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Shanghai Classics Publishing House

Also known as: 上海古籍出版社等, 上海古籍

Founded
1956
Country / Region
China
Notable books
A Brief Discussion of the Origins of Sui and Tang InstitutionsCollected Ci Poems of Xin QijiThe Peony Pavilion

685 books 623 authors

About the publisher

Shanghai Classics Publishing House is a professional publisher centered on the collation of ancient texts and academic research works. Its publishing areas cover historical readings, classical poetry, folk literature, literary appreciation, canonical works, and Eastern philosophy. Its books include Chen Yinke's A Brief Discussion of the Origins of the Sui and Tang Institutions, Xin Qiji's Chronological Annotated Edition of Jiaxuan's Ci (Simplified Edition), Tang Xianzu's The Peony Pavilion, Liu Xie's The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons, as well as New Annotations to Three Hundred Tang Poems (Collector's Edition), Annotated Edition of Han Changli's Collected Works (Simplified Edition, 3 volumes), and Youyang Zazu. Its authors include Chen Yinke, Xin Qiji, Tang Xianzu, Liu Xie, Deng Guangming, Hengtang Tuishi, Han Yu, and Ma Qichang. In terms of publishing characteristics, the house emphasizes collation, annotation, and compilation of ancient texts alongside academic research works, and continues to issue simplified and collector's editions that balance scholarship and accessibility. Public information about the publisher's fuller publishing profile is limited.

Published (685)

