Resources

General academic

Alternative perspectives on Chinese history

The Cambridge History of China series
History of Imperial China series
Ebrey, Patricia Buckley. The Cambridge Illustrated History of China. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Huang, Ray. China: A Macro History. Rev. ed. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1997.
Marks, Robert B. China: Its Environment and History. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2012.
Mote, F. W. Imperial China, 900–1800. Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 1999.
Ropp, Paul S., ed. Heritage of China: Contemporary Perspectives on Chinese Civilization. Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1990.
Spence, Jonathan D. The Search for Modern China. 3rd ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 2013.
Wills, John E., Jr. Mountain of Fame: Portraits in Chinese History. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994.

Quick references

Dillon, Michael, ed. Encyclopedia of Chinese History. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2017.
Shaughnessy, Edward L., ed. China: Empire and Civilization. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Szonyi, Michael, ed. Companion to Chinese History. Chichester, West Sussex; Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell, 2017.
Timeline of Chinese History and Dynasties (Columbia University)
How to Memorize China’s Major Dynasties? (ChinaX)
Visual Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization (University of Washington)
Chinaknowledge (Ulrich Theobald)

Arts and artifacts

Cahill, James. A Pure and Remote View and Gazing into the Past.
Clunas, Craig. Art in China. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
National Museum of Chinese History, ed. A Journey into China’s Antiquity. 4 vols. Beijing: Morning Glory Publishers, 1997.
Sullivan, Michael. The Arts of China. 5th ed. Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2008.
Thorp, Robert L., and Richard Ellis Vinograd. Chinese Art and Culture. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2001.
Watson, William. The Arts of China, 900–1620. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000.
Watson, William, and Chuimei Ho. The Arts of China After 1620. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007.
The British Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museum of Anthropology

Translation of Chinese sources

Atwill, David G., and Yurong Y. Atwill, eds. Sources in Chinese History: Diverse Perspectives from 1644 to the Present. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2010.
Chan, Wing-tsit. A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1963.
Chen, Janet, and others, eds. The Search for Modern China: A Documentary Collection. 3rd ed. New York: W. W. Norton, 2013.
de Bary, Wm. Theodore, et al., eds. Sources of Chinese Tradition. 2nd ed. 2 vols. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999–2000.
Ebrey, Patricia Buckley, ed. Chinese Civilization: A Sourcebook. 2nd ed. New York: The Free Press, 1993.
Lopez, Donald S., Jr., ed. Religions of China in Practice. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996.
Mair, Victor H., ed. The Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.
Mair, Victor H., and Mark Bender, eds. The Columbia Anthology of Chinese Folk and Popular Literature. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011.
Mair, Victor H., Nancy S. Steinhardt, and Paul R. Goldin, eds. Hawai’i Reader in Traditional Chinese Culture. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2005.
Mann, Susan, and Yu-Yin Cheng, eds. Under Confucian Eyes: Writings on Gender in Chinese History. Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001.
Nienhauser, William H., ed. The Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature. 2 vols. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986–98. (Not an anthology but a very useful guide to translated sources)
Owen, Stephen, ed. and trans. An Anthology of Chinese Literature, Beginnings to 1911. New York: W. W. Norton, 1996.