Shanghai People's Publishing House
Also known as: 上海人民出版社（世纪文景）, 上海人民出版社等, 世纪文景/上海人民出版社, 上海人民出版社/世纪文景, 世纪文景 上海人民出版社
- Founded
- 1951
- Country / Region
- China
- Notable books
- History of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties (Chinese Dynastic History Series)Aesthetic IdeologyThe Hobbit + The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
About the publisher
Shanghai People's Publishing House is a comprehensive publisher whose list focuses on academic monographs and general-interest titles in philosophy, social sciences, politics and law, economics and management, and history. Among its books are Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties History in the Chinese Dynastic History series; The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy in foreign literature; the Wenjing Classical Translation Illustrated Edition of The Complete Greek Tragedies of Euripides; and works of social theory such as Max Weber's Economy and Society and Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments. Its authors include Wang Zhongluo, J.R.R. Tolkien, Luo Niansheng, and Zhou Zuoren.
History of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties (Chinese Dynastic History Series)
Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2026
The Wei, Jin, and Northern and Southern Dynasties refers to a distinctive period in China's historical development, beginning with the fall of the Eas…
Wu Hung's 'Chinese Painting' Trilogy
Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2026
Renowned art historian Wu Hung's "Chinese Painting" trilogy: From Antiquity to the Tang, Five Dynasties to Southern Song, and Yuan to Qing. Breaking b…
History of the Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties (Vols. 1-2) (Chinese Dynastic History Series)
Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2026
In two volumes totaling over a million Chinese characters, The History of the Sui, Tang, and Five Dynasties offers a detailed account of the full flou…
Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2026
The original goal of enlightenment was to enable people to hold high the banner of reason, escape ignorance and fear, and establish freedom and autono…
Mythology (New Unabridged Translation)
Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2026
Our daily life is steeped in myths: the faces of movie stars, the Tour de France, cars, advertising, travel, wine... Detached from the matrix of reali…
Black Studio
Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2026
Annie Ernaux has a process for writing every book. This process is often very long, during which she reflects, questions, wavers, gives up, and starts…
The Rules of Sociological Method
Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2026
The Rules of Sociological Method
The Grand Chessboard (Zhishi Shufang)
Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2026
As a leading figure in geopolitical research, Brzezinski authoritatively examines the post-Cold War strategic interests at stake between Eurasian nati…
In Defense of Tolkien
Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2026
You say Tolkien is an escapist, conservative fantasist? He experienced the front lines of World War I, studied more than twenty languages, and created…
Symposium (Rizhi Classics)
Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2026
This book is the Symposium, a classic work by the ancient Greek philosopher Plato. Written as a Platonic dialogue, it recounts a gathering—a symposium…
A History of the French Revolution: 1789–1815 (Three Volumes)
Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2026
History of the French Revolution: 1789–1815 is the only comprehensive general history of the French Revolution written by a Chinese scholar. Drawing o…
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2026
Written as a reworking of Book One of A Treatise of Human Nature, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is clear and concise, and is the best rout…
Death and the Right Hand (Revised Translation)
Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2026
This book is an early classic of symbolic anthropology, consisting of two independent essays. In "A Study of the Collective Representation of Death," …
Chinese Painting: Yuan to Qing
Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2026
This book is the third and final volume of Wu Hung's "Chinese Painting" series, focusing on the development of Chinese painting across the Yuan, Ming …
The Capacity for Self-Expansion: New Perspectives on Zhang Taiyan's Thought (Daohan Series)
Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2026
This book is one volume in the "Daohan Series" and collects the author's recent new studies on Zhang Taiyan, including an introduction and six chapter…
Relationalism: Theoretical Development and Practical Examination
Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2026
This book explores two central tasks: deepening and reflecting on relational world politics theory, and examining its application in international rel…
The Political Economy of International Relations
Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2026
This book is an outstanding contribution to the field of international political economy. It reexamines with a modern perspective a long-debated quest…
The Great Illusion: The Dream of Liberalism and International Reality
Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2026
The West generally believes that the United States should spread liberal democracy around the world, foster an open international economy, and build i…
Hesitating at the Crossroads: Choices and Predicaments of Minor Literati in the Ming Dynasty (Expanded Edition)
Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2026
An era has its prevailing currents of thought and styles of learning; such pluralistic competition and clamor of many voices was especially common in …
The World We Construct: Rules and Rule in Social Theory and International Relations
Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2026
This book is a major contribution to modern social science. Professor Onuf's foundational work of IR constructivism is essential reading for anyone wh…
Frequent authors
罗念生 (37)Natsuhiko Kyogoku (34)Euripides (30)John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (26)Yang Kuan (25)Roberto Bolaño (25)Wu Hung (24)Zhou Zuoren (23)Liang Shuming (21)Annie Ernaux (20)Orhan Pamuk (19)海的温度 (18)