Chinese Studies International: A Scholarly Review Journal aims to present informative, insightful, and critical English-language reviews of innovative and relevant Chinese Studies-related books from within and outside of China. Its multi- and interdisciplinary scope and global coverage make it an essential tool for everyone interested in the culture and society of Chinese-language communities around the world and enable any informed scholar to keep abreast of contemporary cutting-edge academic research.
Year of Publication: 2020
Publisher: University of Hawai’i Press
A Library of Clouds constructs new ways of understanding the complex authorship of texts like the Scripture of the Immaculate Numen and their place in early medieval Daoism. It stresses their significance in understanding how manuscripts were written, received, and distributed in early medieval China.
Year of Publication: 2022
Publisher: Routledge Publishing
This book considers the Chinese internet as an ensemble of ideas, ownership, policies, laws, and interests that intersect with pre-existing global elements and, increasingly, with deepening globalizing imperatives. It extends traditional inquiry about digital China and globalization and encourages closer attention to contestation, shifting international order, the transformation of states, and new requirements of global digital capitalism.
Year of Publication: 2022
Publisher: Routledge Publishing
This volume presents a series of the most up-to-date studies on Chinese for Specific Purposes (CSP), an area that has been underrepresented in Language for Specific Purposes (LSP). Drawing from the insights and trends in mainstream theoretical and methodological LSP research, chapters in this volume explore novelties that CSP has developed to prepare Chinese as professional learners for the global economy.
Year of Publication: 2022
Publisher: Routledge Publishing
Chinese for Working Professionals is for learners who intend to use Chinese in a multinational global workplace. It has eight thematic units focusing on developing learners’ transferable skills in addition to expanding the cross-cultural competencies required in a real-world workplace.
Year of Publication: 2021
Publisher: Oxford University Press
In Doing What You Really Want, Franklin Perkins presents a coherent, systematic, and accessible explanation of Mengzi’s philosophy. He covers everything from the place of human beings in nature, to human psychology and philosophy of emotions, to the various ways we can deliberately change and cultivate ourselves.
Year of Publication: 2019
Publisher: University of Hawai’i Press
The “Educational Perspectives Journal” is an esteemed publication showcasing scholarly work by faculty from the University of Hawai’i, dedicated to advancing educational research and practice. This journal features peer-reviewed articles that address diverse topics such as indigenous educational practices, curriculum innovation, and the impact of cultural contexts on learning outcomes.
Year of Publication: 2020
Publisher: Nova Science Publisher
Perspectives on Consciousness bridges ancient views on consciousness with modern neuroscience, quantum physics, and higher-dimensional mathematics, as well as real-world application to raising awareness of consciousness in teaching.
Year of Publication: 2020
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
‘The Philosophy of Education in a New Key: East Asia’, the collectively written piece by East Asian scholars, aims to answer to the call of the ‘Harmonic Cadence’ by introducing East Asian sagacity. It sheds a new light on collective writing that can make great contributions to academia.
Year of Publication: 2019
Publisher: Springer
This entry takes a historical and global perspective regarding the quest for defining teacher quality, its development, the relevance and importance for individual teachers at present, and challenges as well as directions for the future.
Year of Publication: 2019
Publisher: Springer
This book analyzes the murals and texts of the Dunhuang Grottoes, one of the most famous sites of cultural heritage on the Silk Road in Northwest China, from an educational perspective. The Dunhuang Grottoes are well-known in the world for their stunning beauty and magnificence, but the teaching of Dunhuang advocates a philosophical perspective that the cosmos, nature, and humanity are an interconnected whole, and that all elements function interactively according to universal and relational principles of continuity, cause-and-effect, spiritual connection, and enlightenment.
Year of Publication: 2022
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
An in-depth examination of the regulatory, entrepreneurial, and organizational factors contributing to the expansion and transformation of China’s supplemental education industry.
Honorable Mention of the Asia/Transnational Book Award, American Sociological Association (ASA) in 2023
Year of Publication: 2024
Publisher: Hamilton Books
A collective memoir of community reimagining, The Making of Little Saigon orchestrates the voices of activists, writers, artists, entrepreneurs, and scholars who have inhabited and nurtured Little Saigon, Orange County, California, into a beloved sanctuary—a sumptuous enclave of Vietnamese refugees and immigrants in the US.
Year of Publication: 2020
Publisher: Springer Cham
This book provides a comprehensive assessment of the cross-border mobility of Chinese students and addresses the questions of who in China chooses to study overseas, why they want to do so, and what the impacts of this mobility are on China’s social stratification.
Year of Publication: 2020
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
This paper unpacks the layers of human consciousness (or lack of consciousness) from a philosophical perspective to examine the relations between our understanding of consciousness and its impact on our holistic well-being and growth. It aims to connect theory, learning, and living together with nature and the universe beyond the limitation of time and space.
Year of Publication: 2023
Publisher: Springer Cham
In this paper, a three-force framework is proposed to explain the rationale behind Vietnam’s bamboo policy in the new world geopolitical context.
Year of Publication: 2023
Publisher: University of Florida Press
This volume examines an underserved aspect of Asian art history by discussing women artists, collectors, archaeologists, and architects. The essays in Women across Asian Art cover a wide geographical area, from Japan to Pakistan, as they draw attention to people whose efforts have largely been left out of scholarship.
Year of Publication: 2024
Publisher: Zhejiang University Press
This book by Shana J. Brown discusses the study of gold and stone began in the Tang and Song Dynasties and continued to the 20th century. It mainly studies ancient bronzes and stone carvings and inscriptions, and focuses on collecting, recording and verifying written materials to achieve the purpose of verifying scriptures and supplementing history.