Jade Encounter
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Summary
Editor's review
Who it's for
A good fit for
- General readers interested in Hetian jade and jade culture who want to understand its humanistic dimension
- Readers who enjoy fieldwork-based essays and prefer stories about people
- Collectors weary of market-price discourse who hope to understand jade from another angle
- Readers who need material for humanistic prose and prefer slow-paced reading
Not a good fit for
- Readers hoping to systematically learn Hetian jade appraisal, grading and valuation methods
- Readers who want to understand jade market conditions and investment or collecting strategies
- Readers who prefer strong plotting or fast-paced narrative
Reading tips
- Read slowly in chapter order, pausing briefly after each character story to absorb the author's value stance.
- While reading, note the different ways of looking at jade that appear in the book, and finally compare them with your own perspective.
- Treat it as an essay collection rather than a collecting guide, and do not read it with the purpose of verifying prices or places of origin.
- It can be read alongside some basic knowledge of Hetian jade, but there is no need to read professional books first.
About the publisher
Founded in 1980, Tsinghua University Press has 57 titles in our collection, covering popular science, medicine, health, law, philosophy and social sciences. Representative works include medical popular-science books such as Cancer Truth: Doctors Are Reading It Too and New Knowledge on Cancer by Bo Luo (Li Zhizhong), legal titles such as Sunshine Is the Best Preservative: Express Delivery of Major Global Anti-Corruption Cases, and works like Qi Ge's A Brief History of Philosophy with Big Ideas and Liu Yunhao's From the Internet to a New Industrial Revolution. Its authors include science writers, medical researchers, the Renmin University of China anti-corruption master's class and university scholars, reflecting a publishing profile that balances academic seriousness with accessible reading. As public information is limited, this profile is based only on the titles in our collection.
Contents
- 版权信息
- 序 幻爱和田玉
- 第一部 石头记
- 初到市井
- 当昆仑山系的玉石统称为和田玉
- 各种空间里的玉石商圈
- 当上贡的神物成为商品
- 和田玉籽料都是孤品和珍品
- 一白遮百丑
- 天子衣青衣、服青玉
- 导演最爱让皇帝拿的碧玉手串
- 带甜味的糖玉
- 通常判断青花，首先看是否黑白分明
- 黄口料与黄玉是两种性格
- 当光穿过墨玉的瞬间，看到的是那夜空中的银河
- 感受石头上映照的自己
- 第二部 去和田
- 第三部 手艺人
- 后记
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About the author
Public information about Zhang Yun is currently limited: details such as place of origin, education, and dates of birth and death are not clearly recorded. What can be confirmed is that the author has published one work, the prose collection Yu Jian (Meeting Jade). Judging from the title and its classification as miscellaneous prose, the book appears to take jade as its theme, likely exploring jade, objects, and the aesthetic and cultural meanings they carry, expressing personal feelings through things while combining observation and reflection. Works of this kind usually value everyday experience, personal temperament, and the texture of language, so it may be inferred that Yu Jian leans toward essayistic narration rather than systematic academic writing. Since only this one work is available and there is a lack of author statements, prefaces, and reviews, it is difficult to make a more specific judgment about the overall character and influence of the author's writing; readers may learn more about its stylistic features and concerns from the book itself.
