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- Guy Alitto, The Last Confucian: Liang Shu-Ming and the Chinese Dilemma of Modernity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979).
- Buck, Pearl S. (1945), Tell the People - Talks with James Yen About the Mass Education Movement, New York: John Day – via Internet Archive
- Charles Hayford, To the People: James Yen and Village China (New York: Columbia University Press, 1990).
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- Merkel-Hess, Kate (2016). The Rural Modern: Reconstructing the Self and State in Republican China. Chicago; London: The University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226383279.