General Travel Guides

Corrigan, Gina, Guizhou Province, second edition, Airphoto International Ltd, Hong Kong 2002  (most comprehensive introduction to ethnic groups and travel sites of Guizhou)

Jin Huikang, Guizhou Tourism (Guizhou People's Publishing House, PRC, 1999)

Mayhew, Bradley and Huhti, Thomas, South-west China (Lonely Planet)

Yunnan- A Complete Guide Series to Travel and Tourism in China (China 2001)

Ethnic Groups and Textiles

Boudot, Eric,  "Minority Costumes and Textiles of Southwestern China", Orientations Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 56-66  (Feb. 1994)

Corrigan, Gina, Miao Textiles from China (British Museum Press, March 2001)

Fitzgerald, C.P., The Tower of the Five Glories (Caravan Press Limited, Hong Kong 2005)  Good introduction to the history of the Bai people of Yunnan

Garrett, Valery M. Traditional Chinese Clothing in Hong Kong and South China 1840-1980 (Oxford University Press, 1989)

Richly Woven Traditions: Costumes of the Miao of Southwest China and Beyond,  catalogue produced by China Institute in America  (China House Gallery, New York, 1988)

Rossi, Gail, The Dong People of China (Hagley & Hoyle, Singapore 1990)

Sandberg, Gosta, Indigo Textiles: Technique and History, A & C Black, London 1989

Schein, Louisa, Minority Rules: The Miao and the Feminine (Duke University Press, London 2000)

Flora and Fauna

Tang Xiyang,  Living Treasures: An Odyssey through China's Extraordinary Nature Reserves (Bantom Books, New York 1987)

Wilson, E H,  A Naturalist in Western China (Cadogan Books, London 1986)

Geography

Blunden, Caroline and Elvin, Mark, Cultural Atlas of Ancient China (Oxford 1983)

Cannon, T. and Jenkins, A (eds),  The Geography of Contemporary China (Routledge, London 1990)

Deng Yong and Wang Feiling (eds), In the Eyes of the Dragon: China Views the World (Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, Maryland 1999)

General Chinese Art and Culture

Chang, Kwang-chih, The Archaeology of Ancient China, 4th edition, (New Haven and London, 1986)

Clunas, Craig, Art in China (Oxford, New York 1997)

Lee, Sherman and Rogers, Howard (eds), China 5,000 Years: Innovation and Transformation in the Arts (New York 1998)

Major, John and Steele, Valerie, China Chic East Meets West (Yale University Press, 1999)

McCormick, Andrea and Lynde, Chinese Country Antiques: Vernacular Furniture and Accessories c 1780-1920 (Schiffer Publishing 2000)

Millers Chinese and Japanese Antiques Buyer's Guide (Octopus Publishing 1999)

Rawson, Jessica (ed), The British Museum Book of Chinese Art (Thames and Hudson, Inc., New York 1996)

Siren, Osvald, The Chinese on the Art of Painting (Schocken Books, New York 1963)

Wang, Yao-t'ing, Looking at Chinese Painting (Nigensha Publishing Co Ltd, Tokyo 1996)

Watson, William,  Style in the Arts of China (Penguin Books, England 1974)

Chinese History

Merson, John, The Genius that was China (Overlook Press, New York 1990)

Scarpari, Maurizio, Ancient China (Barnes and Noble Publishing, 2006