^A Critical History of New Music in China - Page 346 Jingzhi Liu, Caroline Mason - 2010 " Nanhai Changcheng [The Great Wall of the South Seas] by Mao Yuan and
^San Francisco Symphony playbill - Page 106 San Francisco Symphony Orchestra - 2007 "Mao Yuan: Dance of the Yao People - Yuan, born in 1926, was for many years composer-in-residence for China's Central Opera Theater. He has also worked in the West. In 1982, the Houston Ballet Company introduced his ballet The Bamboo Painter, Zheng Banqiao, which it had commissioned, and he has been a visiting scholar in the United States under the auspices of the US-China Arts Exchange Center...."