Bactra bibliography on Ancient China:
Recommended:
Anne Birrell, Chinese Mythology
Derk Bodde, Chinese Thought, Society, and Science: The Intellectual and Social Background of Science and Technology in Pre-modern China
Mark Elvin, The Pattern of the Chinese Past
A. C. Graham, Disputers of the Tao
Joseph Needham, Science and Civilisation in China
G. E. R. Lloyd
Cognitive Variations: Reflections on the Unity and Diversity of the Human Mind
Demystifying Mentalities
Edward H. Schafer, The Vermillion Bird: T'ang Images of the South [Beautifully written study of what the Chinese took from the countries to the south of them, and vice versa.]