B?ker
Fairbank, John King og Goldman, Merle: China. A new history, 2006. [Eller nyere utgave] . 2nd enl. ed. Cambridge (Mass.): Harvard University Press .
Ebrey, Patricia Buckley: Chinese Civilization. A Source Book, 1993 eller nyere utgave. The Free Press, New York. [Dette blir lest selektivt].
Artikler
(Utdypende lesning; artiklene legges ut i Fronter.)
- Elman, Benjamin A., "Political, Social, and Cultural Reproduction via Civil Service Examinations in Late Imperial China", The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 50, No. 1 (Feb., 1991): 7-28.
- Kuhn, Philip A., "Ideas Behind China's Modern State", Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Vol. 55, No. 2 (Dec., 1995): 295-337.
- Kwong, Luke S., "Politics at the Crossroads: Reflections on the Hundred Days Reform of 1898", Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 34, No. 3 (Jul., 2000): 663-695.
- Loewe, Michael, "China's Sense of Unity as Seen in the Early Empires", T'oung Pao, Second Series, Vol. 80, Fasc. 1/3 (1994): 6-26.
- Loewe, Michael, "The Cosmological Context of Sovereignty in Han Times", Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 65, No. 2 (2002): 342-349.
- Pulleyblank, Edwin G. "Chinese History and World History", Essays on Tang and pre-tang China (Aldershot: Ashgate 2001), I, 1-19.