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Cultural Relics Press

Cultural Relics Press was established in 1957, and is the only press dedicated to publishing archeology related books. It is committed to salvaging and protecting China’s cultural heritage and publicizing the content and artistic charm of traditional Chinese culture. Over the past 60 years, it has published about 7000 kinds of books on culture and archeology”. Its publications on traditional Chinese culture are well received across the world. It is the first press to engage in cultural exchange abroad and cooperate with counterparts in Europe, the United States, Hong Kong and Taiwan. It has collaborated with partners in UK, USA, Italy, Japan, former Yugoslavia, Taiwan. More than 300 awards has been received at home and abroad, including, among others, National Book Award, China Book Award, and “Most Beautiful Books in the World” (Leipzig).
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Relish Books

Kate B. Gordon publishes middle grade fiction under the imprint Relish Books. The first book in the Unicorn King series, Lily and the Unicorn King, blends the unicorns of European mythology with Maori myths and lore, a trio of brave friends and their ponies. The second book in the series, Sasha and the Warrior Unicorn, will be out late in 2020 with the third book in 2021.
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Literature & Literary Studies

July 2024

Relics, dreams, voyages

World baroque

by Peter Davidson

Relics, Dreams,Voyages is a closely focused sequence of studies of worldwide connections in all the arts in the baroque period. Drawing on original research in libraries, collections, and archives in five countries, and in as many languages, this book draws many astonishing, unfamiliar and beautiful texts, things and events, into a cartography of the secret and strange patterns of baroque cultures worldwide. The visual arts are examined across a wide temporal and geographical span, and many subversive iconographies are decoded: at the French and English courts, in remote Scotland, in Nagasaki, in Valladolid. This books offers a new, extraordinary cultural geography of the baroque world, opening doors to many rich and strange cultural artefacts, from 'China to Peru.'

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Humanities & Social Sciences

June 2024

Hariulf’s History of St Riquier

by Kathleen Thompson

A new and accessible translation of Hariulf's History of St Riquier, this book examines the history of a monastic community from the seventh to the eleventh century. It covers the ascetic life of the founding saint and the development of the community under the Carolingians in the late eighth and ninth centuries. There were setbacks when the house was sacked by the Vikings and the founder's relics were stolen for political ends, but it recovered in the tenth and eleventh centuries and developed the links with both the Norman and English courts that enable Hariulf to make interesting observations about the Norman Conquest of England. Hariulf's description of the monastic site with its three churches and the liturgical arrangements practised there, as well as the relics, treasures, books and endowments of a great monastic foundation, make his history an important source for monastic history.

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May 2015

Grace: Cultural Relics Exhibition of Women in Ancient China

by The Nanjing Musuem

This is a catalogue about an exhibition on cultural relics related to women in ancient China, enhanced by abundant information and high-quality images, covering all aspects of women’s daily lives in the past. Relying on the collections in Nanjing Museum, the book is designed with the theme of “femininity” and “art”. It makes a breakthrough in its idea and form of the exhibition.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

June 2025

Taking travel home

The souvenir culture of British women tourists, 1750–1830

by Emma Gleadhill

In the late eighteenth-century, elite British women had an unprecedented opportunity to travel. Taking travel home uncovers the souvenir culture these women developed around the texts and objects they brought back with them to realise their ambitions in the arenas of connoisseurship, friendship and science. Key characters include forty-three-year-old Hester Piozzi (Thrale), who honeymooned in Italy; thirty-one-year-old Anna Miller, who accompanied her husband on a Grand Tour; Dorothy Richardson, who undertook various tours of England from the ages of twelve to fifty-two; and the sisters Katherine and Martha Wilmot, who travelled to Russia in their late twenties. The supreme tourist of the book, the political salon hostess Lady Elizabeth Holland, travelled to many countries with her husband, including Paris, where she met Napoleon, and Spain during the Peninsular War. Using a methodology informed by literary and design theory, art history, material culture studies and tourism studies, the book examines a wide range of objects, from painted fans "of the ruins of Rome for a sequin apiece" and the Pope's "bless'd beads", to lava from Vesuvius and pieces of Stonehenge. It argues that the rise of the souvenir is representative of female agency, as women used their souvenirs to form spaces in which they could create and control their own travel narratives.

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November 2007

Relic

Museum der Angst. Lesung

by Child, Lincoln; Preston, Douglas / Gelesen von Piper, Thomas

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May 1995

Relic

Museum der Angst

by Preston, Douglas; Child, Lincoln

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Colonialism & imperialism

January 2015

The relic state

by Pamila Gupta

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Humanities & Social Sciences

