China has an ancient civilization with a very long history. Understanding its olely through the study of documents is clearly inadequate. A wealth of objects and remains has been preserved on China's vast territory and underground; much of which has been collected and is exhibited in various kinds of museums. This raw material of history can, in a certain sense, be considered more valuable for our understanding of the past of China than documents and historical records. Among the sixty-one museums selected for this book, many have been designated as key protected cultural sites by China. Some have been included in the UNESCO List of World Cultural Heritage Sites. We hope that this volume can serve visitors as a guide to understanding these museums.

China is one of the earliest ancient civilizations in the world. Chinese civilization is the only ancient civilization in humanhistory without any interruption. This book outlines the developmenttrajectory of Chinese history, represents the demeanor andcharacteristics of Chinese civilization and interprets the secrecy ofthe continuity and rejuvenation of the densely populated ancientcivilization after several thousand years of vicissitudes.

了解一个国家，必先了解此国的人。在本书中，你将一览中国历史长河，认识曾在哲学、艺术、文学、宗教、科技和政治等领域留下深深烙印的88位重要人物。 To understand a country is to understand its people. In this book, we will take you on a tour through the long history of China to recall the life stories of 88 important figures who left their personal marks in philosophy, art and literature, religion, science and technology and political movements.

Chinese literature, spanning over three thousand years, has well shaped the splendid and profound cultural identity of the Chinese people. Chinese literature is of immediate practical use from its source. It concerns human relationships and everyday life as well as political education. Moreover, it is closely related with the spiritual life of the people. The Chinese people strive for the harmony of man:with nature, firmly believing that the foundation of human relationships and everyday life is in communion with the heavenly principles. What the geniuses in the field of literature aspire to know and concern themselves with are the whole universe, history, and the bitter sorrow of the common people. All these are the great splendors in the tradition of Chinese literature.

Catalogued according to different scientific fields, the book draws wisdom from authoritative experts in the institute of the History of Natural Sciences (IHNS) from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and comprehensively introduces ancient Chinas scientific and technological achieve- ments in such fields as astronomy, mathematics, physics, chemistry, geology, biology, agriculture, medicine, printing, spinning and weaving, metal-lurgy and foundry, machinery, architecture, ship-building and navigation, and military technology, etc. This book is Of high academic quality yet writ- ten in the simplest language possible, and thus is a very readable popular science collection.

无论你是充满好奇心的游客，或是艺术历史学者，无论你是希望探寻中国文化的博物馆管理人员，还是中国艺术的爱好者，都不容错过《中国博物馆指南（英文版）》。《中国博物馆指南（英文版）》由三位英美作者撰写、中国博物馆协会编写的手册，收录有我国近200家博物馆，以地道的英文，海量精彩图片，引领读者跨越古今，感受令人心醉神迷的中国历史、艺术与文化。

Seeing a Peking Opera performance for the first time, a foreigner wouldwonder: why are faces of actors painted red, white, black, yellow or green？Are they masks？ But masks are separate from the face. Facial make-upsin Peking Opera are different from masks. Intrigued, many foreign touristswould go backstage to see actors and actresses remove stage makeupand costume. Next time, they would go there before a performance startsto see how performers do their makeup. Luciano Pararotti, the great tenorof international fame, once had a Peking Opera actor paint on his face themakeup of Xiang Yu, a valiant ancient warrior portrayed in numerous Peking Opera plays.

Dao De Jing (The Book of Lao Zi)is windely read add celebrated as a Daoist classic.It is fyll form and literally presented in 81 chapters,the texts as a whole turn our to be suggestive, im- plicit and somewhat obscure in meaning; hence they are often found insoring to venture through with responses of appreciation, but not easy to digest the key arguments in questi0n, especially so in the case of general readers today. In order to facilitate a more fruitful reading of the classic,a new approach is therefore recommended with due consideration of the reading habit in genera,New Investigation. This study proiect is noticeably characterized by.a thematic rearrangement of the-81 chapters along with elaborate annotations and relevant commentary. They are offered as a resultof contextual analysis and absorptive incorpora- tion with some of the recent findings by Lao :Zi scholars. All this is intended to help one obtaincertain insights into the highlights of early Daoismas a philosophy. In addition to that, o

The heaven has time, the earth has vitality, material has beauty, work has ingenuity. Chinese arts and crafts enjoy a unique reputation in the history of material civilization among various nations in the world. For several thousands of years, people's handicrafts in their development echoed with the rhythm of lifo working with the rising sun and reposing at sunset. All species of handicrafts in their earliest states are related to usage: always practical, plain and warm, and in possession of a wisdom that adapts to agricultural civilization. Even the high-end handicrafts at the court and among the literati, such unpretentious tradition still remain and reveal a touch of pragmatic trace. All this is associated with the everlasting farming culture of China and her exceptional geographical position; which has left us rich cultural heritage in which wisdom of life and human creation is contained.

