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Series of Ancient Astronomy and Calendar
Liu Caonan | Zhejiang University Press
As a translation, annotation and textual research of astronomy and calendar included in the ancient documentations of China, this collection is a multidisciplinary and multi-perspective research and analysis of the study of documents, textual criticism, philosophy, Chinese and western calendar, mathematics and astrology, which is passing down the Chinese traditional calendar, a cultural inheritance of the whole human race. This book is recommended to learners of ancient books and documents, researchers of astronomy and calendar, learners of ancient Chinese history and culture and those who are interested in them, and also academic libraries at home and abroad.
About the author
Liu Caonan, professor of Research Institute for Ancient Books, Zhejiang University, whose academic achievements cover a wide range, including Chinese classic literature, history of science and technology, ancient history, study of documents, study of Chinese opera, Chinese traditional novel, poetry, calligraphy and painting. He is the author of Ancient Books and Science and Technology, A Collection and Study of the Twelve Vassals in the Spring and Autumn Period as Recorded in the Historical Records, A Study of Arithmetic, A Probe into The Book of Songs.
Study of Ancient Dramas and Novels
Xu Shuofang | Zhejiang University Press | ?62.00 | 533 pages | Nov 2008 | ISBN 978-7-3080-5981-7
As two forms of traditional Chinese literature and art, the China’s ancient drama and novel combines the approaches of poem, ci (a type of lyric poetry with lines of irregular lengths), prose and qu (a type of verse for singing), reflecting the social life of the ancient Chinese people. They are the textual support with which people get to know and study the character of the Chinese nation and the oriental culture. This book aims to study the ancient Chinese dramas and novels. This book is recommended to researchers and students interested in ancient Chinese drama and fiction, and also academic libraries at home and abroad.
About the author
Xu Shuofang, a renowned expert in ancient Chinese literature and a leader in the research of dramas and fictions of the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties in China. His research results on Tang Xianzu have laid the foundation for the research of his works both home and abroad. He has published Collation and Annotation of Peony Pavilion, Collation and Annotation of Palace of Eternal Life, Complete Works of Tang Xianzu (Commentary and Annotation), A Critical Biography of Tang Xianzu, On Tang XianZu and Others, etc. General Annals of Confucianism in the 20th Century
Pang Pu | Zhejiang University Press | ?416.00 | 1944 pages | Jun 2013 | ISBN 978-7-3081-0927-7
This book is an all-round survey and research of the development of Confucianism in the 20th century, presenting the current development of Confucianism in this particular period and its value throughout the 2000-year history of Confucianism in an objective and impartial way.
The General Annals is composed of three volumes. The first volume records the Confucianism-related events every year, including deaths and births and major publications of important Confucian scholars, as well as the government’s attitude towards Confucianism. The second volume records significant events that had great impact on the development of Confucianism, including the causes, processes and results of such events as well as their impact on the development of Confucianism. The third volume is a collection of the representative works of the important figures of Confucianism in the form of research-oriented biography.
This book is recommended to researchers and learners of Confucianism and postmodern global humanism, and also academic libraries at home and abroad.
About the author
Pang, Pu is a famous historian of philosophy and expert of Confucianism in China, recognized as an authoritative scholar in the research of Confucianism both home and abroad. His major works include: A Study of the “Five Elements” Text from the Mawangdui Silk Manuscripts, Dialectical Study of Confucianism, On Confucius’s Ideological Focus, Tradition and Modernization, National and Epochal Character of Culture, etc.
Boundary Monuments for Thinking: Lecture Texts on a History of Western Political Theory
Gao Quanxi | Zhejiang University Press | ?42.00 | 253 pages | Jun 2012 | ISBN 978-7-3080-9958-5
The author, with the view of a scholar in the east, renders a new overview and survey of the canonical lecture texts of the important western thinkers in the modern and contemporary times, from Hugo Grotius to Friedrich August von Hayek. It is a critical analysis of different ways of thinking as well as their impact on and significance to the modern society, an interpretation by a scholar in the east of the classical liberalism in the west.
About the author
Gao Quanxi, Doctor of Philosophy of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Head and Chair Professor of the Higher Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, Beihang University, representative works including: Between the Rational Principle and Universal Mind: Nee-Confucianism of Zhu Xi and Lu Xiangshan, and Law and Order & Freedom and Justice: Friedrich Hayek’s Thoughts on Law and Constitutionalism. Our Academic Ecology: the Polluted and Injured
Liu Dong | Zhejiang University Press | ?46.00 | 288 pages | Jun 2012 | ISBN 978-7-308-10085-4
It is a reflection by a Chinese on the current academic ecology in China, from high school education to higher education, from the production of articles to the pressure imposed by the global circle of Sinology to the domestic academic group, and from the formation of the academic atmosphere in schools to the existence of the publishing industry.
About the author
Liu Dong, Doctor of Philosophy of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Deputy Director of the Tsinghua Academy of Chinese Learning, and professor of Department of Philosophy, Tsinghua University.
Virtues, Ethics and Social Practices
Yao Zhongqiu | Zhejiang University Press | ?58.00 | 316 pages | Jul 2012| ISBN 978-7-308-10199-8
Commercialization has influenced the global communities in various ways. One thing is the mass production has made up the shortage and medical technology has remarkably reduced the pains from disease. However, the opposite thing is that the rapid pace of life makes people sigh over the “death of grace.” Taking the view of Confucianism and in the perspectives of virtues, ethics and social practices, the author mediates on how an excellent order of governance is formed and maintained, and explores the social theories of Confucianism by drawing upon the relevant western concepts.
