Dragonkeeper bibliography

These books were an enormous help to me.

  • Chang, K C, Food in Chinese Culture: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1977
  • de Visser, M W, The Dragon in China and Japan, Johannes Muller, Amsterdam, 1913
  • Delroy, Ann (ed.), Two Emperors: China’s Ancient Origins, Praxis Exhibitions Australia, Brunswick East, 2002
  • Ebrey, Patrica Buckley, Cambridge Illustrated History of China, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2003
  • Han Yangling: The Yangling Mausoleum of Emperor Jingdi of the Western Han Dynasty, Chongqing chu ban she, Chongqing Shi, 2001
  • Legge, J (trans.), Tao teh king, www.sacred-texts.com/tao/sbe39/index.htm, 1891
  • Legge, J (trans.), The Annals of the Bamboo Books, The Chinese Classics Vol. III, Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong, 1960
  • Legge, J (trans.), The Ch’un Ts’ew with the Tso Chuen, The Chinese Classics, Vol. V, Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong, 1960
  • Loewe, Michael, Everyday Life in Early Imperial China, Dorset Press, New York, 1968
  • MacKenzie, Donald A, China and Japan: Myths and Legends, Avenel Books, New York, 1986
  • Merel, Peter A (trans.), Tao te ching, www.vl-site.org/taoism/ttcmerel.html, 1995
  • Muller, Charles (trans.), Tao te ching, Barnes & Noble, New York, 2005
  • Mullikin, Mary Augusta & Hotchkis, Anna M, The Nine Sacred Mountains of China, Vetch and Lee, Hong Kong, 1973
  • Peers, Chris, Imperial Chinese Armies, Osprey Publishing, Oxford, 1996
  • Pirazzol-t’ Serstevens, Michèle, trans. Seligman, Janet, The Han Dynasty, Rizzoli International, New York, 1982
  • Rodzinski, Witold, A History of China, Pergamon Press, New York, 1979-1983
  • Rudolph, Richard C, Han Tomb Art of West China, University of California Press, Berkley & Los Angeles, 1951
  • Sima Qian, trans. Watson, Burton, Records of the Grand Historian (Shi ji), Columbia University Press, New York, 1961
  • Sinclair, Kevin; Budnik, Dan; Gerster, Georg; Lau, Paul; Wu Shouzhuang and Young, Jerry, Over China: A Celestial View of the Middle Kingdom, Intercontinental Publishing Corp, China Great Wall Publishing House and China National Publishing Industry Trading Corp, Hong Kong, 1989
  • The Chinese Exhibition, Australian Arts Exhibition Corporation, Melbourne, 1976
  • Waley, Arthur (trans.), Dao de jing, wengu.tartarie.com/wg/wengu.php?1=Daodejing&l=Daodejing, 1934
  • Wang, Zhongshu, trans. Chang J C & collaborators, Han Civilization, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1982

Special thanks to Dr Michael Nylan of Berkley University and Dr Anthony Brach of Harvard University who were kind enough to answer my email questions.