Hou Renzhi

The first monograph to explore the origin and development of a city with the method of historical geography in China; A meticulous study of Beijing geography based on historical documents and field work; With fifty-four four-color original maps drawn...

Wang Zhongshu

Masterfully summarizes the important archaeological data pertaining to the Han civilization; Reconstructs a prospect of the life in China some two thousand years ago in a text-cum-picture fashion; English translation by the renowned archaeologist Kwa...

Xiao Qian

Displays the author's deep contemplations on the grand themes such as cultural exchanges between China and the West, the relationship between literature and war, and so on. The author's convincing judgment of the status and tendency of Western litera...

Wen Yuanning

A selection of 43 pieces of English biographies originally published on the special column of the English weekly newspaper The China Critic , with Jiang Feng's fine translations; Short sketches of impressions about celebrities like Wu Mi, Hu Shih, Hs...

Fei Hsiao-tung

Edited upon Fei's dictation in English, these succinct chapters are a general description of the Chinese rural area and overall society and an extension of Fei's early fieldwork researches, which are key to the understanding of the "hyper-stability" ...

Li Chi

Anthology of archaeological and anthropological writing in English by Li Chi, the founding father of China's modern archaeology; Traces back the rise of Chinese civilization as well as the origin of its people following the steps of the pioneering re...