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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)

Essence of Song Poetry cover
Rating 4.6
Essence of Song Poetry 陈衍 / 高克勤 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2020 Songshi Jinghua Lu is Chen Yan's self-compiled textbook for teaching Song poetry at the Wuxi School of Chinese Studies in his later years. In his poet…
Chronological Biography of Mr. Long Yusheng (Revised and Expanded Edition) cover
Rating 4.6
Chronological Biography of Mr. Long Yusheng (Revised and Expanded Edition) 张晖 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2020 A detailed chronological biography of the life and career of Long Yusheng, a renowned modern scholar of ci poetry. Rich in content, it also offers ins…
A General Survey of Warring States Scripts cover
Rating 4.6
A General Survey of Warring States Scripts 何琳仪 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2020 In the transmission and development of ancient Chinese writing, Warring States script occupies an intermediate stage: it follows bronze and oracle-bon…
Dream Pool Essays (Chinese Classics Collection) cover
Rating 4.6
Dream Pool Essays (Chinese Classics Collection) Shen Kuo Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2020 Comprising the Brush Talks, Supplementary Brush Talks, and Continued Brush Talks, Dream Pool Essays contains 609 entries in total—189 on the natural s…
The Burden of the Talented Woman: Li Qingzhao and Her Reception History cover
Rating 4.6
The Burden of the Talented Woman: Li Qingzhao and Her Reception History 艾朗诺 / 夏丽丽 / 赵惠俊 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2020 One reminder: when reading this book, you should especially set aside your preconceptions. The author's study of Li Qingzhao's life, work, and recepti…
Zhou Dunyi's Penetrating the Book of Changes cover
Rating 4.6
Zhou Dunyi's Penetrating the Book of Changes 周敦颐 / 徐洪兴 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2020 Zhou Dunyi's teachings exerted a profound influence on the later development of Neo-Confucianism. His representative work, the Tongshu (Penetrating th…
A New Account of the Tales of the World: Translated and Annotated cover
Rating 4.5
A New Account of the Tales of the World: Translated and Annotated Liu Yiqing / 张撝之 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2020 The Annotated Translation of A New Account of Tales of the World is a celebrated work of traditional Chinese anecdotal fiction, chiefly recording the …
The Recorded Sayings of Xiangshan cover
Rating 4.5
The Recorded Sayings of Xiangshan 陆九渊 / Yang Guorong Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2020 Lu Jiuyuan of the Southern Song dynasty, known as Master Xiangshan, proposed the doctrine that "mind is principle," holding that the principles of hea…
Complete Translation of Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio (Part Three) cover
Rating 4.5
Complete Translation of Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio (Part Three) Pu Songling / 丁如明 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2020 The Liaozhai Zhiyi contains 491 short stories in total. Its subjects are remarkably broad and its content extremely rich. It successfully creates a ho…
Complete Translation of Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio (Part Two) cover
Rating 4.5
Complete Translation of Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio (Part Two) Pu Songling / 丁如明 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2020 The Liaozhai Zhiyi contains 491 short stories in total. Its subjects are remarkably broad and its content extremely rich. It successfully creates a ho…
The Rites of Zhou: Translation and Notes cover
Rating 4.5
The Rites of Zhou: Translation and Notes 杨天宇 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2020 The Rites of Zhou is a work on founding a state and establishing offices, preserving a wealth of pre-Qin historical materials. Drawing on previous sch…
Selected Ci Poems from Hua'an cover
Rating 4.5
Selected Ci Poems from Hua'an 黄昇 / Yang Wanli Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2020 The Hu'an Ci Xuan comprises two parts: ten juan of Finest Ci by the Worthies of Tang and Song and ten juan of Finest Ci since the Restoration, the for…
Chuanshan's Record of Thought and Inquiry cover
Rating 4.5
Chuanshan's Record of Thought and Inquiry Wang Fuzhi / 严寿澂 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2020 Wang Fuzhi's learning ranges widely; for a bird's-eye grasp of his thought, the Siwen Lu is the best first choice. The work is divided into inner and …
The Anxiety of Beauty: Aesthetic Thought and Pursuit of Northern Song Scholar-Officials cover
Rating 4.5
The Anxiety of Beauty: Aesthetic Thought and Pursuit of Northern Song Scholar-Officials 艾朗诺 / Du Feiran / 郭勉愈 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2020 During the Northern Song, literati-officials pursued beauty with unprecedented enthusiasm, pushing beyond previous boundaries in many areas and breaki…
Heaven, Earth, and Humanity Series cover
Rating 4.5
Heaven, Earth, and Humanity Series 周敦颐 / 张载 / 程颢 / 程颐 / Zhu Xi / 吕祖谦 / 陆九渊 / Wang Shouren / Wang Fuzhi / 颜元撰 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2020 The Heaven, Earth, and Humanity Series selects eight concise and representative works by major Confucian scholars from the Song and Ming dynasties to …
The Surviving Works of the Two Cheng Brothers cover
Rating 4.5
The Surviving Works of the Two Cheng Brothers 程颢 / 程颐 / 潘富恩 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2020 "The Surviving Works of the Two Cheng Brothers" is a representative work that relatively concentratedly expresses the Neo-Confucian thought of the two…
The History of the Great Yuan and the New Qing History cover
Rating 4.5
The History of the Great Yuan and the New Qing History 沈卫荣 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2020 In this book, the author seeks to popularize and explain aspects of Tibetan history that have been distorted or presented one-sidedly by Chinese and W…
The Book of Songs: Translated and Annotated cover
Rating 4.5
The Book of Songs: Translated and Annotated 程俊英 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2020 Translated and annotated by the distinguished scholar Professor Cheng Junying, this volume presents all 305 poems of the Classic of Poetry in their en…
Translation and Annotation of Zhuangzi cover
Rating 4.5
Translation and Annotation of Zhuangzi Fang Yong / Liu Tao Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2020 An annotated translation of the pre-Qin philosophical classic Zhuangzi. Zhuangzi, personal name Zhou, was a renowned thinker, philosopher, and man of …
Record of the Wuxu Coup (with One Other Work) cover
Rating 4.5
Record of the Wuxu Coup (with One Other Work) Liang Qichao Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2020 This book is a distinctive biographical history by Liang Qichao, collecting five essays on the Hundred Days' Reform that detail its outbreak and end a…

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)