CITIC Press

Also known as: 中信出版社(China CITIC Press), 中信, 中信出版集团, 中信出版社,中信出版集团, 中信出版集团股份有限公司

Founded
1988
Country / Region
China
Notable books
The Whale SingsElement Number SixFirst Encounters with Dunhuang

2521 books 2309 authors

About the publisher

Founded in 1988 and affiliated with China CITIC Group, CITIC Press focuses on business and economics, social sciences, literature and children's books, with common categories covering social sciences, finance, literature, Eastern philosophy and literary appreciation. Its library holds 91 titles, including Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens trilogy, Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Wu Xiaobo's Thirty Years of Strife: Chinese Enterprises 1978–2008, Nelly Sachs's The Weight of Butterflies: Selected Poems of Nelly Sachs, as well as New Interpretations of the Analects and Chiang Hsun's lectures on Dream of the Red Chamber. Its authors and translators include Lin Junhong, Ba Shusong, Chen Li and Chang Fen-ling. Overall, the press introduces influential works in finance and social sciences while balancing classic translation and local appreciation in literature and Eastern philosophy, combining academic depth with accessible reading.

Published (2521)

The Qin Empire (10th Anniversary Upgraded Edition, 17 Volumes) cover
Rating 4.4
The Qin Empire (10th Anniversary Upgraded Edition, 17 Volumes) Sun Haohui CITIC Press · 2026 The Qin Empire is a sweeping historical novel that took Sun Haohui sixteen years to complete, offering a panoramic portrayal of how the State of Qin r…
Chiang Hsun Speaks on Dream of the Red Chamber (Volume 1) cover
Rating 4.3
Chiang Hsun Speaks on Dream of the Red Chamber (Volume 1) Chiang Hsun CITIC Press · 2026 Chiang Hsun on Dream of the Red Chamber is the fruit of Taiwan's great aesthete Chiang Hsun's half-century of repeated reading—dozens of times over—of…
Chiang Hsun Speaks on Dream of the Red Chamber (Volume 5) cover
Rating 4.3
Chiang Hsun Speaks on Dream of the Red Chamber (Volume 5) Chiang Hsun CITIC Press · 2026 Chiang Hsun on Dream of the Red Chamber is the fruit of Taiwanese aesthetician Chiang Hsun's half-century of repeated readings—dozens of times over—of…
Chiang Hsun Speaks on Dream of the Red Chamber (Volume 4) cover
Rating 4.3
Chiang Hsun Speaks on Dream of the Red Chamber (Volume 4) Chiang Hsun CITIC Press · 2026 A work of half a century's devotion, Jiang Xun's Lectures on Dream of the Red Chamber distills his dozens of rereadings of the novel into one of the m…
Master Yu on The Commentaries on the I Ching cover
Rating 4.3
Master Yu on The Commentaries on the I Ching Aisin Gioro Yujun / 陈絅 CITIC Press · 2026 The I Ching has long been honored as "the first of all classics" and is the common source of Confucian and Daoist thought. The Yi Zhuan offers a creat…
Chiang Hsun Speaks on Dream of the Red Chamber (Volume 2) cover
Rating 4.3
Chiang Hsun Speaks on Dream of the Red Chamber (Volume 2) Chiang Hsun CITIC Press · 2026 In Jiang Xun Talks about Dream of the Red Chamber, Taiwan's leading aesthetics scholar Jiang Xun distills insights from rereading the novel dozens of …
Chiang Hsun Speaks on Dream of the Red Chamber (Volume 3) cover
Rating 4.3
Chiang Hsun Speaks on Dream of the Red Chamber (Volume 3) Chiang Hsun CITIC Press · 2026 A work of half a century's devotion, Jiang Xun's Lectures on Dream of the Red Chamber distills his dozens of rereadings of the novel into one of the m…
A New Interpretation of The Analects (Complete Two Volumes) cover
Rating 4.3
A New Interpretation of The Analects (Complete Two Volumes) 刘君祖 CITIC Press · 2026 This book is divided into the Upper and Lower Analects, twenty chapters in all. The Upper Analects begins with learning at the proper time and putting…
Master Yu on The Analects cover
Rating 4.3
