Chinese 110: Introduction to the Cultural Traditions of China

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Barnhart, Richard M. et al. Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting. New Haven and Beijing: Yale University and Foreign Languages, 1997. ND 1040 .T48 1997

Birrell, Anne. Chinese Mythology: An Introduction. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University, 1993.

Bowman, John S. Columbia Chronologies of Asian History and Culture. New York: Columbia University, 2000. DS33 .C63 2000

Dillon, Michael. China: A Historical and Cultural Dictionary. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon, 1998. DS733.C58523 1998

Gernet, Jacques. A History of Chinese Civilization. Trans. J. R. Foster and Charles Hartman. Cambridge: Cambridge University, 1996. DS721.G3913 1996

Hook, Brian. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China. Cambridge: Cambridge University, 1991. DS705.C35 1991. Use in library only.

Idema, Wilt L. and Lloyd Haft. A Guide to Chinese Literature. Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, 1997. DS703.4 .M5 74

Ledderose, Lothar. Ten Thousand Things: Module and Mass Production in Chinese Art. Princeton: Princeton University, 2000.

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Loewe, Michael and Edward L. Shaughnessy, eds. The Cambridge History of Ancient China: From the Origins of Civilization to 221 B.C. Cambridge: Cambridge University, 1999. DS741.5 .C35 1999

Mair, Victor H., ed. The Columbia History of Chinese Literature . New York: Columbia University, 2001.

Needham, Joseph. Science and Civilization in China. Cambridge: Cambridge University, 1954- . DS721 .N39

Volume 1: Introductory orientations
Volume 2: History of scientific thought
Volume 3: Mathematics and the sciences of the heavens and the earth
Volume 4: Physics and physical technology

1. Physics
2. Mechanical engineering
3. Civil engineering and nautics

Volume 5: Chemistry and chemical technology

1. Paper and printing
2. Spagyrical discovery and invention: magisteries of gold and immortality
3. Spagyrical discovery and invention: historical survey
4. Spagyrical discovery and invention: apparatus...
5. Spagyrical discovery and invention: physiological alchemy
6. Military technology, missiles and sieges
7. Military technology, the gunpowder epic
9. Textile technology, spinning and reeling
13. Mining

Volume 6: Biology and biological technology

1. Botany
2. Agriculture
3. Agro-industries and forestry
5. Fermentations
6. Medicine

Volume 7: Language and logic

Nienhauser, William, ed. The Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature. 2 vols. Indianapolis: Indiana University, 1986-1998. Z3108.L5 1986. Use in library.

Paludan, Ann. Chronicle of the Chinese Emperors: The Reign-by-Reign Record of the Rulers of Imperial China. London: Thames and Hudson, 1998. On order.

Twitchett, Denis and John K. Fairbank. Cambridge History of China. Cambridge: Cambridge University, 1978- . DS735 .C3145

Volume 1: The Ch’in and Han Empires
Volume 3: Sui and T’ang China
Volume 6: Alien Regimes and Border States
Volume 7-8: The Ming Dynasty
Volume 9: The Ch’ing Empire to 1800
Volume 10-11: Late Ch’ing
Volume 12-13: Republican China
Volume 14-15: The People’s Republic
Wilkinson, Endymion. Chinese History: A Manual. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 1998. DS735.W695 1998. Use in library only.
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Date Created: August 3, 2004
Last Modified: September 17, 2004
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