A History of China. Morris Rossabi

York: Ballantine Books, 1993).

      2 Roger Ames, Analects of Confucius: A Philosophical Translation (New York: Ballantine Books, 1998).

      3 Hsu Cho-yun, Ancient China in Transition (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1965).

      4 Victor Mair, trans., Tao-te-ching (New York: Bantam Books, 1990).

      5 Benjamin Schwartz, The World of Thought in Ancient China (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1980).

      6 Burton Watson, The Tso Chuan (New York: Columbia University Press, 1989). Burton Watson’s translations of classic philosophic and literary texts are invaluable for the general reader. See his Han Feizi: Basic Writings, Zhuangzi: Basic Writings, Xunzi: Basic Writings, and Mozi: Basic Writings (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003).