Berkshire Bookworld

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  • Get to know the professors and other experts who work on the challenging issues facing us today, and the educators who work with our next generation. Berkshire Bookworld is hosted by Karen Christensen, founder and CEO of Berkshire Publishing Group is known for its work on China, world history, big history, and environmental sustainability, but on the podcast Karen ranges even more widely, into literature, social issues, and leadership studies.
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    • Scientist, Blogger, Culinary Translator

      Scientist, Blogger, Culinary Translator
      Jan 19 2021
      Biomedical engineer Sean Chen talks about how he began translating the Qing dynasty gastronomic masterpiece, the Suiyuan Shidan, as a hobby during graduate school. He grew up in a food-obsessed family but never expected to be a translator, but he wanted to read the famous cookery manual and the only way to do that was to teach himself classical Chinese. His scientific training was helpful with many technical details about plants and animals. He also corrected the existing digital Chinese texts by cross-checking them against scans of the original 1792 book held at Harvard and Princeton. Chen is talking to Karen Christensen, who approached him about publishing the English text after hearing about his blog from several Berkshire authors. An English-only version is available as The Way of Eating. Sean Jy-Shyang Chen is a scientific developer for computer assisted minimally invasive neurosurgery. He completed his Doctorate in Biomedical Engineering (2014) at McGill University in Canada, specializing in image processing for computer assisted neurosugery. This is his first publication outside the fields of science and engineering. Karen Christensen is the chief executive officer and founder of Berkshire Publishing Group and a writer specializing in sustainability and community with a focus on China. One of her recent projects was coediting Women and Leadership: History, Concepts, and Case Studies (A Berkshire Essential) with George R. Goethals and Crystal L. Hoyt of the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond. Transcript (coming soon) Title:               Scientist and Blogger Becomes First Translator of Famous Chinese Food Book Host:               Karen Christensen Interviewee:   Sean Chen The post Scientist, Blogger, Culinary Translator appeared first on Berkshire Publishing.
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    • What’s the Point of Reference? A Berkshire Bookworld Roundtable Podcast

      What’s the Point of Reference? A Berkshire Bookworld Roundtable Podcast
      Aug 28 2020

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

      “This Is China” – a conversation with Professor Kerry Brown
      Aug 4 2020

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      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.

      Listen to the podcast to hear why are stories so important in understanding China, and how the chapter “China Today” might easily be called “Xi Jinping’s China.” As Brown explains, “If China is going to be more significant and prominent, which is almost certain, if we’re going to have arguments with China, we may as well know what we’re talking about.” In the book itself, he provides insightful answers to today’s questions about the world’s newest superpower and offers an engaging framework for understanding its meteoric rise.

      Length: 22 minutes. Subscribe via RSS or iT
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