This year’s Shanghai Book Fair will highlight books on Chinese culture in English that will be of interest to foreign readers.

Shanghai Music Publishing House said yesterday it will debut an informative book in Chinese and English on Chinese music throughouthistory.

The book, “Sounding China: A Companion to Chinese Traditional Music,” covers ancient Chinese musical instruments and compositions to contemporary avant-garde music adventures, with many rare archive pictures and classic recordings of famous Chinese musicians.

The author,Guo Shuhui, is a professor at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and a leading scholar in the field of traditional Chinese music.

Meanwhile, Shanghai Translation Publishing House announced that from this year it will start to introduce a world academic classics series in English to include 105 titles ranging from philosophy, religion, anthropology, history, aesthetics to political science, economics, law and sociology.

The first 16 books of the series will make their debut at the book fair, including a translation of the Chinese classic “Dao De Jing” by Laozi.

The fair will be held on August 14-20 at the Shanghai Exhibition Center.