About the author
Yao Zhongqiu, independent scholar, mainly engaged in the translation and introduction and research of the theories on classical liberalism and the Austrian School economics, and a representative of the school of liberalism in Mainland China. His works include: Why Is It Market and The Ways the Modern China Relies upon, has translated into Chinese Property, Law and Government: Classic Works of Frederic Bastiat on Political Economics, Lectures on the French Revolution, Freedom and the Law, Essays on Friedrich Hayek and the Revival of Classical Liberalism, Intellectuals vs. Free Market, Capitalism and the Historians, Friedrich Hayek: A Biography, and presides over the Translated Works of the Austrian School of Economics.
Views on Social Ideology
Wang Yan | Zhejiang University Press | ?45.00 | 269 pages | Aug 2012| ISBN 978-7-308-10412-8
The book includes a contemporary Chinese scholar’s meditations on today’s global social phenomena. It is composed of three parts: first, study of the exemplars that are significant to the construction of China’s social ideology, such as the ideology of Chen Yinque and Kang Youwei; second, study on the French social thinking, including that of Alexis de Tocqueville; third, a comparative study on the British and French thinking. About the author
Wang Yan, Executive Chief Editor of Reading, the most influential magazine in China.
Rumors of the Han Dynasty
Lv Zongli | Zhejiang University Press | ?39.00 | 344 pages | Oct 2011 | ISBN 978-7-308-09129-9
Led in with the rumors of the Han Dynasty and through investigation and study on the gossips, lies or “rumors” and the related contexts as recorded in historical documentation, the author holds that these so-called “rumors” may help researchers of history interpret the group mentality and the social psychological atmosphere in a particular time and space in history, then producing historical images in more dimensions, at more levels and with more colors. It renders a full interpretation of the “historical authenticity” of such information as well as its relationship with the particular time and space in history.
The book is recommended to researchers of Chinese history and culture, and learners of sociology, psychology, anthropology, communication, and semantics and context, and also academic libraries at home and abroad.
About the author
Lv Zongli, doctor of philosophy of Department of East Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Executive President of the Joint Institute of Peking University, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and the University of Virginia. His research focuses on the political, institutional, cultural and social histories of the Qin Dynasty (221 - 206 B. C.), Han Dynasty (202 B.C. - 220A. D.) and Wei, Jin, Northern and Southern Dynasties (220 – 589 A. D.), folk beliefs and ancient books and documents. His major works include: The Folk Gods in China (co-author), Dictionary of Bureaucratic Systems throughout China’s History (chief editor), Collected Annotations of Ri Zhi Lu (collaborated compilation) (Ri Zhi Lu literally meaning “daily recording of understandings”), Reading Notes Done While Attending My Parents (Gai Yu Cong Kao) (collaborated compilation), and Textual Research Mainly on Confucian Classics (Kun Xue Ji Wen) (collaborated compilation).
Telling History out of the Study
Li Yan,Li Bochong,Li Bojie | Zhejiang University Press | ?48.00 | 400 pages | Jun 2012 | ISBN 978-7-308-09841-0
It is a collection of informal essays and reading notes by three famous professors, Yan Li, Bozhong Li and Bojie Li, on the histories of China and Germany. The book is recommended to researchers and students of Chinese history and culture, those interested in them, and also academic libraries at home and abroad. About the author
Li, Yan, a famous historian of economics in China, with the monographs of Analects of History of Feudal Economy of China, Collected Works Done in Bu Zi Xiao Study, etc.
Li, Bozhong, presently Chair Professor of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and concurrently, guest professor or visiting fellow of some renowned universities including Peking University and Harvard University, and member of the Executive Committee of International Economic History Association and honor fellow of the Toyo Bunko (Oriental Library) (Japan). He is the author of such monographs as Agricultural Development in the Yangzi Delta: 1620-1850, The Early Years of Industrialization in the Yangzi Delta: 1550-1850, A History in Multiple Views: Economic Development in the Yangzi Delta from the Later Period of the Southern Song Dynasty to the Middle of the Qing Dynasty, etc.
Li Bojie, member of the council of Deutsch-chinesische Literaturbeziehungen (German-Chinese Literature Association), member of review committee of Feng Zhi Award for German Literature Research, and external expert of Peking University. He has published A Cultural History of Germany and over 20 academic papers on German literature and culture, and translated academic works with nearly a million words.
Lessons in China’s History
Yang Shiqun | Zhejiang University Press | ?48.00 | 364 pages | Jun 2012 | ISBN 978-7-308-10020-5
Invested with the author’s profound understanding of the national history of China based on his reading for decades of years, the book renders a survey and popular commentary on the evolution the institutions in China’s ancient society as well as the related figures, thinking and culture. It is intended to seek the institutional and cultural problems and lessons that have hindered the normal social development from the significant events, institutional changes, important figures and main ancient books, hence to find out the general root cause of the ignorance and backwardness of China in modern times.
The book is recommended to researchers and students of Chinese history and culture, those interested in them, and also academic libraries at home and abroad.
