List of sources with English handwriting
- Ackerman, Phyllis (1964), “Royal Personages on Sasanian Silks,” in Arthur Upham Hope and Phyllis Ackerman, eds., A Survey of Persian Art from Prehistoric Times to the Present, 2nd ed., 16 vols., Tehran, XIV, pp. 3068-79.
- Baines, John and Norman Yoffee (1998), "Order, legitimacy, and wealth in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia," in G. Feinman and J. Marcus (eds.), Archaic states (Advanced Seminar Series), Santa Fe: School of American Research Press, pp. 199-260.
- Bussagli, M. (1963), Painting of Central Asia, tr. L. Small, Geneva.
- Carter, M. L. (1995), “A Note on Metalwork from the Hellenistic East,” Bulletin of the Asia Institute 9, pp. 257-66.
- Ecsedy, I. (1979), “Early Persian Envoys in Chinese Courts,” in J. Harmatta, ed., Studies in the Sources on the History of Pre-Islamic Central Asia, Budapest, pp. 153-62.
- Fukai, Shinji. (1968), Study of Iranian Art and Archaeology: Glassware and Metalwork, Tokyo.
- Grabar, O. (1967), “An Introduction to the Art of Sasanian Silver,” in Sasanian Silver: Late Antique and Medieval Arts of Luxury from Iran, exhibition catalogue, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, pp. 19-84.
- Hackin, J. (1936), Studies in Chinese Art and Some Indian Influences, London.
- Harper, P. O. (1990), “An Iranian Vessel from the Tomb of Feng Hetu,” Bulletin of the Asia Institute 4, pp. 51-59.
- Hayashi, Ryoichi. (1975), Shiruku Rōdo to Shōsōin, tr. Robert Ricketts as The Silk Road and the Shoso-in, New York.
- Hsiang Ta. 1957. Ch’ang-an of the T’ang dynasty and the culture of the western regions, enl. ed., Peking.
- Hsichiu, T. (1992), Dunhuang Turfan arts series: Dunhuang dancing. China: Xinjiang Publication industry.
- Joyce, Rosemary. (2000), “High Culture, Mesoamerican Civilization, and the Classic Maya Tradition,” Order, legitimacy, and wealth in ancient states, edited by. Janet Richards and Mary Van Buren, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, pp. 64-77.
- Li Zehou (1988), The Path of Beauty: A Study of Chinese Aesthetics, Morning Glory publishers, Beijing.
- Liu Xu. (1975), “Western Barbarians”, Old Books of the history of Tang Dynasty, Volume 198,Biographieslifes 148, Beijing.
- Linghu Defen. (1971), Zhoushu (周書/周书), Beijing, Zhonghua shuju, j. 50.
- Mahler, Jane Gaston. (1959), Westerners Among the Figurines of the T'ang Dynasty of China, Rome.
- Myers, John (1992), The way of the pipa: structure and imagery in Chinese lute music. Kent State University Press.
- Ou Yangxiu, Songqi. (1975), “Western Regions”II, New Books of the history of Tang Dynasty, Volume 221(II), Biographieslifes 146(II).
- Pulleyblank, Edwin G. (1991), “Chinese-Iranian Relations, i in pre-Islamic times”. In: Encyclopædia Iranica, Vol. V, Fasc. 4, pp. 424-431.
- Rawson, J. (1984), Chinese Ornament: The Lotus and the Dragon, New York.
- Rawson, J. (1982), The Ornament on Chinese Silver of the Tang Dynasty (AD 618–906), London.
- Rossabi, M. (1997), “The Silk Trade in China and Central Asia,” in When Silk was Gold, ed. J. C. Y. Watt and A. E. Wardwell, exhibition catalogue, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, pp. 7-19.
- Siren, Osvald. (1925), Chinese Sculpture, Vol. 2, New York.
- Sugimura, Toh. 2008. “Japan xi. Collections of Persian art in japan”. In: Encyclopædia Iranica, Vol. XIV, Fasc. 6, pp. 571-574.
- Sun Li. (2004), ‘萨珊银币在 中国的分布及其功能 [Distribution of Sassanian Silver Coins and their Functions in China],’ The Chinese Journal of Archaeology, Vol.1, pp.35-54.
- Van Buren, Mary and Janet Richards. (2000), “Introduction: Ideology, wealth and the comparative study of ‘civilization’,” Order, legitimacy, and wealth in ancient states, edited by. Janet Richards and Mary Van Buren, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, pp. 3-12.
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- Wei Zheng 魏征. (1973), Suishu随书, Beijing, Zhonghua shuju, j. 83.
- Wright, Arthur F. (1959), Buddhism in Chinese History, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
- Yao Cha, Yao Silian. (1973), Liangshu, Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, j. 54, p. 812.
- Zhang Xinglang. (1977), The Collection of the Historical Materials of Communications between China and the West (《中西交通史料汇编》), Vol. III, Beijing: Zhonghua Book Co.
- Zhao Feng. (2004), “The Evolution of Textiles Along the Silk Road,” in: China: Dawn of a Golden Age, 200-750 AD, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Yale University Press, New Haven and London, pp. 67-77.
- Zhou Yiliang 周一良 (1992), "Weishu 魏書", in: Zhongguo da baike quanshu 中國大百科全書, Zhongguo lishi 中國歷史, vol. 3, Beijing/Shanghai: Zhongguo da baike quanshu chubanshe, pp. 1211-12.
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