Master Yu on The Analects Aisin Gioro Yujun / 陈絅 CITIC Press · 2026 Yü's Lectures on the Analects is compiled from lectures Master Yü delivered at Fengyuan Academy between 1999 and 2000. The book connects the Analects …
Chiang Hsun Speaks on Dream of the Red Chamber (Complete Eight Volumes) cover
Rating 4.3
Chiang Hsun Speaks on Dream of the Red Chamber (Complete Eight Volumes) Chiang Hsun CITIC Press · 2026 In Jiang Xun's Lectures on Dream of the Red Chamber, Jiang Xun, a leading Taiwanese aesthetician, distills insights from reading the novel dozens of t…
The Chancellor Who Held State Power: Zhang Juzheng - Changes in Power and a Life of Reform (Complete 2 Volumes) cover
Rating 4.2
The Chancellor Who Held State Power: Zhang Juzheng - Changes in Power and a Life of Reform (Complete 2 Volumes) Lin Gan CITIC Press · 2026 Following The Thirteen Years of Yongzheng, Lin Qian, a Qing history specialist at China University of Political Science and Law, turns to the "Zhang J…
Elegance 08: Chinese-Style Architecture cover
Rating 4.2
Elegance 08: Chinese-Style Architecture 李乾朗 CITIC Press · 2026 How was a traditional Chinese building constructed? What tools were required? What distinguishes it from other architecture? What different cultural b…
Chiang Hsun Speaks on Dream of the Red Chamber (Volume 7) cover
Rating 4.2
Chiang Hsun Speaks on Dream of the Red Chamber (Volume 7) Chiang Hsun CITIC Press · 2026 Chiang Hsun on Dream of the Red Chamber is the fruit of half a century of devotion by the great Taiwanese aesthetician Chiang Hsun, who read Dream of …
Chiang Hsun Speaks on Dream of the Red Chamber (Volume 6) cover
Rating 4.2
Chiang Hsun Speaks on Dream of the Red Chamber (Volume 6) Chiang Hsun CITIC Press · 2026 In Jiang Xun's lectures on Dream of the Red Chamber, the renowned Taiwanese aesthetician draws on more than half a century of repeated readings—dozens…
Chiang Hsun Speaks on Dream of the Red Chamber (Volume 8) cover
Rating 4.2
Chiang Hsun Speaks on Dream of the Red Chamber (Volume 8) Chiang Hsun CITIC Press · 2026 Chiang Hsun on Dream of the Red Chamber is the fruit of half a century of devotion by the great Taiwanese aesthetician Chiang Hsun, who read Dream of …
The Chancellor Who Held State Power: Zhang Juzheng - Changes in Power and a Life of Reform (Part 1) cover
Rating 4.1
The Chancellor Who Held State Power: Zhang Juzheng - Changes in Power and a Life of Reform (Part 1) Lin Gan CITIC Press · 2026 This book is a popular history narrative by Lin Qian, a Qing history expert at China University of Political Science and Law, following his Thirteen Y…
How to Look at Chinese Painting cover
Rating 4.1
How to Look at Chinese Painting 王耀庭 CITIC Press · 2026 When we look back at Chinese culture through the lens of "national studies," we are in fact raising a high wall; when we view it through the lens of "…
The Chancellor Who Held State Power: Zhang Juzheng - Changes in Power and a Life of Reform (Part 2) cover
Rating 4.1
The Chancellor Who Held State Power: Zhang Juzheng - Changes in Power and a Life of Reform (Part 2) Lin Gan CITIC Press · 2026 Following The Thirteen Years of Yongzheng, this popular history narrative by Lin Qian, a Qing historian at China University of Political Science and L…
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Rating 4.1
The Ceramic Road 刘良佑 CITIC Press · 2026 When we look back on Chinese culture through the lens of "national studies," we are in fact raising a high wall; when we view it through the lens of "…
A New Interpretation of Guiguzi cover
Rating 4.1
A New Interpretation of Guiguzi 刘君祖 CITIC Press · 2026 There are many annotated editions of Guiguzi. Liu Junzu, a leading Taiwanese scholar of the I Ching who has studied the Zhouyi—long known as the "sea …

Frequent authors

Wu Xiaobo (27)Jao Tsung-I (27)Yuval Noah Harari (17)大卫·克里斯蒂安 (16)埃里克·霍布斯鲍姆 (15)Justin Yifu Lin (15)Chiang Hsun (14)Walter Isaacson (13)Nassim Nicholas Taleb (13)Siddhartha Mukherjee (12)Clayton M. Christensen (11)Southern Weekly (11)