About the author
Yang Shiqun, professor of Humanities School, East China University of Political Science and Law, focuses on the fields of the histories of law of China and foreign countries, and the histories of the Pre-Qin period, the Song Dynasty, journalism home and abroad, and western culture and institution, as well as comparative study on the Chinese and western society. His published monographs include: Self-examination and Comparison: Historical Difference between the Ancient Societies of China and the West, A Study on the Social Transformation in the East Zhou Dynasty, The Qin Dynasty and the Han Dynasty, A History of Chinese Journalism and Communication, Unjust Verdicts during Five Hundred Years, Historical Enigmas of the Song Dynasty, etc. Northern Border Defense and State Financial Crisis in the Mid-Ming Dynasty 1531-1602
Lai Jiancheng | Zhejiang University Press | ?65.00 | 536 pages | Aug 2010 | ISBN 978-7-3080-7719-4
The Ming Dynasty (1368~1644 A. D.) is an important dynasty in ancient China, which witnessed a most flourishing age and first contact with the western world in the history China (the Portuguese were permitted to build their housing in Macau in 1513). As far as the cause of its decline is concerned, some researchers argue “the fall of the Ming Dynasty was due to its frontier defense.” The book includes a study on the historical materials about the provisions and funds for troops at the frontier during the 60 years from the 10th year of the reign of Jiajing Emperor (1531) to the 30th year of the reign of Wanli Emperor (1602). Based on the data relating to the military provisions and funds for the thirteen frontier guards, it elaborates the trend of changes during Wanli Emperor’s reign, analyzes various influences and reports the restrictions to and measures for the military provisions and funds, and it is concluded with that: it is a fact that the provisions and funds for frontier troops imposed a huge burden to the government finance, and was dragging down the colossal Ming Dynasty to some extent when the effects of the problems with frontier defense are concerned.
The book is recommended to researchers and students of Chinese history and culture, those interested in them, and also academic libraries at home and abroad.
About the author
Lai Jiancheng, doctor of the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, professor of Department of Economics, National Tsing Hua University (in Taiwan), and visiting scholar at Harvard-Yenching Institute at Harvard University in March 1992. His research focuses on history of economy and history of economic thoughts. Works: The Taste of Western Economic History, The Taste of Economic History, etc.
Culture and Social Transformation
Yan Weishi | Zhejiang University Press | ?28.00 | 347 pages | Jul 2006 | ISBN 978-7-3080-4840-8
This is a collection of the articles and interview records on China’s traditional culture’s influence on modernization transformation of the country by Mr. Weishi Yuan in recent years. The book is composed of three progressive parts, i.e. the insight into the traditional culture, pursuit for a modern culture and definition of the path for China’s transformation, through which such current social phenomena as “the craze for ancient Chinese classics”, “the Confucian constitutionalism,” and “the respect for Confucianism” are analyzed and compared to the modern civilization, and a clear argument is brought up that he objects to the act of repudiating and modifying the modern civilization by making use of the traditional culture. The book is recommended to researchers and students of Chinese history and culture, those interested in them, and also academic libraries at home and abroad.
About the author
Yuan Weishi, professor of Sun Yat-sen University. Research focus: China in modern times. Major works include: A History of Philosophy in Modern China, The Great Change in the Later Qing Dynasty, Informal Essays on Ideology in Modern China, Interrogation from Landmarks and Souls, Farewell to the Middle Ages: Collection and Interpretation of the Documents during the May 4th Period, A Criticism on China in Modern Times, Issues Concerning the Textbooks of History in China, The Way of a Great Power, Culture: China and the World, China of Yesterday, etc.
A Cultural History of the Song Dynasty
Yang Weisheng, etc. | Zhejiang University Press
In the history of China, the Northern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty were collectively known as the Song Dynasty (960-1279 A. D.), which was a golden age for the development of economy, science and technology, culture and education in China. As the one about such an era of cultural prosperity, this book, however, by turning away from the conventional philosophical thinking simply based on theories and through analysis of subtler aspects of people’s life at that time, probes into the evolution and achievements of science and technology and presents an overview of the cultural fusion and exchange between different races, developed overseas trade and cultural exchange with foreign countries. The book actually renders a panoramic view of the cultural phenomena of the age.
The book is ecommended to researchers and students of Chinese history and culture, those interested in them, and also academic libraries at home and abroad.
About the author
Yang Weisheng, professor of the Department of History, Zhejiang University, has compiled The Compilation of Historical Documents about the Relationship between the Song Dynasty and Goryeo and A Catalogue of the Chronological Lives of Historical Figures in China.
On Beauty and the Existence of Human Beings
Wang Yuanxiang | Zhejiang University Press | ?38.00 | 342 pages | Jul 2010 | ISBN 978-7-308-07757-6
The book is recommended to researchers and students of sociology and aesthetics, those interested in them, and also academic libraries at home and abroad.
Comment of Reader:
“This is a book about beauty. I used to see a photo of a beach densely scattered with dead dolphins, for which the global warming-up and changes to the ecosystem is the major cause. I’ve also seen pictures of the starving African children. I would also recall the deaths and injuries during Sichuan Earthquake in 2008 and the bloodstains of the country victims of the Japanese bombers I witnessed when I was a child…Then, where is beauty? Beauty is a personal feeling and perception, which then broadens our understanding of this world, and inspires our thinking and wills. The recesses of beauty are the recesses of our mind, the recesses of nature; nature is the reality of beauty.” About the author
Wang Yuanxiang, professor of the Department of Chinese Studies, Zhejiang University, engaged in teaching and research of the theories of literature and art and aesthetics.
