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Crisis and Conflict in Han China. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1974; reprinted London: Routledge, 2005.
Ancient Cosmologies. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1975.
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Divination and Oracles. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1981.
Chinese Ideas of Life and Death: Faith, Myth and Reason in the Han Period. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1982; reprinted Taipei: SMC, 1994; Hackett Publishing Company, Mass. 2005; Chinese translation 1991; Korean translation 1992.
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The Pride that was China. London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1990.
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