http://bactra.org/notebooks Cosma's Notebooks en http://bactra.org/notebooks/2009/04/10#sung With glances towards the T'ang and the Yuan <ul>Recommended: <li>Mark Elvin, <cite>The Pattern of the Chinese Past</cite> <li>William H. McNeill, <cite>The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force and Society since A.D. 1000</cite> </ul> <ul>To read: <li>Patricia Buckley Ebrey, <cite>The Inner Quarters: Marriage and the Lives of Chinese Women in the Sung Period</cite> <li>Jacques Gernet, <cite>Daily Life in China on the Eve of the Mongol Invasion, 1250--1276</cite> <li>Robert Hymes and Conrad Schirokauer (eds.), <cite>Ordering the World: Approaches to State and Society in Sung Dynasty China</cite> [<a href="http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft1000031p/">Online</a>] <li>Dieter Kuhn, <cite>The Age of Confucian Rule: The Song Transformation of China</cite> [<a href="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/KUHAGE.html">blurb</a>] <li>James T. C. Liu, <cite>China Turning Inward: Intellectual-Political Changes in the Early Twelfth Century</cite> <li>Tanigawa Michio, <cite>Medieval Chinese Society and the Local "Community"</cite> [<a href="http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft1k4003vg/">Online</a>] <li>Pauline Yu (ed.), <cite>Voices of the Song Lyric in China</cite> [<a href="http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft129003tp/">Online</a>] </ul>