Sunday, March 23rd, 2025

Collective Volume Modern China in Flux: Networks, Mobility, and Transformation (De Gruyter). This book explores Chinese society through the notion of networks—as a concept, a social reality, and a method—in order to reveal its complexity and fluidity during a pivotal period, . . .

Keller, A., and Chemla, K. (eds.) (2024) Shaping the Sciences of the Ancient and Medieval World. Textual Criticism, Critical Editions and Translations of Scholarly Texts in History. Book series: Archimedes ed. J. Buchwald. Cham: Springer Nature.

Lauren Walden. (2024) Surrealism from Paris to Shanghai. Hong Kong University Press

Surrealism in China initially gained a foothold in Shanghai’s former French concession during the early 1930s, disseminated by . . .

The editors of the EACS Journal are pleased to announce the publication of Volume 5 (2024). This issue contains a special section on ‘Commentary and Exegesis’ in poetry and fiction, history, and thought, stretching from the early imperial period . . .

Ngo, K. (2024) Ordering Tang China: Cultural Memory, Emperor Taizong and the Essentials. Ann Arbor: Lever Press

New Open Access book on a seventh-century Chinese anthology for imperial governance

Lammer, Christof. Performing State Boundaries: Food Networks, Democratic Bureaucracy and China. New York: Berghahn Books. 2024.

Polarizing images of authoritarian, socialist or culturalist otherness compromise analyses of the Chinese state. Still, such images produce effects beyond academia . . .

Ariane Knüsel, Ralph Weber. Hier & Jetzt (Zurich), 2024, 352 p.

The books is based on extensive archival research, interviews with diplomats, business representatives, and sinologists, as well as a large . . .

Jana S. Rošker, 2023. Humanism in Trans-Civilizational Perspectives: Relational Subjectivity and Social Ethics in Classical Chinese Philosophy. Cham: Springer.

Preview at https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-37518-7

Jana Rošker is pleased to announce the publication . . .

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 . . .