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  • Brindley, Erica. "Music, Cosmos, and the Development of Psychology in Early China." T'oung Pao Volume 92 Numbers 1-3 2006: 1-49.
  • Creel, H. G. Shen Pu-hai, a Chinese Political Philosopher of the Fourth Century B. C.. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974.
  • Csikszentmihalyi, Mark and Nylan, Michael. "Constructing Lineages and Inventing Traditions through Exemplary Figures in Early China." T'oung Pao Vol 89 Fasc. 1/3 (2003): 59-99.
  • Defoort, Carine. The Pheasant Cap Master (He Guan Zi): A Rhetorical Reading. Albany: SUNY Press, 1998.
  • Duyvendak, J. J. L., trans., The Book of Lord Shang. London: Probsthain, 1928.
  • Forke, Alfred, trans. Lun-Heng., 2 vols. London: Luzac, 1907, 1911; reprint, New York: Paragon, 1962.
  • Geaney, Jane. On the Epistemology of the Senses in Early Chinese Thought. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2002.
  • Gernet, Jacques. "Language, Mathematics, Rationality: Categories or Functions Concerning China and Our Age-Old Traditions."Chinese Studies in History Spring 2010 Vol. 43 Issue 3: 17-31.
  • Graham, A. C. Later Mohist Logic, Ethics, and Science. Hong Kong: Chinese University, 1978.
  • Huan, T'an. Hsin-lun (New Treatise) and Other Writings by Huan T'an (43 B. C. - 28 A. D.). Translated by Timotheus Pokora. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies, 1976.
  • Kim, Yung Sik and Bray, Francesca (ed.). Current Perspectives in the History of Science in East Asia. Seoul: Seoul National University Press, 1999.
  • Liao, W. K., trans. The Complete Works of Han Fei Tzu, 2 vols. London: Probsthain, 1939, 1959.
  • Lipman, Jonathan N. Familiar Strangers, a History of Muslims in Northwest China. University of Washington Press, Seattle and London, 1997.
  • Mei, Y. P., trans. The Ethical and Political Works of Motse. London: Probsthain, 1934.
  • Pines, Yuri. "Disputers of Abdication: Zhanguo Egalitarianism and the Sovereign's Power ." T'oung Pao Volume 91 Numbers 4-5, 2005: 243-300.
  • ---. "'The One that Pervades the All' in Ancient Chinese Political Thought: The Origins of 'The Great Unity' Paradigm." T'oung PaoVolume 86 Numbers 4-5 2000: 280-324.
  • Poo, Mu-chou. In Search of Personal Welfare: A View of Ancient Chinese Religion. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998.
  • Rickett, W. Allyn, trans. Kuan-tzu: A Repository of Early Chinese Thought, Volume I. University of Hong Kong Press, 1965.
  • ---. Guanzi: Political, Economic, and Philosophical Essays from Early China. A Study and Translation, Volume II. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. Translation of 42 chapters.
  • Sellman, James D. Timing and Rulership in Master L?'s Spring and Autumn Annals (L?shi chunqiu). Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002.
  • Shankman, Steven and Durrant, Stephen W. (ed.). Early China/Ancient Greece: Thinking Through Comparisons. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002.
  • Sterckx, Roel. The Animal and the Daemon in Early China. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002.
  • von Glahn, Richard. The Sinister Way: The Divine and the Demonic in Chinese Religious Culture. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004.
  • Wagner, Rudolf G.. Language, Ontology, and Political Philosophy in China: Wang Bi's Scholarly Exploration of the Dark (Xuanxue). Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003.
  • Watson, Burton, trans., Mo Tzu: Basic Writings. N. Y.: Columbia University Press, 1964.
  • ---, trans., Han Fei Tzu: Basic Writings. N. Y.: Columbia University Press, 1964.