Berkshire Publishing Group (2024)

14/02/2024

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/

19/12/2023

Over 12 years in the making: 人类文明交流互鉴：Communication about Civilizations:
《宝库山世界历史研究指南》读书会议程 Agenda for the Book Launch of Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History, 2nd Edition (in Simplified Chinese)
时间：2023年12月20日星期三上午9：00
Time: 9:00 on Wednesday, December 20th, 2023
地点：桂林路81号上海师范大学东部文科实验楼1103会议室
Place: Conference room 1103, Eastern Laboratory Building of Liberal Arts, Shanghai Normal University (SHNU), No.81 Guilin Rd. Shanghai, China, 200234

一、开幕致辞（9：00-9：30）Part 1: Opening (9:00 - 9:30）
主持人：常绍民
Moderator: Shaomin Chang (Associate Editor of SDX Joint Publishing Company)
致辞人：林在勇宋志军
王为松
Speakers: Zaiyong Lin (Secretary of the CPC SHNU Committee), Zhijun Song (General Manager of SDX Joint Publishing Company), Weisong Wang (Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of Shanghai Federation of Social Science Associations)

二、译者引言与出版介绍（9：30-10：10）Part 2: Book Introduction by Translators and Publisher
主持人：陈恒
Moderator: Heng Chen (Professor of Department of World History, SHNU)
发言人：俞金尧刘健
黄艳红成华
Speakers: Jinyao Yu (Professor in World History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
), Jian Liu (Deputy Director of Department of World History, CASS), Yanhong Huang (Professor of Department of World History, SHNU), Hua Cheng (Associate Editor of SDX Joint Publishing Company )

茶歇（10：10-10：20）Tea Break (10:10 - 10:20)

三、读书会讨论发言（上半场）（10：20-11：00）Part 3: DiscussionⅠ (10:20 - 11:00)
主持人：蔡萌

Moderator: Mneg Cai (Professor in World History, SHNU)
发言人：常绍民彭小瑜
向荣顾云深
李剑鸣
Speakers: Shaomin Chang, Xiaoyu Peng (Professor of Department of History, Peking University), Rong Xiang (Professor of Department of History, Fudan University), Yunshen Gu (Professor of Department of History, Fudan University), Jianming Li (Professor of Department of History, Fudan University)

四、读书会讨论发言（下半场）（11：00-11：40）Part 4: Discussion Ⅱ (11:00 - 11:40)
主持人：梁民愫
Moderator: Minsu Liang (Professor of Department of World History, SHNU)
发言人：苏智良
沐涛郭长刚
王健
孟钟捷
Speakers: Zhiliang Su (Professor of Department of History, SHNU), Tao Mu (Professor of Department of History, East China Normal University ), Changgang Guo (Director of Department of History, Shanghai Academy of Social Science ), Jian Wang (Director of Institution of International Relations, SASS), Zhongjie Meng (Vice-Secretary of the CPC ECNU Committee)

五、领导讲话（11：40）Part 5: Closing Remarks
主持人：苏智良 Moderator: Zhiliang Su领导讲话：刘新成
Speaker: Xincheng Liu (Vice Chairman of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference)

