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Intellectual Foundation |
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Frederick W Mote, Intellectual Foundations of China. New York: McGraw-Hill Inc., 1989. |
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Benjamin Schwartz, The World of Thought in Ancient China. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985.
W.T. de Bary & I. Bloom, eds., Sources of Chinese Tradition. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. |
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Chinese Beliefs and Customs |
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Frena Bloomfield, The Book of Chinese Beliefs. London: Arrow Books, 1985. |
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J.C. Cooper, Yin & Yang: The Taoist Harmony of the Opposite. Wellingborough: The Aquarian Press, 1985. |
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Richard Smith, Fortune-Tellers & Philosophers: Divination in Traditional Chinese Society. San Francisco: Westview Press, 1991. |
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Martin Palmer, T’ung Shu: The Ancient Chinese Almanac. Boston: Shambhala, 1986. |
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Stephen Skinner, The Living Earth Manual of Feng-shui. Singapore: Graham Brash, 1982. |
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Heaven & Man: Chinese Religions |
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Arthur F. Wright, Buddhism in Chinese History. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1982. |
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Lee Cheuk Yin, Alan Chan & Timothy Tsu, Taoism: Outlines of a Religious Tradition. Singapore: Taoist Federation, 1994. |
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Stephen Feuchtwang, Popular Religion in China: The Imperial Metaphor. Surrey: Curzon Press, 2001. |
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Boundary & Space: The Great Walls and Forbidden City |
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John Hay ed., Boundaries in China, London: Reaktion Books Ltd., 1994. |
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John K. Fairbank ed., The Chinese World Order: Traditional China’s Foreign Relations, Cambridge: Harvard College, 1968. |
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National Treasures: Chinese Calligraphy and Painting |
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Lin Yutang, Imperial Chinese Art, UK: Omega Books, 1983. |
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Ellen J. Laing, Art and Aesthetics in Chinese Popular Prints. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 2002. |
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Richard Barnhart ed., Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. |
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Li Xiangoing, China’s Calligraphy Art through the Ages. Beijing: China Intercontinental Press, 2007. |
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Chinese Food Culture and Entertainment |
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Kog-Hwang I-Ling, Symbolism in Chinese Food. Singapore: G. Brash, 1991. |
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Chang K.C. ed., Food in Chinese Culture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977. |
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Modernization and Revolution: From Sun Yet-sen, Mao Zedong to Deng Xiaopeng |
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Mabel Lee ed., Modernization of the Chinese Past, Sydney: Wild Peony, 1993. |
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W.J.F. Jenner, The Tyranny of China: The Roots of China’s Crisis, London: Penguin Books, 1992. |
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Godwin Chu & Francis Hsu eds., Moving a Mountain: Cultural Change in China, Honolulu: East-West Center, 1979. |
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Robert Gamer, ed., Understanding Contemporary China. London: Lynn Rienner Publisher, 2003. |
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Chinese Identity and Social Changes |
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Liu Tao Tao & David Faure eds., Unity and Diversity: Local Cultures and Identities in China, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1996. |
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Godwin Chu & Yanan Ju, The Great Wall in Ruins: Communication and Cultural Change in China. New York: SUNY Press, 1993. |
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Michael H. Bond, Beyond the Chinese Face: Insights from Psychology. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1991. |