Economic Globalization in a Historical View: the First Globalization and China
Zhang Li | Zhejiang University Press | ?48.00 | 319 pages | Aug 2012 | ISBN 978-7-308-10252-0
With the basic thinking on the economic globalization, this book proposes the idea of “two economic globalizations,” and by comparing the similarities and differences between the two, explores the relationship between international labor distribution and national wealth accumulation and the future economic increase potentiality. It also provides comparisons in terms of the roles played by the Chinese government and the governments in the west on economic development, the relation between the government and businessmen, government taxation and military, through which the author attempt to find out the cause for the different paths for China and the west.
The book is recommended to researchers and students of China’s economy and a globalized economy, those interested in them, and also academic libraries at home and abroad.
About the author
Zhang Li, Doctor of History of Economy of the University of California, Los Angeles, and presently professor of the Department of Economics, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Beihang University. She is mainly engaged in the comparative study of China and the west in the aspects of national competition, national politics, geography, resource availability, technological development, cultural control and creation of virtual value of a country, etc.
2012 Index for Healthy China Business
Wu Xiaobo, Yuan Yue, Feng Xi | Zhejiang University Press | ?25.00 | 64 pages | May 2012 | ISBN 978-7-308-09889-2
Based on the interviews and surveys of more than 300 private businesses in 15 provinces in China, this book includes the first proposal of a theoretical framework for China’s business health, the first design of the index system for China’s business health, the first conclusion of three dimensions and nine core factors for healthy business development, and the first series of measures for the healthy development of China’s future businesses.
The book is recommended to researchers and students of China’s economy and a globalized economy, those interested in them, and also academic libraries at home and abroad. About the author
Dean of the School of Management, Zhejiang University, Director of National Institute for Innovation Management (NIIM) at Zhejiang University, Head of The Institute of Management Science & Information Systems, Zhejiang University, member of Review Team for Management Science and Engineering, Academic Degree Commission of the State Council, Director on the part of Zhejiang University of ZJU-Cambridge Joint Research Centre on Global Manufacturing and Innovation, and expert advisor of Zhejiang Provincial Economic Construction Planning Institute.
2012 Index for Healthy Chinese Family Business
Chen Lin | Zhejiang University Press | ?25.00 | 121 pages | Nov 2011 | ISBN 978-7-3081-0762-4
The subject for study of the book is the family businesses in Mainland China. Based on onsite investigations and visits to businesses, it proposes a set of theories on healthy ecosystem of family businesses in China with the Chinese characteristics, appealing for attention to the health of China’s family business development and the future development direction.
The book is recommended to researchers and students of China’s economy and a globalized economy, those interested in them, and also academic libraries at home and abroad.
About the author
Chen Ling, professor of Zhejiang University, whose research is focused on the business history of China in modern and contemporary times, the modern transformation of family businesses, corporate governance and development, labor economics and human resources management, regional economic development, labor and employment, etc.
The Road Leading to the Market
Zhang Weiying | Zhejiang University Press | ?36.00 | 210 pages | Sep 2012 | ISBN 978-7-308-10515-6
The book includes 37 essays of the author published in the past several years, each aiming at the realistic problems during the reform and development of China. The book renders a picture of the actual progress and effects of China’s economic reform and elaboration of the development “logic” embodied in China’s economic reform and the road leading to market economy.
The book is recommended to researchers and students of China’s economy and a globalized economy, those interested in them, and also academic libraries at home and abroad.
About the author
Zhang Weiying, professor of economics of Oxford University, former President of Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, and used to be Vice-president of the International Association for Chinese Management Research (IACMR), Deputy Chairman of China Society of Economics, and the Chief Economist of China Entrepreneurs Forum. He is the author of Price, Market and Entrepreneurs, The Logic of Market, What Has Changed China, etc. Methodology and the Institutional Implication
Yao Zhongqiu (Editor) | Zhejiang University Press | ?42.00 | 323 pages | Oct 2009 | ISBN 978-7-308-07048-5
It is a collection of articles about studying the Austrian School and the relevant topics as presented for 2008 Annual Conference of the Chinese Society for Friedrich Hayek, mainly focused on the issues concerning the methodology of the Austrian School and rules-order.
Business Cycle and Constitutional Order
Yao Zhongqiu, Wang Jianmin (Editor) | Zhejiang University Press | ?48.00 | ISBN 978-7-308-07635-7
The book is the third volume of the Annual of Chinese Studies on Austrian School, including the articles for the Fifth Annual Conference (2009) of the Chinese Society for Friedrich Hayek. It is composed of three parts: the first part, “Economic Cycle Research,” with regards to the global financial crisis at that time; the second part is about the study on the theories of politics and law and focuses on the institutional basis for economic activities; and the third part discusses theoretical issues of economics.
Theoretical Analysis of China’s Transformation: in the Perspectives of the Austrian School
Luo Weidong, Yao Zhongqiu (Editor-in-Chief) | Zhejiang University Press | ?42.00 | 332 pages | Jun 2009 | ISBN 978-7-308-06836-9
During the three decades since the reform and opening-up, China has gone through a drastic transformation, not only the lasting fast increase in economy, but also the remarkable and profound change in the law and the political systems. Taking a perspective of the Austrian School, this book renders an interpretation of China’s current market and such institutional mechanisms as governance by law, autonomy and constitutionalism.
