Jacques Gernet, A History of Chinese Civilization, 2nd ed., trans. J. R. Foster and Charles Hartman (Cambridge, UK and New York, 1996), pp. 39–40

Ibid., pp. 41–50; Jacques Gernet, Ancient China: From the Beginnings to the Empire, trans. Raymond Rudorff (London, 1968), pp. 37–65 (Жерне Ж. Древний Китай. – М.: АСТ, 2004); Wm. Theodore De Bary and Irene Bloom, eds, Sources of Chinese Tradition: From Earliest Times to 1600, 2nd ed. (New York, 1999), pp. 3–25; D. Howard Smith, Chinese Religions (London, 1968), pp. 1–11