Bary, Theodore de, Wing-Tsit Chan, and Burton Watson.  Sources of Chinese Tradition. 
            New York: Columbia University Press.  1960. 

Dorn, Frank.  The Forbidden City.  New York: Berne Convention.  1970.

Glancey, Jonathan.  The Story of Architecture.  London: Dorling Kindersley Limited. 
            2000.

Liu, Laurence.  Chinese Architecture.  London: Academy Group Ltd.  1989. 

MacFarquhar, Roderick.  The Forbidden City.  New York: Newsweek.  1972.

Ru, Jinghua and Peng Hualiang.  Palace Architecture: Ancient Chinese Architecture. 
            China: Springer-Verlag/Wien.  1998.

Yang, Xin.  �The Palace Museum: A General Survey�.  The Palace Museum.
            Jan 30^th, 2002.  <http://www.dpm.org.cn/C-english/C_english.htm>

 �Secret World of the Forbidden City Splendors from China�s Imperial Palace�.
            The Oakland Museum of California.    Jan 30^th, 2002.
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Yu, Zhuoyun.  Palaces of the Forbidden City.  New York: The Viking Press.  1982.

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