Volumes Publishing Company

Also known as: 万卷出版公司(原辽宁画报出版社), 万卷出版公司等, 北方联合出版传媒(集团)股份有限公司,万卷出版公司, 万卷, 万卷出版社, 万卷出版, 万卷出版集团, 万卷出版有限责任公司, 万卷出版有限 责任公司

Founded
2003
Country / Region
China
Notable books
The Four Great Classical NovelsFu Lei's Family LettersStrange Tales from a Chinese Studio

511 books 456 authors

About the publisher

Volumes Publishing Company is a comprehensive publisher known for its titles on Chinese classics and literature and the arts. Its publishing covers classical literature, essays and miscellaneous writings, folk literature, foreign literature, and exam preparation books. Judging from the 269 titles in the database, the company emphasizes making classic works accessible to a broad readership. Representative books include Letters from Fu Lei to His Son, The Four Great Classical Novels, Teahouse, The Classic of Mountains and Seas, Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dusk, and Camel Xiangzi, with authors including Fu Lei, Cao Xueqin, Luo Guanzhong, Shi Nai'an, Wu Cheng'an, Lao She, Liu Xiang, and Liu Xin. The company has also developed series brands such as the Volumes Studio Chinese Classics and the Science Fiction Library, giving it a distinctive profile in organizing Chinese classics and promoting literary reading. Public information on its other publishing activities is limited.

Published (511)

Be a Smart Woman Who Speaks and Socializes Well cover
Rating 2.5
Be a Smart Woman Who Speaks and Socializes Well 曲家琰 Volumes Publishing Company · 2026 A Smart Woman Who Speaks Well and Connects with Ease approaches its subject from a practical angle, carefully selecting techniques of speech and secre…
Be a Wise Woman with a Stable Family and a Smooth Career cover
Rating 2.5
Be a Wise Woman with a Stable Family and a Smooth Career 曲家琰 Volumes Publishing Company · 2026 Why is it so hard for the modern woman to have both love and career success? Taking simplicity and practicality as its guiding principle and drawing o…
Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio cover
Rating 4.9
Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio 凤妩 / 畅小米 Volumes Publishing Company · 2025 Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio is a collection of short stories by the novelist Pu Songling, celebrated for its flower spirits, fox ghosts, and e…
Teahouse cover
Rating 4.9
Teahouse Lao She Volumes Publishing Company · 2025 Written in 1956 by the modern man of letters Lao She, *Teahouse* is a play that spans nearly half a century of social upheaval across three eras: the …
Treatise on Superfluous Things cover
Rating 4.8
Treatise on Superfluous Things 文震亨 / 胡锦豪 / 司新宇 / 李雪琳 Volumes Publishing Company · 2025 Chang Wu Zhi is a book on refined living and connoisseurship by Wen Zhenheng of the Ming dynasty. In twelve chapters it covers dwelling rooms, flowers…
The Book of Songs cover
Rating 4.7
The Book of Songs Confucius Volumes Publishing Company · 2025 The Classic of Poetry is the earliest anthology of poetry in China. Compiled and edited by Confucius, it ranks first among the Five Classics of Confuc…
History of the Vase and Treatise on Vase Flowers cover
Rating 4.7
History of the Vase and Treatise on Vase Flowers 袁宏道 / 张谦德 / 左丽 Volumes Publishing Company · 2025 The Vase History (Ping Shi) and The Vase Flower Register (Ping Hua Pu) are two highly representative treatises on flower arrangement in ancient China.…
A Room of One's Own cover
Rating 4.7
A Room of One's Own Virginia Woolf / 卞丽 Volumes Publishing Company · 2025 A Room of One's Own is Virginia Woolf's most famous work of nonfiction. Written in 1928—originally delivered as lectures at Cambridge University—this …
Jane Eyre cover
Rating 4.6
Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë / 张敏 Volumes Publishing Company · 2025 The novel tells the story of an Englishwoman orphaned in childhood who, through all manner of hardship, relentlessly pursues freedom and dignity, rema…
The Simple Fare of the Mountain Household cover
Rating 4.6
The Simple Fare of the Mountain Household 林洪 / 罗宝航 / 司新宇 / 常轩瑀 Volumes Publishing Company · 2025 The Mountain Household's Pure Offerings (Shan Jia Qing Gong) is a Song-dynasty treasury of cuisine brimming with the rustic charm of mountains and woo…
Collected Novels of Natsume Soseki cover
Rating 4.6
Collected Novels of Natsume Soseki Natsume Sōseki / 陈苑瑜 / 李孟红 Volumes Publishing Company · 2025 Among Natsume Sōseki's works, Botchan and Kokoro stand out as highly distinctive representatives, corresponding respectively to the two creative perio…
The Divine Comedy cover
Rating 4.6
The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri / 马福 Volumes Publishing Company · 2025 The Divine Comedy recounts the author Dante's imagined journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, indirectly reflecting the social and political t…
This Life of Mine cover
Rating 4.6
This Life of Mine Lao She Volumes Publishing Company · 2025 This collection of Lao She's short stories is titled after "This Life of Mine" and includes six works: "This Life of Mine," "Crescent Moon," "Mr. Ridi…
The Myth of Sisyphus cover
Rating 4.5
The Myth of Sisyphus Albert Camus / Li Yumin Volumes Publishing Company · 2025 "The Myth of Sisyphus is a collection of philosophical essays by the French writer Albert Camus, published in 1942 and hailed as the founding work of …
Hometown cover
Rating 4.5
Hometown Lu Xun Volumes Publishing Company · 2025 "My Old Home" is a short story written by the modern man of letters Lu Xun in 1921. Taking the narrator's return to his old home as its thread and arr…
The Stranger (Illustrated Collector's Edition) cover
Rating 4.5
The Stranger (Illustrated Collector's Edition) Albert Camus / Li Yumin Volumes Publishing Company · 2025 The Stranger is the most representative novel by Nobel laureate Albert Camus, whose cool, restrained 'zero-degree writing' opened a new era in literat…
Nils's Travels on a Goose cover
Rating 4.4
Nils's Travels on a Goose 拉格洛芙 / 胡于雅 Volumes Publishing Company · 2025 The Wonderful Adventures of Nils is a classic of boundless imagination and whimsy, written by Selma Lagerlöf after she traveled across Sweden by land …
Autumn in the Old Capital cover
Rating 4.4
Autumn in the Old Capital Yu Dafu Volumes Publishing Company · 2025 This collection features six short stories and nine essays by Yu Dafu, ranging from "The Silver-Grey Death" (1920) to "Food, Sex, and Gender in Fuzhou…
The Apology of Socrates cover
Rating 4.3
The Apology of Socrates Plato / 孙仁朋 Volumes Publishing Company · 2025 "The work before us is the defense speech Plato wrote for his teacher Socrates several years after Socrates' death. Socrates was born in 469 BC and be…
The Moon Over the Mountain cover
Rating 4.3
The Moon Over the Mountain 中岛敦 / 张蔚 Volumes Publishing Company · 2025 This collection of short stories by the renowned Japanese author Nakajima Atsushi includes eleven representative works, among them "The Moon Over the …

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