Liu Caonan | Zhejiang University Press
As a translation, annotation and textual research of astronomy and calendar included in the ancient documentations of China, this collection is a multidisciplinary and multi-perspective research and analysis of the study of documents, textual criticism, philosophy, Chinese and western calendar, mathematics and astrology, which is passing down the Chinese traditional calendar, a cultural inheritance of the whole human race. This book is recommended to learners of ancient books and documents, researchers of astronomy and calendar, learners of ancient Chinese history and culture and those who are interested in them, and also academic libraries at home and abroad.
About the author
Liu Caonan, professor of Research Institute for Ancient Books, Zhejiang University, whose academic achievements cover a wide range, including Chinese classic literature, history of science and technology, ancient history, study of documents, study of Chinese opera, Chinese traditional novel, poetry, calligraphy and painting. He is the author of Ancient Books and Science and Technology, A Collection and Study of the Twelve Vassals in the Spring and Autumn Period as Recorded in the Historical Records, A Study of Arithmetic, A Probe into The Book of Songs.
Study of Ancient Dramas and Novels
Xu Shuofang | Zhejiang University Press | ?62.00 | 533 pages | Nov 2008 | ISBN 978-7-3080-5981-7
As two forms of traditional Chinese literature and art, the China’s ancient drama and novel combines the approaches of poem, ci (a type of lyric poetry with lines of irregular lengths), prose and qu (a type of verse for singing), reflecting the social life of the ancient Chinese people. They are the textual support with which people get to know and study the character of the Chinese nation and the oriental culture. This book aims to study the ancient Chinese dramas and novels. This book is recommended to researchers and students interested in ancient Chinese drama and fiction, and also academic libraries at home and abroad.
About the author
Xu Shuofang, a renowned expert in ancient Chinese literature and a leader in the research of dramas and fictions of the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties in China. His research results on Tang Xianzu have laid the foundation for the research of his works both home and abroad. He has published Collation and Annotation of Peony Pavilion, Collation and Annotation of Palace of Eternal Life, Complete Works of Tang Xianzu (Commentary and Annotation), A Critical Biography of Tang Xianzu, On Tang XianZu and Others, etc. General Annals of Confucianism in the 20th Century
Pang Pu | Zhejiang University Press | ?416.00 | 1944 pages | Jun 2013 | ISBN 978-7-3081-0927-7
This book is an all-round survey and research of the development of Confucianism in the 20th century, presenting the current development of Confucianism in this particular period and its value throughout the 2000-year history of Confucianism in an objective and impartial way.
The General Annals is composed of three volumes. The first volume records the Confucianism-related events every year, including deaths and births and major publications of important Confucian scholars, as well as the government’s attitude towards Confucianism. The second volume records significant events that had great impact on the development of Confucianism, including the causes, processes and results of such events as well as their impact on the development of Confucianism. The third volume is a collection of the representative works of the important figures of Confucianism in the form of research-oriented biography.
This book is recommended to researchers and learners of Confucianism and postmodern global humanism, and also academic libraries at home and abroad.
About the author
Pang, Pu is a famous historian of philosophy and expert of Confucianism in China, recognized as an authoritative scholar in the research of Confucianism both home and abroad. His major works include: A Study of the “Five Elements” Text from the Mawangdui Silk Manuscripts, Dialectical Study of Confucianism, On Confucius’s Ideological Focus, Tradition and Modernization, National and Epochal Character of Culture, etc.
Boundary Monuments for Thinking: Lecture Texts on a History of Western Political Theory
Gao Quanxi | Zhejiang University Press | ?42.00 | 253 pages | Jun 2012 | ISBN 978-7-3080-9958-5
The author, with the view of a scholar in the east, renders a new overview and survey of the canonical lecture texts of the important western thinkers in the modern and contemporary times, from Hugo Grotius to Friedrich August von Hayek. It is a critical analysis of different ways of thinking as well as their impact on and significance to the modern society, an interpretation by a scholar in the east of the classical liberalism in the west.
About the author
Gao Quanxi, Doctor of Philosophy of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Head and Chair Professor of the Higher Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, Beihang University, representative works including: Between the Rational Principle and Universal Mind: Nee-Confucianism of Zhu Xi and Lu Xiangshan, and Law and Order & Freedom and Justice: Friedrich Hayek’s Thoughts on Law and Constitutionalism. Our Academic Ecology: the Polluted and Injured
Liu Dong | Zhejiang University Press | ?46.00 | 288 pages | Jun 2012 | ISBN 978-7-308-10085-4
It is a reflection by a Chinese on the current academic ecology in China, from high school education to higher education, from the production of articles to the pressure imposed by the global circle of Sinology to the domestic academic group, and from the formation of the academic atmosphere in schools to the existence of the publishing industry.
About the author
Liu Dong, Doctor of Philosophy of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Deputy Director of the Tsinghua Academy of Chinese Learning, and professor of Department of Philosophy, Tsinghua University.
Virtues, Ethics and Social Practices
Yao Zhongqiu | Zhejiang University Press | ?58.00 | 316 pages | Jul 2012| ISBN 978-7-308-10199-8
Commercialization has influenced the global communities in various ways. One thing is the mass production has made up the shortage and medical technology has remarkably reduced the pains from disease. However, the opposite thing is that the rapid pace of life makes people sigh over the “death of grace.” Taking the view of Confucianism and in the perspectives of virtues, ethics and social practices, the author mediates on how an excellent order of governance is formed and maintained, and explores the social theories of Confucianism by drawing upon the relevant western concepts.
