Books
UVU Wiki Book Projects
Collaborative scholarly publishing on the UVU Wiki platform. Authors and editors work together on book-length projects, with version control, peer review, and Word export.
25 Chapters · 5 Parts · ~1,000 pages
In Progress
A comprehensive history of Western sinology from ancient Greek accounts of the "Seres" through the Jesuit missions, the founding of academic sinology in 1814, to the digital humanities era. Covers sinology by country, thematic perspectives, and contemporary debates.
Chinese + EN/DE/FR · 1761/1766 translations
Planned
A bilingual critical edition of the Hao Qiu Zhuan (好逑傳, "The Fortunate Union"), one of the earliest Chinese novels translated into European languages. Includes the Chinese original alongside the historic English (Percy, 1761), German, and French translations with scholarly commentary.
UVU Wiki's book platform enables collaborative scholarly publishing. If you are a researcher in Chinese studies, sinology, or related fields, you can contribute to our book projects.
How to participate:
- Authors: Write or revise chapter content, add footnotes, improve bibliography
- Editors: Review chapters, suggest corrections, check references
- Reviewers: Provide feedback on drafts via talk pages
To get started, request an account and describe your area of expertise. Approved users receive author or editor permissions.
The UVU Wiki book platform provides:
- Version control: Every edit is tracked with full history and attribution
- Collaborative editing: Multiple authors can work on different chapters simultaneously
- Footnotes and references: Full support for scholarly citations via
<ref>tags - Word export: Download the complete book as a formatted DOCX file at any time
- Peer review: Chapter-level review status tracking
Technical details:
- Built on MediaWiki 1.35 with Cite and ParserFunctions extensions
- Chapter navigation via
{{Book Nav}}template - Review tracking via
{{Review Status}}template - Export via Pandoc (MediaWiki to DOCX conversion)