On K’ang Yu-wei, see Kung-Chuan Hsiao,

A Modern China and a New World: K’ang Yu-wei, Reformer and Utopian, 1858-1927 (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1975).

Donald Keene, 'The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter’,

Monumenta Nipponica,

11.1 (January 1956): 329-55; 'Introduction’ (329); translation with notes (330-54).

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám,

tr. Edward FitzGerald (London: Penguin, 1989). Originally published as

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, The Astronomer-Poet of Persia. Translated into English Verse (London: Bernard Quaritch, 1859); an alternative modern translation is by Peter Avery and John Heath-Stubbs (London: Penguin, 2004).

Ibn Tufail,

The Journey of the Soul: The Story of Hai bin Yaqzan, as told by Abu Bakr Muhammad bin Tufail,

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