Monday, August 17th, 2026

Youth in Chinese History: Educational Practices and Representations of Children and Young People Between Tradition and Modernity, edited by Giulia Falato and Renata Vinci, Routledge, 2026.

Youth in Chinese History brings together a series of interdisciplinary studies exploring . . .

Shu-Li Wang, In Search of National Ancestors – Heritage, Identity and Placemaking in China, Cambridge University Press, 2025.

This Element examines how international heritage discourses . . .

Julie Yu-Wen Chen, Global Knowledge Production about China, Leiden University Press, 2026.

Julie Yu-Wen Chen’s new book Global Knowledge Production about China (Leiden University Press) . . .

Gotelind Müller, “Patriotic Education Bases in China. Modes of Citizen Formation between Nationalism, Local Identities, and Tourism”, Heidelberg: Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing, 2026.

Renata Vinci. Il sinologo che non c’era: Alla riscoperta delle opere di Giuseppe Barone (1861–1924).

Giuseppe Barone (1861–1924), a brilliant and versatile Neapolitan scholar, devoted himself . . .

Sounds of Ink / 水墨的声音, Luo Qi and 30 Years of Calligraphyism / 洛齐与书法主义30年

The volume documents and provides an in-depth analysis of the Chinese . . .

Kieser, Annette. Sekundäre Zentren Der Sechs Dynastien : Untersuchungen Zu Gräbern Am Yangzi-Mittellauf. Harrassowitz Verlag, 2025.

Maurizio Paolillo (ed.), China and the West on the Silk Roads. Perceptions of the Other and Encounters from the Warring States to the Modern Era, Edizioni dell’Orso, Alessandria 2025.

The term “Silk Road” (Seidenstrasse), coined by . . .

The editors of the EACS Journal are pleased to announce the publication of Volume 6.2 (2025). The contents are accessible, as always, via https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/jeacs/issue/view/745

We thank our authors and reviewers for their work . . .

Katherine Ngo & Kelly Ngo, eds., Traditional Chinese Children’s Primers: A Sourcebook, Lever Press.

This Open Access book is the first anthology of traditional Chinese children’s textbooks in a European language. The selection of . . .

Walden, Lauren. Surrealism and the People’s Republic of China : From Mao to Now. Routledge, 2026.

Chapter 4 ‘Chinese Surrealism in the 1980s’ is available open access . . .

Luo Maodeng (罗懋登) The Epic Tale of Palace Eunuch San Bao Voyage to the Western Ocean, 三宝太监西洋记通俗演义, Borevskaia Nina (Transl.).

In October 2025 the full Russian translation of the Chinese classical novel by . . .

Helena F. S. Lopes, Cardiff University, Neutrality and Collaboration in South China: Macau during the Second World War
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023

The South China enclave of Macau was the first and last . . .

Pelzer, Thorben, 2023. Engineering Trouble: US–Chinese Experiences of Professional Discontent, 1905–1945. China Studies, Volume 52. Boston: Brill, 2023.

In the early twentieth century, the first large batch of Chinese civil engineers had graduated from the . . .

Nina Borevskaia, 2023. The translation of Luo Maodeng’s novel The Tale of Zheng He’s Voyage to the Western Ocean (San Bao taijian Xiyang ji, 1597). Moscow, Shans Publishing House. 2 Vols.

The Russian . . .

The European Research Centre for Chinese Studies (ERCCS) in Beijing, a joint centre of the École française d’Extrême-Orient and the Max Weber Stiftung, regularly publishes reviews of new academic books from China on its blog: https://erccs.hypotheses.org/category/publications/book-reviews
Here the latest reviews:
• 翁有为《近代中国之变轴：军阀话语建构、省制变革与国家》(Weng Youwei: The Axis of Change . . .

Homola, Stéphanie. 2023. The Art of Fate Calculation. Practicing Divination in Taipei, Beijing, and Kaifeng. New York: Berghahn Books (Asian Anthropologies Series). ISBN 978-1-80073-812-6

This book dives into Chinese fate calculation, a . . .

The Language of Nation-State Building in Late Qing China – A Case Study of the Xinmin Congbao and the Minbao, 1902-1910, Qing Cao, Routledge Studies in Chinese Discourse Analysis, January 2023: 148pp

The Language . . .

Alison Hardie, An Illustrated Brief History of Chinese Gardens: People, Activities, Culture, New York & Shanghai: SCPG, 2023, 164pp., US$19.95, ISBN 978-1-93836-887-5.

This book, illustrated with many images of . . .

Dr. Merle Schatz, Dr. Thorben Pelzer, “100 Karten über China” (in German), KATAPULT Verlag 2022, 208 Seiten

https://katapult-verlag.de/programm/100-karten-uber-china-9783948923426

Björn Alpermann, Xinjiang — China and the Uyghurs, Würzburg University Press, (open access in French and German)

I am happy to announce that my book “Xinjiang — China and the Uyghurs” published last year in German . . .

Alison Hardie, The Many Faces of Ruan Dacheng: Poet, Playwright, Politician in Seventeenth-Century China, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2022, 320pp., HK$750, ISBN 978-988-8754-07-6.
The Many Faces of Ruan Dacheng: Poet, Playwright, Politician in Seventeenth-Century . . .

Fern von Geschichte und verheißungsvollen Tagen. Neoklassizistische Cyberlyrik im ChinaNetz und die Schreibweise des Lizilizilizi (2000-2020)

(Distant From History and Auspicious Days. Neoclassicist Cyberpoetry in the ChinaNet and the Poetic Diction of Lizilizilizi (2000-2020))

As a . . .

Principles and Laws in World Politics: Classical Chinese Perspectives on Global Conflict (Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, 2021) by Walter Lee, 524 pages

The search for universal principles and laws in world politics is a colossal common task . . .

The Aesthetics of Qiyun and Genius: Spirit Consonance in Chinese Landscape Painting and Some Kantian Echoes. Published by Lexington Books (an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield), 320 Pages, 2021.

In The Aesthetics of Qiyun and Genius: Spirit Consonance in . . .

Jesuitenerbe in Peking: Sakralbauten und transkulturelle Räume 1600-1800 (Heidelberg Transcultural Studies 5), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, 2020. Hard cover, 478 pages, 194 black & white illustrations and 19 color plates. ISBN: 978-3-8253-6937-8

Focusing on three Jesuit churches and their related transcultural spaces in Beijing, this volume offers a thorough insight into . . .

The local experiences of foreigners in China in the 19th and early 20th centuries exemplify the often latent or tacit patterns of social encounters, individually or in groups, with certain cultural boundedness, stability, and homogeneity. This book takes into account virtual, mediated, imaginative contact zones and looks back at much slower . . .

Nordic Private Collections of Chinese Objects is already out as e-publication and the print version will appear on June 16th.

Open this pdf-file to find a flyer with a discount code: Torma Flyer

The link to the publisher’s website is: https://www.routledge.com/Nordic-Private-Collections-of-Chinese-Objects/Torma/p/book/9780429435041.

Lange Schatten der Kulturrevolution – Eine transgenerationale Sicht auf Politik und Emotion in der Volksrepublik China

Im Schatten der emotionalen Manipulationen während der Kulturrevolution (1966–76) in der Volksrepublik China gilt das Verhältnis von Politik und Emotion im postmaoistischen China als stark belastet. Sascha Klotzbücher fragt nach den Langzeitwirkungen . . .