Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House
Also known as: 上海書店出版社
About the publisher
Founded in 1988, Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House is known for reprinting classical texts and historical sources and for publishing works in literature, history and the arts. Its list spans folk literature, social science, biography, social and cultural studies, and history. Titles such as Wang Guowei's History of Song and Yuan Drama, The Travels of Marco Polo, the revised Biography of Cao Cao and Fu Sinian on History reflect its strength in traditional letters and history; recent translations, including Maria Mies's Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale, Yi-Fu Tuan's autobiography Who Am I? and Jason De León's anthropological account of the US-Mexico border, The Land of Open Graves, show an interest in social theory and cross-cultural themes. Its authors include Chinese and foreign scholars; public information is limited, but its list clearly combines literature and history, translation and original work.
Beautiful Days
Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House · 2025
In the haggling over household registration, an old lane matriarch and a Jiangxi widow forge an unexpected bond. When a fake pregnancy collides with r…
In Search of a Gourmet
Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House · 2025
This book, In Search of Gourmets, introduces delicious dishes mainly from the Wujiang area. The text is rich in information and covers a wide range of…
Who Am I? The Autobiography of Yi-Fu Tuan
Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House · 2024
Approaching seventy, Yi-Fu Tuan, the renowned Chinese American geographer and father of humanistic geography, looks back on his life. Situating his ch…
Patriarchy and Capital Accumulation: Women in the International Division of Labor
Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House · 2024
This book is the magnum opus of Maria Mies, the renowned German sociologist and feminist scholar, and a classic work that transformed the paradigm of …
Life and Death on the Migration Route: An Anthropological Record of the US-Mexico Border
Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House · 2024
In the western stretch of the long U.S.–Mexico border lies the Sonoran Desert, known as a "barren wasteland," which has long served as a crossing corr…
Where to Land? A Political Manifesto Under the Earth Crisis
Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House · 2024
In the Face of the Earth Crisis, Where Should Politics Turn, and Where Should We Return? For nearly half a century, the world seems to have entered an…
Cao Lei's Oral History
Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House · 2024
This book offers an objective record of the life of Cao Lei, a celebrated actress and a member of the Shanghai Research Institute of Culture and Histo…
Traveling Incognito: Joseph II's Journey Through the European Enlightenment
Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House · 2024
In the late eighteenth century, European monarchy was beset with crises. The young Holy Roman Emperor and Habsburg sovereign Joseph II realized that r…
The Fragrance of the South Wind: Written Beside Windows and Pavilions
Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House · 2024
This book is a milestone in the history of Song ci studies. It divides the history of the ci into six periods according to its internal development, a…
A History of Song and Yuan Drama
Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House · 2023
Song-Yuan Drama History is Mr. Wang Guowei's summing-up work from years of drama research and is widely recognized as the foundational work in the stu…
Fu Sinian on History
Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House · 2023
This book comprises two major works, An Introduction to Historiography and Ethnicity and Ancient Chinese History, along with an appendix, A Dialectica…
A General Survey of Song Ci: Illustrated Collector's Edition
Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House · 2023
This book is divided into seven parts, mainly discussing the trajectory of Song ci poetry and evaluating the merits and demerits of major Song poets. …
My Father Shao Xunmei
Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House · 2023
Shao Xunmei, the 'rich man's son-in-law' in Lu Xun's writings, was paired with Xu Zhimo as the 'twin jewels of the poetic world' and was also hailed a…
A Critical Biography of Cao Cao (Revised Edition)
Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House · 2023
The revised edition of A Critical Biography of Cao Cao offers a comprehensive account of Cao Cao's life. The first part summarizes and assesses his ac…
Fifteen Chapters on Chinese and Western Philosophy
Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House · 2023
Professor Zhang Rulun first made his name in the academic world with his research on German philosophy, then turned his attention back to traditional …
Memoirs of Forty Years in the Art World (1902–1945)
Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House · 2023
This book is a memoir that recounts a wealth of anecdotes and curiosities from the Shanghai art world during the Republican era. Ding Song, father of …
A History of Partisan Strife in China Through the Dynasties
Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House · 2023
A History of Factional Strife in China, by the renowned historian Wang Tongling, is a monograph interpreting the historical facts and causes of factio…
Philosophy and Life: Lectures by Zhang Rulun
Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House · 2023
How can we make sense of life? What counts as a good education? What use are philosophy and thought? Everyone faces these questions, yet they are also…
A Grand Biography of Li Xiucheng
Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House · 2023
This book is a comprehensive and thorough monograph on Li Xiucheng. Li Xiucheng was an important general in the later period of the Taiping Heavenly K…
The Truth About the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House · 2023
This book is an academic work by Mr. Sheng Xunchang based on the materials on the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom he collected, yet it differs from ordinary …
Frequent authors
Sheng Xunchang (4)张汝伦 (2)徐前进 (2)玛丽亚·米斯 (2)蒋洪 (2)丁夏 (1)丁悚 (1)Fu Sinian (1)Feng Chengjun (1)冯贤亮 (1)刘苏 (1)Luo (1)