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This book is edited by Professor Liu Dong of Zhejiang University, with 10 scholars from universities at home and abroad serving as editorial board members. It regularly scans the cutting-edge academic achievements in overseas China studies. This collection selects 32 papers and 12 book reviews from dozens of top overseas academic journals. It covers a wide range of subjects and covers various subdivisions of the humanities. It explores such topics as the political economy of the Bronze Age, the eunuch family politics of the Tang Dynasty, the art history and art of the Song Dynasty, the supply of silver in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the issuance and circulation of newspapers in the Qing Dynasty, and the relationship between China and Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries. Gift exchange, the gender division of labor in the Jiangnan region, the institutional operation of Qing diplomacy after the Jiashen coup, the global history of early modern Chinese paper, labor identity during China's New Culture Movement, genre paintings and Beijing in the transitional period, agriculture and vegetable markets on the frontier during the Cold War, and other topics that represent recent academic creativity in overseas sinology circles and are both academically profound and research interesting.