About the author
Yao Zhongqiu, independent scholar, mainly engaged in the translation and introduction and research of the theories on classical liberalism and the Austrian School economics, and a representative of the school of liberalism in Mainland China. His works include: Why Is It Market and The Ways the Modern China Relies upon, has translated into Chinese Property, Law and Government: Classic Works of Frederic Bastiat on Political Economics, Lectures on the French Revolution, Freedom and the Law, Essays on Friedrich Hayek and the Revival of Classical Liberalism, Intellectuals vs. Free Market, Capitalism and the Historians, Friedrich Hayek: A Biography, and presides over the Translated Works of the Austrian School of Economics.
Views on Social Ideology
Wang Yan | Zhejiang University Press | ?45.00 | 269 pages | Aug 2012| ISBN 978-7-308-10412-8
The book includes a contemporary Chinese scholar’s meditations on today’s global social phenomena. It is composed of three parts: first, study of the exemplars that are significant to the construction of China’s social ideology, such as the ideology of Chen Yinque and Kang Youwei; second, study on the French social thinking, including that of Alexis de Tocqueville; third, a comparative study on the British and French thinking. About the author
Wang Yan, Executive Chief Editor of Reading, the most influential magazine in China.
Rumors of the Han Dynasty
Lv Zongli | Zhejiang University Press | ?39.00 | 344 pages | Oct 2011 | ISBN 978-7-308-09129-9
Led in with the rumors of the Han Dynasty and through investigation and study on the gossips, lies or “rumors” and the related contexts as recorded in historical documentation, the author holds that these so-called “rumors” may help researchers of history interpret the group mentality and the social psychological atmosphere in a particular time and space in history, then producing historical images in more dimensions, at more levels and with more colors. It renders a full interpretation of the “historical authenticity” of such information as well as its relationship with the particular time and space in history.
The book is recommended to researchers of Chinese history and culture, and learners of sociology, psychology, anthropology, communication, and semantics and context, and also academic libraries at home and abroad.
About the author
Lv Zongli, doctor of philosophy of Department of East Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Executive President of the Joint Institute of Peking University, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and the University of Virginia. His research focuses on the political, institutional, cultural and social histories of the Qin Dynasty (221 - 206 B. C.), Han Dynasty (202 B.C. - 220A. D.) and Wei, Jin, Northern and Southern Dynasties (220 – 589 A. D.), folk beliefs and ancient books and documents. His major works include: The Folk Gods in China (co-author), Dictionary of Bureaucratic Systems throughout China’s History (chief editor), Collected Annotations of Ri Zhi Lu (collaborated compilation) (Ri Zhi Lu literally meaning “daily recording of understandings”), Reading Notes Done While Attending My Parents (Gai Yu Cong Kao) (collaborated compilation), and Textual Research Mainly on Confucian Classics (Kun Xue Ji Wen) (collaborated compilation).
Telling History out of the Study
Li Yan,Li Bochong,Li Bojie | Zhejiang University Press | ?48.00 | 400 pages | Jun 2012 | ISBN 978-7-308-09841-0
It is a collection of informal essays and reading notes by three famous professors, Yan Li, Bozhong Li and Bojie Li, on the histories of China and Germany. The book is recommended to researchers and students of Chinese history and culture, those interested in them, and also academic libraries at home and abroad. About the author
Li, Yan, a famous historian of economics in China, with the monographs of Analects of History of Feudal Economy of China, Collected Works Done in Bu Zi Xiao Study, etc.
Li, Bozhong, presently Chair Professor of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and concurrently, guest professor or visiting fellow of some renowned universities including Peking University and Harvard University, and member of the Executive Committee of International Economic History Association and honor fellow of the Toyo Bunko (Oriental Library) (Japan). He is the author of such monographs as Agricultural Development in the Yangzi Delta: 1620-1850, The Early Years of Industrialization in the Yangzi Delta: 1550-1850, A History in Multiple Views: Economic Development in the Yangzi Delta from the Later Period of the Southern Song Dynasty to the Middle of the Qing Dynasty, etc.
Li Bojie, member of the council of Deutsch-chinesische Literaturbeziehungen (German-Chinese Literature Association), member of review committee of Feng Zhi Award for German Literature Research, and external expert of Peking University. He has published A Cultural History of Germany and over 20 academic papers on German literature and culture, and translated academic works with nearly a million words.
Lessons in China’s History
Yang Shiqun | Zhejiang University Press | ?48.00 | 364 pages | Jun 2012 | ISBN 978-7-308-10020-5
Invested with the author’s profound understanding of the national history of China based on his reading for decades of years, the book renders a survey and popular commentary on the evolution the institutions in China’s ancient society as well as the related figures, thinking and culture. It is intended to seek the institutional and cultural problems and lessons that have hindered the normal social development from the significant events, institutional changes, important figures and main ancient books, hence to find out the general root cause of the ignorance and backwardness of China in modern times.
The book is recommended to researchers and students of Chinese history and culture, those interested in them, and also academic libraries at home and abroad.
