About the publisher
Yunnan People's Publishing House is a comprehensive publisher with foreign literature and philosophical works as important publishing directions. Its representative books include Les Misérables (3 volumes), The Republic, Timaeus, Gitanjali, A Ship at Sea, a Horse in the Mountains: Poems of Lorca, On the Motion of the Heart and Blood, The Harmony of the World, and Xinmin Shuo, covering categories such as foreign literature, Western philosophy, literature, popular science, and history. Its author resources include Victor Hugo, Li Yumin, Plato, He Xiangdi, Song Jijie, Tagore, Xiao Xingzheng, and Federico García Lorca, among Chinese and foreign writers and translators. The press is adept at combining classic works with quality translations, balancing academic value and readability; public information on its fuller publishing features and plans is limited.
Published (226)
Rating 4.5★ The Story of the Cold War 王缉思 Yunnan People's Publishing House · 2025 Written by Wang Jisi, professor at Peking University's School of International Studies and founding dean of the university's Institute for Internation… Rating 4.4★ Biography of Planck: The Dilemma of the Upright J.L.海耳布朗 / Liu Bing Yunnan People's Publishing House · 2025 Planck: The Dilemma of a Righteous Man is a biography of the physicist Max Planck, hailed as "the father of quantum theory," whose work Einstein prais… Rating 4.3★ The Fruits of the Earth (2025) André Gide / 陈阳 Yunnan People's Publishing House · 2025 Les Nourritures Terrestres is a prose novel published in 1897 by the French writer André Gide. Written in the voice of a "mentor" instructing a "disci… Rating 4.3★ Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth 詹姆斯·拉伍洛克 / 肖显静 / 范祥东 Yunnan People's Publishing House · 2025 Is Earth a cold, lifeless rock—or a living entity? In the late 1960s, British scientist James Lovelock proposed the Gaia hypothesis: the living organi… Rating 4.3★ Cangcheng 阿措 Yunnan People's Publishing House · 2025 The novel Cangcheng is the first full-length novel by A Cuo, a young writer from Lijiang, Yunnan, and the first volume of the "Cangcheng Series," mode… Rating 4.2★ Diary of Southwest Associated University Xu Yuanchong Yunnan People's Publishing House · 2025 【Commemorating the 80th anniversary of the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression; firsthand historical material on amusing anec… Rating 4.2★ Seeing the Truth of Modern Society: Yang Zhao on Max Weber Yang Zhao Yunnan People's Publishing House · 2025 "I read Weber out of an urgent need in my life." In his youth, Yang Zhao first encountered Max Weber amid the "Weber craze" in Taiwan's intellectual c… Rating 4.2★ Games of the Human World: The Psychology of Interpersonal Relationships 艾瑞克·伯恩 / 杨立华 Yunnan People's Publishing House · 2025 Games People Play is a classic work by psychologist Eric Berne, first published in 1964, which laid the foundation for Transactional Analysis (TA). Th… Rating 4.2★ A Patchwork Promise: Forty Lectures on the History of Modern Political Ideas Ren Jiantao Yunnan People's Publishing House · 2025 A Patchwork Promise: Forty Lectures on the History of Modern Political Ideas is a general reader on the history of political ideas compiled, revised, … Rating 4.0★ When I Had a Boy Aurelia Blanc Yunnan People's Publishing House · 2025 "I never thought I would have a boy." After an ultrasound during pregnancy, the French journalist and feminist Aurélia Blanc suddenly realized a quest… Rating 4.0★ Beyond Justice: A Book Club for Legal Professionals 赵宏 / 陈碧 / 李红勃 / 罗翔 Yunnan People's Publishing House · 2025 More Than Justice: A Law Reader's Book Club is a collection of reading notes co-authored by four Peking University and China University of Political S… Rating 4.0★ The Dark-Eyed Do Not Look at the Light: Discovering the True Self Through a "Philosophy of Shadow Emotions" Mariana Alessandri Yunnan People's Publishing House · 2025 "The pursuit of emotional stability makes us contradict ourselves: in principle we believe we should take seriously the demands others express through… Rating 4.0★ Chinese Vernacular Dwellings 齐胜利 / 莫政熹 / 刘俊生 Yunnan People's Publishing House · 2025 This is an introductory book on traditional Chinese dwellings. Dwellings are the homes of ordinary people, and they vary by region due to different ge… Rating 3.8★ Zhang Guimei 李延国 / 王秀丽 Yunnan People's Publishing House · 2025 In the 1970s, Zhang Guimei traveled from Northeast China to the Southwest, and thereafter moved through many places. In the highland forests, along th… Rating 3.8★ Beyond Justice: A Reading Club for Legal Minds 赵宏 / 陈碧 / 李红勃 / 罗翔 Yunnan People's Publishing House · 2025 Beyond Justice: A Reading Club for Legal Minds is co-authored by Zhao Hong, a professor at Peking University, and Chen Bi, Li Hongbo, and Luo Xiang, p… Rating 3.6★ Stop Asking Me What Feminism Is 山口真由 / 董纾含 Yunnan People's Publishing House · 2025 How did we become the women we are today? Centered on pivotal feminists such as Wollstonecraft, MacKinnon, and Chizuko Ueno, this book traces four wav… Rating 3.6★ 50: Great Chinese Essays 果麦 Yunnan People's Publishing House · 2025 50: Great Chinese Essays, edited by Guomai, collects 50 essays by 46 Chinese writers, arranged in order of publication date and extending from the ear… Rating 3.5★ All You Want Luisa Sauma Yunnan People's Publishing House · 2025 Alice is a "digital innovation architect" who manages digital projects for clients at a creative agency called "Free." Her days consist of endless min… Rating 3.5★ The Wordless Trial 黄光耀 Yunnan People's Publishing House · 2025 The son of a provincial deputy party secretary, chairman of a major corporation, is found dead in his villa. Was it murder or suicide? Could the victi… Rating 3.4★ Zhang Guimei 李延国 / 王秀丽 Yunnan People's Publishing House · 2025 This book is a full-length work of reportage co-authored by the writer Li Yanguo and Wang Xiuli, a reporter from Huaping County, Yunnan. It consists o…Frequent authors
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