Michael Loewe’s biographical study Dong Zhongshu, a “Confucian” Heritage, and the “Chunqiu fanlu” (Leiden: Brill, 2011) contains an extensive and up-to-date bibliography of relevant works, which it would seem pointless to duplicate here. Accordingly, this bibliography lists only our reference editions for classical Chinese texts, translations of the Chunqiu fanlu into modern Chinese, and important secondary studies (including partial translations of the Chunqiu fanlu into Western languages).
Arbuckle, Gary. “The jiao ‘Suburban’ Sacrifice in the Chunqiu fanlu.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, New Orleans, April 13, 1991.
——. “A Note on the Authenticity of the Chunqiu Fanlu.” T’oung Pao 75 (1989): 226–34.
——. “Restoring Dong Zhongshu (BCE 195–115): An Experiment in Historical and Philosophical Reconstruction.” Ph.D. diss., University of British Columbia, 1991.
——. “Some Remarks on a New Translation of the Chunqiu fanlu.” Early China 17 (1992): 215–33.
——. “The Works of Dong Zhongshu and the Text Traditionally and Incorrectly Titled
Luxuriant Dew of the Annals (Chunqiu fanlu).” Formerly available at
http://www.sagesource.net/dong/works_part_A.html. Last updated 2004 and last accessed July 29, 2008. [This URL is now defunct, and we do not know where, if at all, this paper is now available]
Bujard, Marianne. “La vie de Dong Zhongshu: Enigmes et hypothèses.” Journal Asiatique 280 (1992): 145–217.
Chan, Wing-Tsit, trans. and comp. A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1965.
Cheng, Anne. “Ch’un ch’iu
春秋, Kung yang
公羊, Ku liang
榖樑, and Tso chuan
左傳.” In
Early Chinese Texts: A Bibliographical Guide, edited by Michael Loewe, 67–76. Early China Special Monograph Series, no. 2. Berkeley: Society for the Study of Early China and the Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, 1993.
——. Étude sur le Confucianisme Han: L’élaboration d’une tradition exégétique sur les Classiques. Paris: Collège de France, Institut des hautes études chinoises, 1985. [Includes translation of chapter 12]
Cullen, Christopher. Astronomy and Mathematics in Ancient China: The “Zhou bi suan jing.” Needham Research Institute Studies, no. 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Dubs, Homer H., trans. The History of the Former Han Dynasty. 3 vols. Baltimore: Waverly Press, 1938–1955.
Elman, Benjamin. Classicism, Politics, and Kinship: The Ch’ang-chou School of New Text Confucianism in Late Imperial China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. [Includes translation of chapter 12]
Eno, Robert. The Confucian Creation of Heaven: Philosophy and the Defense of Ritual Mastery. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990.
Feng Youlan 馮友蘭. Zhongguo zhexue shi 中國哲學史. Shanghai: Commercial Press, 1934.
Franke, Otto. Studien zur Geschichte des konfuzianischen Dogmas und der chinesischen Staatsreligion. Hamburg: Friederichsen, 1920. [Includes translation of chapter 12]
Fung Yu-lan [Feng Youlan]. A History of Chinese Philosophy. Vol. 1, The Period of the Philosophers (From the Beginnings to Circa 100 B.C.). Translated by Derk Bodde. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1952.
——. A History of Chinese Philosophy. Vol. 2, The Period of Classical Learning (From the Second Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.). Translated by Derk Bodde. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1953.
Gassmann, Robert. Üppiger Tau des Frühling-und-Herbst-Klassikers: Übersetzung und Annotation der Kapitel eins bis sechs. Schweitzer Asiatische Studien Monographien, no. 8. Bern: Peter Lang, 1988. [Includes translations of chapters 1–6]
Gentz, Joachim. “Confucius Confronting Contingency in the Lunyu and the Gongyang zhuan.” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 39, no. 1 (2012): 60–70.
——. Das “Gongyang zhuan”: Auslegung und Kanonisierung der “Frühlings- und Herbstannalen (Chunqiu).” Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2001. [Includes translations of chapters 12 and 17 and passages from chapters 1–9]
——. “Language of Heaven, Exegetical Skepticism, and the Reinsertion of Religious Concepts in the Gongyang Tradition.” In Early Chinese Religion: Part One: Shang Through Han (1250 BC–220 AD), edited by John Lagerwey and Marc Kalinowski, 813–38. Leiden: Brill, 2008.
——. “Long Live the King! The Ideology of Power Between Ritual and Morality in the Gongyang zhuan 公羊傳.” In Ideology of Power and Power of Ideology in Early China, edited by Yuri Pines, Paul Rakita Goldin, and Martin Kern, 69–117. Leiden: Brill, 2015.
