"Overseas China Studies Series"to"Discover China beyond China"In order to instruct, the systematic translation introduces the research results of overseas sinology, and helps readers understand Chinese history and culture more comprehensively through the eyes of a foreign country. Since 1988, this series has been celebrating its 35th anniversary, with 225 titles published, which has deeply influenced the reading community at home and abroad.
On the morning of December 5th,"Overseas China Studies Series"The 35th anniversary exhibition opened in Nanjing. The exhibition will be held on the third floor of Wenxiang Art Space, No. 20 Jiangsu Road, Nanjing, and will last for one month. The editors, translators, experts and scholars of the series gathered together to share their translation experience and reading insights about the series. "Overseas China Studies Series"Edited by the famous scholar Liu Dong and published by Jiangsu People's Publishing House, it has published 225 kinds of books so far, involving politics, economics, history, philosophy, literature, art, sociology and other fields, including Fairbank, Shi Huaci, Levinson, Kong Feili and other overseas sinology masters, and his representative works include "China's Modernization", "Beijing's Rickshaw Driver", "Tianhuang Nobles - History of the Song Dynasty", "The Imperial Court on Horseback", "China Turns Inward" and so on.
Wang Baoding, president and secretary of the Party Committee of Jiangsu People's Publishing House, said that it should include all the most well-known scholars and the best research results overseas. Because Westerners have different perspectives, different ways of thinking, different cultural backgrounds, and their views on Chinese history and culture have unique perspectives, which is where the value of this series lies. As long as it has cultural value and cultural power, such academic projects and publishing projects will be remembered by history.
Lu Yuan, who teaches at the School of Sociology at Nanjing University, has been an avid reader of overseas sinology works, and he has collected all the different editions of this series so far.
Lu Yuan, a lecturer at Nanjing University's School of Sociology, said that he felt that the biggest inspiration for him was that it opened a door to understanding China from the perspective of the whole world and understanding China from different perspectives. China's future development especially needs this kind of multi-faceted and multi-faceted perspective to help us think about the road we have traveled and look forward to a better future.
In addition to the centralized presentation of this exhibition"Overseas China Studies Series"It also designed a timeline for the development of overseas book series, a map of the world's sinologists, etc., which opened a window for readers to understand China and themselves.
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