Home Page
Asia for Educators, Columbia University. “China’s Geography with Maps.” Asia for Educators | Columbia University, afe.easia.columbia.edu/china/geog/maps.htm. Accessed 6 Dec. 2024.
The Editorial Committee of Chinese Civilization: A Source Book, City University of Hong Kong. “China: Five Thousand Years of History and Civilization.” Google Books, City University of HK Press, 1 Apr. 2007, books.google.com/books?id=z-fAxn_9f8wC&newbks=0&hl=en&source=newbks_fb.
Berling, Judith A. Confucianism, Asia Society, www2.kenyon.edu/Depts/Religion/Fac/Adler/Reln270/Berling-Confucianism.htm. Accessed 6 Dec. 2024.
Civil Service Exams
Asia for Educators, Columbia University. “The Confucian Classics & the Civil Service Examinations.” Living in the Chinese Cosmos | Asia for Educators, afe.easia.columbia.edu/cosmos/irc/classics.htm. Accessed 29 Oct. 2024.
Bragg, Albert Oliver. The Chinese Civil Service Examination’s Impact on Confucian Gender Roles. , ThinkIR, May 2015, ir.library.louisville.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1090&context=honors.
Cartwright, Mark. “The Civil Service Examinations of Imperial China.” World History Encyclopedia, https://www.worldhistory.org#organization, 28 Oct. 2024, www.worldhistory.org/article/1335/the-civil-service-examinations-of-imperial-china/.
Kiger, Patrick J. “10 Inventions from China’s Han Dynasty That Changed the World.” History.Com, A&E Television Networks, 20 Sept. 2019, www.history.com/news/han-dynasty-inventions.
Szczepanski, Kallie. What Was Imperial China’s Civil Service Exam System?, ThoughtCo., 10 June 2018, www.thoughtco.com/imperial-chinas-civil-service-exam-195112.
Compass
Pictures/Videos
BoatUS Editors. “Compasses.” Https://Www.Boatus.Com, Apr. 2019, www.boatus.com/expert-advice/expert-advice-archive/2019/april/compasses.
Costa, Hilary. “GPS.” Education, National Geographic, 27 Sept. 2024, education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/gps/.
Havens, Kat. “Beyond Bones.” BEYONDbones Educator How To Make Your Own Ancient Chinese Compass Comments, HOUSTON MUSEUM of NATURAL SCIENCE, 21 Feb. 2017, blog.hmns.org/2017/02/educator-how-to-make-your-own-ancient-chinese-compass/.
In Asian, Spaces. “Divination in Ancient Chinese Culture.” Divination in Ancient Chinese Culture, 28 Feb. 2024, inasianspaces.com/2024/02/28/divination-in-ancient-chinese-culture/.
Quinn, Alexa. “The Ancient Chinese Compass.” YouTube, YouTube, 21 Jan. 2021, www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vL1tMw_9js.
Links
Blaird, Chirstopher S. “Why Does a Magnetic Compass Point to the Geographic North Pole?” Science Questions with Surprising Answers, Science Questions with Surprising Answers, 15 Dec. 2013, www.wtamu.edu/~cbaird/sq/2013/11/15/why-does-a-magnetic-compass-point-to-the-geographic-north-pole/.
Costa, Hilary. “GPS.” Education, National Geographic, 27 Sept. 2024, education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/gps/.
Silverman, Susan. “Compass, China, 220 BCE.” Smith College Museum of Ancient Inventions: Compass, www.smith.edu/hsc/museum/ancient_inventions/compass2.html. Accessed 5 Dec. 2024.
“Trigrams.” Taoism and the Arts of China (Art Institute of Chicago), The Art Institute of Chicago, 2000, archive.artic.edu/taoism/diag-trigram.php.
Gunpowder
Alfonesca , Kiera. “There Have Been More Mass Shootings than Days in 2023, Database Shows.” ABC News, ABC News Network, 4 Dec. 2023, abcnews.go.com/US/mass-shootings-days-2023-database-shows/story?id=96609874.
