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Temple, Robert. The Genius of China: 3,000 Years of Science, Discovery and Invention. London: Prion, 1998.
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Understanding contemporary China. (ed. Gamer, Robert E.). Understanding Series, Introductions to the States and Regions of the Contemporary World. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1998.
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Yang, Hsin; Barnhart, Richard; Cahill, James; Wu Hung; Yang Xin; Nie, Chongzheng; Lang, Shaojun. Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting. Culture and Civilization of China Series. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.
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Zhao, Xiaohuan. Classical Chinese Supernatural Fiction: A Morphological History. Lewiston, New York; Ceredigion, UK: Edwin Mellen Press, 2005.
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