May 2016

The relic state

by Pamila Gupta, Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie

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The Arts

February 2021

The matter of miracles

by Amelia Jones, Helen Hills, Marsha Meskimmon

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July 2021

Series of Inheritance of Traditional Chinese Medicine School-Menghe School of Medicine

by Chen Renshou

This series of books has a detailed record of the history of the formation and development of important schools of traditional Chinese medicine in traditional Chinese culture. The chief editors of each booklet analyzed and summarized the academic characteristics of the school, representative figures, and the secret recipe and academic experience of the school in detail. He also raised his ardent expectations for the future development of this school. The content has high academic value and is a precious document for the study of traditional Chinese medicine culture. This book comprehensively introduces Meng He from the historical and cultural background of Menghe, the group of Menghe medical experts, the anecdotes and historical relics of Menghe medical school, the clinical academic thought of Menghe medical school, the foreign development and contemporary influence of Menghe medical school, etc. The formation and development of the medical school. Different from the general introduction, this book summarizes the circulation of the main medical books of the Menghe medical school, conducts field visits to its historical relics, and analyzes the clinical characteristics and academic commonality of the Menghe medical school.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

April 2022

Taking travel home

by Emma Gleadhill, Julie Hardwick

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April 2009

Temples, Pagodas and Pavilions

by Wang Hongzhi, Zhang Dongjie

This volume gives us a general picture of temples, pagodas and pavilions because they have important positions in Chinese architectural history not only for their architectural art, but also for their historical position and value as cultural relics.

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June 2019

Which Melon do You Like?

by Xiao Aozi

Which Melon do You Like? describes a variety of melons and the "top melon melon", which was a pleasing token at the end of the harvest season. Plenty of fruits and happy emotions -- all these are the rewards that the earth offers us for our industriousness!

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The Arts

May 2017

Dream of Hometown

by Wang Zengqi

This a souvenir edition of Wang Zengqi’s works. He wrote about beauty of human and emotion with kindness; he explored beauty of nature and the world through description of ordinary work and customs; he wrote about luck in difficulties, optimism in depression, and fun of bitterness, showing the beauty and power of life.

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The Treasures in the Scripture-storing Cave

by Zhao Xiaoxing, Yang Jie

The Scripture-storing cave of Dunhuang is regarded as the medieval library, which contains nearly seventy thousand ancient literature and artwork. In this book, readers can learn about the historical stories of some relics excavated from the caves. Meanwhile, this book uses the multi-media, including audios and videos, to attract the teenagers, in order to let them understand the ancient social society and the value of Dunhuang.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

Sanjiangyuan

Image Files of the Natural and Humanistic Heritages of China’s River Sources, I

by Zheng Yunfeng

The Sanjiangyuan (Source of Three Rivers) region, where the Yangtze, Yellow and Lancang rivers all originate, is regarded as the cradle of Chinese civilization that has nurtured Chinese people for thousands of years. The Sanjiangyuan series is a collection of photography of Zheng Yunfeng in the past 3 decades. It contains 10 volumes and over 3000 photos, presenting in a panoramic view the landscapes, historical relics, religions, civilization and arts in the Sanjiangyuan Region.

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January 2019

Great game power: ancient poetry amusement park

by Duomapeiwa

This is a set of books that can make ancient poetry study and play. It contains three ancient poetry game sets, and selects 78 ancient poems that must be mastered by primary school students. Each ancient poem is designed with a game that is helpful for reading and memory, so that preschool and lower primary school children can learn ancient poems in the game. In addition, the game chess of ancient poetry and the token of flying flowers of ancient poetry are designed for the children who have spare efforts.

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April 2021

Superb! Chinese History in Medicine

by Liu Xiyang,Zhu Shaozu, Wang Peishan

This book starts from the perspective of mankind's struggle against diseases and compares the outline and process of Chinese history. Based on a large number of detailed cultural relics and archaeological materials, the book restores ancient life and takes children through time and space to immerse themselves in it. Hand-painted restoration of history, with rich details to restore a high degree of historical life scenes, to give children a fascinating, three-dimensional history of ancient life and life exploration.

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August 2015

The Crystallization of Chinese Opera

by The Nanjing Musuem

This is a complete catalogue of the exhibition The Crystallization of Chinese Opera, enhanced by high-quality images of more than 150 pieces (sets) of cultural relics related to various kinds of traditional Chinese operas, including UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Peking Opera and Kun Opera. Exhibition objects are carefully selected and arranged to show the characteristics of Chinese opera in different regions and different times, as well as the role opera played in Chinese people’s daily life. Images of the colorful sculptures and statues, costumes, puppet figures, script books, movable stage, stage props, as well as decorative objects painted with opera scenes, will enable the audience to perceive the charm of various operas.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

December 2019 - December 2024

Biography of Wang Chuanshan

by Wang Lingxin

Mr. Wang Chuanshan is a broad scholar and great thinker in Chinese history. The author of this book, on the basis of consulting sufficient historical materials, fully studying for many years and many investigations of Chuanshan relics, details Chuanshan's legendary life and its spiritual journey. Although the book focuses on the actual life experience of Chuanshan, it also involves some profound thoughts of Chuanshan. Through the understanding of Chuanshan and his thoughts, we can also further understand the greatness and loftiness of human spirit, and understand the persevering efforts and contributions made by sages at all times and in all countries in order to continue and develop human spiritual wisdom.

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by Child, Lincoln; Preston, Douglas / Gelesen von Piper, Thomas

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Image Files of the Natural and Humanistic Heritages of China’s River Sources, I

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