Logo of Shanghai Classics Publishing House

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)

The Palace of Eternal Life cover
Rating 4.7
The Palace of Eternal Life Hong Sheng Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2025 As a chuanqi play by early Qing dramatist Hong Sheng, *The Palace of Eternal Life* tells the love story of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang and Yang Guifei, a…
The Geography of Marquis States in the Western Han Dynasty (Revised Edition) cover
Rating 4.5
The Geography of Marquis States in the Western Han Dynasty (Revised Edition) 马孟龙 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2025 During the Western Han period, more than eight hundred marquisates were established. Whether such a large number of marquisates exhibited regional dis…
Gao Qi: The Poet's Dead End cover
Rating 4.5
Gao Qi: The Poet's Dead End 牟复礼 / 颜子楠 / 叶晔 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2025 Gao Qi was praised by Chairman Mao as "the greatest poet of the Ming dynasty," yet the general public knows little about this poet who was cut in half…
Seeking the Hidden in Kucha: Archaeological Reconstruction and Visual Representation cover
Rating 4.4
Seeking the Hidden in Kucha: Archaeological Reconstruction and Visual Representation 何恩之 / 魏正中 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2025 This book treats the caves and murals as expressions of the distinctive monastic practices of local Buddhist communities, with the goal of reconstruct…
Paths and Techniques: Studies in Medieval Official Systems, Epigraphy, and Source Criticism, and Other Essays cover
Rating 4.4
Paths and Techniques: Studies in Medieval Official Systems, Epigraphy, and Source Criticism, and Other Essays 孙正军 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2025 This book presents the author's systematic research and theoretical reflections developed over more than a decade of deep engagement with several impo…
Compiled Anecdotes of Song Dynasty Figures cover
Rating 4.4
Compiled Anecdotes of Song Dynasty Figures 葛渭君 / 周子来 / 王华宝 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2025 This new forty-volume Compendium of Anecdotes of Song Figures was edited by Zhou Xunchu of Nanjing University, who led Ge Weijun, Zhou Zilai, Wang Hua…
Xunzi cover
Rating 4.4
Xunzi 杨倞 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2025 The Xunzi is the most important work of the Confucian school in the late Warring States period. Xunzi was a great master of Confucian learning who, wh…
Lüshi Chunqiu (Master Lü's Spring and Autumn Annals) cover
Rating 4.3
Lüshi Chunqiu (Master Lü's Spring and Autumn Annals) 高诱 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2025 The Lüshi Chunqiu, also called Lü Lan, is a famous work of the Eclectic school compiled by Lü Buwei, Chancellor of Qin, together with his retainers. I…
A History of Vernacular Literature cover
Rating 4.2
A History of Vernacular Literature Hu Shi Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2025 A distinctive literary history that charts the development of Chinese literature from a fresh perspective, from the Han dynasty through the mid-Tang. …
Classic of Mountains and Seas cover
Rating 4.2
Classic of Mountains and Seas 郭璞 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2025 This is an important pre-Qin Chinese classic and a fantastical, extraordinary book, all-encompassing in content. The transmitted edition has eighteen …
Annotated Translation of Jingjing Lingchi cover
Rating 4.2
Annotated Translation of Jingjing Lingchi 郑复光 / 李磊 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2025 Mirror upon Mirror: A Parodic Study of Optics, Translated and Annotated is an optics treatise by the late Qing scholar Zheng Fuguang, published in 184…
Death Without Verification: Occult Arts, Prophecy, and Political Culture in the Qin and Han Dynasties cover
Rating 4.2
Death Without Verification: Occult Arts, Prophecy, and Political Culture in the Qin and Han Dynasties 董涛 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2025 This book explores the influence of shamanic arts, mantic techniques, and prophetic apocrypha (chenwei) on political behavior, political evolution, an…
Mozi cover
Rating 4.1
Mozi 墨子 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2025 Mozi (468–376 BCE) was a leading thinker of the Warring States period and founder of Mohism. His doctrines include universal love, condemnation of off…
Selected Prose of the Eight Great Masters of Tang and Song cover
Rating 4.1
Selected Prose of the Eight Great Masters of Tang and Song 张伯行 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2025 The Eight Great Prose Masters of the Tang and Song dynasties are eight celebrated writers of supreme achievement in classical prose: Han Yu and Liu Zo…
The Way to a Peaceful Mind: Ten Lectures on Buddhist Essentials cover
Rating 4.0
The Way to a Peaceful Mind: Ten Lectures on Buddhist Essentials 成庆 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2025 The Way to Peace of Mind: Ten Lectures on Buddhism is an introduction to Buddhist thought by Cheng Qing, associate professor of history at Shanghai Un…
The Way to Peace of Mind: Ten Introductory Lectures on Buddhism cover
Rating 4.0
The Way to Peace of Mind: Ten Introductory Lectures on Buddhism 成庆 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2025 Following Life's Troubles: Forty Introductory Lectures on Buddhism, Cheng Qing presents The Way of Peace of Mind: Ten Lectures on Buddhist General Kno…
Records of Washing Away Injustice: A Collection of Ancient Chinese Criminal Case Stories cover
Rating 4.0
Records of Washing Away Injustice: A Collection of Ancient Chinese Criminal Case Stories 钟源 / 郑小悠 / 史志强 / 周琳 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2025 Told through individual case studies, this book recounts the occurrence, adjudication, enforcement, and impact of real cases from ancient China. It sp…
Born in the Great Song: Daily Life in the Song Dynasty cover
Rating 4.0
Born in the Great Song: Daily Life in the Song Dynasty 朱瑞熙 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2025 Zhu Ruixi (1937–2024) was a native of Jiading, Shanghai. He served as director of the Institute of Ancient Books at Shanghai Normal University and res…
Restoration Techniques for Ancient Books cover
Rating 3.9
Restoration Techniques for Ancient Books 童芷珍 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2025 A specialized textbook for the new "Ancient Book Conservation" track of the Classical Chinese Texts program at Fudan University's Institute of Ancient…
Translation and Annotation of Principles of Correct Diet cover
Rating 3.9
Translation and Annotation of Principles of Correct Diet 忽思慧 / 张秉伦 / 方晓阳 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2025 This book consists of three volumes. Volume One discusses various dietary taboos and collected delicacies. Volume Two covers various decoctions, dieta…

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)