——. “Mohist Traces in the Early Chunqiu fanlu Chapters.” Oriens Extremus 48 (2009): 55–70.
——. “The Past as a Messianic Vision: Historical Thought and Strategies of Sacralization in the Early Gongyang Tradition.” In Historical Truth, Historical Criticism, and Ideology: Chinese Historiography and Historical Culture from a New Comparative Perspective, edited by Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer, Achim Mittag, and Jörn Rüsen, 227–54. Leiden: Brill, 2005.
——. “Ritual Meaning of Textual Form: Evidence from Early Commentaries of the Historiographic and Ritual Traditions.” In Text and Ritual in Early China, edited by Martin Kern, 124–48. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005.
Giele, Enno.
Imperial Decision-Making and Communication in Early China: A Study of Cai Yong’s “Duduan.” Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2006.
Graham, A. C. Disputers of the Tao: Philosophical Argument in Ancient China. LaSalle, Ind.: Open Court, 1989.
Han shu buzhu 漢書補注. Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1983.
Henderson, John B. The Development and Decline of Chinese Cosmology. New York: Columbia University Press, 1984.
Hucker, Charles O. A Dictionary of Official Titles in Imperial China. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1985.
Knoblock, John. Xunzi: A Translation and Study of the Complete Works. 3 vols. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1988, 1990, 1994.
Knoblock, John, and Jeffrey Riegel, trans. The Annals of Lü Buwei: A Complete Translation and Study. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2000.
Lai Yanyuan 賴炎元. Chunqiu fanlu jinzhu jinyi 春秋繁露今注今譯. Taibei: Commercial Press, 1984.
Lau, D. C., trans. The Analects. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1979.
——, ed. Bohutong zhuzi suoyin 白虎通逐字索引 (A Concordance to the “Bohutong”). Chinese University of Hong Kong, Institute of Chinese Studies Ancient Chinese Text Concordance Series. Hong Kong: Commercial Press, 1995.
——, trans. The Book of Mencius. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1970.
——, ed. Chunqiu fanlu zhuzi suoyin 春秋繁露逐字索引 (A Concordance to the “Chunqiu fanlu”). Chinese University of Hong Kong, Institute of Chinese Studies Ancient Chinese Text Concordance Series. Hong Kong: Commercial Press, 1992.
——, ed. Gongyang zhuan zhuzi suoyin 公羊傳逐字索引 (A Concordance to the “Gongyang Commentary”). Chinese University of Hong Kong, Institute of Chinese Studies Ancient Chinese Text Concordance Series. Hong Kong: Commercial Press, 1995.
——, ed. Guanzi zhuzi suoyin 管子逐字索引 (A Concordance to the “Guanzi”). Chinese University of Hong Kong, Institute of Chinese Studies Ancient Chinese Text Concordance Series. Hong Kong: Commercial Press, 2001.
——, ed. Huainanzi zhuzi suoyin 淮南子逐字索引 (A Concordance to the “Huainanzi”). Chinese University of Hong Kong, Institute of Chinese Studies Ancient Chinese Text Concordance Series. Hong Kong: Commercial Press, 1992.
——, ed. Lunheng zhuzi suoyin 論衡逐字索引 (A Concordance to the “Lunheng”). Chinese University of Hong Kong, Institute of Chinese Studies Ancient Chinese Text Concordance Series. Hong Kong: Commercial Press, 2008.
——, ed. Lunyu zhuzi suoyin 論語逐字索引 (A Concordance to the “Analects”). Chinese University of Hong Kong, Institute of Chinese Studies Ancient Chinese Text Concordance Series. Hong Kong: Commercial Press, 1995.
——, ed. Mengzi zhuzi suoyin 孟子逐字索引 (A Concordance to the “Mencius”). Chinese University of Hong Kong, Institute of Chinese Studies Ancient Chinese Text Concordance Series. Hong Kong: Commercial Press, 1995.
——, ed. Xin shu zhuzi suoyin 新書逐字索引 (A Concordance to the “Xin shu”). Chinese University of Hong Kong, Institute of Chinese Studies Ancient Chinese Text Concordance Series. Hong Kong: Commercial Press, 1994.
——, ed.
Yan tie lun zhuzi suoyin 鹽鐵論逐字索引(
A Concordance to the “Debates on Salt and Iron”). Chinese University of Hong Kong, Institute of Chinese Studies Ancient Chinese Text Concordance Series. Hong Kong: Commercial Press, 1994.
