About the author

Hou Xinzhi is a translator who has long worked on social science and popular science books. Public information about him is limited, and his nationality, dates of birth and death, and educational background are not clearly documented. Judging from the six works recorded in the database, his translations span social psychology, popular science, social science, management, and culture. His representative translations include Steven Pinker's Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (Zhejiang People's Publishing House, 2018), co-translated with Ouyang Mingliang and Wei Wei, and Terry Leahy's The Truth About Winning: The 10 Key Lessons That Made Tesco a World Retail Giant (Zhejiang People's Publishing House, 2014). He has also translated popular science works such as The Secret Quantum Life. His translations cover cutting-edge subjects ranging from rationalist social science to quantum biology, combining intellectual substance with readability.

Written (6)

Enlightenment Now: In Defense of Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress cover
Rating 4.5
Enlightenment Now: In Defense of Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress 史蒂芬·平克 / 侯新智 / 欧阳明亮 / 魏薇 Zhejiang Science and Technology Publishing House · 2023 How do we find meaning and purpose in life? For 300 years, Enlightenment ideals have won brilliant victories, yet this great story is rarely told. Pin…
The Mysterious Quantum Life cover
Rating 4.3
The Mysterious Quantum Life 吉姆·艾尔-哈利利 / 约翰乔·麦克法登 / 侯新智 / 祝锦杰 Zhejiang Science and Technology Publishing House · 2023 In the whole of science, quantum mechanics is an influential and important theory. Without quantum mechanics, we could not explain how the world works…
The Mysterious Quantum Life cover
Rating 4.3
The Mysterious Quantum Life 吉姆·艾尔-哈利利 / 约翰乔·麦克法登 / 侯新智 / 祝锦杰 Zhejiang People's Publishing House · 2021 Throughout science, quantum mechanics is the most influential theory. Without it, we could not explain how the world works—for example, how does a rob…
Enlightenment Now cover
Rating 4.3
Enlightenment Now 史蒂芬·平克 / 侯新智 / 欧阳明亮 / 魏薇 Zhejiang People's Publishing House · 2021 With intellectual depth and elegant prose, Enlightenment Now proves that we will never have a perfect world—and that seeking one is a dangerous endeav…
The Truth About Winning: 10 Keys to Tesco's Growth into a Global Retail Giant cover
Rating 3.9
The Truth About Winning: 10 Keys to Tesco's Growth into a Global Retail Giant 特里·莱希 / 侯新智 Cheers Publishing · 2021 Terry Leahy spent 33 years at Tesco, serving as CEO for 14 of them, and led the company as it grew into a global retail giant. Through ten keywords, h…
Culture cover
Rating 3.5
Culture 约翰·布罗克曼 / 侯新智 / 许云萍 / Sheng Yangyan Zhejiang People's Publishing House · 2021 Every year, Edge, the world's smartest website, brings 100 of the world's greatest minds to the same table to answer the same big question about the f…

Publishers

Zhejiang People's Publishing HouseZhejiang Science and Technology Publishing HouseCheers Publishing