Early China Books
Here are some books that might work for the book review, and at the bottom some books that might work for the source paper. Some of these are in the IUP library, many are not and will have to be ordered through PALCI. There are more complete bibliographies here.

Shang and before

-Allan, Sarah. The Shape of the Turtle: Myth, Art and Cosmos in Early China. SUNY Press, 1991.
-Liu, Li, The Chinese Neolithic: Trajectories to Early States. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
- Puett, Michael. To Become a God: Cosmology, Sacrifice, and Self-Divinization in Early China. Cambridge: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series, 2002;

Zhou
-Di Cosmo, Nicola. Ancient China and Its Enemies: The Rise of Nomadic Power in East Asian History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
-De Woskin, Kenneth. Doctors, Diviners, and Magicians of Ancient China: Biographies of Fang-shih. Columbia U.P. 1983.
-Hsu, Cho-yun. Ancient China in Transition. Stanford U.P. 1965.
Li, Waiyee. The Readability of the Past in Early Chinese Historiography. Cambridge: Harvard East Asian Monographs, 2005. -Wang Aihe. Cosmology and Political Culture in Early China. Cambridge U.P.
-Wheatley, Paul. The Pivot of the Four Quarters: A Preliminary Enquiry into the Origins and Character of the Ancient Chinese City. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1971.
-Wagner, Donald B. Iron and Steel in Ancient China. Leiden: Brill, 1993.

Qin and Han

-Berkowitz, Alan. Patterns of Disengagement: The Practice and Portrayal of Reclusion in Early Medieval China. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000.
-Bielenstein, Hans. The Bureaucracy of Han Times. Cambridge, 1980.
Chen, Chi-yun. Hsun Yueh (A.D. 148-209): the Life and Reflections of an Early Medieval Confucian. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975.
-Durrant, Stephen. The Cloudy Mirror: Tension and Conflict in the Writings of Sima Qian. SUNY, 1995.
-Campany, Robert Ford. Strange Writing: Anomoly Accounts in Early Medieval China. Albany: SUNY Press, 1995.
-Connery, Christopher. The Empire of the Text: Writing and Authority in Early Imperial China. Rowman & Littlefield, 1998.

Age of Disunity

-Ebrey, Patricia. The Aristocratic Families of Early Imperial China. Cambridge, 1978.
-Goodman, Howard. Ts'ao P'i Transcendant: Political Culture and Dynasty-Founding in China at the End of the Han. Curzon Books, University of Hawaii Press, 1999.
-Holcombe, Charles. In the Shadow of the Han: Literati Thought and Society at the Beginning of the Southern Dynasties. Hawaii, 1994.
-Kiang Heng Chye. Cities of Aristocrats and Bureaucrats: The Development of Cityscapes in Medieval China. Hawaii, 1999.
-Kinney, Anne Behnke. Representations of Childhood and Youth in Early China. Stanford University Press, 2004.
-Kleeman, Terry. Great Perfection: Religion and Ethnicity in a Chinese Millennial Kingdom. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1998.
-Qian Nanxiu. Spirit and Self in Medieval China: The Shih-shuo hsin-yu and its Legacy. Hawaii,. 2001.

Tang

-Barrett, T. H., Taoism Under the T'ang: Religion and Empire During the Golden Age of Chinese History. London: The Wellsweep Press, 1995.
-Hartman, Charles. Han Yu and the T'ang Search for Unity. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986.
-McMullen, David. State and Scholars in T'ang China. Cambridge, 1988.
-Schafer, Edward. The Golden Peaches of Samarkand:A Study of T'ang Exotics . California, 1963.
-Wechsler, Howard. Offerings of Jade and Silk: Ritual and Symbol in the Legitimation of the T'ang Dynasty. Yale,1985

Religion


-Cahill, Suzanne. Transcendence and Divine Passion: The Queen Mother of the West in Medieval China. Stanford, 1993.

