Bruce, George.- The Naxis. Hamlyn. 1974

Goodman, Jim.- Children of the Jade Dragon: The Naxi of Lijing and Their Mountain Neighbours the Yi. Asia Film House. 1997, 235pp

A nice book full of pictures that makes a simple introduction to the Naxi and the Yi.

Goullart, Peter.- Forgotten Kingdom. Murray. London. 1955. 217 pp
A romantic narrative of the quiet days of Lijiang in the years previous to 1949 revolution.

Han, Carolyn, Li Ji.- Tales from Within the Clouds: Nakhi Stories of China. University of Hawaii Press (June, 1997 )

A children book with some illustrated Naxi stories.

Hashimoto, Mantaro J. - The Naxi Language Materials: Field Data Collected By the Late Prof. M..J. Hashimoto. Tokyo, Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures.

He Pinzheng.- Appreciation of Classic Naxi Dongba Sayings.

He Pinzheng. - Naxi Dongba Pictographic dictionary. Yunnan Fine Arts Publishing. 2004. 162 pp

A bilingual dictionary, English and Chinese, with some etymologic tips, of the Dongba pictograms.

He Shangai. - Sacred Place of Baishui Mesa (illust.) Peoples Fine Arts Publishing. 2000. 112 pp

Many pictures about this sacred place of the Naxi, with some captions in English and Chinese.

He Wanbao. - The Art of Naxi Dongba Culture. Yunnan Art Publishing House, Kunming

He Zhonghua.-The Naxis, where the goddesses live. Yunnan Education Press. 1995. 37 pp

This book was published to commemorate the Second International Conference on Women held in Beijing in 1995. It has many pictures related to Naxi women. It introduces the main feminine deities of the Naxi, and shows the traces of a primitive matriarchal society. It explains their marriage and their former suicides for love.

Hilton, James.- Lost Horizon. Cleveland. 1947.

A novel about the fabulous kingdom of Shangrilá, until recently everybody agreed that was based in the depictions of Naxi life of Rock's books.

Jackson, Anthony. - Na-khi religion. Mouton publishers, The Hague, 1979.

In his book, based mainly in the text of Rock, the author explores in a systematic way the Naxi beliefs and religion, as related to their life and history.

Kelkar, Govin, Walter, Pierre, Nathan, Dev.- Gender relations in Forest societies in Asia: Patriarchy at odds. New Delhi, Sage, 2003, 325 pp

It contains two articles about the Naxi:
- Xi Yuhua.- Shu: Naxi Nature goddess archetype.
- Yang Fuquan and Xi Yuhua.- Naxi women. Protection and management of forest in Lijiang. China
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Li Xi. - A road close to the gods- Dongba painting. "The road to heaven" of the Naxi people. Peoples Fine Arts Publishing. 2001. 50 pp

A nice book that is composed as a series of 104 color drawings showing the scrolls of the Road to the Heaven of the Naxi people. It depicts a long journey on which the souls of the departed have to be tortured in the hell before being reincarnated again. In the back there is an explanation to the drawings in Chinese, English and Japanese.

Mathieu, Christine.- A History and Anthropological Study of the Ancient Kingdoms of the Sino-Tibetan Borderland - Naxi and Mosuo. 532 pages. Edwin Mellen Press. 2003

One of the last scholarly works about the Naxi, an intelligent analysis that gets an overall picture of the Naxi, as a consistent ethnic entity.

Oppiz Michael And Elisabeth Hsu. Pictographs By Mu Chen .- Naxi And Moso Ethnography. Zurich 1998. 396 pp

Some articles written by renowned scholars about the culture of the Naxi and the Moso.

Rees, Helen.- Echoes of History: Naxi Music in Modern China. Oxford University Press, 2000.

Rock, J. F.- The ancient Nakhi Kingdom of Southwest China. 1946. 539 pp

The classical work about the Naxi history and culture. An encyclopedic book about them.

Rock, J. F. - The Na-khi Naga cult and related ceremonies. Instituto Italiano Medio i Estero Oriente. Roma. 1951. 1100 pp

In two big volumes, full of black and white photographs, Rock studies methodically all the ceremonies related to the Naga cult among the Naxi. The cultural influences of India, via Tibet, are everywhere in the cult to some deities originated in India.

Rock, J. F. - A Na-khi - English Encyclopedic Dictionary, Rome, Is. M.E.O., 1963

In this monumental work, the father of the studies on Naxi culture and religion, explains in English the Naxi pictograms.

Xu Ji.- Study Naxi in Lijiang. Yunnan Nationalities Press. 2003. 268 pp

A brief introduction to Lijiang and to the most common phrases used when traveling, in Naxi, Chinese, English, Japanese languages and Dongba script.

Zhang Chunyan. -The wondrous Lijiang. Yunnan Technological Press. 2005. 241

This is the book that uses the students of local guides in Lijiang. It presents to the reader a wide variety of themes related with Lijiang and the Naxi People. Though the topics are not dealt in deep, cover so many subjects as to make useful its reading

Zheng Tongsheng. -The old town of Lijiang. 2001. 168 pp

This is a black and white photo book, with interesting explanations, trilingual, about the culture of the Naxi in Lijiang.

- Abstracts of Thesis. Lijiang, 1999. 210 pp

Abstracts of the papers presented in the International Conference on Dongba Culture held in Lijiang in 1999.

- China's Lijiang Naxi ancient music. Lijiang. 64 pp

This is an introduction to the dongjing music of the Naxi, it is simple and seems motivated to ask its inclusion as intangible humanity heritage by UNESCO.

- Lijiang: World cultural and natural heritage. China Travel and Tourism Press. 2003. 124 pp

A book of pictures about Lijiang.

- Lijiang Natural Scenery and ethnic customs (illust.). Yunnan Technological Press. 1993. 105

This is a photo book, with only some paragraphs of text, in Chinese and English, about Lijiang and the peoples who live there.

- Naxi Pictographs in Chinese, English and Japanese. Yunnan Nationalities Press. 1997. 178 pp

About 1,000 pictograms of the Dongba script translated to Chinese, English and Japanese, and to the Geba phonetic alphabet.

- Proverbs of the Naxi Nationality. Yunnan Nationalities Press. 1998. 138 pp

It is a selection of some Naxi proverbs written in Dongba script, with translation to Chinese and English.

- The legend of Lijiang Shuhe old town. Lijiang. 2005. 46 pp

More than a book is a small booklet or brochure of this new turistic development near Lijiang. Full of illustrations, plans and schemes is interesting for show the development of the tourism business in Lijiang.

- Tour of Lijiang. Lijiang. 2005. 40 pp

A book about the most important turistic places around Lijiang.

- Tour guide to Shuhe. Ancient town of the tea-horse trade route in Lijiang. Lijiang. 2005. 50 pp

In French

He Zhiwu.- La migration: Légende de la genèse des Naxi. You Feng, 1998

One of the main myths of the Naxi translated to French.

Rafflet, Annie.- Chine inconnue: Peuple Naxi du Yunnan. Soline. 2001

In Spanish

Ceinos Arcones, Pedro.- Shangrilá. Viaje por las fronteras chino tibetanas. Miraguano, Madrid, 2006.

One of the chapters of this book offers some information about the Naxi life and culture.