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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

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)

Playful Parenting: Laughter, and the Courage to Connect cover
Rating 4.4
Playful Parenting: Laughter, and the Courage to Connect Lawrence Cohen CITIC Press · 2022 Playful Parenting is the signature work of Lawrence J. Cohen, an American clinical psychologist and specialist in child play therapy, originally publi…
A Dog Called Money 2 cover
Rating 4.3
A Dog Called Money 2 Bodo Schäfer CITIC Press · 2022 This is the sequel to A Dog Called Money and the second installment in the "money fairy tale" series. In the previous book, a girl named Kira learned …
The Japanese Economy: Prosperity and Stagnation cover
Rating 4.2
The Japanese Economy: Prosperity and Stagnation Takatoshi Ito / Xing Yuexiong CITIC Press · 2022 This is the Chinese translation of the second edition of The Japanese Economy by Japanese economists Takatoshi Ito and Takeo Hoshi, translated from th…
The Hype Machine: The Group Blind Spots of the Social Age cover
Rating 4.2
The Hype Machine: The Group Blind Spots of the Social Age Sinan Aral CITIC Press · 2022 The combination of social media, machine intelligence, and smartphones constitutes what Sinan Aral calls the "Hype Machine"—a global network of inform…
The Signature of All Things cover
Rating 4.2
The Signature of All Things Elizabeth Gilbert CITIC Press · 2022 The Signature of All Things is a novel written over seven years by American author Elizabeth Gilbert following Eat, Pray, Love (original English title…
Turbulent Ten Years, Big Fish in Big Waters: Chinese Enterprises 2008–2018 cover
Rating 4.2
Turbulent Ten Years, Big Fish in Big Waters: Chinese Enterprises 2008–2018 Wu Xiaobo CITIC Press · 2022 “If you had to describe the past ten years in a single phrase, what would it be?” When I put this question to Professor Zhou Qiren of Peking Universit…
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS cover
Rating 4.2
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS 乔比·沃里克 / 钟鹰翔 CITIC Press · 2022 Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS traces how the group's founder, Zarqawi, transformed an organization born in a Jordanian prison into a Middle Eastern ph…
The Idea of the Brain cover
Rating 4.2
The Idea of the Brain Matthew Cobb CITIC Press · 2022 The Idea of the Brain is a history of brain science ideas written by Matthew Cobb, Professor of Zoology and a neuroscientist at the University of Manc…
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal cover
Rating 4.2
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal 贾雷德·戴蒙德 CITIC Press · 2022 The genetic gap between humans and chimpanzees and bonobos is less than 2 percent—so if alien zoologists came to classify life on Earth, humans would …
The Mad Heart cover
Rating 4.2
The Mad Heart Bill Shute / Patricia J. Winn CITIC Press · 2022 Most books about the heart on the market begin with "how to prevent heart disease," but this book examines the heart within the entire animal kingdom …
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal cover
Rating 4.2
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal 贾雷德·戴蒙德 CITIC Press · 2022 Modern genetic research shows that humans share about 98% of their genome with the other two chimpanzee species. Were an alien zoologist to attempt a …
The Marvelous Senses of Animals cover
Rating 4.1
The Marvelous Senses of Animals Vitus Dröscher CITIC Press · 2022 This is a popular science book on animal senses by the German ethologist Vitus Dröscher. From the perspectives of animal psychology and behavioral bio…
March 1917: One Month That Changed the World cover
Rating 4.0
March 1917: One Month That Changed the World Will England CITIC Press · 2022 On March 5, 1917, Woodrow Wilson declared in his second inaugural address that "we are no longer a herd of provincials." America stood on the threshol…
Da Vinci's Cat cover
Rating 4.0
Da Vinci's Cat Katherine Gilbert Murdock / Paul O. Zelinsky CITIC Press · 2022 Eleven-year-old Bee moves with her family to New Jersey, and she is not happy about it. At the home of her elderly neighbor, Miss Baze, she sees a ske…
Unraveled: The Life and Death of a Garment cover
Rating 4.0
Unraveled: The Life and Death of a Garment Maxine Bedat CITIC Press · 2022 Where did that cheap pair of jeans in your closet come from, and where will it go? The author, Maxine Bédat, is at once an entrepreneur, a researcher,…
We Live in Nanjing cover
Rating 4.0
We Live in Nanjing Tianrui Shuofu CITIC Press · 2022 In 2019, Bai Yang, a high school senior in Nanjing, is living an ordinary life of homework, cramming, and video games. A chance amateur radio contact …
What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets cover
Rating 3.9
What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets Michael Sandel CITIC Press · 2022 We live in an era when almost everything can be bought and sold at a price: paying to jump the queue, hiring someone to stand in line for you, offerin…
Dynamic Efficiency: The Optimal Solution for Scale, Profit, and Demand cover
Rating 3.9
Dynamic Efficiency: The Optimal Solution for Scale, Profit, and Demand 陈科 CITIC Press · 2022 Dynamic Efficiency is a methodology for corporate growth by Chen Ke, Chief Operating Officer of ANTA Group, drawing on his years of hands-on experienc…
A Wedding of Your Own: The Complete Guide to Wedding Planning cover
Rating 3.9
A Wedding of Your Own: The Complete Guide to Wedding Planning Yanyan CITIC Press · 2022 This is a complete wedding-planning guide from Yanyan (Yang Yanyan), creator of the WeChat account "Yanyan's Wedding Diary," written for couples prepa…
Ten Pills: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Reshaped the World cover
Rating 3.8
Ten Pills: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Reshaped the World Thomas Hager CITIC Press · 2022 The book treats drugs as characters. Thomas Hager, a former medical journalist, tells his stories cleanly and readably, neither piling up molecular fo…

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