Abbreviations
A Biographical Dictionary of the Qin, Former Han and Xin Periods (221 BC - AD 24)
| AM | Asia Major |
| BMFEA | Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities |
| Buddhist Conquest | Zürcher, The Buddhist Conquest of China |
| Bureaucracy | Bielenstein, The Bureaucracy of Han Times |
| CHOAC | The Cambridge History of Ancient China |
| CHOC | The Cambridge History of China |
| Chu Shaosun | Pokora, ‘Ch’u Shao-sun 褚少孫 — the Narrator of Stories in the Shih-chi‘ |
| CICA | Hulsewé, China in Central Asia |
| Confucianisme | Cheng, Étude sur le Confucianisme Han |
| Cosmos and Computation | Sivin, Cosmos and Computation in Early Chinese Mathematical Astronomy |
| Crisis and Conflict | Loewe, Crisis and Conflict in Han China |
| DGHJ | Dong guan Han ji |
| Discourses I | Gale, Discourses on Salt and Iron |
| Discourses II | Gale, Boodberg and Lin, Discourses on Salt and Iron |
| DMM | Loewe, Divination, Mythology and Monarchy in Han China |
| EC | Early China |
| Economic Co-ordination | Loewe, ‘Attempts at Economic Co-ordination during the Western Han Dynasty’ |
| ECTBG | Loewe, ed., Early Chinese Texts: A Bibliographical Guide |
| Festivals | Bodde, Festivals in Classical China |
| Food and Money | Swann, Food and Money in Ancient China |
| HFHD | Dubs, The History of the Former Han Dynasty |
| HHS | Hou Han shu |
| HHSJJ | Hou Han shu ji jie |
| HJAS | Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies |
| HNZ | Huainanzi |
| HS | Han shu |
| HSBZ | Han shu bu zhu |
| Hsin-lun | Pokora, Hsin-lun (New Treatise) and Other Writings by Huan T’an |
| Huan T’an | Pokora, ‘The Life of Huan T’an’ |
| HWTS | Han Wei congshu |
| HYGZ | Huayang guo zhi |
| Indiana Companion | Nienhauser, The Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature |
| KG | Kaogu |
| KGXB | Kaogu xuebao |
| KGYWW | Kaogu yu wenwu |
| Le Chou king | Pelliot, ‘Le Chou king en caractères anciens’ |
| Les documents chinois | Chavannes, Les documents chinois découverts par Aurel Stein dans les sables du Turkestan Oriental |
| LHJSJ | Weng Fanggang, Liang Han jin shi ji |
| MH | Chavannes, Les mémoires historiques de Se-ma Ts’ien |
| Notes on Historiography | Hulsewé, ‘Notes on the Historiography of the Han period’ |
| Po Hu T’ung | Tjan Tjoe Som, Po Hu T’ung |
| QFL | Qianfu lun |
| QZW | Quan Zuwang, Han shu dili zhi jiyi |
| Restoration | Bielenstein, The Restoration of the Han Dynasty |
| RHA | Loewe, Records of Han Administration |
| RHL | Hulsewé, Remnants of Han Law |
| SBBY Si bu beiyao | |
| SBCK | Si bu congkan |
| SGZ | San guo zhi |
| Shoseki | Shoseki meihin sôkan |
| SJ | Shiji |
| Slavery | Wilbur, Slavery in China during the Former Han Dynasty |
| Takigawa | Takigawa, Shiki kaichû kôshô |
| The First Neo-Confucianism | Nylan and Sivin, ‘The First Neo-Confucianism’ |
| TP | T’oung Pao |
| Trade and Expansion | Yü Ying-shih, Trade and Expansion in Han China |
| Un poète | Hervouet, Un poète de cour sous les Han: Sseu-ma Siang-jou |
| Wen xuan | Knechtges, Wen xuan or Selections of Refined Literature |
| WW | Wenwu |
| XJZJ | Xi jing za ji |
| Yinan | Zeng Zhaoyu, Yinan gu huaxiang shi mu fajue baogao |
| YTL | Yantie lun |
| ZDMG | Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft |
| ZZTJ | Zizhi tongjian |
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