Bartlett, Thomas. “‘the Role of History in China’s View of the World Today’, by Thomas Bartlett.” Pacifical Review, 10 Aug. 2020, www.academia.edu/43826618/_The_Role_of_History_in_Chinas_View_of_the_World_Today_by_Thomas_Bartlett.
Garrett, Richard J. “Gunpowder - 火藥.” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch, vol. 61, 2021, pp. 214–21. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/27095441. Accessed 24 Oct. 2024.
Gunpowder: Origins in the East, www.brown.edu/Departments/Joukowsky_Institute/courses/13things/7687.html#:~:text=Chinese%20monks%20discovered%20the%20technology,and%20immediately%20applied%20to%20warfare. Accessed 24 Oct. 2024.
hood, elijah. “Gunpowder in Medieval China – Science Technology and Society a Student Led Exploration.” Clemson University Open Textbooks, https://opentextbooks.clemson.edu/sciencetechnologyandsociety/chapter/gunpowder-in-medieval-china/. Accessed 17 October 2024.
Ling, Wang. “On the Invention and Use of Gunpowder and Firearms in China.” Isis, vol. 37, no. 3/4, 1947, pp. 160–78. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/225569. Accessed 24 Oct. 2024.
Needham, Joseph, and Janet Hunter. “The Guns of Kaifêng-Fu: China’s Development of Man’s First Chemical Explosive.” The Creighton Century, 1907-2007, edited by David Bates et al., 2nd ed., University of London Press, 2009, pp. 155–80. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv13qfvgj.12. Accessed 24 Oct. 2024.
Schlager, Neil, and Josh Lauer, editors. “The Chinese Invention of Gunpowder, Explosives, and Artillery and Their Impact on European Warfare.” Science and Its Times, vol. 2, Gale, Detroit, MI, 2001. Gale In Context: World History, <span class="docUrl">https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CV2643450122/WHIC?u=va_s_068_0330&sid=bookmark-WHIC&xid=94a0daf9</span>. Accessed 24 Oct. 2024.
The production of muskets and their impact on the eighteenth century,www.forbes5.pitt.edu/article/production-muskets-and-their-effects-eighteenth-century#:~:text=the%20Eighteenth%20Century-,The%20Production%20of%20Muskets%20and%20Their%20Effects%20in%20the%20Eighteenth,powers%20to%20defend%20and%20expand. Accessed 24 Oct. 2024.
Ye, Lang, et al. China: Five Thousand Years of History and Civilization. City University of Hong Kong Press, 2008.
Paper
Cartwright, Mark. “Paper in Ancient China.” World History Encyclopedia, https://www.worldhistory.org#organization, 15 Sept. 2017, www.worldhistory.org/article/1120/paper-in-ancient-china/.
Grotenhuis, Elizabeth Ten. “Stories of Silk and Paper.” World Literature Today, vol. 80, no. 4, 2006, pp. 10–12. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/40159125. Accessed 18 Nov. 2024.
Martin, W. A. P. “Early Inventions of Tae Chinese.” The College Courant, vol. 5, no. 16, 1869, pp. 251–251. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/44106692. Accessed 18 Nov. 2024.
Bronze
Cartwright, Mark. “Crossbows in Ancient Chinese Warfare.” World History Encyclopedia, https://www.worldhistory.org#organization, 4 Dec. 2024, www.worldhistory.org/article/1098/crossbows-in-ancient-chinese-warfare/.
“Ritual Wine Vessel (Guang).” Brooklyn Museum, www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/99294. Accessed 4 Dec. 2024.
“Ritual Wine Vessel (JUE).” Brooklyn Museum, www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/3775. Accessed 4 Dec. 2024.
“The Chinese Xuan Feng or ‘Whirlwind.’” Tastes Of History, Tastes Of History, 15 Feb. 2024, www.tastesofhistory.co.uk/post/the-chinese-xuan-feng-or-whirlwind.