丛书译者为许渊冲先生，其从事翻译工作70年，2010年12月荣获 中国翻译文化终身成就奖 ；2014年8月荣获由国际译联颁发的文学翻译领域*奖项 北极光 杰出文学翻译奖，成为首位获该奖的亚洲翻译家。经许先生的妙手，许多中国经典诗文被译成出色的英文韵语。这套汉英对照版 许译中国经典诗文集 荟萃许先生*代表性的英文译作14种，汉语部分采用中华书局版本。这些作品包括多种体裁，上起先秦，下至清代，既是联接所有中国人思想、情感的文化纽带，也是中国文化走向世界的重要桥梁。阅读和了解这些作品，即可尽览中国文化的 源头活水 。相信这套许氏译本能使英语读者分享孔子、老子的智慧，分享唐诗、宋词、中国古典戏曲的优美，并以此促进东西方文化的交流。2015年2月2日，由中国出版协会举办的第五届中华优秀出版物奖在京揭晓， 许译中国经典诗文集

Ancient Chinese architecture is not only a sou rce of reference for modernChinese design, but its cultural heritage has also had an international influ—ence and attracted global attention. Appreciating ancient Chinese architec-ture can be likened to opening up an enormous history book. The legends ofremote antiquity speak of the great military achievements of the Qin emperor, the noble spi rit of the Tang Dynasty, the palace intrigues of the Ming Dynasty, not to mention the wisdom and intelligence of the millions of ordinary laborersthat are neglected by the history books；all of their images are vividly re-corded therein.

How did the classic Chinese garden take shape and develop? How manyprototypes are there in Chinese gardens, what.similarities do they shareand how do they differ from each other? What experience has beenaccumulated through the years of garden building, and what theories havebeen formed? Let's walk into the Chinese gardens and take a closer look.

中国是茶的故乡，中国人种茶、制茶、喝茶、爱茶，并把茶叶传向海内外，茶已成为中国*代表性的文化符号之一。作为一种绿色饮品，茶有着独特的保健功效，同时，还是招待客人、增进友谊的媒介。本书对中国茶历史、名茶、泡茶方法、茶礼茶俗等做了生动讲解。

In the Chinese way of describing the necessities of life, clothing ranks at the top of "garments, food, shelter and means of travel." In this country with a long history of garments and ornaments, there is a wealth of archeological findings showing the development of garments, as well as their portrayals in ancient mythology, history books, poems and songs, novels and drama. China, as a country made up of 56 ethnic groups that continually influenced each other, has undergone continuous transformation in dress style and customs. 作者简介： Hua Mei Born in the city of Tianjin .She is the head and professor of the international School of Women of the Tianjin Normal University and head of the Huamei Clothing Ornament Culturology Study. Her major works include Human Costume and Ornament Culturology, Costume, Ornament and Chinese Culture, and etc. She edited several series of books and wrote the Garments and Ornament Column on People's Daily.

This book aims to explore Chinese philosophical characteristics of different philosophers in various periods, and distinguish "Chinese philosophical sensibility" motivating their thoughts. In doing so, the author employs Westernphilosophical categories to descdbe different issues in the history of philosophy: Chinese political philosophy in pre-Qin era, Chinese metaphysics from Hanto Tang Dynasties, Chinese epistemology from Song to Ming Dynasties, and modern Chinese-Western comparative philosophy. The author provides readers with a clear conception of Chinese philosophical sensibility and its evolution throughout history.

Traditional Chinese painting was fundamentally an abstract art form.Although there were no absolute abstract Chinese paintings in its original meaning, objects in a painting were not a direct copy of the nature world following the principle of perspective. It was rather a combination or harmony between the nature world and human emotion, a product of "heaven (nature) and human". The effect Chinese painters would like to illustrate in their paintings was not a visual effect of colors and patterns as their Western counterparts would like to achieve. The de*ion of objects in their paintings was no means accurate and few concerned about such factors as colors, principle of perspective, anatomy, surface feel, and relative size. What they would like to achieve was a world in their mind of non materials. The nature world was not an object for them to make a true copy and it was rather elements for them to build their own world.

L'Art de la guerre de Sun Zi, paru vers la fin du VIe sicecle avant notre ere, est le premier traite de strategie connu au monde.Classique du genre, sa comprehension depasse le domaine militaire et peut etre etendue e la plupart des domaines de l'activite humaine.

宋代的社会繁荣，为其文学艺术的发展提供了广阔的空间和有利条件。宋词成为和唐诗相提并论的中国古代文学的另一座高峰。宋代人填词成为时尚，“文人学子相聚，凡不能一道背育其诗词者，皆自惭形秽。”宋代大词人以苏轼、辛弃疾为代表的豪放派和李清照、柳永为代表的婉约派为著名。宋词韵律优美，意境幽远，意味深长，具有独特的魅力，甚至有人认为吟诵宋词或许可以使人灵秀。 宋代的画家对绘画艺术有了进一步的理解。宋代大文学家、画家苏轼（1037-1101）不仅留下了大量不朽的词作和画作，而且提出了“诗中有画、画中有诗”的主张，成为后来历代画家追求的境界。 本书精选部分宋词和宋画，并配以英文翻译，以期和更多不同语言文化背景的读者共享宋词与宋画之美。

中国的太极文化，源远流长，博大精深，是中国古代哲学思想的重要观念和根源。纵观中国数千年历史，太极文化影响着包括儒家、道家等中华文化的主要流派，几乎存在于养生、武术、兵法、体育等每一个领域。

《论语》是部儒家经典，成书于战国（公元前475-前221年）初期，是中国古代哲学家、教育家孔子（公元前551-前479年）的弟子和后学关于孔子思想言行的记录，全书共20篇。《论语》集中体现了孔子的政治主张、伦理思想、道德观念及教育原则，而它的核心思想是“仁”。 本书今译和英译立足于周密详尽的考订，是极具影响的权威译本。