With nearly 1,000 new titles per year and 16 journals (five of which are in the Science Citation Index), the 33-year-old Zhejiang University Press is a hotbed of activity. In February, it launched Wu Xiaobo’sThe Story of Tencent 1998–2016: Survivor, Challenger, and Leader, which has sold about 380,000 copies across China. That was followed by the release of a new peer-reviewed open access quarterly journal,Food Quality and Safety, copublished with Oxford University Press. Next cameSilks from the

A Chinese tea leaf travels past the border to India to serve as a bind between tea lovers and peoples of Asias two largest neighbors.Sunandan Roy Chowdhury with the Bengali version of The Land of Tea at the Beijing International Book Fair.[Photo/chinadaily.com.cn]TheLand of Tea, orRui Cao Zhi Guo, by Chinese writer Wang Xuefeng saw its Bengali version launched bySampark Publishing House of India during the Beijing International Book Fair on Thursday and the Hindi translation is nearing completio

Ornamental patterns from ancient Chinese textiles. [Photo provided to China Daily]A four-year-long national project has produced a magisterial work that celebrates a great heritage, Mei Jia reports.Silk is the most important creation from ancient China, one that has been passed down over 5,000 years, says Zhao Feng, a silk expert and director of the National Silk Museum in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province.To protect and preserve the relics we can try to be comprehensive with new ways of sourcing and

By Guan Xiaomeng | chinadaily.com.cnOmamental Patters from Ancient Chinese Textiles, a new collection of the Belt and Road series by Zhejiang University Press (ZJUP), was released on Thursday at the Beijing International Book Fair.Lu Dongming (L), professor of information science of Zhejiang University and President of Zhejiang University Press, and Zhou Yang,assistant curator of China Silk Museum, release theOmamental Patters from Ancient Chinese Textilesat the Beijing International Book Fair o

Chinese Nobel laureate Mo Yan meets some sinologists at the book fair. [Photo by Zou Hong/China Daily]Publishers at the 24th Beijing International Book Fair say cooperation and integration are the two words which describe the event that wrapped up on Aug 27.At the event, 5,262 deals were struck, an increase of 4.9 percent compared with the figures in 2016.The deals covered 3,244 Chinese titles that were sold or will be co-published overseas, says the fairs organizer.The ratio of titles sold comp