Journey to Dunhuang is Chen Shunshin’s travel writing on Dunhuang and Silk Road history, reading the depth of East-West exchange through Mogao caves and memories of the western regions.

From the landscape of Dunhuang, Silk Road history and culture come alive.

The Heavenly Serpent is a biography of linguist Nikolai Nevsky, tracing his contribution to Japanese cultural studies and the fate of scholarship caught in violent history.

Through the life of a tragic scholar, it depicts the crossing of scholarship and history.