午餐（12：10，西部外宾楼）Lunch (12:10 -

参会者名单
List of Participants

嘉宾 Guests
刘新成（第十三届全国政协副主席）
王为松（上海市社会科学联合会党组书记）向荣（复旦大学历史学系教授）

彭小瑜（北京大学历史学系教授）顾云深（复旦大学历史学系教授）李剑鸣（复旦大学历史学系教授）
郭长刚（上海社会科学院历史所所长）
王健（上海社会科学院国际问题研究所所长）孟钟捷（华东师范大学党委副书记）
沐涛（华东师范大学历史系教授）
译者 Translators
陈恒（上海师范大学世界史系教授）
俞金尧（中国社会科学院世界历史研究所研究员）刘健（中国社会科学院世界历史研究所副所长）黄艳红（上海师范大学人文学院世界史系研究员）
出版方 Staff of SXD Joint Publishing Company宋志军（北京三联书店总经理、党委副书记）常绍民（北京三联书店副总编辑）
李理（北京三联书店副总编辑）
成华（北京三联书店（上海）有限公司副总编辑）洪江龙（北京三联书店（上海）有限公司副总经理）
上海师范大学 Staff of SHNU
林在勇（上海师范大学党委书记）苏智良（上海师范大学历史系教授）
刘子奎（上海师范大学世界史系教授）梁民愫（上海师范大学世界史系教授）陆伟芳（上海师范大学世界史系教授）蔡萌（上海师范大学世界史系教授）
刘义勇（上海师范大学世界史系副教授）李腾（上海师范大学世界史系副教授）
王雯菲（上海师范大学世界史系青年教师）冯雅琼（上海师范大学世界史系青年教师）姚汉昌（上海师范大学世界史系青年教师）成威华（上海师范大学世界史系青年教师）黄嘉欣（上海师范大学世界史系博士后）
媒体 Media
杨逸淇（《文汇报》Wenhui Daily）李纯一（《文汇报》Wenhui Daily）王珍（《解放日报》Jiefang Daily）于淑娟（《澎湃新闻》The Paper）
丁雄飞（《上海书评》Shanghai Review of Books）

颜维琪（《光明日报》GuangMing Daily）

11/12/2023

I'm writing a holiday email about Ray Oldenburg's The Joy of Tippling and was reminded of this clip, which I made on the fly 5 years ago. It's a lovely tribute to Ray and to his best-known book, The Great Good Place, which I am now bringing up to date. I am looking for more places that have gemülichkeit.

Author and illustrator John Tebeau's remarks at the Old Town Bar on Saturday, 8 December 2018, at the annual Xmas tree lighting and crèche blessing ceremony....

29/06/2021

Our mission is to bring you the world.

We think of Berkshire Publishing as something of a travel site, where visitors can learn about other countries and other cultures. We believe in time-travel, too, inviting you to explore past centuries and past millennia with us. As our friend and mentor William H. McNeill put it, “Genuinely inclusive world history is such a helpful, even necessary, guide for survival in the crowded world in which we live.”

What we’re really about is community - communities of teachers and scholars, learners and leaders. In fact, Berkshire’s founder and CEO is the senior academic editor of the award-winning SAGE Encyclopedia of Community. Listen to Berkshire Bookworld podcasts, join our discussion groups, and subscribe to Karen’s fortnightly Substack letter, which has stories from different corners of the world, tips and tools, book reviews, and recipes.

If you’re wondering who we are, flipping through the Berkshire catalog is a good way to start. Visit About Us to find out why a global media company has its headquarters in a tiny New England town. Then we hope you’ll write to us and introduce yourself. We love hearing from our readers and from teachers and professors using our books.

We are preparing for a world transformed by climate change. Knowledge matters, but we also bring things home, offering information about “home ecology” and grassroots action. Take a look at Advance Articles from the in-progress second edition of the 10-volume Encyclopedia of Sustainability. Bill McKibben wrote, “Assuming we’re wise enough to heed the warnings of scientists, this will have to be the century of sustainability. And this comprehensive set of volumes will help form the core of a library for informed citizens.”

China is part of every project we take on because it is so very important, and so interesting. This video explains how tiny Berkshire Publishing went to China.

01/06/2020

Compare our World and Big History titles for summer reading – and the new This Is China: The First 5,000 Years - https://mailchi.mp/berkshirepublishing/summer-reading-this-is-china-2nd

30/05/2020

Karen's Letter: What are you cooking tonight? - https://mailchi.mp/berkshirepublishing/karens-letter-what-are-you-cooking

29/05/2020

Compare our World and Big History titles for summer reading – and the new This Is China: The First 5,000 Years - https://mailchi.mp/berkshirepublishing/summer-reading-this-is-china