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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)

Zhouyi: Translation and Annotation cover
Rating 4.5
Zhouyi: Translation and Annotation 黄寿祺 / Zhang Shanwen Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2024 Traditional Chinese culture has a long and profound intellectual history, distinguished by its originality, inventiveness, and literary quality. Early…
Jade Dew from the Crane Forest cover
Rating 4.5
Jade Dew from the Crane Forest 罗大经 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2024 Traditional Chinese culture has a long and profound intellectual heritage, marked by a high degree of originality, inventiveness, and literary quality…
Chuanshan's Records of Thought and Inquiry cover
Rating 4.5
Chuanshan's Records of Thought and Inquiry Wang Fuzhi Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2024 Chuanshan Si Wen Lu is an important philosophical work by the renowned Qing dynasty thinker Wang Fuzhi. With profound philosophical reflection and inc…
Collected Sayings of the Tang cover
Rating 4.5
Collected Sayings of the Tang 王定保 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2024 With a long history, traditional Chinese thought and culture is highly original, inventive and literary. Early forms of thought have distinctive featu…
Comprehensive Anthology of Ci Poetry cover
Rating 4.5
Comprehensive Anthology of Ci Poetry Zhu Yizun Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2024 Traditional Chinese culture has a long and profound intellectual heritage, marked by high originality, inventiveness, and literary quality. Early form…
Rustic Words of Qidong cover
Rating 4.5
Rustic Words of Qidong Zhou Mi Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2024 Traditional Chinese thought and culture have a long history and are highly original, inventive, and literary. Early intellectual forms are especially …
Scattered into a Hundred Dongpos: Words, Images, and Deeds in Su Shi's Life cover
Rating 4.5
Scattered into a Hundred Dongpos: Words, Images, and Deeds in Su Shi's Life 艾朗诺 / 赵惠俊 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2024 Through the prism of Su Shi's life and his work in various literary and artistic genres, this book captures the traces of his life at its most notewor…
The Romance of the Western Chamber (Illustrated Edition) cover
Rating 4.4
The Romance of the Western Chamber (Illustrated Edition) Wang Shifu / 俞为民 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2024 Xixiang Ji (Romance of the Western Chamber), in five books and twenty acts, is the crowning masterpiece of Yuan zaju drama, hailed as "the finest unde…
The Palace of Eternal Life (Illustrated Edition) cover
Rating 4.4
The Palace of Eternal Life (Illustrated Edition) Hong Sheng / 俞为民 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2024 Hong Sheng's The Palace of Eternal Life and Kong Shangren's The Peach Blossom Fan are celebrated chuanqi masterpieces of the early Qing stage, known t…
A New Account of Tales of the World (Shishuo Xinyu) cover
Rating 4.4
A New Account of Tales of the World (Shishuo Xinyu) Liu Yiqing / 徐传武 / 刘孝标 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2024 A New Account of Tales of the World is a note-fiction work that reflects the manner of the literati of the Wei and Jin period and embodies the charact…
The Peach Blossom Fan (Illustrated Edition) cover
Rating 4.4
The Peach Blossom Fan (Illustrated Edition) Kong Shangren / 俞为民 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2024 Kong Shangren's The Peach Blossom Fan and Hong Sheng's The Palace of Eternal Life are celebrated masterpieces of the chuanqi drama that earned their a…
Chuanshan's Records of Reflection and Inquiry cover
Rating 4.3
Chuanshan's Records of Reflection and Inquiry Wang Fuzhi Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2024 Traditional Chinese thought and culture have a long history and are highly original, inventive, and literary. Early intellectual forms are especially …
Records of Waving the Duster cover
Rating 4.3
Records of Waving the Duster 王明清 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2024 The Tang dynasty's *Veritable Records of Emperor Ming* states: "In the autumn, the eighth month of the seventeenth year of the Kaiyuan era, on the day…
Sunzi cover
Rating 4.3
Sunzi Sun Wu (Sun Tzu) / 曹孟德 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2024 Sunzi, also known as Sunzi and The Art of War of Sun Wu and The Art of War of Wu Sunzi, is a classic work of ancient Chinese military thought written …
Zhouyi (Book of Changes) cover
Rating 4.3
Zhouyi (Book of Changes) 来知德 / 胡真 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2024 The Zhouyi, also called the Yijing or simply the Yi, is an ancient Chinese work of philosophy. It is the source of traditional Chinese natural philoso…
Superfluous Words from the Guest Seat cover
Rating 4.2
Superfluous Words from the Guest Seat 顾起元 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2024 On the first day of the fifth month of the third year of Hongwu, the civil examinations were first established. The regulations promulgated in the edi…
Medieval Anomalies: Scholarship, Belief, and Society in the Manuscript Age cover
Rating 4.2
Medieval Anomalies: Scholarship, Belief, and Society in the Manuscript Age 余欣 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2024 Medieval Anomalies: Scholarship, Faith, and Society in the Manuscript Age attempts to reconstruct a new picture of scholarship in the medieval period,…
History of Chinese Historiography cover
Rating 4.2
History of Chinese Historiography 金毓黻 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2024 Traditional Chinese thought and culture have a long history and are highly original, inventive and literary. Early forms of thought have distinctive f…
The Rites of Zhou cover
Rating 4.2
The Rites of Zhou 方苞 / 金晓东 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2024 The Rites of Zhou is one of the Confucian classics. It was written by the Duke of Zhou, Dan—a renowned statesman, thinker, man of letters, and militar…
Investiture of the Gods (Illustrated and Annotated Edition) cover
Rating 4.2
Investiture of the Gods (Illustrated and Annotated Edition) Xu Zhonglin / 王维堤 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2024 This edition is based on the original early Qing "Sixue Caotang" printed edition, collated and edited by Wang Weiti. The foreword by Qian Bocheng, ori…

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)