Book boom

Science publisher reaches into new areas to take Chinese research and ideas into the world beyond, Mei Jia reports.

Springer, one of the world's largest science publishers, is reaching out for more social, economic and humanities titles in China, believing the country is presenting first-class research in those areas as well as in sciences.

Springer recently announced it would start a new English-language journal, International Communication of Chinese Culture, with Beijing Normal University, its latest move to publish Chinese social sciences books.