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.

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The Long Revolution: The Future of Original Chinese Scholarship 朱国华 Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2025 This book is a collection of academic essays by Zhu Guohua, professor in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at East China Normal Univer… The Meteoric Rise of Fairmont High: The Best Science Fiction of Vernor Vinge, Volume II Vernor Vinge Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2025 The Meteoric Rise of Fairmont High: The Best Science Fiction of Vernor Vinge, Volume II is a collection of short and novella-length fiction by Vernor … What Are You Playing At? 赵挺 Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2025 What Are You Playing At? is a short-story collection by the young writer Zhao Ting, his second collection after Looking for Green Day, published by Sh… Step into My Room This Afternoon Wen Kaier Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2025 Step into My Room This Afternoon is the debut short-story collection by post-90s writer Wen Kai'er, published in March 2025 by Shanghai Literature and… Rating 4.8★ Nietzsche and Philosophy 吉尔·德勒兹 / 周颖 / 刘玉宇 Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2024 In the mid-20th century, while French intellectuals were locked in debates over Marxism, existentialism, and phenomenology, Deleuze was captivated by … Rating 4.7★ Higher Than the Mountain: The Tragedy and Glory of Free Climbers 宋明蔚 Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2024 Around 2002, a small group of climbers emerged in China who differed from the traditional approach: they rejected commercial expeditions and guided "n… Rating 4.6★ The Logic of Meaning 吉尔·徳勒兹 / 董树宝 Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2024 Logic of Sense consists of 34 series of paradoxes, with 5 essays appended, and is one of Deleuze's most important works. Through ancient and modern pa… Rating 4.5★ Dark Night 黄锦树 Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2024 Dark Night is a collection of two early short-story volumes by Huang Jinshu, and its stories are mostly set in the rubber-plantation towns of the Sout… Rating 4.3★ Homo Academicus 皮埃尔·布尔 Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2024 Homo Academicus is a 1984 major work by the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. Drawing on a large body of empirical data gathered around the period o… Rating 4.3★ Ten Lectures on Wittgenstein 楼巍 Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2024 Wittgenstein—paragon of genius, great philosopher of the twentieth century. Who studies philosophy without having read him? This book is a course of t… Rating 4.3★ Missing Person Patrick Modiano / 王文融 Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2024 Set in Paris after World War II, the novel tells of a man suffering from amnesia who is taken in by a kindhearted private detective and given a new id… Rating 4.3★ The Four Fears That Hinder Growth Ed Semeria Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2024 We all experience fear: fear of disappointing others' expectations, fear of not being good enough, fear of being judged or abandoned, fear of disturbi… Rating 4.2★ Plato's Republic 阿兰·巴迪欧 / 曹丹红 / 胡蝶 Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2024 Plato's Republic is a long philosophical work by the renowned contemporary French philosopher Alain Badiou. In this book, Badiou adopts the dialogue f… Rating 4.2★ The Neighbors of Yandong Garden 徐泓 Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2024 A work of nonfiction by Xu Hong, professor at Peking University's School of Journalism and Communication, that gives voice to the twenty-two small bui… Rating 4.0★ Black Noise, White Noise and Ghostly Voices 姜宇辉 Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2024 Black Noise, White Noise, and Ghost Voices is a philosophical anthology drawn from Jiang Yuhui's years of research on sound. It encompasses discussion… Rating 4.0★ One-Way Street 36: Out of My Room Wu Qi Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2024 Following The Bright Moment, One-Way Street presents another collection devoted to women's creative work, bringing together a set of reviews, a set of… Rating 4.0★ The Sick Letter 陆春祥 Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2024 Essays need not always glare with cold fury; they can be gentle and still keep their edge, Lu Chunxiang says. The book is not a traditional essay coll… Rating 3.9★ The World Is Ultimately a Strange Thing Jean d'Ormesson Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2024 This World Is Ultimately a Strange Thing is an essayistic work from the later years of Jean d'Ormesson (1925–2017), a French writer and member of the … Rating 3.9★ Diaspora and Presence Wu Qi Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2024 This issue of One-Way Street focuses on local nonfiction writing. The "Documentary" section presents three winners of the "Presence · Nonfiction Writi… Rating 3.8★ A Narrow Escape (One-Way Street 27: Selected Original Fiction of 2021) Wu Qi Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2024 This issue of One-Way Street returns to domestic writing. After four years, it once again presents an original fiction anthology, gathering new work b…

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