Editing Eunuch (section)

== Further reading ==
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* [http://www.well.com/user/aquarius/guilland-eunuques.htm English translation of Rudople Guilland's essay on Byzantine eunuchs "Les Eunuques dans l'Empire Byzantin: Étude de titulature et de prosopographie byzantines", in 'Études Byzantines', Vol. I (1943), pp. 197–238 with many examples]
* {{cite book |last=Bauer |first=Susan Wise |title = The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=1u2oP2RihIgC |access-date=5 September 2013 |year= 2010 |edition=illustrated |publisher = W. W. Norton & Company |isbn=978-0393078176 }}
* {{cite journal | last1 = Chen | first1 = Gilbert | year = 2016 | title = Castration and connection: Kinship organization among Ming Eunuchs | journal = Ming Studies | volume = 2016 | issue = 74| pages = 27–47 | doi = 10.1080/0147037X.2016.1179552 | s2cid = 152169027 }}
* {{cite book |title = The Tongking Gulf Through History |year=2011 |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |isbn=978-0812243369 |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=7mlKjn3FfoMC |edition=illustrated |access-date=4 January 2013 |editor1-first=Nola |editor1-last=Cooke |editor2-first=Tana |editor2-last=Li |editor3-first=James |editor3-last=Anderson }}
* {{cite book |last=Keay |first=John |title = China: A History |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=fcy1N5GXs4wC |access-date=5 September 2013 |year= 2010 |publisher=HarperCollins UK |isbn=978-0007372089 }}
* {{cite book |last=Lary |first=Diana |title=The Chinese State at the Borders |year=2007 |publisher=UBC Press |isbn=978-0774813334 |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=pFzhWyoYG_wC |edition=illustrated |editor=Diana Lary |access-date = 4 January 2013 }}
* {{cite book |last = Kutcher |first = Norman |title = Eunuch and Emperor in the Great Age of Qing Rule |year = 2018 |publisher=University of California Press |location=Oakland, CA |isbn=9780520297524 |url = https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520297524/eunuch-and-emperor-in-the-great-age-of-qing-rule }}
* {{cite book |last=McMahon |first = Keith |title = Women Shall Not Rule: Imperial Wives and Concubines in China from Han to Liao |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=gc_3IXkwG3QC |access-date=5 September 2013 |year= 2013 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |isbn = 978-1442222908 }}
* {{cite book |editor1-last=Peterson |editor1-first=Barbara Bennett |title=Notable Women of China: Shang Dynasty to the Early Twentieth Century |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=KLNrqn4WLZYC |access-date=5 September 2013 |year= 2000 |edition=illustrated |publisher=M.E. Sharpe |isbn=0765619296 }}
* {{cite journal | last1 = Robinson | first1 = David | year = 1995 | title = Notes on Eunuchs in Hebei during the Mid-Ming Period | journal = Ming Studies | volume = 1 | pages = 1–16 | doi = 10.1179/014703795788763645 }}
* {{cite book |last=Tsai |first=Shih-Shan Henry |title=The Eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty (Ming Tai Huan Kuan) |year=1996 |publisher=SUNY Press |isbn=0791426874 |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Ka6jNJcX_ygC |edition=illustrated }}
* Tuotuo. Liaoshi [History of Liao]. Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1974 (or Tuotuo, ''Liaoshi'' (Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1974))
* {{cite book |author = Toqto'a |title=Liao Shi ''(宋史)'' |trans-title=[[History of Liao]] |year=1344 |language=zh |display-authors = etal |author-link=Toqto'a (Yuan dynasty) }}
* {{cite book |editor1-last= Van Derven |editor1-first= H. J. |title=Warfare in Chinese History |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=IXKkCXDvYFYC |access-date=5 September 2013 |year= 2000 |edition=illustrated |publisher=BRILL |isbn=9004117741}}
* {{cite web |last = Wade |first = Geoff |title = Southeast Asia in the Ming Shi-lu: an open access resource |url = http://www.epress.nus.edu.sg/msl/ |publisher = Asia Research Institute and the Singapore E-Press, National University of Singapore |year = 2005 |access-date=6 November 2012 }}
