The Baiqian Initiative – Publication Plan – Translation Series with Brill

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Publication Plan

 

Publication Plan Overview Translation Series with Brill Open-Access Publishing Initiative Book List for Phase 1
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Translation Series with Brill

The Baiqian Initiative will publish its translations in partnership with Brill under the series One Thousand Books in a Century: Peking University’s Academic Classics Translation Project (北京大學百年千冊學術經典外譯) (OTBC), coedited by Ru Zhan 湛如 and Jinhua Chen 陳金華.

Conceived as a long-term flagship initiative, the series aims to present authoritative English translations of major Chinese academic classics to a global readership, ensuring both scholarly rigor and international accessibility.

The series, titled Brill-PekingU OTBC Series, is organized into five thematic sub-series reflecting the breadth of Chinese scholarship:

  1. OTBC: Literature & Linguistics;
  2. OTBC: History, Archaeology & Bibliography;
  3. OTBC: Philosophy, Religion, Ethics & Aesthetics;
  4. OTBC Social Science (I): Politics, Law, Economics & Sociology;
  5. OTBC Social Science (II): Psychology, Education, Anthropology & Folklore Studies.