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I just found a pretty handy list of Chinese honorifics on Wikipedia. It includes honorifics used to refer to royalty, academics, family members, etc in 1st person, 2nd person, and 3rd person. Probably more helpful for writing stuff that's set in ancient China when everyone was using humble 3rd person language to refer to everyone including themselves.
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[personal profile] phyrry found this amazing freely available resource about Chinese history, if anyone's writing fics set in historical China or is looking for inspiration for Dixing and Haixing worldbuilding.

It's a series of seven books by Joseph Needham called Science and Civilisation in China and they're available to read either online or on downloadable epubs. I haven't been able to find parts of Volume 5 and all of Volume 6 but the rest are here:

VolumeTopic + Link
1Introduction to Chinese topography, the pre-imperial phase and the empire
2History of scientific thought
3Mathematics and the Sciences of the Heavens and the Earth
4Civil engineering and nautics
Mechanical engineering
5Paper and printing
Spagyrical discovery and magisteries of gold and immortality
Military technology, missiles, and sieges
Gunpowder
Textile
Ceramics
6Biology, food science, and medicine
7Language and logic

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