Shanghai Guangqi Press Co., Ltd.

Founded
1991
Country / Region
China
Notable books
The Companion Species ManifestoThe Fear of Women: Witches, Witch Hunts and WomenOwls on the Ice Fields of the Far East

47 books 86 authors

About the publisher

Shanghai Guangqi Press Co., Ltd. focuses on nonfiction in history, urban studies, thought and academia, and the humanities and arts, with frequent directions including foreign literature, social culture, travel, literary appreciation, and world history. Its library holds 47 titles, represented by works such as Manifestly Haraway, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation, Owls of the Eastern Ice, and others covering nature, gender, cities, and historical memory. Its authors include Donna Haraway, Silvia Federici, Jonathan C. Slaght, Nastassja Martin, and Yuan Xiaoyi. The press is characterized by introducing nonfiction with intellectual depth and cross-cultural perspective, balancing scholarship and readability. Given limited public information, this profile is based only on the titles in the library.

Published (47)

The Wrath of the Dragon King: The 1931 Yangtze River Flood cover
Rating 4.4
The Wrath of the Dragon King: The 1931 Yangtze River Flood 陈学仁 / 耿金 Shanghai Guangqi Press Co., Ltd. · 2026 This book is an environmental history study centered on floods. It describes in detail the 1931 Yangtze River flood in China and its impact on the Jia…
What Will Humanity's Tomorrow Be Like?: Toynbee's Reflections cover
Rating 4.2
What Will Humanity's Tomorrow Be Like?: Toynbee's Reflections Arnold Joseph Toynbee / 刘冰晶 Shanghai Guangqi Press Co., Ltd. · 2026 This book is the memoir of Arnold Toynbee, the twentieth-century giant of historiography. It recalls his formative experiences in education, work, and…
The Vanishing Oxen and Horses: Animals in Egypt's Era of Great Transformation cover
Rating 4.2
The Vanishing Oxen and Horses: Animals in Egypt's Era of Great Transformation 阿兰·米哈伊尔 / 张丹丹 Shanghai Guangqi Press Co., Ltd. · 2026 This book examines the historical phenomenon of animals—represented by cattle and horses—"disappearing" from human society, focusing specifically on E…
The Beast of Burden Game: How Silicon Valley Giants Tame Engineers cover
Rating 4.0
The Beast of Burden Game: How Silicon Valley Giants Tame Engineers 吴桐雨 / 刘睿睿 / 潘竹涛 Shanghai Guangqi Press Co., Ltd. · 2026 What makes people work out of love? Why is the boundary between work and life so blurred in contemporary times? When hobbies become work and companies…
The Water of the Yangtze: Changes in People and Environment in the Jianghan Plain (17th–20th Centuries) cover
Rating 4.0
The Water of the Yangtze: Changes in People and Environment in the Jianghan Plain (17th–20th Centuries) 高燕 / 耿金 / 沈柯含 Shanghai Guangqi Press Co., Ltd. · 2026 The Yangtze gave birth to Chinese civilization, yet our history of large-scale development of it is comparatively short, and the Jianghan Plain is a c…
Emperor and King: Ashikaga Yoshimitsu and His Era cover
Rating 4.0
Emperor and King: Ashikaga Yoshimitsu and His Era 康昊 Shanghai Guangqi Press Co., Ltd. · 2026 1374–1419 was a turbulent era in East Asia: in China, Zhu Di, the Prince of Yan, rose against his nephew the Jianwen Emperor and became the Yongle Emp…
Life and Death, Dawn and Dusk: The Daily Life and Existence of the Ancients cover
Rating 4.0
Life and Death, Dawn and Dusk: The Daily Life and Existence of the Ancients 常建华 Shanghai Guangqi Press Co., Ltd. · 2026 This book is one volume in the "Life History Series," a 2024 project funded by the National Publication Foundation. It is divided into three parts—Mak…
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Rating 3.8
There Are Tigers in the Wilderness 彼得·布姆加德 / 刘菲 Shanghai Guangqi Press Co., Ltd. · 2026 The first systematic historical study of tigers in Southeast Asia, this book looks through the epic of tiger survival to the unpredictable shifts of e…
Seeking the Way in Nature: Multidimensional Explorations of Chinese Environmental History cover
Rating 3.6
