One of the most famous legends in China, Journey to the West has many characters that are known to every household over the past hundreds of years. People are used to thinking that Journey to the West, as a story and a legend, is totally fictional. However, after looking up large quantities of historical materials, the author analyzes the novel meticulously in e......

Part of Academic Series of Silk Road & Dunhuang Studies of Zhejiang Scholars. This book selects transportation periods and centers from the prehistoric period to Tang & Song Dynasties in FANG Hao’s History of Chinese and Western Transportation. Some of the contents agree with the cultural communication of the Silk Road. This book makes detailed explanati......

This is a popular economics reading. The author gives popularized interpretation to various stories and phenomena in history, literature and society from the perspective of economics. Emotion, history, life, investment and other contents are included in the book, aiming to help readers learn more during fun reading. If you are scared of those textbook-like readi......

The West Discovers East Asian Art is published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same title. It contains two essays, explaining in detail the setting up and development of collections of East Asian art and culture in the West. The book also includes entries of the rare books displayed in the exhibition, covering many important works (including exhibition......

The international economic situation is quite unstable. The domestic housing price and stock market are pretty changeable. How to handle the latest financial information and realize effective financial allocation has become a public concern. The book on the rapid reform of financial market in the past one or two years offers certain guidance and enlightenment to investors ......

Based on the disputes between China and the western world in ancient and modern times, this book makes a thorough study on the spirit, the ideological structure, the cultivation of noble characters, the political and educational system, and other aspects of Confucian culture. It consists of three parts: sorting out the debates between Confucianism and Buddhism i......