Selected bibliography about history of Lijiang region, Lijiang city and Naxi people
- BØCKMAN, 1988 “Naxi studies in China. A research report”
- CAI Hua, 1997 “Une société sans père ni mari: les Na de Chine“ collection Ethnologies, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France.
- Dikötter F., 1992 “The Discourse of Race in Modern China” Hurst and Company, London
- Epstein A.L., 1978 “Ethnos and Identity, Three Studies in Ethnicity” Tavistock Publications, London
- Fei Xi
- 1981 “Towards a Peoples Anthropology.” New World Press, Beijing (1991) in “ A new direction in the research into a Chinese nation” 中华民族研究新探索
- Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Press
- 1992 “Study of man in China” in Chie Nakane and Chien Chiao (eds.) “Home Bound Studies in Asian Society” The Centre for East Asian Cultural Studies, Tokyo: 9-20.
- 郭大烈 , 和志武 - GUO Dalie, HE Zhiwu, 1999 "纳西族史
[A History of the Naxi people]” Chongqing: Sichuan Minzu Chubanshe 四川民族出版社.
- HAN Carolyn, Cheng Jaiho, Ji li, 1997 “Tales from Within the Clouds: Naxi stories of China” University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu. Printed in Singapore
- JACKSON Anthony
- 1979 “An analytical appraisal of the Na-khi ritual texts” The Hague: Mouton.
- 1989 “Naxi studies: past, present and future”. In: CHAO Chien and TAPP Nicholas (eds). Ethnicity and ethnic groups in China. Hong Kong: New Asia Academic Bulletin, vol. VIII.
- LIMONTA Gianni, 2000 “Yunnan – Cina” Leonardo Arte
- MATHIEU Christine, 2003 “A History and Anthropological Study of the Ancient Kingdoms of the Sino-Tibetan Borderland - Naxi and Mosuo”. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen.
- McKHANN Charles F.,
- 1995 “The Naxi and the Nationalities Question” In: HARREL Steven (ed). Cultural Encounters on China's Ethnic Frontiers. Seattle: University of Washington Press. Pp. 39-62.
- 1998 “Naxi, Rerkua, Moso, Meng: Kinship, Politics and Ritual on the Yunnan-Sichuan Frontier”, in M. Oppitz et E. Hsu, 1998:23 – 45.
- 1992 “Fleshing Out the Bones: Kinship and Cosmology in Naqxi Religion. PhD dissertation. The University of Chicago, Chicago
- OPPITZ Michael and HSU Elisabeth (eds), 1988 “Naxi and Moso Ethnography” Zurich, Volkerkundemuseum
- REES Helen, 2000 “Echoes of History, Naxi Music in Modern China” Oxford University Press
- ROCK Joseph F.,
- 1924 “Banishing the devil of disease among the Na-khi”. National Geographic Society Magazine, xlvi( 5): 473-499.
- 1935 “The story of the flood in the literature of the Na-khi tribe”. Journal of the West China Border Research Society, 7: 64-82.
- 1936 “The origin of the Tso-la books of divination of the Na-khi sorcerers” Journal of the West China Border Research Society. 8: 39-54.
- 1936 “Hä-la or the killing of the soul as practised by Na-khi sorcerers” Journal of the West China Border Research Society. 8: 55-58.
- 1937 ‘The birth and origin of Dto-mba Shi-lo, the founder of Mo-so shamanism” in Artibus Asiae. 7: 1-39, with Plates I-XV.
- 1937 “The Nichols Mo-so manuscript of the American Geographical Society” Geographical Review vol. 7.
- 1939 “The romance of K’a-ma-gyu-mi-gkyi’” Bulletin de l’Ecole Francaise d’Extreme-Orient, vol. xxxix,
- 1947 “The Ancient Na-khi Kingdom of S. W. China” . 2 vols. Harvard University Press.
- 1948 “The Muan-bpo ceremony or the sacrifice to heaven as practised by the Na-khi” Monumenta Serica, vol. xiii.
- 1952 “The Na-khi Naga Cult and related ceremonies” Serie Oriental Roma, iv. Parts I and II, Rome
- 1955 “The Zhi ma funeral ceremony of the Na-khi of S.W. China” Studia Instituti Anthropos. Vol. 9. St. Gabriel's Mission Press, Vienna- Modling.
- 1955 “The Na-khi D’a Nv funeral ceremony with special reference to the origin of Na-khi weapons” Anthropos 50.
- 1963 “The life and culture of the Na-khi tribe of the China-Tibet borderland” Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland, Suppl. 2. Wiesbaden.
- 陶云逵 Tao Y.
- 1936 "关于么些之名称分布与迁移 [On the distribution and migration of the Moso]"
Bulletin of the Academia Sinica. Institute of History and Philology, Naking: 121-135).
- 1938 "么些族之羊骨卜及卜 [On the scapulimancy and cowry-shell divination of the Mo-so]"
Academia Sinica, Institute of History and Philology, The Journal of Anthropology, Nanking: 87-153).
- WINS H.J.,1967 (1954) “Han Chinese Expansion in South China (China’s March toward the Tropics)”. The Shoe String Press, Inc.
- 严汝娴, 宋兆麟 - YAN R., SONG Z ., 1983 "永宁纳西族的母係制
[The matrilinearity of the Yongning Naxi nationality]" 云南人民族出版社 Yunnan People’s Press， Kunming
- 尤中 YOU Z., 1985 "中国西南民族史 [A history of the nationalities in south-west China]"
云南人民族出版社 - Yunnan People’s Press, Kunming
