introductions - introductions - Einleitungen
BOB TADEMA SPORRY, De geschiedenis van China, Haarlem, Fibula-Van Dishoeck, 5de dr.,  1980, 240 p.
ARMAND ABEL e.a., China en het Verre-Oosten, Brussel, Uitg.Meddens, 1970, 243 p.
HENRI BOREL, "Het daghet in den Oosten", Amsterdam, L.J.Veen, 2de dr., 1926, 190 p.
HARRY HAMM, China, Brussel, Uitg.Artis, 1970, 128 p.
D.VAN DER HORST, Geschiedenis van China, Utrecht/Antwerpen, Het Spectrum (Aula151), 1987, 169 p.
WILLIAM ALEXANDER & GEORGE HENRY MASON, China, Beeld van het dagelijks leven in de 18de eeuw, Alphen aan den Rijn, Atrium, 1988, 223 p.
KARINA MEEUWSE, Het huis van Han, Honderd jaar Chinese geschiedenis in Nederland, Utrecht, Buma, 2000, 270 p.
ANTHONY LAWRENCE, China, De lange mars. Tienduizend kilometer door China, Een reconstructie in foto's, Amsterdam, Uniepers b.v., 1987, 320 p.
JAMES HAYES, South China village culture, Oxford, Univ.Press, 2001, viii+84 p.
GEORGE N.KATES, The years that were fat, The last of old China, with an introduction by John K.Fairbank, Cambridge Mass., The M.I.T.Press, 1967, xii+268 p.
JEAN RODES, A travers la Chine actuelle, Paris, Pasquelle Éds., 1932, 195 p.
BERTRAND RUSSELL & REGIS BERGERON, La Chine, 1922 & 1968, Paris, Éd.Planète, 1968, 307 p.

standard works -oeuvres standard - Standardwerke
CHU SHAOTANG (e.a.), China, De ontwakende reus, Haarlem, Schuyt & Co., 1989, 289 p.
J.J.L.DUYVENDAK, Wegen en gestalten der Chineesche Geschiedenis, Amsterdam, Elsevier, 2de dr., 1948, xv+356 p.
ROBERT GUILLAIN, China, Revolutie en toekomst, Baarn, Het Wereldvenster, 1968, 230 p.
ALAIN PEYREFITTE, China en het westen, Kroniek van een historische ontmoeting, Kampen, Kok Agora, 1991, xvi + 707 p.
K.S.KAROL, Eeuwig China ... in beweging!, Het ware gezicht van 'het andere communisme', Den Haag, Ad.M.C.Stok (Forum Boekerij), s.d., 390 p.
JEF LAST, China, Land van de eeuwige omwenteling, Meppel, J.A.Boom & Zn., 1965, 235 p.
AAGE KRARUP NIELSEN, China, De draak ontwaakt, Amsterdam, Em.Querido, 1928, 209 p.
GERD RUGE, Ontmoeting met China, Een wereldmacht in opkomst, Helmond, Uitg.Helmond, 1980, 495 p.
JONATHAN SPENCE, De poort van de hemelse vrede, De Chinezen en hun Revolutie, 1895-1980, Amsterdam/Brussel, 1985, 409 p.
JONATHAN D.SPENCE, Op zoek naar het moderne China, 1600-1989, Amsterdam, Agon, 1991, xxiii + 835 p.
JONATHAN D.SPENCE & ANNPING CHIN, De eeuw van China, Amsterdam, Uitg.Anthos, 1996, 264 p.
The Cambridge History of China, Cambridge, Cambridge Univ.Press, vols.1 & 3 - 15
HARLEY FARNSWORT MACNAIR, Modern Chinese history, Selected readings, 2 vols., (Shanghai 1924), reprint, Taipei, Shangwu Yinshuguan, 1976, xxxix+922 p.
TSOU JUNG, The revolutionary army, A Chinese nationalist tract of 1903, Introduction and translation with notes by John Lust, The Hague/Paris, Mouton & Co., 1968, 152+84 p.
DAVID STRAND, Rickshaw Beijing, City people and politics in the 1920s, Berkeley/London, Univ.of California Press, 1989, xix+364 p.
KENNETH LIEBERTHAL, Governing China, From revolution through reform, New York, W.W.Norton & Company, Inc., 1995, xxv+498 p.
CHENG JOSEPH Y.S.(ed.), China in the post-Deng era, Hong Kong, The Chinese Univ.Press, 1998, 707 p.
ARTHUR H.SMITH, La vie des paysans Chinois, Paris, Payot, 1930, 356 p.

