World Book Company (Shijie Shuju)

World Book Company (Shijie Shuju) is a Chinese publishing house, with nine titles in the collection covering social novels, foreign literature, wuxia fiction, and cultural works. Representative publications include Zhang Henshui's The Golden Family and Spring Outside the City, Pingjiang Buxiaosheng's Biographies of Remarkable People and Strange Tales of the Jianghu, as well as old translations of Jules Verne's Two Years' Vacation and the Rome and Japan volumes of Tales from Overseas. Authors represented also include Liang Qichao, Yinbingzi, Pifasheng, and Xie Liuyi. Its publishing profile combines popular fiction with translations from abroad, attending to social themes while introducing foreign literary works, thus reflecting a broad reading orientation that bridges Chinese and Western writing. Public information is limited, so this introduction focuses on the publishing directions reflected in the collection.