Michael Beaney has just published The Joy of Chinese Philosophy (De Gruyter, 2026); see here for full-text access. The publisher’s blurb:

This book introduces some central ideas and themes in ancient Chinese philosophy through a detailed analysis of one famous passage – the happy fish dialogue – in the Zhuangzi, one of the two founding texts of Daoism. The Zhuangzi is the most exhilarating and intellectually challenging of all the texts of ancient Chinese literature, and appreciating its spirit is as important as understanding its ideas. Methodologically, this book shows how we can approach Chinese philosophy analytically, an approach that is needed if Chinese philosophy is to be recognized in Western (analytic) philosophy today. At the same time, it seeks to broaden our conceptions and practices of analysis and our methods and styles of philosophizing in learning from Chinese philosophy. Throughout the book the emphasis is on engaging the reader in thinking through the issues for themselves.

Lever Press recently published Unlocking the Treasury: Elementary Learning for Boys in Qing China by Katherine Ngo. The publication is the first major European study of the Chinese children’s primer Youxue gushi qionglin 幼學故事瓊林 (Treasury of elementary learning) from the Qing dynasty. The study explores the intellectual trends of elementary education in Qing China and design of educational literature for basic literacy, moral development, cultural literary, and examination preparation.

To access the book for further reading, please visit here.