Seeking the Way in Nature: Multidimensional Explorations of Chinese Environmental History 赵九洲 Shanghai Guangqi Press Co., Ltd. · 2026 This book focuses on several core issues in environmental history theory, examining the intersections and divergences between environmental history an…
The Companion Species Manifesto cover
Rating 4.6
The Companion Species Manifesto 唐娜·哈拉维 / 陈荣钢 Shanghai Guangqi Press Co., Ltd. · 2025 Explores how humans and other species can live together, and fundamentally changes how we understand love and companionship. In their shared life with…
Owls on the Ice Fields of the Far East cover
Rating 4.5
Owls on the Ice Fields of the Far East 乔纳森·斯拉特 / 任晴 Shanghai Guangqi Press Co., Ltd. · 2025 When Jonathan Slaght was a novice birder, he happened upon one of the earth's more mysterious birds—larger than any owl he knew, looking like a small …
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Rating 4.4
Take to the Streets! In Search of Hyperart Thomasson 赤濑川原平 / 唐诗 Shanghai Guangqi Press Co., Ltd. · 2025 What is Hyper-Art Thomasson? It is a beautifully preserved useless object attached to land or buildings, and also the distinctive charm hidden in the …
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Rating 4.3
Decision in Struggle: A Biography of Takeuchi Yoshimi 鹤见俊辅 / 刘峰 Shanghai Guangqi Press Co., Ltd. · 2025 This book is a biography by Tsurumi Shunsuke, a legendary postwar Japanese thinker, of Takeuchi Yoshimi, Japan's most important scholar of Chinese lit…
Homeless Women cover
Rating 4.3
Homeless Women 丸山里美 / 沈念 Shanghai Guangqi Press Co., Ltd. · 2025 Policies and research on homelessness are plentiful, yet they largely exclude women. In Japan, for instance, women make up only 3.2% of the homeless p…
Fir and Empire: The Forest Revolution in Early Modern China cover
Rating 4.2
Fir and Empire: The Forest Revolution in Early Modern China 孟一衡 / 张连伟 / 李莉 / 李飞 Shanghai Guangqi Press Co., Ltd. · 2025 From Cai Jing's reforms to Zhang Juzheng's Single-Whip Tax Reform, a "forest revolution" swept across China through the Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties…
The Arabs' Great Voyages: From Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages cover
Rating 4.2
The Arabs' Great Voyages: From Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages 乔治·胡拉尼 / 约翰·卡斯威尔 / 孙博 Shanghai Guangqi Press Co., Ltd. · 2025 This book lifts the veil of legend to recreate the maritime history of the Arabs from the dim prehistoric past to the golden age of the Middle Ages. T…
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Rating 4.2
Short Nights, Long Dreams (Fully Revised and Expanded Edition) 毛尖 Shanghai Guangqi Press Co., Ltd. · 2025 Murder, infidelity, joy, coming of age, gambling, fate... Over a hundred cinematic classics, eleven keywords of the silver screen. She parses the thri…
The Empire's Tears: A History of British Emotions cover
Rating 4.2
The Empire's Tears: A History of British Emotions 托马斯·迪克森 / 赵涵 Shanghai Guangqi Press Co., Ltd. · 2025 Compared with the romantic French, the exuberant Italians, and the free-spirited Americans, the British have long been seen as dour and Stoically rese…
Amber Light and Black Pearls: A History of Chinese Wine cover
Rating 4.0
Amber Light and Black Pearls: A History of Chinese Wine 柯彼德 / 王南南 Shanghai Guangqi Press Co., Ltd. · 2025 This book traces the history of Chinese wine from antiquity to the present and examines the place of Chinese wine culture within the broader context o…
Fighting for Animals: The Appropriation of Tradition in Nineteenth-Century British Animal Protection cover
Rating 3.8
Fighting for Animals: The Appropriation of Tradition in Nineteenth-Century British Animal Protection 李鉴慧 / 曾琬淋 Shanghai Guangqi Press Co., Ltd. · 2025 The modern animal protection movement was born in nineteenth-century Britain. Animals were widely used for labor, medical experiments, and performance…

Frequent authors

罗嘉 (3)唐诗 (2)康昊 (2)耿金 (2)西尔维娅·费代里奇 (2)J.唐纳德·休斯 (1)丸山里美 (1)乔治·胡拉尼 (1)乔纳森·斯拉特 (1)任晴 (1)伊恩·J.米勒 (1)佩德罗·恩里克斯·乌雷尼亚 (1)