Last month, I suggested that we schedule a staff canoe trip and picnic for this afternoon, knowing it would be Day 2 of my return from China and planning to use the occasion to nap outside. The weather cooperated perfectly. I dozed in the sun on a grassy bank by a mountain lake, with a Berkshire
On 11 July 2011, Berkshire signs a memorandum of understanding with the Multimedia Press of the Open University of China at a meeting in Beijing. We have been working towards this agreement since we first met representatives of the Multimedia Press at the 2009 Frankfurt Book Fair, and it’s exciting to take what I suspect is
This morning, on the lucky date of 8 July, I had the good fortune to introduce the World History Association Conference's opening session, a lecture by LIU Xincheng, president of Capital Normal University. This was the first William H. McNeill Keynote Lecture in World History, sponsored by Berkshire Publishing Group. A PDF of the photo album
The bones of "Peking Man" went missing in 1941, but the Zhoukoudian site outside Beijing where they were first discovered in 1921 was much better than I expected and well worth the trip. We followed our own "Travel Tips for Beijing" (download the four pages by clicking here) and got a taxi driver to