-Dudbridge, Glen, Religious Experience and Lay Society in T'ang China . Cambridge, 1995.
-Davis, Edward. Society and the Supernatural in Song China. Hawaii U.P. 2001.
-Gregory, Peter. Tsung-mi and the Sinification of Buddhism. Princeton, 1991.
-Kleeman, Terry. Great Perfection: Religion and Ethnicity in a Chinese Millennial Kingdom. Hawaii U.P.1998.
-Kohn, Livia, Laughing at the Tao: Debates among Buddhists and Taoists in Medieval China. Princeton, 1995.
-___________, Early Chinese Mysticism: Philosophy and Soteriology in the Taoist Tradition. Princeton, 1992.
-Teiser, Stephen. The Scripture on the Ten Kings and the Making of Purgatory in Medieval Chinese Buddhism. Hawaii, 1994 

Classical Philosophy

-Eno, Robert, The Confucian Creation of Heaven: Philosophy and the Defense of Ritual Mastery. SUNY Press, 1990
-Graham, A. C. Later Mohist Logic, Ethics, and Science. Hong Kong: Chinese University, 1978. -Ivanhoe, Phillp J. Confucian Moral Self-Cultivation. New York: Lang, 1993.
-Monro, Donald J. The Concept of Man in Early China. Stanford U.P. 1969.

Translations

-I am not listing all the translations of the major philosophers (Mencius, Mozi etc)or the major Buddhist sutras. If you are interested in these please come talk to me. Most of these are listed by translator rather than author.
-Most of the important classical works have been translated in some form, and references to these translations can be found in Loewe Early Chinese Texts.
-Those with an * are in the IUP library.

-Birrell, Anne, trans The Classic of Mountains and Seas Penguin, 1999.
-Brooks, Taeko and  E. Bruce Brooks. trans. The Original Analects: Sayings of Confucius and his Successors. Columbia U.P. 1998.
-Crump, J.L. trans. Chan-Kuo Ts'e. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1970.*
-de Crespingny, Rafe, trans. To Establish Peace: Being the Chronicle of Later Han for the years 189-220 A.D. Australian National University, 1996.
-Davis, Richard, trans Historical Records of the Five Dynasties. Columbia U.P. 2004.
-Dubs, Homer History of the Former Han Dynasty Baltimore : Waverly Press, 1938.*
-Duyvendak, J.J.L. trans The Book of Lord Shang: A classic of the Chinese school of law Chicago U.P. 1963.*
-Graham, A.C. The Book of Lieh Tzu Columbia U.P., 1990.
-Hawkes, David. The Songs of the South: An Ancient Chinese Anthology of Poems by Qu Yuan and Other Poets.  Penguin, 1985
-Kohn, Livia The Taoist Experience: An Anthology SUNY Press, 1993.
-Knoblock, John.. Xunzi : A Translation and Study of the Complete Works. 3 vols. Stanford U.P. 1988.*
___________ and Riegel, Jeffry. trans. The Annals of Lu Buwei. Stanford, 2000. A philosophical encyclopedia of the Qin period
-Legge, James. trans. The Chinese Classics. reprinted many times.
-Nienhauser, Willam, ed. The Grand Scribe's Records Indiana U.P. 1994-*
-Reed, Carrie E. A Tang Miscellany: An introduction to Youyang zazu Peter Lang, 2003.*
-Rickett, W. Allyn. trans. Guanzi: Political, Economic and Philosophical Essays from Early China. Princeton U.P. 1998.
-Sawyer, Ralph D. The Seven Military Classics of Ancient China Westview, 1993.*
-Strassberg, Richard E. A Chinese Bestiary: Strange Creatures from the Guideways Through Mountains and Streams. California U.P. 2002.*
-Waley, Arthur. trans. The Book of Songs: The Ancient Chinese Classic of Poetry. New York: Grove Press, 1987 (original edition 1937)
-Wang Chong Lun Heng Paragon 1962 (This is a Han dynasty philosophical encyclopedia)*
-Watson, Burton. trans. Records of the Grand Historian. Columbia U.P. various editions*
_______, Courtier and Commoner in Ancient China: Selections from the 'History of the Former Han' by Pan Ku Columbia U.P., 1974 *
_______, The Tso Chuan Columbia U.P., 1989*
_______, Han Fei Tzu: Basic writings Columbia U.P. 1964*
_______, Basic Writings of Mo Tzu, Hsun Tzu and Han Fei Tzu Columbia U.P. 1967.

-Moss Roberts, trans. Three Kingdoms: China's Epic Drama New York, Pantheon, 1976. *