Monthly Archives: August 2020

What’s the Point of Reference? A Berkshire Bookworld Roundtable Podcast

About this podcast In 2009, I wrote in Library Journal that the role of an encyclopedia creator together is to build circles of knowledge. I said that our job is to create a haven of calm within a wild world of information, and misinformation. A haven where readers

By BerkshirePubGrp|August 28th, 2020|Berkshire Blog, Podcasts|0 Comments

“This Is China” – a conversation with Professor Kerry Brown

Kerry Brown, a leading China scholar based in London, discusses the challenges of 2020 and the growing need to understand China and its history. Berkshire first published This Is China: The First 5,000 Years in 2010. Professor Brown has now updated the book in a second edition with a new chapter on recent developments.