Orient Explorer Collection: The Silk Road Series
Another project I've been working on since returning from maternity leave is the Orient Explorer Collection: The Silk Road Series . This series is co-published with Guangxi Normal University Press, and it is the second such series we have released with them. (The first is about women writers in China.) This series is unlike anything I've edited at City University of Hong Kong Press thus far. The five books in it (listed below) are actually already in the public domain, so we reprinted the content using scanned images of the original books (provided by GNUP). Each book also includes a short preliminary section of new material, including an introductory foreword and brief author biography. Through Hidden Shensi (1902) by Francis H. Nichols In Forbidden China: The D'Ollone Mission 1906–1909; China—Tibet—Mongolia (1912) by Vicomte d'Ollone Across China on Foot: Life in the Interior and the Reform Movement (1911) by Edwin J. Dingle Among the Celestials: A Nar...