Legge, James, trans. The Chinese Classics. 2nd rev. ed. 5 vols. in 4. 1894. Reprint. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1960.
——, trans. Li Chi: Book of Rites. Edited by Ch’u Chai and Winberg Chai. 2 vols. New Hyde Park, N.Y.: University Books, 1967.
Lewis, Mark Edward. Writing and Authority in Early China. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999.
Liang Cai. “Who Said ‘Confucius Composed the Chunqiu’? The Genealogy of the Chunqiu Canon in the Pre-Han and Han Periods.” History of China 5, no. 3 (2010): 363–85.
Loewe, Michael. A Biographical Dictionary of the Qin, Former Han, and Xin Periods (221 BC–AD 24). Leiden: Brill, 2000.
——. “The Concept of Sovereignty.” In The Ch’in and Han Empires, 221 B.C.–A.D. 220, edited by Denis Twitchett and Michael Loewe, 726–46. Vol. 1 of The Cambridge History of China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
——. Crisis and Conflict in Han China, 104 BC to AD 9. London: Allen & Unwin, 1974.
——. “The Cult of the Dragon and the Invocation for Rain.” In Chinese Ideas About Nature and Society: Studies in Honour of Derk Bodde, edited by Charles Le Blanc and Susan Blader, 195–213. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1987.
——. “The Cult of the Dragon and the Invocation for Rain.” Rev. version. In Divination, Mythology and Monarchy in Han China, 142–59. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
——. Divination, Mythology, and Monarchy in Han China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
——. Dong Zhongshu, a “Confucian” Heritage, and the “Chunqiu fanlu.” Brill China Studies, no. 20. Leiden: Brill, 2011.
——. “The Former Han Dynasty.” In The Ch’in and Han Empires, 221 B.C.–A.D. 220, edited by Denis Twitchett and Michael Loewe, 103–222. Vol. 1 of The Cambridge History of China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
——. “K’uang Heng and the Reform of Religious Practices—31 B.C.” In Crisis and Conflict in Han China, 104 BC to AD 9, 154–92. London: Allen & Unwin, 1974.
——. “The Religious and Intellectual Background.” In The Ch’in and Han Empires, 221 B.C.–A.D. 220, edited by Denis Twitchett and Michael Loewe, 649–725. Vol. 1 of The Cambridge History of China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
——. “Water, Earth and Fire—The Symbols of the Han Dynasty.” Nachrichten der Gesellschaft für Natur-und Völkerkunde Ostasiens/Hamburg 125 (1979): 63–68.
Mair, Victor H., trans. The Art of War. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007.
——, trans. Wandering on the Way: Early Tales and Parables of Chuang Tzu. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 1998.
Major, John S. “The Five Phases, Magic Squares, and Schematic Cosmography.” In Explorations in Early Chinese Cosmology, edited by Henry Rosemont Jr., 133–66. JAAR Thematic Studies, vol. 50, no. 2. Chico, Calif.: Scholars Press, 1984.
——. Heaven and Earth in Early Han Thought: Chapters Three, Four, and Five of the “Huainanzi.” Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992.
——. “New Light on the Dark Warrior.”
Journal of Chinese Religions 13–14 (1985/1986): 63–86.
Major, John S., Sarah A. Queen, Andrew Seth Meyer, and Harold D. Roth, trans. and eds., with additional contributions by Michael Puett and Judson Murray. The “Huainanzi”: A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Government in Early Han China. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010.
Malmqvist, Göran. “Studies on the Gongyang and Guliang Commentaries.” Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities 43 (1971): 67–222; 47 (1975): 19–69; 49 (1977): 33–215.
Needham, Joseph. Science and Civilisation in China. Vol. 3, Mathematics and the Sciences of the Heavens and the Earth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1959.
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——. The Five “Confucian” Classics. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2001.
Puett, Michael. To Become a God: Cosmology, Sacrifice, and Self-Divinization in Early China. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002.
Queen, Sarah A. “Beyond Liu Xiang’s Gaze: Debating Womanly Virtue in Early China.” Asia Major (forthcoming).
——. From Chronicle to Canon: The Hermeneutics of the “Spring and Autumn” According to Tung Chung-shu. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
——. “The Rhetoric of Dong Zhongshu’s Imperial Communications.” In Facing the Monarch: Modes of Advice in the Early Chinese Court, edited by Garret P. S. Olberding, 166–202. Harvard East Asian Monographs. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2013.
Queen, Sarah A., and Michael Puett, eds. The “Huainanzi” and Textual Production in Early China. Leiden: Brill, 2014.
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