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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)

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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 "…
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Rating 4.0
Three Thousand Years of Chinese Books Pan Meiyue CITIC Press · 2026 When we look at Chinese culture through the lens of "national studies," we are in fact raising a high wall; when we view it as "traditional culture," …
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Rating 4.0
The Carving of Seals 林素清 CITIC Press · 2026 This is a book that teaches readers how to appreciate seal carving. The author breaks down knowledge about seal carving by theme, covering its origins…
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Rating 4.0
Crossing Central Asia Guo Jianlong CITIC Press · 2026 Guo Jianlong's new book visits more than 60 historical sites across the five Central Asian countries, offering a window into the millennia of exchange…
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Rating 4.0
Master Yu on The Treatise on Personages Aisin Gioro Yujun / 陈絅 CITIC Press · 2026 "The Records of Characters" (Renwu Zhi) is a classic work on the study of talent in Chinese history, written by Liu Shao of the Wei state during the T…
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Rating 4.0
What Is Poetry Singing 曹淑娟 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 look at Chinese culture throu…
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Rating 4.0
The Taste of Tea 张宏庸 CITIC Press · 2026 Over thousands of years, tea has been not only a daily necessity for Chinese people but also an important means of enhancing life's beauty. When tasti…
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Rating 4.0
When Calligraphy Became Art 周凤五 CITIC Press · 2026 When we look at Chinese culture through the lens of "national studies," we are in fact raising a high wall; when we look at it through the lens of "tr…
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Rating 4.0
A New Interpretation of Bingjian 刘君祖 CITIC Press · 2026 Ice Mirror is a classic work on reading and appraising people, and was a favorite of Zeng Guofan, a leading statesman of the late Qing restoration. Un…
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Rating 4.0
Tribulation 刘君祖 CITIC Press · 2026 This book offers a thorough analysis of the nine忧患 (contingency) hexagrams in the I Ching—Lu (Treading), Qian (Modesty), Fu (Return), Heng (Duration),…
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Rating 3.9
Sorrow at Parting and Sharing the Spring Breeze: Tang and Song Ci of Deepest Feeling and True Nature 刘少雄 CITIC Press · 2026 A popular Tang and Song ci appreciation course by Professor Liu Shao-hsiung, NTU Distinguished Professor Emeritus. 115 ci poems guide you back into th…
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Rating 3.9
Thinkers' Series (Volume 2): Revelations from the Fall of the Qing Dynasty Ma Yong CITIC Press · 2026 This book looks back at the Qing dynasty a hundred years after its fall, asking in particular why this seemingly powerful dynasty proved so fragile th…
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Rating 3.9
Chinese Floral Art 许淑真 CITIC Press · 2026 Did you know that the flower of love in ancient China was the herbaceous peony, that the orchid was a precious first-rank flower, and that the hibiscu…
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Rating 3.8
Qian and Kun: Liu Junzu Explains the Great Wisdom of Qian and Kun 刘君祖 CITIC Press · 2026 The two trigrams Qian and Kun carry world-opening leadership significance in the I Ching, known as the hexagrams of heaven and earth and of father and…
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Rating 3.6
40 Lessons to Understand Classical Music 彭广林 CITIC Press · 2026 A beginner's guide to classical music, a classic distilled from 30 years of teaching experience. Recognizing Classical Music in 40 Lessons is an acces…
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Rating 3.2
Understanding the Geopolitical World in One Book: A Complete Analysis of Global Political Forces 王伟 CITIC Press · 2026 America—from its founding and rise to global hegemony—has followed a path much like the "swordsmen" of martial arts fiction; Europe, once the "lord of…
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Rating 3.0
Head of Soldiers, Tail of Generals: Six Core Elements for Leading a Team to Win Battles 俞朝翎 CITIC Press · 2026 Today, businesses face all kinds of difficult problems: business targets go unmet, results are hard to achieve, there is no method for performance bui…
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Iris Chang: The Power of One Zhang Yingying / Randy Hopkins CITIC Press · 2026 The Power of One: Iris Chang, co-written by Iris Chang's mother, Ying-Ying Chang, and retired trial lawyer Randy Hopkins, will be published by CITIC P…
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Judge Bao Cases 安遇时 CITIC Press · 2026 Judge Bao Cases, also known as The Dragon-Table Cases, with the full title Popular Romance of Judge Bao of the Dragon Table: One Hundred Cases, and al…
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Xu Xiake's Travels: Illustrated Collector's Edition of Famous Mountains Xu Xiake CITIC Press · 2026 Xu Xiake's Travels is a diary-form record of more than thirty years of travel and investigation by the Ming Dynasty traveler and geographer Xu Xiake. …

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)