This guide to bibliographical scholarship on China aims to summarize the contents of current reference publications on China from all disciplines and to show how they may be used in conjunction with the 'classical tools of sinology', e.g. "Tz'u-hai,"

Harriet T. Zurndorfer, Ph.D. (1977) in History, University of California at Berkeley, has been teaching at the Sinologisch Instituut, Leiden University, since 1978. She has published extensively on various facets of Chinese history, and is Editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient.