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.
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…
A Brief History of Ancient Chinese Design Thought (Revised and Expanded Edition)
Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House · 2023
This book explores ideas and theories in ancient Chinese art, design, and architecture, spanning from the pre-Qin period to the Qing dynasty. Covering…
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 …
Ten Thousand Years of China (2 Volumes)
Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House · 2023
Chinese civilization is more than "five thousand years" old. Drawing on the latest archaeological findings, this book reconstructs human life before r…
Mao Zedong on Chinese Historical Figures: From Xuanyuan Huangdi to Sun Yat-sen
Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House · 2023
Comrade Mao Zedong was a lifelong lover of Chinese history, and throughout his life his remarks on the many figures across China's long historical rec…
Patriarchy and the Accumulation of Capital: Women in the International Division of Labour
Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House · 2023
Patriarchy and the Accumulation of Capital is the magnum opus of Maria Mies (1931–2023), a German sociologist and feminist activist. The original Germ…
The Travels of Marco Polo
Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House · 2022
Based on the personal account of Marco Polo, the Italian traveler who lived in Yuan-ruled China for nearly twenty years in the late thirteenth century…
Talks on Chinese Political History
Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House · 2022
Approaching from a historical perspective, this book analyzes the politics of primitive society without political institutions, of clan society where …
Jiangnan Society and the Life of Scholars in the Ming-Qing Transition
Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House · 2022
This book focuses on the social and cultural landscape of Jiangnan during the Ming–Qing transition, citing several important dimensions of Jiangnan's …
A Clear Stream in a Troubled World: Wang Boqun and His Era
Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House · 2022
This is a biography of Mr. Wang Boqun, a veteran of the Tongmenghui, member of the National Government, and founder of Daxia University, offering a de…
Flowing Abundance: The Everyday Landscape of a Residential Community
Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House · 2022
A residential community is the smallest administrative unit in urban China, where people are born, grow up, live, and acquire emotions and knowledge. …
Lu Xun's Housing and Food in Shanghai
Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House · 2022
This book, part of the Shanghai Lu Xun Memorial Hall research project 'Lu Xun in Shanghai Resource Series,' starts from Lu Xun's daily life after he s…
Upholding Orthodoxy and Adapting to Change among Jiangnan Confucian Physicians in the Ming and Qing Dynasties
Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House · 2022
This book is one volume in the "Jiangnan Culture Studies" series. Drawing on a comprehensive collection and collation of materials on Ming and Qing dy…
Passing Down Poetry and Rites: Changes in Jiangnan Family Traditions and Precepts
Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House · 2022
This book focuses on the inheritance, development, and innovation of family traditions and family precepts in the Jiangnan region. By comprehensively …
Driving in the Present: An Individualized Interpretation of Technical Rationality
Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House · 2022
Since the twentieth century, the automobile has replaced the ox and horse to become the protagonist of public roads. An important technological tool o…
Wei Sheng Talks About Food
Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House · 2022
This little book on food culture begins with Jiaxing—the "Jia" of the Hangzhou-Jiaxing-Huzhou region—and radiates outward across Jiangnan. It is divid…
In Search of the Gourmet (Sequel)
Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House · 2022
This book is the sequel to In Search of a Gourmet and a collection of short essays on food culture, introducing delicious dishes mainly from the Wujia…
The Mind Creates Circumstances: The Psychological Truth Behind the Many Faces of Life
Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House · 2022
This book is a work of psychological interpretation built around psychological case studies, and falls into five parts: 1. Counseling stories; 2. The …
The Philosophy of History
Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House · 2022
Originally titled Philosophy of History in English, this book consists of the lectures on the philosophy of history that the German classical philosop…
Tartuffe, or The Hypocrite
Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House · 2022
Tartuffe, ou l'imposteur (also translated as "Tartuffe") is the masterpiece of Molière (1622–1673), the great French classical comedy playwright, and …
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)