SOAS – Classical Chinese: Required Reading [combined list from several courses]

* Bol, Peter K.: “This Culture of Ours”: Intellectual Transitions in T’ang and Sung China. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1992
* Cheng, Anne: Histoire de la Pensée Chinoise. Paris: Seuil, 1997
* Clunas, Craig: Fruitful Sites: Garden Culture in Ming Dynasty China. London: Reaktion Books, 1996
* Fung Yu-Lan, transl. by Derk Bodde: A history of Chinese philosophy. 2 vols.; Princeton: Princeton UP, 1952
* Graham, Angus C.: Poems of the Late T’ang. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1965
* Graham, Angus C.: Disputers of the Tao. Philosophical Argumentation in Ancient China. La Salle: Open Court, 1989
* Hsiao Kung-chuan, transl. by F.W. Mote: A History of Chinese Political Thought. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1979
* Li, Chu-Tsing & James C. Y. Watt: The Chinese Scholar’s Studio: Artistic Life in the Late Ming Period. New York: Thames and Hudson, The Asia Society Galleries, 1987
* Lin Shuen-fu & Stephen Owen: The Vitality of the Lyric Voice. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1986
* Liu, James J. Y.: The Art of Chinese Poetry. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962
* Loewe, Michael & Edward L. Shaughnessy (eds.): The Cambridge History of Ancient China. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999
* Mair, Victor H.: The Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature. New York: Columbia UP, 1994
* Mair, Victor H.: The Columbia History of Chinese Literature. New York: Columbia UP, 2002
* Murck, Alfreda & Wen C. Fong: Words and Images: Chinese Poetry, Calligraphy, and Painting. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Princeton: Princeton UP, 1991
* Owen, Stephen: The Great Age of Chinese Poetry: The High T’ang. New Haven: Yale UP, 1981
* Owen, Stephen: An Anthology of Chinese Literature: Beginnings to 1911. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1996
* Sulleyblank, Edwin G.: Outline of Classical Chinese Grammar. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1995
* Sima Qian: Shiji . 10 vols., Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, [1959] 1982
* Schwartz, Benjamin I.: The World of Thought in Ancient China. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1985
* Yang Bojun : Mengzi Yizhu . 2 vols.; Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, [1960] 1988

Essential research tools include:

* Cihai . 3 vols. + 1 vol. addenda; Shanghai: Zhonghua shuju / Shanghai Cishu chubanshe, 1980
* Ciyuan . 4 vols.; Beijing: Shangwu yinshuguan, 1980
* Gu, Charles Wei-hsun & Wing-tsit Chan: Guide to Chinese Philosophy. Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall, 1978
* Gu Hanyu Changyongzi Zidian Beijing: Shangwu yinshuguan, 1979
* Gu Hanyu Xuci Yongfa Cidian . Xi’an: Shaanxi Renmin chubanshe, 1998 (or equivalent)
* Gudai Hanyu Cidian . Beijing: Shangwu yinshuguan, 1998
* Huang Kaiguo et al. (main eds.): Zhuzi Baijia Da Cidian . Chengdu: Sichuan Renmin chubanshe, 1999
* Hucker, Charles O.: A Dictionary of Official Titles in Imperial China. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1985
* Lin Qingzhang (main ed.): Jingxue Yanjiu Lunzhu Mulu , 1912-1987 . 2 vols.; Taibei: Hanxue Yanjiu Zhongxin, 1989
* Loewe, Michael: Early Chinese Texts. A Bibliographical Guide. Berkeley: The Society for the Study of Early China and The Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, 1993
* Luo Zhufeng : Hanyu Da Cidian .12 vols.; Shanghai: Hanyu da cidian chubanshe, [1990] 1994
* Unger, Ulrich: Grundbegriffe der altchinesischen Philosophie. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2000
* Wang Li : Hanyu Shilüxue . Hong Kong: Zhonghua shuju, 1957, 1973
* Wang Li : Gudai Hanyu [xiudingben] . 4 vols.; Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, [1981] 1995
* Wang Li (main ed.): Wang Li Gu Hanyu Zidian Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 2000
* Wei Zhengtong (main ed.): Zhongguo Zhexue Cidian Daquan