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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 ChamberDream of the Red Chamber (Volumes 1 and 2)

1095 books 929 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 (1095)

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Rating 3.5
Chinese Girl 景文周 Writers Publishing House · 2026 A new novel by children's author Jing Wenzhou. Ge Lala has never remembered her father, and Wei Zhen left her mother years ago. Bound by similar fates…
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Rating 3.5
Spiritual Lots 林幸谦 Writers Publishing House · 2026 This book is a collection of essays. Using narrative, description, and reflection, the author sketches the countless moments he experienced from callo…
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Rating 3.5
The Silk Road of Porcelain 冯云龙 Writers Publishing House · 2026 Touch a shard of porcelain at the foot of Jiayu Pass that still holds a trace of warmth; cast a glance at the blue-and-white wares that bloomed within…
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Rating 3.5
The Endless Train 李飞熊 Writers Publishing House · 2026 Zhou Xingjian and Marlo: two mavericks who live haphazardly but believe in love. Sometimes our lives are like a train with no terminus, unable to find…
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Rating 3.5
After the Family Banquet 赵万里 Writers Publishing House · 2026 After the Family Feast is a selection of short stories by Zhao Wanli. On one hand, Zhao Wanli's fiction inherits the plain, humorous, concise and cris…
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Rating 3.5
The Night Suspects Me 流马 Writers Publishing House · 2026 The first publicly published poetry collection by Liu Ma, poet and founding member of the renowned poetry WeChat account Read a Poem Before Sleep. It …
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Rating 3.5
Night and the Youth 田兴家 Writers Publishing House · 2026 The short story collection Night and the Boy includes 13 stories, among them "Brain in a Vat," "The Sick Tree," "The Room Next Door," and the title st…
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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
Art, Education and Life 李罡 Writers Publishing House · 2026 The book consists of ten chapters—"Native Soil, Hometown," "Beloved, To Love," "Tribute to Dear Friends," "Time, Gathered Light," "Original Aspiration…
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Rating 3.5
Poetry Selections from Jiyuan Garden 赵维仁 / 张俊立 Writers Publishing House · 2026 Lintan County in Gansu is a designated support area of the China Writers Association, and the Lintan Literature Series has been running for several ye…
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Rating 3.5
Endless Late Summer 吴百川 Writers Publishing House · 2026 Winner of three consecutive National New Concept Composition Competition awards and first prize at the eighteenth edition of the competition, Wu Baich…
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Rating 3.5
The Complete Works of Liu Zheng (Volume 12) 刘征 Writers Publishing House · 2026 Language education is an important front for whole-person education, especially for the cultivation of ideological and cultural literacy, and it plays…
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Rating 3.5
At the Time, I Only Thought It Was Ordinary 王帅 Writers Publishing House · 2026 These are all things that happened over the past fifty years, and more will keep happening. There are many happy things, and no shortage of unhappy on…
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Rating 3.5
That Grove Outside the Window: Selected Lyrical Essays of Shi Ying 石英 Writers Publishing House · 2026 The author of this book, Shi Ying, is a prolific writer across a wide range of subjects, long known as a "multi-genre author." In his work we encounte…
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Rating 3.5
The Highest Snow 乔辉 Writers Publishing House · 2026 The collection is divided into four sections—"Fragments," "Long Poems and Serial Poems," "Short Poems," and "Early Verse"—and takes as its theme the m…
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Rating 3.5
The Eighteen Warlords 历史深处 Writers Publishing House · 2026 Thanks to Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the period from the Yellow Turban Rebellion at the end of the Eastern Han to the final unification of the Thr…
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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 …
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Rating 3.5
Selected Fine Works of Ethnic Literature (2018-2022): Criticism Volume 石一宁 Writers Publishing House · 2026 This volume is the 2018–2022 selected criticism volume of Ethnic Literature, part of the “Pomegranate Seeds Series,” gathering outstanding critical es…
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Rating 3.5
The Complete Works of Liu Zheng (Volume 9) 刘征 Writers Publishing House · 2026 This collection brings together over a hundred essays written in the past decade. Li Bai has a line: "Stroking my long sword, I lift my brows—how dist…
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Rating 3.5
The Complete Works of Liu Zheng (Volume 6) 刘征 Writers Publishing House · 2026 This collection of satirical poems draws seventy-six pieces from the extensive work of Chi Beibei, Yi Heyuan, and Liu Zheng. Most of them appeared wit…

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)