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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)

Scenes Toward Tolstoy cover
Rating 3.5
Scenes Toward Tolstoy 王鹏程 Writers Publishing House · 2026 Toward Tolstoy: A Scene is the third volume in the "Prying Open the Rotten Apple: Sharp Criticism Series." It collects more than 20 literary-critical …
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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
To Whom Will It Return Someday? 荆歌 Writers Publishing House · 2026 This is a selection of Jing Ge's recent fiction on the theme of collecting. The author lives in Suzhou and often stays in Spain; for nearly thirty yea…
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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
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
A General Introduction to Public Security Culture 王清淮 Writers Publishing House · 2026 Explains the basic concepts of public security culture, studies its principal elements, analyzes its carriers, and plans development paths for it. Pub…
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Rating 3.5
Dragon-Head Incense 杨晓升 Writers Publishing House · 2026 Dragon Head Incense is Yang Xiaosheng's fifth collection of novellas and short stories, comprising six novellas and four short stories, all published …
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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
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
Prose of Pan Yaoming 潘耀明 Writers Publishing House · 2026 This collection of selected essays and short articles by Mr. Pan Yaoming—Hong Kong writer, publisher, and social activist—reflects his fifty-year life…
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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
Returning to the Hometown 武歆 Writers Publishing House · 2026 The novel Returning Home unfolds along two intertwined threads. One follows Zhong Ye, a woman born in the 1980s, and her French husband, Eric, as they…
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Rating 3.5
That Winter Was So Cold 尤凌波 Writers Publishing House · 2026 This collection of forty-odd regional essays employs a dialect rich in local character. With a spare, polished style, heartfelt warmth, and a faint ho…
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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
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
Please Pick Up Your Scalpel 陈歆耕 Writers Publishing House · 2026 With 'daring to speak truth, with power and integrity' at its core, this book is divided into two sections, 'Mop' and 'Rag.' The 'Mop' section collect…
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Rating 3.5
Dusting Off and Recommending the Subtle 张国擎 Writers Publishing House · 2026 The archaeological evidence: the site beneath the Nanjing Presidential Palace was once the location of royal palaces from several dynasties in history…
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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
A Record of No Regrets 刘兆林 Writers Publishing House · 2026 Bu Hui Lu (Record of No Regret) won the Cao Xueqin Prize for Full-Length Novels. Centered on intellectuals, this novel tells the story of a group of w…
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Rating 3.5
The Eternal Scale 瑞朵·海瑞拉 Writers Publishing House · 2026 The novella collection The Eternal Scale gathers five works: "The Green Light and the Cash Box," "On the Banyan Tree by the Pond," "The Boy and Love,"…

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