Orient Publishing Center
Also known as: 東方出版中心, 东方出版中心有限公司
- Founded
- 1978
- Country / Region
- China
- Notable books
- Four Generations Under One RoofIn Search of China in History: A Dialogue on the Epistemology of Regional History StudiesTimaeus
About the publisher
Orient Publishing Center focuses on humanities and social science books, covering classics, finance and economics, social fiction, Eastern philosophy, essays and miscellaneous writings, and social sciences. Representative titles in the catalog include Lao She's Four Generations Under One Roof, William Nordhaus's The Climate Casino: Risk, Uncertainty, and Economics for a Warming World, Xu Yingjin's Twenty Nights of Philosophy, Li Guowen's Daya Village Talk, The Oxford Short Course: The Trust Game, and the Three Kingdoms novel series. Its authors include Lao She, Nordhaus, Liang Xiaomin, Xu Yingjin, Li Guowen, Catherine Holley, Tang Tiantian, and Zhai Xuewei, spanning classic writers and contemporary scholars. The publishing profile balances literary classics with finance, philosophy, and social science titles, combining domestic original works with translated general-knowledge and academic books. Publicly available information on its fuller publishing history and plans is limited.
There Are Tall Trees in the South
Orient Publishing Center · 2026
The novel of the same name behind the urban romance drama starring William Chan, Bai Baihe, Li Xian, and Zhang Youhao. Later, all signs showed that Na…
Southern Song Court and Society on Wang Anshi and the New Policies
Orient Publishing Center · 2025
This book is another monograph by Liang Gengyao, professor emeritus of the Department of History at National Taiwan University, following The Reforms …
Monetizing Copy: Four Golden Steps to Writing Effective Copy
Orient Publishing Center · 2025
In the era of new media, copywriting skills are becoming increasingly important. New sales models—selling products through WeChat official accounts, i…
How Machines Learned to Write: A Literary Theory for Artificial Intelligence
Orient Publishing Center · 2025
Today, with AI writing tools emerging endlessly, we are used to handing a paragraph, a letter, even an article to a machine. But is "machine writing" …
Leviathan
Orient Publishing Center · 2025
Leviathan is the masterpiece of the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679), first published in 1651 under the full title Leviathan, or The Matt…
Twenty Nights of Philosophy
Orient Publishing Center · 2024
In The Shawshank Redemption, could Andy have predicted that life after escape would be better than life in prison? In The Truman Show, why was the TV …
Elegant Village Talk
Orient Publishing Center · 2024
This collection of essays and reflections by the renowned writer Li Guowen falls into four categories: first, a fresh examination of certain represent…
Mercantilism and Its Historical Significance
Orient Publishing Center · 2023
This book is the representative work of Gustav von Schmoller, a leading figure of the German New Historical School. It was originally a chapter from t…
Walking on Nanjing Road: 88 New Prose Poems by Gui Xinghua
Orient Publishing Center · 2022
Following the 2013 publication of Liangjian by Oriental Press, Gui Xinghua, a benchmark figure in contemporary Chinese prose poetry, presents Nanjing …
Studies in Marxist Aesthetics (Volume 20, Issue 1)
Orient Publishing Center · 2022
This volume is the first issue of Volume 20 of Research on Marxist Aesthetics. It is divided into several sections, including a special feature commem…
The Truth of Masks
Orient Publishing Center · 2022
The Truth of Masks is an essay in art criticism by Oscar Wilde, a leading figure of British Aestheticism, originally titled The Truth of Masks: A Note…
Timaeus
Orient Publishing Center · 2021
The Timaeus is one of Plato's most important late dialogues and a foundational work of ancient Western cosmology and natural philosophy. The book cont…
Oxford General Education Course: The Trust Game
Orient Publishing Center · 2021
Can you see through a lie? Research shows that people have a 54 percent chance of detecting a lie. That is not a high figure—after all, random guessin…
Oxford General Education Course: Are All Geniuses Mad?
Orient Publishing Center · 2021
Many people picture genius as inseparable from madness. Van Gogh's widely known masterpieces were all created late in his life, when bouts of mental i…
Confucius and Rotten Wood
Orient Publishing Center · 2021
“Learning must not stop”—what were the ancients really learning? “To restrain oneself and return to propriety is benevolence”—how do we become benevol…
Oxford General Education Course: The Essence of Happiness
Orient Publishing Center · 2021
This is a translated popular philosophy book. Epicureanism is often associated with an carefree outlook and the pursuit of pleasure, especially the pl…
Bygone Days Are Peaceful
Orient Publishing Center · 2021
This book is a cumulative collection of the author’s everyday reflections and experiences. Its writing is intended to express the author’s personal fe…
China Corporate Governance Classification Index Report (2017)
Orient Publishing Center · 2021
The China Corporate Governance Classification Index Report (2017) is the sixth full-sample, all-round, multi-angle, classification-based index researc…
The Great Transformation: China's New Era of Pursuing Dreams (A Popular Party History Reader for the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the Party)
Orient Publishing Center · 2021
In a world undergoing profound changes unseen in a century, and at the historic convergence of the Two Centenary Goals, how will China—already boastin…
Jointly Building a World-Class Urban Agglomeration: The Twenty-Year Development History of the Yangtze River Delta Urban Economic Coordination Conference
Orient Publishing Center · 2021
This book comprises seven chapters—Overview, Decision-Making, Practical Achievements, City Cooperation, Sub-City Clusters, Organizational Structure, a…
Frequent authors
Eiji Yoshikawa (5)王筱敏 (5)Liu Zhiwei (2)孙歌 (2)托马斯·J.斯坦利 (2)Lao She (2)Hu Daojing (2)萨拉·斯坦利·弗洛 (2)Dennis E. Tenen (1)凯瑟琳·威尔逊 (1)凯瑟琳·霍利 (1)Gustav von Schmoller (1)