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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)

(NEW) The Art of War cover
(NEW) The Art of War Sun Wu (Sun Tzu) / 王宏林 CITIC Press · 2026 The Art of War is the earliest extant and most renowned work on military science in China. Traditionally attributed to Sun Wu in the late Spring and A…
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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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Rating 4.8
Element Number Six Theodore P. Snow / Don Brownlee CITIC Press · 2025 The sixth element in the periodic table is carbon. When people hear of it, they first think of fossil fuels such as coal and petroleum, or frontier ma…
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Rating 4.7
1848: The Year of European Revolution Christopher Clark CITIC Press · 2025 In 1848, a storm of change swept across almost the entire European continent, save Russia: barricades rose in the streets of Paris and the July Monarc…
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Rating 4.7
Source Code: My Beginnings Bill Gates CITIC Press · 2025 This is the first personal memoir by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, originally published in English as Source Code: My Beginnings. It does not cover…
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Rating 4.7
Dasa Lin Weipan CITIC Press · 2025 “Dasa” begins as a dialect word and becomes a way of saying: only a life with flavor counts as dasa. Setting out from Shanghang in western Fujian, Lin…
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Rating 4.6
Hello, Stranger 项飙 / 刘小东 / 何袜皮 / Li Yifan / 刘悦来 / 沈志军 / Jia Dongting / Duan Zhipeng CITIC Press · 2025 Hello, Stranger is a collection of conversations led by anthropologist Xiang Biao with scholars from a range of disciplines, growing out of a dialogue…
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Rating 4.6
Wandering Ends Here: My Incredible Life with 600 Animals Laurie Zaleski CITIC Press · 2025 This is an American nonfiction memoir (originally published as Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals), in which author Laurie Zaleski…
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Rating 4.5
Ripples 杜梨 CITIC Press · 2025 Ripples is a collection of short stories and novellas by the post-90s writer Du Li, containing seven tales that interweave reality and dreams. Publish…
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Rating 4.5
Wang Yangming: Unity of Knowledge and Action (Young Readers Edition) Yinshan Du CITIC Press · 2025 This book is a young readers edition newly written by the history and culture writer Du Yinshan for contemporary young readers, ten years after the pu…
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Rating 4.5
Tax Follies and Wisdom: Tax Stories from History Michael Keane / Joel Slemrod CITIC Press · 2025 This is a popular work on fiscal history that tells the history of taxation through stories. The original English title is Rebellion, Rascals, and Rev…
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Rating 4.5
Let There Be Light 梁鸿 CITIC Press · 2025 Let There Be Light is a work of nonfiction by the writer Liang Hong, following her "Liangzhuang Trilogy." This time, she turns her subject from the co…
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Rating 4.5
From a Single Cell Ben Stanger CITIC Press · 2025 "Where do I come from?" From the perspective of developmental biology, this ancient philosophical question has a simple answer: a single cell. Not onl…
Bitter Pills: Thalidomide, the "Seal Babies," and the Heroes Who Sounded the Alarm cover
Rating 4.5
Bitter Pills: Thalidomide, the "Seal Babies," and the Heroes Who Sounded the Alarm Jennifer Vanderbes CITIC Press · 2025 In the mid-1950s, a German pharmaceutical company with deep Nazi-era ties—after sloppy, error-ridden, and even fabricated research—marketed a drug cal…
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Rating 4.5
Let There Be Light 梁鸿 CITIC Press · 2025 "To Have Light" is a work of nonfiction by the writer and Renmin University of China professor of literature Liang Hong, completed over several years …
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Rating 4.5
Nothing Ordinary: Remembering Szymborska Michał Rusinek CITIC Press · 2025 In October 1996, the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Polish poet Wisława Szymborska, and her quiet life was abruptly shattered: late-nigh…
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Rating 4.5
The Invention of Good and Evil: A Short History of Human Morality Hanno Sauer CITIC Press · 2025 This is a book that liberates 'morality' from abstract doctrine. The author, Hanno Sauer, is an associate professor of philosophy at Utrecht Universit…
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Rating 4.4
Embodied Intelligence 刘云浩 CITIC Press · 2025 This book is an introduction to artificial intelligence for general readers by Liu Yunhao, a professor at Tsinghua University. Taking the currently po…
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Rating 4.4
Biography of Tang Bohu 孙炜 CITIC Press · 2025 Biography of Tang Bohu is a panoramic biography of Tang Yin by art-collecting historian and writer Sun Wei, drawing on a decade of research. Running a…
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Rating 4.4
Dust and Radiance: A Biography of Li Qingzhao Zhou Wenhan CITIC Press · 2025 Dust and Radiance: A Biography of Li Qingzhao is another biography by the writer Zhou Wenhan, following his Lone Star Journey: A Biography of Su Dongp…

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