袁剑

Yuan Jian: public information is limited. Six works appear under this name, spanning history, social culture and politics. He attends to Chinese academia's reception of outside perspectives, as in Lattimore's History of China and The Back of the Frontier: Owen Lattimore and Chinese Academia, which examine Lattimore's China studies and their echoes in Chinese scholarship; In Search of the "World Island": The Formation and Evolution of Modern China's Understanding of Central Asia traces how modern China came to know Central Asia. He has also taken part in translating Ancient Chinese Military Culture and Beijing Rickshaw Pullers: Citizens and Politics in the 1920s, and has touched on material-culture themes such as Burning Money: Material Spirit in the Chinese Lifeworld. Combining compilation with translation, his work leans toward scholarly historical reading and offers Chinese readers accessible texts introducing overseas China studies.