Remembering Lives: Epitaphs in Chinese History cover
Rating 4.3
Remembering Lives: Epitaphs in Chinese History 伊沛霞 / 姚平 / 张聪 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2021 Tens of thousands of epitaphs, or funeral biographies, have survived from the imperial era to the present. They were carved on stone and placed in tom…
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Rating 4.3
Searching for Dreams of West Lake: With Notes and Commentary Zhang Dai / 林邦钧 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2021 Record of a Dream of West Lake recounts the historical anecdotes of Hangzhou and paints a picture of West Lake customs; it is one of the representativ…
An Exposition of Qian and Kun cover
Rating 4.3
An Exposition of Qian and Kun Xiong Shili Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2021 The Three-Part Philosophical Trilogy of Xiong Shili: New Treatise on Consciousness-Only, On Substance and Function, and Qiankun Yan. From these works …
Biography of Wang Yangming: The Focal Point of Chinese Political and Intellectual History in the 15th and 16th Centuries cover
Rating 4.3
Biography of Wang Yangming: The Focal Point of Chinese Political and Intellectual History in the 15th and 16th Centuries 李庆 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2021 This is a historical work exploring Wang Yangming's life and thought, not a novel. Wang Yangming is a focal point on the political and intellectual st…
Selected Works of Zhu Yizun cover
Rating 4.3
Selected Works of Zhu Yizun 叶元章 / 钟夏 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2021 This anthology selects 293 pieces—rhapsodies, poems, ci, qu, and prose—by the renowned Qing dynasty man of letters Zhu Yizun, essentially reflecting t…
First Sequel to the Essential Sayings of Shili cover
Rating 4.2
First Sequel to the Essential Sayings of Shili Xiong Shili Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2021 First Continuation of Shili's Essential Sayings is a sequel to Shili's Essential Sayings, following the same format and compiling forty-two items in t…
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Rating 4.2
Comments on Han Feizi, and Discussing Zhang Jiangling with a Friend Xiong Shili Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2021 This book collects two works by Xiong Shili. "A Commentary on Han Feizi" (originally titled "Correcting Han") was compiled by Hu Zhefu from Xiong Shil…
Three Literary Groups of the Northern Song cover
Rating 4.2
Three Literary Groups of the Northern Song Wang Shuizhao Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2021 This book is a Song dynasty literary study by Wang Shuizhao, a senior professor at Fudan University, and his first scholarly monograph. Conceived in 1…
Selected Works of Zha Shenxing cover
Rating 4.2
Selected Works of Zha Shenxing 查慎行 / 聂世美 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2021 Zha Shenxing roamed half the world and wrote more than ten thousand poems. His style presses close to Su Shi and Lu You, brimming with talent; his con…
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Rating 4.2
Four Popular Readings on History and Geography by Lü Lü Simian Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2021 This volume collects four popular works on history and geography by Lü Simian: Su Qin and Zhang Yi, A Joint Biography of Guan Yu and Yue Fei, The Broa…
Notes on Leaving off Plowing in Nancun Village cover
Rating 4.2
Notes on Leaving off Plowing in Nancun Village Tao Zongyi / 李梦生 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2021 Compiled by Tao Zongyi, Nancun Chuogeng Lu is a collection of informal notes (biji). As the author put it, 'All within the six directions, between cou…
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Rating 4.2
Annotated Translation of Dietary Materia Medica 孟诜 / 张鼎 / Zheng Jinsheng / 张同君 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2021 Dietary Materia Medica is a renowned Tang-dynasty monograph on food therapy and nutrition, recording the medicinal properties, therapeutic indications…
The Yuan Family's Model for the World cover
Rating 4.2
The Yuan Family's Model for the World 袁采 / 赖区平 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2021 The Yuan Family Instructions consists of three volumes, divided into three sections: "Harmonizing with Kin," "Conducting Oneself," and "Managing the H…
Compilation of Research Materials on Tang Xianzu (Two Volumes) cover
Rating 4.2
Compilation of Research Materials on Tang Xianzu (Two Volumes) 毛效同 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2021 Tang Xianzu was a writer of literature and drama in the Ming dynasty. This book compiles roughly nine hundred items of material on Tang Xianzu from 50…
Random Notes from Cunzhai cover
Rating 4.1
Random Notes from Cunzhai Xiong Shili Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2021 Written in 1963, this is Xiong Shili's last work. As he explains in his "Author's Preface," he had intended to gather his late-life occasional notes, …
Records of Yan Talks by the Mian River; The Xitang Collection; Further Hearings from the Elders cover
Rating 4.1
Records of Yan Talks by the Mian River; The Xitang Collection; Further Hearings from the Elders 王辟之 / 陈鹄 / 韩谷 / 郑世刚 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2021 Mianshui Yantan Lu, written by Wang Pizhi of the Song Dynasty, collated and punctuated by Han Gu. The book has ten volumes and covers a wide range of …
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Rating 4.1
Essays from Manshu Studio 梁启勋 / 段双喜 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2021 Liang Qixun was a renowned twentieth-century Chinese ci scholar. Together with Xia Jingguan, Liu Yupan, Wu Mei, Wang Yi, Wang Dong, Gu Sui, Ren Ne, Ch…
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Rating 4.1
Five Textbooks for Primary and Secondary Schools by Lü (Two Volumes) Lü Simian Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2021 This is a compilation of five textbooks written by Lü Simian during his teaching career, namely Advanced Primary School Chinese Textbook, New System S…
Talks on Chinese History (with Three Other Works) cover
Rating 4.1
Talks on Chinese History (with Three Other Works) Xiong Shili Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2021 This book consists of four essays. The first, A Discourse on Chinese History, originated as lecture notes the author prepared for students in the spri…
Miscellaneous Morsels from Youyang cover
Rating 4.1
Miscellaneous Morsels from Youyang Duan Chengshi / 曹中孚 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2021 Youyang Zazu is a Tang dynasty collection of miscellaneous notes and tales by Duan Chengshi. As a collection of biji fiction, it consists of 20 prelim…

Frequent authors

Lü Simian (35)汪受宽 (18)赵昌平 (18)李国章 (17)Xiong Shili (13)Liang Qichao (11)Chen Yinke (11)Zhou Mi (8)Fang Beichen (8)Xin Qiji (8)Li Yu (7)丁如明 (6)