About the author

Zhang Kun is a Chinese author whose works are credited under a relatively consistent name, but public information about him is limited, with no clear record of his life, nationality, or dates of birth and death. Judging from the twenty-six works held in the library, his interests span foreign literature, history, essays and miscellany, classic works, and exam-preparation books, showing an eclectic choice of subjects. Representative works include Never Let Me Go, Lü Simian's Pre-Qin History, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Six Records of a Floating Life, the collected works of Capote, and Stephen King's On Writing. These are mostly editions, compilations, or translations of Chinese and foreign classics and famous authors' works, balancing readability with informative value, and reflecting a focus on popularizing literary classics and spreading historical and cultural knowledge for general readers.

Written (26)

The Night of the Iguana cover
Rating 4.4
The Night of the Iguana 田纳西·威廉斯 / Feng Tao / 张坤 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2026 This play, a three-act drama by the 20th-century American playwright Tennessee Williams, premiered in December 1961. Once again Williams crafts the fi…
Suddenly, Last Summer cover
Rating 4.4
Suddenly, Last Summer 田纳西·威廉斯 / Feng Tao / 张坤 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2026 This book is a one-act play written in 1957 by the 20th-century American playwright Tennessee Williams. Through abundant metaphor and suggestion, it p…
Orpheus Descending (Tennessee Williams Works) cover
Rating 4.3
Orpheus Descending (Tennessee Williams Works) 田纳西·威廉斯 / Feng Tao / 张坤 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2026 This book is a three-act play by Williams, first performed in 1957. Val, a wandering musician with a guitar, a snakeskin jacket, and hot, wild blood i…
Sweet Bird of Youth (Tennessee Williams Works) cover
Rating 4.3
Sweet Bird of Youth (Tennessee Williams Works) 田纳西·威廉斯 / Feng Tao / 张坤 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2026 This is a three-act play by Tennessee Williams, first performed in 1959 and released as a film in 1962. It tells the story of Chance Wayne, a young So…
History of the Qin and Han: Classical and Vernacular Comparison Edition (3 Volumes) cover
Rating 4.3
History of the Qin and Han: Classical and Vernacular Comparison Edition (3 Volumes) Lü Simian / 束江涛 / 张德强 / 张坤 · 2025 The History of the Qin and Han Dynasties is the second of Lü Simian's four dynastic histories. Written at the turn of the 1930s and 1940s and first pu…
Never Let Me Go cover
Rating 5.0
Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro / 张坤 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2024 Never Let Me Go is a dystopian science fiction novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, shortlisted for the 2005 Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Awa…
Lü Simian's Classic Work: History of the Pre-Qin Period (2 Volumes) cover
Rating 4.8
Lü Simian's Classic Work: History of the Pre-Qin Period (2 Volumes) Lü Simian / Yang Jie / 余松松 / 张坤 · 2024 Pre-Qin History is the first of the four dynastic histories written by Lü Simian. Composed in the mid-1930s and first published in 1941, it has been r…
Six Records of a Floating Life cover
Rating 4.6
Six Records of a Floating Life Shen Fu / 张坤 / 任萍 Harbin Publishing House · 2024 Six Records of a Floating Life is an autobiographical prose work by Shen Fu, a Qing-dynasty man of letters. Written in plain language with genuine fee…
Listening to Haruki Murakami cover
Rating 4.2
Listening to Haruki Murakami 杰伊·鲁宾 / Feng Tao / 张坤 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2024 Jay Rubin is one of the principal English translators of Haruki Murakami and a professor at Harvard University who specializes in studying Murakami's …
How to Prolong Your Life cover
Rating 3.0
How to Prolong Your Life 埃黎耶·埃黎赫·梅契尼科夫 / 张坤 Jiangsu Phoenix Science and Technology Press · 2024 This book is a rigorous yet accessible scientific work with a well-constructed theoretical framework and careful argumentation. Its author is a world-…
The Complete Collection of Su Shu cover
Rating 3.8
The Complete Collection of Su Shu Huang Shigong / 张坤 New World Press · 2023 The original text of Su Shu is not long. Though its words and sentences are not especially difficult, each sentence is extraordinarily rich and profou…
The Complete Su Shu (3rd Edition) cover
Rating 3.4
The Complete Su Shu (3rd Edition) Huang Shigong / 张坤 Harbin Publishing House · 2023 The Su Shu is a classic of Chinese traditional learning. Its full title is The Su Shu of Huang Shigong, also known as the Qian Jing or Yu Qian Jing. T…
Never Let Me Go cover
Rating 4.5
Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro / 张坤 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2022 Never Let Me Go is one of the representative works of Kazuo Ishiguro, winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature. At Hailsham, a boarding school dee…
Identifying Lies: The Logic and Methods of Polygraph Investigation cover
Rating 3.4
Identifying Lies: The Logic and Methods of Polygraph Investigation 张坤 China Legal Publishing House · 2022 This book, the third in the author's "Plain Talk on Lie Detection" series (following Anatomy of Lies: A Polygraph Examiner's Case Notes and Daily Enco…
Nick Hornby Collection (6-Volume Set) cover
Rating 4.0
Nick Hornby Collection (6-Volume Set) 尼克·霍恩比 / Feng Tao / 张坤 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2021 The Nick Hornby Collection brings together six essential works from the British author's career: his debut and breakthrough novel High Fidelity; his s…
E-commerce Logistics (3rd Edition) cover
Rating 3.6
E-commerce Logistics (3rd Edition) 魏修建 / 严建援 / 张坤 Posts & Telecom Press · 2021 The book consists of 13 chapters, covering the introduction to e-commerce logistics, e-commerce logistics systems, physical services in e-commerce log…
Capote's Collected Works (5-Volume Set) cover
Rating 4.5
Capote's Collected Works (5-Volume Set) 杜鲁门·卡波蒂 / 张坤 / 向洪全 / Feng Tao / 吕奇 / 宋佥 / 陈栩琳 / 陈栩 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2020 The Capote Collected Works (5-volume set) brings together five volumes of novels, essays, and letters by the renowned American Southern literary write…
The Grass Harp cover
Rating 4.3
The Grass Harp 杜鲁门·卡波蒂 / 张坤 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2020 Grass Harp is Capote's most autobiographical masterpiece, telling the story of three misfits—an orphan and two eccentric old women—who decide to withd…
A Long Way Down cover
Rating 3.8
A Long Way Down 尼克·霍恩比 / 张坤 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2020 A Long Way Down is an important representative work by Nick Hornby and has appeared on major bestseller lists in Britain and the United States. The no…
Daily Encounters with Lies: 52 Practical Lessons from a Polygraph Examiner's Casework cover
Rating 3.3
Daily Encounters with Lies: 52 Practical Lessons from a Polygraph Examiner's Casework 张坤 China Legal Publishing House · 2020 Polygraph technology was born from psychology—and draws its nourishment from psychology—which is the fundamental reason the author insists on explaini…

Publishers

Shanghai Translation Publishing HouseChina Friendship Publishing CompanyChina Legal Publishing HousePeople's Literature Publishing HousePosts & Telecom PressHarbin Publishing HouseNew World PressJiangsu Phoenix Science and Technology Press