sciences - sciences - Wissenschaften
China, Hemel en Aarde, 5000 jaar uitvindingen en ontdekkingen, Brussel, Koninkl.Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis, 1988, 438 p.
GERARD L'E TURNER, Antieke wetenschappelijke instrumenten, Bussum, Moussault, 1981, 192 p.
THOMAS H.C.LEE, Education in traditional China, A history, Brill, Leiden, 2000, xiv+762 p.
COLIN A.RONIN, JOSEPH NEEDHAM (e.a.), The shorter science and civilisation in China, Cambridge, Cambridge Univ.Press, 1981, xii+459 p.
JOSEPH NEEDHAM, Science and civilisation, Cambridge, Cambridge Univ.Press, 1954 -

emperors - empereurs - Kaiser
EDWARD BEHR, De laatste keizer van China was een kind, Het opzienbarende levensverhaal van de laatste Chinese keizer, Utrecht, Bruna, 1987, 281 p.
ELEANOR COONEY & DANIEL ALTIERI, Keizerin van leugens, 's Hertogenbosch, Zuid-Hollandsche Uitgeversmaatschappij, 1995, 715 p.
H.S.BRUNNERT & V.V.HAGELSTROM, rev.N.TH.KOLESSOF, Present day political organization of China, (Foochow 1911), reprint, Taipei, Chéng Wen Publish.Co., 1978, 572+lxxxi p.
R.W.L.GUISSO, Wu Tse-t'ien and the politics of legitimation in T'ang China, Bellingham WA, Western Washington University, 1978, xiii+334 p.
CHARLES O.HUCKER, China's imperial past, An introduction to Chinese history and culture, reprint, London, Duckworth, 1975, xv+474 p.
REGINALD F.JOHNSTON, Twilight in the forbidden city, Hong Kong, Oxford Univ.Press, 1985, xi+486 p.
EVELYN SAKAKIDA RAWSKI, The last emperors, a social history of Qing Institutions, Berkeley, Univ.of California Press, 1998, xii+481 p.
ÉTIENNE BALAZS, La Bureaucratie céleste, Recherches sur l'économie et la société de la Chine traditionnelle, Paris, Gallimard, 1968, 346 p.

opium wars - guerres d'opium - Opiumkriege
MAURICE COLLIS, Foreign Mud, Being an account of the opium imbroglio at Canton in the 1830's and the Anglo-Chinese war that followed, reprint, Singapore, Graham Brash Ltd.,1980, 312 p.
ISRAEL EPSTEIN, From opium war to liberation, 3rd ed., Hong Kong, Joint Publishing Co., 1980, vi+280 p.
BRIAN INGLIS, The opium war, Sevenoaks, Hodder & Stoughton, 1976, 254 p.
JAMES A.POLACHEK, The inner opium war, Harvard., Harvard Univ.Press, 1992, viii+400 p.
ARTHUR WALEY, The opium war through Chinese eyes, Stanford Calif., Stanford Univ.Press, repr.1975, 256 p.

