Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House

Also known as: 上海文艺出版社等

Founded
1952
Country / Region
China
Notable books
TeahouseCamel XiangziCall to Arms & Wandering

337 books 275 authors

About the publisher

Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House takes modern and contemporary Chinese literature and folk literature as important publishing directions, while also covering social novels, classic works, and prose and miscellaneous writings, and has long introduced foreign literature and philosophical works. Its books include masterpieces such as Lao She's Teahouse and Camel Xiangzi, Lu Xun's Call to Arms and Wandering and Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dusk, and Xiao Hong's Tales of Hulan River, as well as translations such as Gilles Deleuze's Nietzsche and Philosophy, Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, and The Pillars of the Earth trilogy. Its authors include Lao She, Lu Xun, Xiao Hong, Zhou Ying, Liu Yuyu, and Jiang Yi, reflecting a publishing character that balances original literature, academic translation, and general reading.

Published (337)

Teahouse cover
Rating 4.9
Teahouse Lao She Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 Teahouse is a classic play by Lao She. Set against the rise and fall of a large old Beijing teahouse called Yutai, it portrays the social landscape of…
The Story of Hulan River cover
Rating 4.8
The Story of Hulan River Xiao Hong Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 The Tales of Hulan River is "a narrative poem, a colorful painting of local life, a string of mournful ballads." In the small town of Hulan River as r…
Camel Xiangzi cover
Rating 4.8
Camel Xiangzi Lao She Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 Camel Xiangzi tells the tragic story of Xiangzi, a rickshaw puller in Beiping of old China. Xiangzi comes from the countryside; the ever-declining rur…
Call to Arms & Wandering cover
Rating 4.8
Call to Arms & Wandering Lu Xun Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 Call to Arms and Wandering brings together Lu Xun's two early story collections, Call to Arms and Wandering. Call to Arms contains 14 stories written …
Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dusk cover
Rating 4.7
Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dusk Lu Xun Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 Originally titled Old Stories Retold, Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dusk is a collection of prose by the modern writer Lu Xun. It gathers ten reminiscences…
One Billion Years Until the End of the World! cover
Rating 4.0
One Billion Years Until the End of the World! 阿卡迪·斯特鲁伽茨基 / 鲍里斯·斯特鲁伽茨基 / 杜韵莎 Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 This classic science fiction novel by the Strugatsky brothers tells the story of scientists who encounter a series of bizarre obstacles in their resea…
A Record of Seeking Immortals on Paper cover
Rating 4.0
A Record of Seeking Immortals on Paper 锦翼 Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 This is the first volume in a series of books about the food, clothing, housing, and daily life—down to eating, drinking, and bodily functions—of ghos…
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Rating 3.9
A Chinese Teacher Reads the Records of the Grand Historian with You: The A and B Sides of the World 大梁如姬 Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 This volume profiles two radically different kinds of figures in history, whose existence resembles the A and B sides of a record. The A-side protagon…
You Can Live Like This Too cover
Rating 3.6
You Can Live Like This Too 济群法师 Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 This book is compiled mainly from recordings of the author's lectures and interviews over several decades, along with writings from his personal refle…
The Lost Hometown and Four County Town Stories cover
Rating 3.5
The Lost Hometown and Four County Town Stories 孙一圣 Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 I just want to leave here, the farther the better. —This book My uncle was a genius: speaking at one, reading at three, and everyone for miles around …
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Rating 3.5
Read the Records of the Grand Historian with Your Chinese Teacher: The Strongest Brain 大梁如姬 Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 Mention ancient China's splendid culture, and one must mention the "Hundred Schools of Thought": they were the pioneers of thought, the "super brains"…
A Chinese Teacher Reads the Records of the Grand Historian with You: Biographies of Celebrities cover
Rating 3.3
A Chinese Teacher Reads the Records of the Grand Historian with You: Biographies of Celebrities 大梁如姬 Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 Written by a Chinese teacher, this guide to the "Biographies of the Marquises" section of the Records of the Grand Historian focuses on the most famou…
Investiture of the Gods of the Three Kingdoms cover
Rating 3.2
Investiture of the Gods of the Three Kingdoms 锦翼 Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 Survey the Three Kingdoms story: heroes abound, so why are these the ones truly deified? Every chapter is a "satisfying read," goes down even smoother…
Cloud and Mist Town cover
Rating 3.0
Cloud and Mist Town 老九 Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 Told in a documentary style, the novel follows two unusual groups—demobilized soldiers led by the protagonist Brother Five and women of the demimonde—…
Unofficial History Is Not Necessarily False: Emperors, Kings, Generals and Ministers cover
Rating 3.0
Unofficial History Is Not Necessarily False: Emperors, Kings, Generals and Ministers 王磊 Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 Rumors do not arise from nothing—truth often hides within them. This book explores well-known unofficial historical tales from China's history, spanni…
The Most Spring and Autumn: The Trendiest Spring and Autumn Stories in History cover
Rating 2.8
The Most Spring and Autumn: The Trendiest Spring and Autumn Stories in History 大梁如姬 Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 Read the classics to sharpen your Chinese; draw on historical sources to build up writing material: a Chinese teacher takes you to meet the stars of t…
The Long Revolution: The Future of Original Scholarship in China cover
Rating 4.8
The Long Revolution: The Future of Original Scholarship in China 朱国华 Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2025 This is an uncompromising book. The author, Zhu Guohua, is a professor of literature and art studies at East China Normal University who has long stud…
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn cover
Rating 4.6
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 贝蒂·史密斯 / 任爱红 Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2025 Francie is a little girl growing up in Brooklyn, New York, whose life and fate seem as hopeless as a seed fallen on concrete. Facing class constraints…
The Last Monkey Handler cover
Rating 4.6
The Last Monkey Handler 马宏杰 Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2025 Following Wives for Hire in China's West, acclaimed documentary photographer Ma Hongjie turns his lens to the folk art of monkey performance and the l…
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Rating 4.5
Creating the Self: The Literary Choices of the Post-1970s Generation Yue Wen Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2025 Creating the Self: The Literary Choices of the Post-1970s Generation is a new collection of criticism by the literary critic Yue Wen. Taking ten post-…

Frequent authors

戴建业 (13)Wu Qi (12)Arthur Charles Clarke (10)宁肯 (7)Han Shaogong (7)Shan Hua (6)Yi Zhongtian (6)陈引驰 (6)陈磊·半小时漫画团队 (6)狷狂 (5)大梁如姬 (4)Xiaoqiao Laoshu (Zhang Bing) (4)