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Writers Publishing House

Also known as: 作家, 作家出版社有限公司

Founded
1953
Country / Region
China
Notable books
MacbethDream of the Red Chamber (Volumes 1 and 2)Dream of the Red Chamber

1097 books 931 authors

About the publisher

Writers Publishing House is a Chinese publisher focused mainly on literary publishing. Its output covers classical literature, foreign literature, folk literature and Eastern philosophy, with some extension into popular reading such as social fiction and parenting books. Its catalogue contains more than 900 titles, including representative works such as Dream of the Red Chamber and its edited editions, Shakespeare's Macbeth and A Midsummer Night's Dream, and foreign literary classics such as The Brothers Karamazov and Lost Illusions. In terms of authors, it includes classical writers such as Cao Xueqin and Gao E, foreign masters such as William Shakespeare, Dostoevsky and Balzac, and translations by translators such as Zhu Shenghao, Geng Jizhi and Fu Lei. Overall, its publishing profile balances Chinese and foreign literary classics, emphasizes quality translations, and serves both academic and general readers; publicly available information on its specific publishing plans is limited.

Published (1097)

A Course in the Art of Fiction cover
Rating 3.6
A Course in the Art of Fiction 冯积岐 Writers Publishing House · 2026 Drawing on years of reading and writing experience, the author examines eleven aspects of fiction from an ontological perspective: the setting of time…
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Rating 3.6
The Wenchuan Years: Growing Up in Kunlun 杨国庆 Writers Publishing House · 2026 The work consists of three long poems: Part One, "A Drop in the Long River"; Part Two, "Song of Wenchuan"; and Part Three, "Movement of the Mountain S…
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Rating 3.6
A Study of the Aesthetics of Jia Dashan's Fiction 袁学骏 Writers Publishing House · 2026 Aesthetic Study of Jia Dashan's Fiction is a study of Jia Dashan's fiction, centered on an aesthetic perspective, with traditional Chinese aesthetic m…
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Rating 3.5
Your Warmth, My Happiness 江雪落 Writers Publishing House · 2026 After four years together, Zhongqing's boyfriend Lu He suddenly joins the renowned Xinglan Company shortly before she does. Zhongqing lands a major in…
Paper Doll cover
Rating 3.5
Paper Doll 叶莹 Writers Publishing House · 2026 During the fall of Nanjing, a Chinese boy named Tian Tian and his family struggle to survive under Japanese bombing. Their German neighbor, Mr. Schnei…
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Rating 3.5
Tasbih 石彦伟 Writers Publishing House · 2026 This collection brings together the author's essays on Hui themes written over the past five years. Born in the Northeast, working in Beijing, and hav…
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Rating 3.5
Fishing Alone on a Cold River: A Biography of Liu Zongyuan 任林举 Writers Publishing House · 2026 Liu Zongyuan was one of the "Eight Great Prose Masters of the Tang and Song," a renowned thinker and poet of the Tang Dynasty. In the first year of th…
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Rating 3.5
Beauty Like Jade, Sword Like Rainbow: Chen Xingeng's Cultural Essays 陈歆耕 Writers Publishing House · 2026 On her path to "seeking wealth," she unfortunately offends the difficult student council president, her "nemesis" Lin Zhiyi, and is fiercely suppresse…
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Rating 3.5
Illustrations of Hell 刘正成 Writers Publishing House · 2026 How was Huaisu's Autobiographical Essay composed? How could The Picture of Hell have come from the hand of Wu Daozi? Why did Kong Shangren dare to pou…
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Rating 3.5
The Village Swept by the Wind 莫景春 Writers Publishing House · 2026 Centered on the people, events, and features of the Maonan region, this book unfolds in three parts. First, Village People: through portraits of famil…
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Rating 3.5
Flowers Fall in Chang'an 王洁 Writers Publishing House · 2026 Qin Youruo, a woman from rural Shaanxi, is naturally beautiful and a diligent, outstanding worker, yet she remains an assistant physician. Unwilling t…
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Rating 3.5
Rare Innocence 臧小平 Writers Publishing House · 2026 This is the first collection by Zang Xiaoping, daughter of the renowned writer Zang Kejia, gathering essays she published in major newspapers and peri…
The Little Island cover
Rating 3.5
The Little Island 陆颖墨 Writers Publishing House · 2026 《小岛》is a selection of short stories by Lu Yingmo. The collection won the Fifth Lu Xun Literary Prize, and its dozen or so stories represent the highes…
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Rating 3.5
The Appearance of All Things 苏莉 Writers Publishing House · 2026 In the Mood of All Things is a lively collection of thematic essays steeped in the warmth of everyday life. Its eight chapters—"The Beginning of All T…
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Rating 3.5
One Person's Square Dance 古冰 Writers Publishing House · 2026 This collection gathers the author's columns published over seven years in the "New Garden" section of Macao Daily News. It is divided into four parts…
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Rating 3.5
Pavilions and River Waters 姚广 Writers Publishing House · 2026 A collection written with gratitude and poetic labor, it approaches words with the reverence one holds for life itself, giving the author's writing—wh…
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Rating 3.5
The Palm Lines of Time 孙永斌 Writers Publishing House · 2026 This selection is drawn from nearly a thousand poems Sun Yongbin wrote in recent years. It is the author's first poetry collection and consists of six…
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Rating 3.5
The Superposition of Life and Death 余之言 Writers Publishing House · 2026 A meticulously premeditated honey-trap case and a spy-assassination case from ancient times converge deeply against the backdrop of war and peace; a y…
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Rating 3.5
The Story of the Yonghe Family Li Di Writers Publishing House · 2026 The author made five trips to Yonghe, covering every corner of this small county with just one road, and gathered a wealth of stories. He selected thi…
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Rating 3.5
Selected Poems of Croatia 彭裕超 Writers Publishing House · 2026 Croatian Poetry: An Anthology is one volume in the Classic Poetry Library of Belt and Road Countries (Series I). The book selects Croatian poems from …

Frequent authors

Zhao Zhenjiang (27)蒋朗朗 (20)宁琦 (18)刘征 (10)Qiong Yao (10)Huanzhulouzhu (Li Shoumin) (10)Zhong Shuhe (10)He Jianming (9)内蒙古翻译家协会 (9)张陵 (9)William Shakespeare (8)Cao Xueqin (8)