About the publisher
Shanghai Joint Publishing Company focuses on humanities and social science publishing and has developed a distinctive profile in the collation and translation of classical literature and world classics. Its 258 titles in the database cover classical literature, world classics, foreign literature, literary appreciation, general biography, and modern poetry. Representative publications include the Annotated Dream of the Red Chamber by Zhiyanzhai series, as well as collected and selected works by classic authors such as Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Shakespeare. Its authors and translators include Cao Xueqin, Zhiyanzhai, Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Zang Zhonglun, Zeng Siyi, Xu Zhenya, and Cao Ying. The press emphasizes the annotated collation of classic texts and the publication of authoritative translations, forming a publishing profile that spans both Chinese classical literature and world literary classics. Because public information on some details of its publishing history is limited, they are not discussed here.
Published (509)
Rating 4.4★ The Red and the Black Stendhal Shanghai Joint Publishing Company · 2015 The Red and the Black is the masterpiece of Stendhal, the pioneer of nineteenth-century French critical realist literature. The novel presents a full … Rating 4.4★ A Sportsman's Sketches Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev Shanghai Joint Publishing Company · 2015 A Sportsman's Sketches, the work that made Turgenev famous, is a collection of essays recording rural Russian life in the mid-nineteenth century throu… Rating 4.4★ Colonel Chabert: Balzac's Selected Novellas and Short Stories Honoré de Balzac Shanghai Joint Publishing Company · 2015 Colonel Chabert: Balzac's Selected Novellas and Short Stories is a collection of Balzac's novellas and short stories, bringing together seven represen… Rating 4.3★ The Lily of the Valley Honoré de Balzac Shanghai Joint Publishing Company · 2015 One of Balzac's finest novels, The Lily of the Valley is a brilliant pearl in the treasure house of French literature. It tells of the young aristocra… Rating 4.3★ The Insulted and the Injured (俄国)费奥多尔·陀斯妥耶夫斯基 Shanghai Joint Publishing Company · 2015 The Insulted and the Injured is the first major work Dostoevsky completed after ending his Siberian exile and returning to Petersburg; it was serializ… Rating 4.3★ Fathers and Sons (Ivan Turgenev) Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev Shanghai Joint Publishing Company · 2015 Fathers and Sons centers on the conflict between the older and younger generations, a conflict to which Turgenev lends the color of the age. Bazarov r… Rating 4.3★ The Lily of the Valley Honoré de Balzac Shanghai Joint Publishing Company · 2015 The Lily of the Valley (Le Lys dans la vallée, 1836) is one of the most lyrical of Balzac's novels and belongs to the "Scenes of Country Life" in La C… Rating 4.2★ World Classics Translated Library · Dickens Collection (07): The Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens Shanghai Joint Publishing Company · 2015 The Pickwick Papers is Charles Dickens's first novel and the work that made his name. Originally published in serial form, it is rich in romantic fanc… Rating 4.2★ Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Hardy Collection 04) Thomas Hardy Shanghai Joint Publishing Company · 2015 Tess of the d'Urbervilles is an 1891 novel by the English writer Thomas Hardy and one of the most celebrated works in his "Novels of Character and Env… Rating 4.2★ A Hero of Our Time 米哈依尔·尤利耶维奇·莱蒙托夫 Shanghai Joint Publishing Company · 2015 The novel consists of five stories, each telling a fragment. The first, 'Bela,' tells how Pechorin meets the young, simple Bela, hoping to draw new vi… Rating 4.2★ Selected Historical Plays of Shakespeare William Shakespeare Shanghai Joint Publishing Company · 2015 This volume collects seven of Shakespeare's historical plays, presented under their traditional Chinese-translated titles, with the familiar English t… Rating 4.2★ Sister Carrie 德莱塞 Shanghai Joint Publishing Company · 2015 The eighteen-year-old country girl Carrie takes a train to Chicago in search of a better life. On the train she meets the traveling salesman Drouet. I… Rating 4.2★ An American Tragedy 西奥多·赫曼·阿尔伯特·德莱塞 Shanghai Joint Publishing Company · 2015 An American Tragedy is the story of Clyde Griffiths, tracing the birth and collapse of his “American Dream,” the formation and development of his egoi… Rating 4.2★ The Sorrows of Young Werther (Goethe Collection 04) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Shanghai Joint Publishing Company · 2015 The Sorrows of Young Werther is an epistolary novel published by Goethe in 1774 and the most influential work of his early years. It consists of lette… Rating 4.2★ A Petersburg Love Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov Shanghai Joint Publishing Company · 2015 A Petersburg Love is Goncharov's debut novel. Begun in 1844 and published in 1847 in The Contemporary under its original title An Ordinary Story (Обык… Rating 4.1★ Goethe Collection 05: Elective Affinities Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Shanghai Joint Publishing Company · 2015 Published in 1809, Elective Affinities is one of the novels of Goethe's late years that he valued most, and he said more than once that it was his bes… Rating 4.1★ The Plain Book Huang Shigong Shanghai Joint Publishing Company · 2015 Among ancient Chinese works on self-cultivation, governance, wisdom in dealing with the world, and life strategy, The Plain Book occupies an extremely… Rating 4.0★ The Dickens Speeches Charles Dickens Shanghai Joint Publishing Company · 2015 The Dickens Speeches is a Chinese translation of public speeches delivered over the years by the English writer Charles Dickens (1812–1870), translate… Rating 4.0★ Oblomov 伊万·冈察洛夫 Shanghai Joint Publishing Company · 2015 Written more than a century ago, Oblomov is Goncharov's masterpiece. The novel creates the typical 'Oblomov character,' revealing the profound social … Rating 4.0★ The Black Tulip Alexandre Dumas Shanghai Joint Publishing Company · 2015 Set against the fierce political struggles of seventeenth-century Holland, with the cultivation of the black tulip as its main thread, The Black Tulip…Frequent authors
Liu Mingjiu (25)Mu Xin (24)Charles Dickens (17)André Gide (11)Honoré de Balzac (9)Yun Shujue (9)Thomas Hardy (9)Chiang Hsun (9)Max Weber (9)Leo Tolstoy (8)Honoré de Balzac (8)Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (8)