* {{cite book |last=Wang |first=Yuan-Kang |title = Harmony and War: Confucian Culture and Chinese Power Politics |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=gxVfTuKsaJQC |access-date=5 September 2013 |year= 2013 |edition=illustrated |publisher=Columbia University Press |isbn=978-0231522403 }}
* {{cite thesis |degree =Master's |script-title = zh:辽代后宫制度研究 |trans-title=Research on the System of Imperial Harem in the Liao Dynasty |url = http://www.docin.com/p-220201686.html |author= 祝建龙 (Zhu Jianlong) |date = April 2009 |institution = [[Jilin University]] |access-date = 4 October 2013 |language = zh }}
*{{cite web|url=http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/%7Ephalsall/texts/eunuchs1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080727020848/http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/%7Ephalsall/texts/eunuchs1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=27 July 2008 |title=Hidden Power: The Palace Eunuchs of Imperial China |website=Brooklyn.cuny.edu}}
*{{cite journal|title=Long-Term consequences of Castration in Men: Lessons from the Skoptzy and the Eunuchs of the Chinese and Ottoman Courts|journal= The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism |date=1 December 1999 |volume= 84 |number= 12 |pages=4324–4331|doi=10.1210/jcem.84.12.6206 |last1=Wilson |first1=Jean D. |last2=Roehrborn |first2=Claus |pmid=10599682 |doi-access= }}
*{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ka6jNJcX_ygC |title=The Eunuchs of Ming Dynasty China|isbn=9780791426876|last1=Tsai|first1=Shih-Shan Henry|date=1 January 1996|publisher=SUNY Press }}
* "A Eunuch Cooks Boys to Make a Tonic of Male Essence," in Zhang Yingyu, ''[https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-book-of-swindles/9780231178631 The Book of Swindles: Selections from a Late Ming Collection]'', translated by Christopher Rea and Bruce Rusk (New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2017), pp.&nbsp;138–141.
*Mary M. Anderson, Hidden Power: The Palace Eunuchs of Imperial China (Prometheus Books, 1990)
*David Ayalon, Eunuchs, Caliphs and Sultans: A Study in Power Relationships (Magnes Press, 1999)
*Patrick Barbier, The World of the Castrati: The History of an Extraordinary Operatic Phenomenon (Souvenir Press Ltd, 2010)
*Vern L. Bullough and James Brundage (eds), Handbook of Medieval Sexuality (Routledge, 2000), especially chapter by M.S. Kuefler, 'Castration and Eunuchism in the Middle Ages'
*Laura Engelstein, Castration and the Heavenly Kingdom: A Russian Folktale (Cornell University Press, 2003)
*Zia Jaffrey, The Invisibles: A Tale of the Eunuchs of India (W&N, 1997)
*Shaun Marmon, Eunuchs and Sacred Boundaries in Islamic Society (Oxford University Press, 1993)
*Taisuke Mitamura (trans. by Charles A. Pomeroy), Chinese Eunuchs: The Structure of Intimate Politics (Tuttle Publishing, 1970)
*Serena Nanda, Neither Man nor Woman: The Hijras of India (Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc, 1998)
*Kathryn M. Ringrose, The Perfect Servant: Eunuchs and the Social Construction of Gender in Byzantium (University of Chicago Press, 2003)
*Lynn E. Roller, In Search of God the Mother: The Cult of Anatolian Cybele (University of California Press, 1999)
*Piotr O. Scholz, Eunuchs and Castrati: A Cultural History (Markus Wiener Publishers, 2014)
*Shaun Tougher (ed.), Eunuchs in Antiquity and Beyond (Classical Press of Wales, 2002)
*Shaun Tougher, The Eunuch in Byzantine History and Society (Routledge, 2008)
*Shih-Shan Henry Tsai, The Eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty (State University of New York Press, 1995)
*[[Caroline Vout]], Power and Eroticism in Imperial Rome (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
* English language Abstracts of the thesis
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===Further listening===
*''[[In Our Time (radio series)|In Our Time]]: The Eunuch''. Presenter: [[Melvyn Bragg]]. Interviewed Guests: Karen Radner, Professor of Ancient Near Eastern History at [[University College London]]; Shaun Tougher, Reader in Ancient History at [[Cardiff University]]; Michael Hoeckelmann, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at [[King's College London]]. Producer: Thomas Morris. Broadcaster: [[BBC Radio 4]]. Date: 26 February 2015