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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 SixDeep Mountains

2522 books 2310 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 (2522)

Prisoners of Hate cover
Rating 4.5
Prisoners of Hate 阿伦·贝克 CITIC Press · 2024 Prisoners of Hate is a representative work by Aaron T. Beck, the founder of cognitive behavioral therapy and an American psychiatrist, originally titl…
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Rating 4.4
An Unyielding Adventure: Interviews with André Breton 安德烈·布勒东 / André Parino CITIC Press · 2024 An Unyielding Adventure is the first collection of André Breton's interviews to appear in Chinese. It gathers the transcripts of sixteen interviews th…
The Crisis of Our Time: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path to Political Disintegration cover
Rating 4.3
The Crisis of Our Time: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path to Political Disintegration Peter Turchin CITIC Press · 2024 Do revolutions and crises across thousands of years of human society share common patterns? Do the disintegration and collapse of regimes leave traces…
Because of Being Unique: Pop Mart Founder Wang Ning's Trek From a Variety Store to the IP World cover
Rating 4.3
Because of Being Unique: Pop Mart Founder Wang Ning's Trek From a Variety Store to the IP World Li Xiang CITIC Press · 2024 Because of Being Unique is a profile-interview volume in celebrated business journalist Li Xiang's "Xiangtan · Business Scene" series, featuring a con…
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Rating 4.3
Biography of Moutai Wu Xiaobo CITIC Press · 2024 On the ingredient list for Moutai, there are only three components: sorghum, wheat, and water. How have the people of Moutai used these three simplest…
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Rating 4.3
The Ghost Map 史蒂文·约翰逊 CITIC Press · 2024 A work of science history whose ambition is summed up by its subtitle—how one plague reshaped today's city and world—and whose main text reads better …
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Rating 4.3
The Fiscal Code Guo Jianlong CITIC Press · 2024 Taking history as the warp and the economy as the weft, this book examines the rise and fall of Chinese dynasties through the lens of public finance. …
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Rating 4.3
When She Became a Dragon Kelly Barnhill CITIC Press · 2024 On April 25, 1955, in the space of a few hours, more than 640,000 American women grew scales and claws and rose into the sky as dragons, leaving behin…
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Rating 4.2
Anything Is Possible Elizabeth Strout CITIC Press · 2024 Anything Is Possible is a short story collection by American author and Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout, originally published under the title A…
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Rating 4.2
Neruda's Love Poems Pablo Neruda / 黄灿然 CITIC Press · 2024 This volume brings together the two most celebrated love-poetry collections by Pablo Neruda, Chile's national poet and the foremost poet of the Spanis…
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions cover
Rating 4.2
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions Dan Ariely CITIC Press · 2024 We assume we make rational choices, yet the opposite is often true: why will a free coffee make people queue for half an hour while the same coffee at…
Military Code: Geography, War, and the Rise and Fall of Central Dynasties cover
Rating 4.2
Military Code: Geography, War, and the Rise and Fall of Central Dynasties Guo Jianlong CITIC Press · 2024 A history of China told through war and geography, tracing the evolution, successes, and failures of Chinese military strategy over more than two thou…
Continuity: Civilizational Divides and Cultural Evolution cover
Rating 4.2
Continuity: Civilizational Divides and Cultural Evolution Zhao Lin CITIC Press · 2024 There are many general readers on world civilization history, but few can present five thousand years of civilizational development with both skeleton…
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Rating 4.2
Guo Jianlong's "Code Trilogy" (3 Volumes) Guo Jianlong CITIC Press · 2024 This set consists of 3 volumes, including The Fiscal Code and The Military Code. Historian Guo Jianlong's "Code Trilogy" interprets the rise and fall …
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Rating 4.2
Naked Swimming 伊藤诗织 / 匡轶歌 CITIC Press · 2024 In this essay collection, Shiori Ito—Japan’s first woman to speak out against sexual assault under her real name and face—writes after winning her civ…
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Rating 4.2
Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire Eckart Frahm CITIC Press · 2024 In 1843, a team led by French archaeologist Paul-Émile Botta unearthed stone blocks carved with reliefs and inscriptions near a small village northeas…
The Migrating Garden: 101 Poems by Auden cover
Rating 4.2
The Migrating Garden: 101 Poems by Auden W.H.奥登 / 西蒙 / 水琴 CITIC Press · 2024 W. H. Auden is one of the most important English-language poets after T. S. Eliot. His poetry is a museum of styles and a circus of technique, combini…
Life's Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code and the Molecular Biology Revolution of the Twentieth Century cover
Rating 4.2
Life's Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code and the Molecular Biology Revolution of the Twentieth Century Matthew Cobb CITIC Press · 2024 On 25 April 1953, Nature published three papers on the structure of DNA, among them the double-helix model proposed by Watson and Crick—a discovery lo…
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Rating 4.2
Supercommunicators: The Secret to Connecting with Anyone Charles Duhigg CITIC Press · 2024 There are always people in life who can steer a conversation toward a goal, broach sensitive topics without offending the other party, keep communicat…
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Rating 4.1
Sin and Dream: A Personal History of World War II Peter Englund CITIC Press · 2024 November 1942 was a pivotal month in deciding the course of World War II. At the start of the month the Axis powers still appeared capable of victory;…

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)