About the author
Yang Shiqun, professor of Humanities School, East China University of Political Science and Law, focuses on the fields of the histories of law of China and foreign countries, and the histories of the Pre-Qin period, the Song Dynasty, journalism home and abroad, and western culture and institution, as well as comparative study on the Chinese and western society. His published monographs include: Self-examination and Comparison: Historical Difference between the Ancient Societies of China and the West, A Study on the Social Transformation in the East Zhou Dynasty, The Qin Dynasty and the Han Dynasty, A History of Chinese Journalism and Communication, Unjust Verdicts during Five Hundred Years, Historical Enigmas of the Song Dynasty, etc. Northern Border Defense and State Financial Crisis in the Mid-Ming Dynasty 1531-1602
Lai Jiancheng | Zhejiang University Press | ?65.00 | 536 pages | Aug 2010 | ISBN 978-7-3080-7719-4
The Ming Dynasty (1368~1644 A. D.) is an important dynasty in ancient China, which witnessed a most flourishing age and first contact with the western world in the history China (the Portuguese were permitted to build their housing in Macau in 1513). As far as the cause of its decline is concerned, some researchers argue “the fall of the Ming Dynasty was due to its frontier defense.” The book includes a study on the historical materials about the provisions and funds for troops at the frontier during the 60 years from the 10th year of the reign of Jiajing Emperor (1531) to the 30th year of the reign of Wanli Emperor (1602). Based on the data relating to the military provisions and funds for the thirteen frontier guards, it elaborates the trend of changes during Wanli Emperor’s reign, analyzes various influences and reports the restrictions to and measures for the military provisions and funds, and it is concluded with that: it is a fact that the provisions and funds for frontier troops imposed a huge burden to the government finance, and was dragging down the colossal Ming Dynasty to some extent when the effects of the problems with frontier defense are concerned.
The book is recommended to researchers and students of Chinese history and culture, those interested in them, and also academic libraries at home and abroad.
About the author
Lai Jiancheng, doctor of the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, professor of Department of Economics, National Tsing Hua University (in Taiwan), and visiting scholar at Harvard-Yenching Institute at Harvard University in March 1992. His research focuses on history of economy and history of economic thoughts. Works: The Taste of Western Economic History, The Taste of Economic History, etc.
Culture and Social Transformation
Yan Weishi | Zhejiang University Press | ?28.00 | 347 pages | Jul 2006 | ISBN 978-7-3080-4840-8
This is a collection of the articles and interview records on China’s traditional culture’s influence on modernization transformation of the country by Mr. Weishi Yuan in recent years. The book is composed of three progressive parts, i.e. the insight into the traditional culture, pursuit for a modern culture and definition of the path for China’s transformation, through which such current social phenomena as “the craze for ancient Chinese classics”, “the Confucian constitutionalism,” and “the respect for Confucianism” are analyzed and compared to the modern civilization, and a clear argument is brought up that he objects to the act of repudiating and modifying the modern civilization by making use of the traditional culture. The book is recommended to researchers and students of Chinese history and culture, those interested in them, and also academic libraries at home and abroad.
About the author
Yuan Weishi, professor of Sun Yat-sen University. Research focus: China in modern times. Major works include: A History of Philosophy in Modern China, The Great Change in the Later Qing Dynasty, Informal Essays on Ideology in Modern China, Interrogation from Landmarks and Souls, Farewell to the Middle Ages: Collection and Interpretation of the Documents during the May 4th Period, A Criticism on China in Modern Times, Issues Concerning the Textbooks of History in China, The Way of a Great Power, Culture: China and the World, China of Yesterday, etc.
A Cultural History of the Song Dynasty
Yang Weisheng, etc. | Zhejiang University Press
In the history of China, the Northern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty were collectively known as the Song Dynasty (960-1279 A. D.), which was a golden age for the development of economy, science and technology, culture and education in China. As the one about such an era of cultural prosperity, this book, however, by turning away from the conventional philosophical thinking simply based on theories and through analysis of subtler aspects of people’s life at that time, probes into the evolution and achievements of science and technology and presents an overview of the cultural fusion and exchange between different races, developed overseas trade and cultural exchange with foreign countries. The book actually renders a panoramic view of the cultural phenomena of the age.
The book is ecommended to researchers and students of Chinese history and culture, those interested in them, and also academic libraries at home and abroad.
About the author
Yang Weisheng, professor of the Department of History, Zhejiang University, has compiled The Compilation of Historical Documents about the Relationship between the Song Dynasty and Goryeo and A Catalogue of the Chronological Lives of Historical Figures in China.
On Beauty and the Existence of Human Beings
Wang Yuanxiang | Zhejiang University Press | ?38.00 | 342 pages | Jul 2010 | ISBN 978-7-308-07757-6
The book is recommended to researchers and students of sociology and aesthetics, those interested in them, and also academic libraries at home and abroad.
Comment of Reader:
“This is a book about beauty. I used to see a photo of a beach densely scattered with dead dolphins, for which the global warming-up and changes to the ecosystem is the major cause. I’ve also seen pictures of the starving African children. I would also recall the deaths and injuries during Sichuan Earthquake in 2008 and the bloodstains of the country victims of the Japanese bombers I witnessed when I was a child…Then, where is beauty? Beauty is a personal feeling and perception, which then broadens our understanding of this world, and inspires our thinking and wills. The recesses of beauty are the recesses of our mind, the recesses of nature; nature is the reality of beauty.” About the author
Wang Yuanxiang, professor of the Department of Chinese Studies, Zhejiang University, engaged in teaching and research of the theories of literature and art and aesthetics.
