第1章 早期中国
1.此条和本节中引用的所有孔子语录均来自：Confucius,The Analects, trans. by D. C. Lau (Penguin Books, 1979)。
2.Analects,1979.
3.所有《老子》的引文均出自:Lao-Tzu: Tao Te Ching, trans. by D. C. Lau (Penguin Books, 1963)。
第2章 中国最早的帝国及其后时期
1. Derk Bodde, “The State and Empire of Ch’in” inCambridge History of China, Volume 1 (1986), p. 71.
2. C. P. Fitzgerald）, China, a Short Cultural History (New York, Preager, 1935）, p. 147.
第3章 帝制时代的高峰
1. A.Waley,The Poetry and Career of Li Po(New York: Macmillan, 1950) pp. 87–88.
2. Waley, pp. 34–35.
3. E. O. Reischauer,Ennin’s Travels in T’ang China(New York: Ronald Press, 1955) p.
4. S. Owen,The Great Age of Chinese Poetry: The High T’ang(New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1980), p. 130.
5. A. C. Graham,Poems of the Late T’ang(Baltimore, MD: Penguin, 1965), p. 9.
6. Owen, p. 134.
7. Owen, p. 125.
8. Owen, pp. 223–224.
9. K. Yoshikawa,An Introduction to Song Poetry, trans. by B.Watson (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series, 1967), p. 37.
10. Yoshikawa, p. 119.
11. Yoshikawa, p. 117.
12. Yoshikawa, p. 105.
13. Yoshikawa, pp. 119–120.
14. J. K. Fairbank, E. O. Reischauer, and A. M. Craig,East Asia: Tradition and Transformation(Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1989), p. 164.
第4章 帝制时代后期：明朝和清朝
1. J. Fairbank and M. Goldman,China: A New History(1998), p. 130
2. C. O. Hucker,China’s Imperial Past(Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1975), p. 206.
3. J. D. Spence,Emperor of China: A Self-Portrait of K’ang Hsi(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974), p. 84.
第5章 近代中国
1. S. Y. Teng and J. K. Fairbank,China’s Response to the West(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, Press, 1954), p. 126.