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02/14/2024
We're getting ready to launch this website with professionally edited English articles from China. A more direct window than previously available to students and general readers, and the ebooks (also at Amazon Kindle) are in both the original Chinese and our English translations. https://www.berkshirepublishing.com/ecph-china/
02/11/2021
06/29/2019
Summer Splash Sale: 50% Off All Website Orders and FREE Shipping - Ends Monday! - https://mailchi.mp/berkshirepublishing/summer-splash-2019
11/20/2018
Take a Break from Turkey: An Alternative Thanksgiving Meal - https://mailchi.mp/berkshirepublishing/take-a-break-from-turkey-an-alternative-thanksgiving-meal
03/21/2018
Join Berkshire (and Yuan Mei) at Booth #226 at Asian Studies 2018 in Washington DC -
Visit Berkshire at Booth #226 in Washington DC to save 30% on all orders, plus free shipping. Drop by Booth #226 to have your photo taken with Yuan Mei, the famous Chinese poet and author of Recipes from the Garden of Contentment, a gastronomic manual from the Qing Dynasty. Novelist Nicole Mones (The Last Chinese Chef) wrote the introduction and Professors E. N. Anderson and Jeffrey Riegel h...
02/08/2018
Happy Year of the Dog! -
Happy Year of the Dog! 狗年旺旺!! Haiwang Yuan 袁海旺, author of our forthcoming Becoming a Dragon,tells us that the Chinese onomatopoetic word to describe the bark of dog - wang 汪 - became popular because it is homophonic with 旺, which is part of Haiwang's name. People today often say 狗年旺旺 (literally, "Wishing you a ...
12/20/2017
Christmastime in Beijing & New York: Holiday Greetings from Berkshire Publishing
Christmastime in Beijing & New York: Holiday Greetings from Berkshire Publishing The gentleness of falling snow reminds us to look for quiet and peace wherever we are, and to appreciate the beauty of both the natural and human-made world. This 2009 photograph remains a favorite with us and with colleagues; it was taken by Tom Christensen near the Lama Temple in Beijing.
01/27/2017
Happy Year of the Rooster! (and a Chinese chicken pun)
Happy Year of the Rooster! 恭祝大家新年快乐、鸡 （吉）祥如意! Here's a proverb, a pun, and a video about eating together, and some vocabulary for those learning Chinese. May you have good luck in the Year of the Rooster!
12/02/2016
Favorite podcasts (some ours, others we recommend)
Favorite podcasts (some ours, others we recommend) Come and listen to Berkshire Bookworld, Fuschia Dunlop, and the NCUSCR.
10/28/2016
Chinese Leadership and the Tide of History | National Committee on United States - China Relations Do leaders make history or does history make leaders? Kerry Brown tackles this perennial questions as he talks about the Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography, which he edited—the first work of its kind in over a century. Brown presents Chinese biography as a uniquely useful way to get a handle…
10/21/2016
China: Ready or Not?
China: Ready or Not? "The world is too much with us," wrote the English poet William Wordsworth. That seems to be the way a lot of people feel in 2016. Our world is more connected than ever before. What happens on the other side of the planet or in the Arctic can change our communities, and influence our futures. Berksh...
10/07/2016
Vital China Knowledge: the Confucian Ideal
Vital China Knowledge: the Confucian Ideal In the Berkshire Bookworld podcast, “Confucius: Philosophy and Human Purpose,” Jeffrey Richey puts Confucius, the most influential person who may never have lived, into historical context and explains his lasting importance. All of us - students, teachers, professionals, and just plain citizens - wi...