On January 15, 2018, Professor Bao Junya from Brown University donated 12 precious books to the library of Advanced Institute of Confucian Studies. These books are mainly the research results of foreign scholars on the history of Chinese books, such as Text and Ritual in Early China, Intellectual Property Law in Chinese Civilization, Publishing, Culture, and Power in Early Modern China; there are also works on the history of reading, such as A History of Reading in the West. These books are not easily available in China. The access of these books to the library of our institute will greatly facilitate teachers and students to read and understand the research trend of book history, which is conducive to the further development of Chinese history of books.

Bao Junya, Ph.D. of Harvard University, is professor and head of Department of history at Brown University. She is a historian of early modern China, with a focus on social history and the history of the book. Her works, The Ledgers of Merit and Demerit: Social Change and Moral Order in Late Imperial China Commerce in Culture and The Sibao Book Trade in the Qing and Republican Periods enjoy a high reputation in academia and were translated and introduced to China.

List of books donated by Professor Bao Junya:

1) Cavallo, Giuglielmo, and Roger Chartier, eds. A History of Reading in the West.

2) Kern, Martin. Text and Ritual in Early China.

3) Alford, William P. To Steal a Book is an Elegant Offense: Intellectual Property Law in Chinese Civilization.

4) Chow, Kai-wing. Publishing, Culture, and Power in Early Modern China.

5) Suarez, Michael F., S.J., and H.R. Woudhuysen, eds. The Book, A Global History.

6) He, Yuming. At Home and the World: Editing the "Glorious Ming" in Woodblock-Printed Books of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.

7) Nugent, Christopher. Manifest in Words, Written on Paper: Producing and Circulating Poetry in Tang Dynasty China.

8) Dennis, Joseph. Writing, Publishing and Reading Local Gazetteers in Imperial China, 100-1700.

9) Chia, Lucille. Printing for Profit: The Commercial Publishers of Jianyang, Fujian (11th-17th Centuries).

10) Schaberg, David. A Patterned Past: Form and Thought in Early Chinese Historiography.

11) McDermott, Joseph, and Peter Burke, eds. The Book Worlds of East Asia and Europe, 1450-1860: Connections and Comparisons.

12) Brokaw, Cynthia. Commerce in Culture: The Sibao Book Trade in the Qing and Republican Periods.