Economic Globalization in a Historical View: the First Globalization and China
Zhang Li | Zhejiang University Press | ?48.00 | 319 pages | Aug 2012 | ISBN 978-7-308-10252-0
With the basic thinking on the economic globalization, this book proposes the idea of “two economic globalizations,” and by comparing the similarities and differences between the two, explores the relationship between international labor distribution and national wealth accumulation and the future economic increase potentiality. It also provides comparisons in terms of the roles played by the Chinese government and the governments in the west on economic development, the relation between the government and businessmen, government taxation and military, through which the author attempt to find out the cause for the different paths for China and the west.
The book is recommended to researchers and students of China’s economy and a globalized economy, those interested in them, and also academic libraries at home and abroad.
About the author
Zhang Li, Doctor of History of Economy of the University of California, Los Angeles, and presently professor of the Department of Economics, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Beihang University. She is mainly engaged in the comparative study of China and the west in the aspects of national competition, national politics, geography, resource availability, technological development, cultural control and creation of virtual value of a country, etc.
2012 Index for Healthy China Business
Wu Xiaobo, Yuan Yue, Feng Xi | Zhejiang University Press | ?25.00 | 64 pages | May 2012 | ISBN 978-7-308-09889-2
Based on the interviews and surveys of more than 300 private businesses in 15 provinces in China, this book includes the first proposal of a theoretical framework for China’s business health, the first design of the index system for China’s business health, the first conclusion of three dimensions and nine core factors for healthy business development, and the first series of measures for the healthy development of China’s future businesses.
The book is recommended to researchers and students of China’s economy and a globalized economy, those interested in them, and also academic libraries at home and abroad. About the author
Dean of the School of Management, Zhejiang University, Director of National Institute for Innovation Management (NIIM) at Zhejiang University, Head of The Institute of Management Science & Information Systems, Zhejiang University, member of Review Team for Management Science and Engineering, Academic Degree Commission of the State Council, Director on the part of Zhejiang University of ZJU-Cambridge Joint Research Centre on Global Manufacturing and Innovation, and expert advisor of Zhejiang Provincial Economic Construction Planning Institute.
2012 Index for Healthy Chinese Family Business
Chen Lin | Zhejiang University Press | ?25.00 | 121 pages | Nov 2011 | ISBN 978-7-3081-0762-4
The subject for study of the book is the family businesses in Mainland China. Based on onsite investigations and visits to businesses, it proposes a set of theories on healthy ecosystem of family businesses in China with the Chinese characteristics, appealing for attention to the health of China’s family business development and the future development direction.
The book is recommended to researchers and students of China’s economy and a globalized economy, those interested in them, and also academic libraries at home and abroad.
About the author
Chen Ling, professor of Zhejiang University, whose research is focused on the business history of China in modern and contemporary times, the modern transformation of family businesses, corporate governance and development, labor economics and human resources management, regional economic development, labor and employment, etc.
The Road Leading to the Market
Zhang Weiying | Zhejiang University Press | ?36.00 | 210 pages | Sep 2012 | ISBN 978-7-308-10515-6
The book includes 37 essays of the author published in the past several years, each aiming at the realistic problems during the reform and development of China. The book renders a picture of the actual progress and effects of China’s economic reform and elaboration of the development “logic” embodied in China’s economic reform and the road leading to market economy.
The book is recommended to researchers and students of China’s economy and a globalized economy, those interested in them, and also academic libraries at home and abroad.
About the author
Zhang Weiying, professor of economics of Oxford University, former President of Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, and used to be Vice-president of the International Association for Chinese Management Research (IACMR), Deputy Chairman of China Society of Economics, and the Chief Economist of China Entrepreneurs Forum. He is the author of Price, Market and Entrepreneurs, The Logic of Market, What Has Changed China, etc. Methodology and the Institutional Implication
Yao Zhongqiu (Editor) | Zhejiang University Press | ?42.00 | 323 pages | Oct 2009 | ISBN 978-7-308-07048-5
It is a collection of articles about studying the Austrian School and the relevant topics as presented for 2008 Annual Conference of the Chinese Society for Friedrich Hayek, mainly focused on the issues concerning the methodology of the Austrian School and rules-order.
Business Cycle and Constitutional Order
Yao Zhongqiu, Wang Jianmin (Editor) | Zhejiang University Press | ?48.00 | ISBN 978-7-308-07635-7
The book is the third volume of the Annual of Chinese Studies on Austrian School, including the articles for the Fifth Annual Conference (2009) of the Chinese Society for Friedrich Hayek. It is composed of three parts: the first part, “Economic Cycle Research,” with regards to the global financial crisis at that time; the second part is about the study on the theories of politics and law and focuses on the institutional basis for economic activities; and the third part discusses theoretical issues of economics.
Theoretical Analysis of China’s Transformation: in the Perspectives of the Austrian School
Luo Weidong, Yao Zhongqiu (Editor-in-Chief) | Zhejiang University Press | ?42.00 | 332 pages | Jun 2009 | ISBN 978-7-308-06836-9
During the three decades since the reform and opening-up, China has gone through a drastic transformation, not only the lasting fast increase in economy, but also the remarkable and profound change in the law and the political systems. Taking a perspective of the Austrian School, this book renders an interpretation of China’s current market and such institutional mechanisms as governance by law, autonomy and constitutionalism.