About the publisher
Shanghai Culture Publishing House focuses on practical living and popular culture, while also building a concentrated list in adjacent knowledge areas such as foreign literature, Western philosophy, military studies, and politics. Representative titles in the library include Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and The World as Will and Representation; Goethe's Faust; the Homeric epics (8 volumes); and Carl von Clausewitz's On War, along with Flatland. In terms of translators and authors, Chen Zhongmei, Tian Linian, Qi Jiafu, and Ruan Huishan have contributed to related titles. The press is characterized by connecting classic texts with the reading needs of a general audience, balancing cultural accumulation with knowledge popularization. Given limited public information, this description emphasizes the publishing directions reflected in the library's books.
Published (136)
Rating 3.9★ Irrational Decisions: How to Grasp the Truth in an Age of Information Anxiety David Robert Grimes Shanghai Culture Publishing House · 2021 We live in an age of information explosion. Social media shares, sensational headlines, and plausible-sounding "research findings" flood us every day.… Rating 3.8★ May You Be Happy and Brave 果麦 Shanghai Culture Publishing House · 2021 Happy and Brave wishes you well gathers twenty-four speeches and letters by notable figures from China and abroad, including Einstein, Lu Xun, Tagore,… Rating 3.7★ Metro 2034 Dmitry Glukhovsky Shanghai Culture Publishing House · 2021 Twenty years after the nuclear war, humanity is nearly extinct. The cities on the surface lie in ruins—buildings collapsed, forests reduced to ash—and… Rating 4.7★ An Actor's Work on Himself 斯坦尼斯拉夫斯基 Shanghai Culture Publishing House · 2020 An Actor's Work on Himself is the representative work of the Russian actor, director, and drama educator Konstantin Stanislavski (1863–1938) and the c… Rating 4.6★ Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions Edwin A. Abbott Shanghai Culture Publishing House · 2020 Originally titled Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, this book was published in 1884 by the Victorian scholar Edwin A. Abbott. In the first perso… Rating 4.6★ Flatland Edwin A. Abbott Shanghai Culture Publishing House · 2020 A slim little book, yet at once a science fiction novel, a mathematical fairy tale, and a social allegory. The most captivating thing about Flatland i… Rating 4.6★ Flatland Edwin A. Abbott Shanghai Culture Publishing House · 2020 Flatland Rating 4.5★ Returning Home 迪迪埃·埃里蓬 / 王献 Shanghai Culture Publishing House · 2020 Returning to Reims is a reflective sociological work by the French philosopher and sociologist Didier Eribon, written from his own experience. After h… Rating 4.5★ An Actor Prepares Konstantin Stanislavski Shanghai Culture Publishing House · 2020 An Actor Prepares is the magnum opus of the great Russian theatre practitioner Konstantin Stanislavski and the foundational primer of the Stanislavski… Rating 4.4★ Why? Reasons in Social Life 查尔斯·蒂利 / 李钧鹏 Shanghai Culture Publishing House · 2020 This is a book about the reasons we give and how we give them. It examines how the reasons we offer in everyday life depend on social relations and, i… Rating 4.0★ Your Body, Everything Beautiful Begins Here Cameron Diaz / Sandra Buck Shanghai Culture Publishing House · 2020 Co-written by Hollywood actress Cameron Diaz and New York Times bestselling author Sandra Bark, this book was originally published in English as The B… Rating 4.0★ Tang China in Multi-Polar Asia 王贞平 Shanghai Culture Publishing House · 2020 This book is a monograph on Tang military and foreign relations by Wang Zhenping, a professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and a s… Rating 4.0★ The Tang Dynasty in a Multipolar Asia 王贞平 / 贾永会 Shanghai Culture Publishing House · 2020 This book is a monograph on Tang military and foreign relations by the distinguished Tang historian Professor Wang Zhenping. Drawing on an extensive b… Thus Spoke Zarathustra Friedrich Nietzsche Shanghai Culture Publishing House · 2020 Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a philosophical prose poem written in four parts by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche between 1883 and 1885, and th… Rating 4.5★ The Natural History of Selborne Gilbert White Shanghai Culture Publishing House · 2019 The Natural History of Selborne is the only book left by the eighteenth-century English naturalist and ornithologist Gilbert White (1720–1793), first … Rating 4.3★ The Tales of Ise: An Illustrated Edition (Japanese Classical Masterpieces Illustrated Reading Series) Bu Naifu (pen name Wu Mingshi) / 唐月梅 Shanghai Culture Publishing House · 2019 The Illustrated Guide to The Tales of Ise faithfully brings to life the elegant love stories of court nobles in the tales. With graceful colors and li… Rating 4.3★ The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter: An Illustrated Edition (Japanese Classical Masterpieces Illustrated Reading Series) Bu Naifu (pen name Wu Mingshi) / 唐月梅 Shanghai Culture Publishing House · 2019 The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter: An Illustrated Guide, part of the Illustrated Classics of Japanese Literature series, brings together picture scrolls f… Rating 4.0★ Spring and Autumn: The Rise and Fall of the Five Hegemons 朱良 Shanghai Culture Publishing House · 2019 This book is the Spring and Autumn volume of Zhu Liang’s (pen name Wuji Gongzi) series Our Huaxia. Its narrative begins with King Ping of Zhou’s eastw… Rating 3.2★ Warring States: The Contest of the Seven Powers 朱良 Shanghai Culture Publishing House · 2019 Spanning from the Partition of Jin among three families to Qin Shi Huang's unification of the six states, this book, grounded in historical fact and t… Rating 3.2★ Spring and Autumn: The Rise of the Five Hegemons 朱良 Shanghai Culture Publishing House · 2019 Grounded in historical fact, this book recounts nearly three centuries of Spring and Autumn history in witty, accessible prose. The rise and fall of t…Frequent authors
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