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No.	Cover	Book Title	Editor or Writer	Press	Publishing Time	ISBN	Language	Introduction

1		World Heritage in China·Historical City	Editor-in-Chief: Du Xiaofan, Editor: Shao Yong and Zhou Jian	company Springer Nature SingaporePte Ltd.	2025/12	978-981-96-8720-6； 978-981-96-8721-3(eBook)	English	This book explores China's World Heritage cities, highlighting their history, spatial layout, culture, and conservation, emphasizing their value as living cultural heritage.

2		Conservation and Revitalization Planning of Territorial Spatial Heritage	Shao Yong, Wu Chengzhao	Tongji University Press	2025/10	9787576518221	Chinese	Territorial spatial heritage is an important material and intangible legacy of territorial spatial culture. The cognition, identification and analysis of it are crucial components for telling Chinese stories well and expounding Chinese wisdom. Meanwhile, its protection and revitalization are significant contents for realizing high-quality territorial spatial development and high-quality living. Based on the authors’ years of research accumulation, this manuscript intends to integrate the theories and methods of disciplines such as urban-rural planning, architecture, landscape architecture, history, archaeology, anthropology, geography, sociology and ecology, and put forward the principles, systems, contents and methods of territorial spatial heritage protection and revitalization planning with Chinese characteristics. This book represents an innovative and cutting-edge achievement in China. Its target readers are students and professionals in the fields of territorial spatial planning, urban-rural planning, architecture, landscape architecture and other related disciplines.

3		Official Chinese Version of the Guidance and Toolkit for Impact Assessments in a World Heritage Context	Translator: LI Hong Review: FENG Yan, HAN Feng, HAO Shuang, HOU Wenxiao, LIN Yalin, PEI Jieting, SHAO Yong, XIAO Shizhen, YANG Wenjun, ZHANG Xuechun, ZHANG Yime	UNESCO	2025/07	9789235000597	Chinese	This Guideline is designed as a methodological guide and practical tool specifically for the Contracting Parties to the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, heritage conservation institutions, local governments, heritage site managers, local communities associated with world heritage sites, and other stakeholders identified in the conservation process. By promoting cross-sectoral and interdisciplinary cooperation, it explores an effective path that can both protect world heritage sites and achieve high-quality and moderate development. WHITR-AP Shanghai will give a general introduction to the background, significance, key updates and main contents of the new version of the Guideline, and will subsequently carry out a more detailed interpretation of its important methods, operational procedures and tools.

4		I Grew Up in Pingyao Series Picture Books: Apprentice in a Piaohao (Draft Bank), Going to the Temple Fair Together, Patrolling the Streets with Grandpa at Night	Shao Yong, Liu Zhen, Tian Xiaogeng	China Publishing Group · World Book Publishing Xi'an Co., Ltd.	2025/06	9787523221099	Chinese	This book tells the stories of the ancient city of Pingyao from a childlike perspective. The three volumes are The Young Apprentice at the Draft Bank, Going to the Temple Fair Together and Doing the Night Watch with Grandpa respectively, leading children to walk into the draft banks, temple fairs and the night scenery of ancient alleys, and experience the lively atmosphere and historical heritage of this world cultural heritage. It is a children's picture book that combines knowledge and fun.

5		World Heritage in China Historical City	Editor-in-Chief: Du Xiaofan, Editor: Shao Yong and Zhou Jian	Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Pvt. Ltd.	2025/02	978-93-6853-545-4	Hindi	This book explores China's World Heritage cities, highlighting their history, spatial layout, culture, and conservation, emphasizing their value as living cultural heritage.