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Secret Struggles: A Scholar's Cultural Resistance
SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2025
In August 1937, with the Battle of Shanghai underway, Zheng Zhenduo, dean of the College of Literature at Jinan University, faced the choice of whethe…
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
Social Sciences Academic Press · Oracle Bone Studio · 2020
In January 1417, the Italian humanist and papal secretary Poggio Bracciolini braved the winter cold, riding through the dense forests and valleys of s…
The Vegetal Memory and the Pleasures of Book Collecting
Yilin Press · 2014
The Vegetal Memory and the Pleasures of Book Collecting is a collection of essays on bibliophilia and book collecting by the Italian scholar and novel…
Books That Changed the World
Guangxi Normal University Press · 2019
This is a concise history of civilization told through books. Beginning with the I Ching, a divination book from around 2800 BCE, and continuing to Na…
Why Encyclopedias Exist: From Natural History to Wikipedia
Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) · 2025
This book is a work of intellectual and publishing history by the British writer Simon Garfield, originally titled All the Knowledge in the World: The…
Poetry and the Police: Communication Networks in Eighteenth-Century Paris
Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2025
In July 1749, François Bonis, a medical student at the Sorbonne, was summoned into a Paris police carriage. Expecting to be taken before a marshal, he…
The Enemies of Books
Gold Wall Press · 2023
This is a "book about protecting books" written over a century ago, and it is unexpectedly enjoyable. Blades was both a printer and a book collector; …
Papering Over the Ages: Legends and History of Ancient Chinese Paper
Beijing Science and Technology Press · 2025
This is a popular history that begins with paper itself. Drawing on archaeological artifacts and ancient texts, the author tells how paper, over more …
The Qing Empire in the Global Public Sphere: Chinese Dibao in European Sources
Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2025
This book is a specialized study by the Belgian sinologist Nicolas Standaert on the circulation of Qing-dynasty "dibao" in Europe. The Qing dibao was …
Old Bookshops of Kyoto
Zhonghua Book Company · 2015
Old Bookshops of Kyoto is a collection of essays by Su Zhenshu, a writer living in Japan, drawing on her years studying and residing in Kyoto. Since t…
Fangcun·New Knowledge Course Series: A Feast of Art and Humanities (6 Volumes)
Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) · 2022
This is a six-volume collection in the "Fangcun·New Knowledge Course" series under the Fangcun imprint of the Social Sciences Academic Press, presente…
Books and Bookmen
Longmans, Green, and Co. · 1887
Books and Bookmen is a collection of essays on "books and people" by the Scottish writer and literary critic Andrew Lang (1844–1912). Most of the piec…
Collected Papers on the Origin and Development of Chinese Woodblock Printing
Zhonghua Book Company · 2023
This book is a pioneering work that systematically studies textual scholarship from a modern perspective and remains an important reference to this da…
Writing, Publishing, and Reading Local Gazetteers in Imperial China: 1100–1700
Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2025
This book is the author's representative work, the culmination of more than a decade of dedicated research on Ming dynasty local gazetteers. Centered …
Bibliographic Notes on One Hundred Books Famous in English Literature
Project Gutenberg · 2019
Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
The Reign of the Manuscript
Project Gutenberg · 2019
Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
Palaeography
Project Gutenberg · 2019
Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
Catalogue of Messrs Blackwood and Sons' Publications
Project Gutenberg · 2019
Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
Printing and the Renaissance
Project Gutenberg · 2019
Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
English Book Collectors
Project Gutenberg · 2019
Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …