Sung China. London: Oxford University Press, 1962.
---. Financial Administration Under the T'ang Dynasty. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, second edition 1970.
---. The Writing of Official History Under the T'ang. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
---. Mirror To the Son of Heaven: Wei Cheng at the Court of T'ang T'ai-tsung. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974.
Warner, Ding Xiang. Wild Deer amid Soaring Phoenixes: The Opposition Poetics of Wang Ji. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2003.
Wechsler, Howard. Offerings of Jade and Silk: Ritual and Symbol in the Legitimation of the T'ang Dynasty. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985.
Wright, Arthur and Denis Twitchett, eds. Perspectives on the T'ang. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1973.
Wright, Arthur. The Sui Dynasty. New York: Knopf, 1978.
Xiong, Victor Cunrui. Sui-Tang Chang'an: A Study in the Urban History of Medieval China. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies, 2000.
Xue, Pingshuan et al. "The Merchants of Chang'an in the Sui and Tang Dynasties." Frontiers of History in China Volume 1 Number 2 June 2006: 254-75.
Yao, Ping. "Childbirth and Maternal Mortality in Tang China (618-907)." The Chinese Historical Review Volume 12 Number 2 Fall 2005: 263-286.
Zhang, Guogang et al. "The Transformations of the Tang Military System and Social Changes in Medieval China." Frontiers of History in China v. 2 no. 3 (July 2007): 293-319.