Wang Sidai and Cao Mingkun.- The Achangs, ancient balladeers. Yunnan jiaoyu chubanse (Yunnan Education Press). 1995. 35 pp

This book was published in 1995 as a commemoration of the Second International Conference on Women, celebrated in Beijing. It introduces the basic characteristics of Achang society, stressing the live of Achang women and their love for the music. It has 36 color pictures.

Anonymous.- Zhepama and Zhemima. In Zhang Yan "Ten Chinese Myths of the Creation". Henan renmin chubanse (Henan Peoples Publishing). 1998

This is the most important myth of the Achang. The world was created, according to the Achang beliefs by a pair of big deities: Zhepama (masculine) and Zhemima (feminine). After the creation of the world, they created human beings. Later there were a flood, and a new creation of the world. Very interesting is the fight between Zhepama and the Devil of the Drought.

There is also some basic information in books published in China dealing with the 55 officially recognized minorities, as Ma Yin´s Chinese minorities, Ethnic Groups in China, or China's Minority Nationalities.

Olson, James S. - An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of China (Greenwood Press, 1998), have three pages discussing the Achang and peoples with related languages.

Hattaway, Paul.- Operation China. Have two chapters dealing with the Achang. One about the Achang properly, and other about the Achang from Husa.

Ye Dabing.- The Bridal Boat. New World Press. 1993, has a chapter dealing with the Marriage of the Achang.

There is an Achang Tale, "The girl with tufted eyebrows" In Kun Xu, Xu Guo and Lucien Miller, South of the Clouds: Tales of Yunnan. University of Washington Press.

In Spanish

Yan Ruxian's "Matrimonio y familia de las etnias minoritarias de China" (Marriage and Family of China National Minorities), Foreign Languages Press, 1991, include a chapter written by Lu Xun about the marriage of the Achang.