Taiping rebellion - rébellion Taiping - Taiping-Aufstand
PRESCOTT CLARKE/J.S.GREGORY, Western reports on the Taiping, A selection of documents, Honolulu, Univ.Press of Hawaii, 1982, xxx+454 p.
JONATHAN D.SPENCE, God's Chinese son, The Taiping heavenly kingdom of Hong Xiuquan, New York N.Y., Norton, 1996, xxvii+400 p.
S.Y.TENG, The Taiping rebellion and the Western powers, A comprehensive survey, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1971, xii+458 p.
YEN YU-WEN / ADRIENNE SUDDARD, The Taiping revolutionary movement, New Haven (Conn.), Yale Univ.Press, 1973, xxiii+616 p.

Tongzhi restauration movement - movement de restauration Tongzhi - Tongzhi Restauration-Bewegung
MARY CLABAUGH WRIGHT, The last stand of Chinese conservatism, The T'ung-Chih Restauration, 1862-1874, Stanford Calif., Stanford Univ.Press, 1957, xii+429 p.

selfstrengthening movement - mouvement d'autorenforcement - Selbststärkungs-Bewegung
STEVEN A.LEIBO, Transferring technology to China: Prosper Giquel and the self-strengthening movement, Berkeley Calif., University of California Institute of East Asian Studies, 1985, x+175 p.
KUANG-SHENG LIAO, Antiforeignism and modernization in China 1860 - 1980, Hong Kong, The Chinese Univ.Press, 2nd ed. 1986, xx+333 p.
RALPH L.POWELL, The rise of Chinese military power 1895-1912, (Princeton N.J., Princeton Univ.Press, 1955), reprint, Taipei, Rainbow-Bridge Book Co., 1978, x+383 p.

boxer uprising - révolte des boxeurs - Boxer-Bewegung
DIANA PRESTON, The boxer rebellion, New York N.Y., Walker & Company, 2000, 464 p.PAUL A.COHEN, History in three keys, The boxers as event, experience and myth, New York, Columbia Univ.Press, 1997, xviii+428 p.
NAT BRANDT, Massacre in Shansi, Syracuse N.Y., Syracuse Univ.Press, 1994, xxii+336 p.
JOSEPH ESHERICK, The origins of the Boxer uprising, Berkeley, Unif.of California Press, 1987, xix+451 p.
EGBERT KIESER, Als China erwachte, Der Boxeraufstand, Esslingen/München, Bechtle, 1984, 349 p.
PETER FLEMING, Die Belagerung zu Peking, Zur Geschichte des Boxeraufstandes, Stuttgart, K.F.Koehler Verlag, 1961, vii+282 p.
PAUL MABIRE, L'été rouge de Pékin, La révolte des Boxeurs, Paris, Fayard, 564 p.

foreign policy - politique étrangère - Außenpolitik
BARBARA TUCHMAN, Stilwell en de Amerikaanse rol in China, 1911-1945, Amsterdam, Agon, 1988, 600 p.
DANIEL M.CRANE & THOMAS A.BRESLIN, An ordinary relationship, American opposition to republican revolution in China, Miami, Florida International Univ.Press, 1986, xxii+225 p.
JAMES C.THOMSON Jr., While China Faced West, American reformers in Nationalist China 1928-1937, Cambridge Mass., Harvard Univ.Press, 1969, 4th pr. 1980, xv+310 p.
SABINE DABRINGHAUS & RIDERICH PTAK (eds.), China and her neighbours, Borders, visions of the other, Foreign policy 10th to 19th century, Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, 1997, xii+228 p.
IMMANUEL C.Y.HSÜ, 'Late Ch'ing foreign relations', Cambridge History of China vol.10.II, p.70-141
WESLEY R.FISHEL, The end of extraterritoriality in China, reprint, Taipei, Rainbow-Bridge Book Co.,1974, xv+318 p.
GAVIN MENZIES, 1421, The year China discovered the world, London, Bantam Press, 2002, xxiii+520 p.
WONG CHING-WAI, La Chine et les nations, Paris, Gallimard, 1928, 222 p.
JEAN ESCARRA, La Chine et le droit international, Paris, A.Pedone, 1931, xx+427 p.