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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 3.4
Xianchun Chronicle 姜燕鸣 Writers Publishing House · 2026 Xianchun: A Chronicle is a novel centered on the fate of Xianchun, a woman of Hankou, that portrays the historical transformations of the city. Set ma…
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Rating 3.4
The Golden Qilin 刘明琪 Writers Publishing House · 2026 Lei Laoliu, a young man from Xiazhuang, risks his life and conquers his terror to enter the great tomb and obtain the precious Golden Qilin, all to wi…
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Rating 3.4
The Green Girl 韦伶 Writers Publishing House · 2026 A young adult novel. The Green Girl is a novel that interweaves nature and growing up. Through Lingling's eyes, it shows her wondrous adventures under…
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Rating 3.4
Baggage Against the Wind 苏虹 Writers Publishing House · 2026 From the fireflies in nighttime fields of childhood memory to the golden glow of rapeseed blossoms in his native land, from the volcanic-stone church …
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Rating 3.4
The Old Mill 马自天 Writers Publishing House · 2026 This collection comprises nine novellas and short stories: "Old Mill," "A Tale of Two Fish," "Little Darling," "The Fiery Eye in the Devil's Tent," "D…
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Rating 3.4
Twelve Chapters 王帅 Writers Publishing House · 2026 The poetry collection Twelve Chapters brings to mind Li Shangyin's lines: "The zither, for no reason, has fifty strings; each string, each peg recalls…
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Rating 3.4
Ode to the Motherland 诗刊 Writers Publishing House · 2026 Our great motherland has a magnificent history, majestic mountains and rivers, an industrious and aspiring people, heroes who ride the crest of the ti…
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Rating 3.4
The Frontier of Love 高满堂 / 李洲 Writers Publishing House · 2026 In the tide of history, an individual's fate is utterly small and insignificant. Yet two people fought fate for sixty years for the sake of love, and …
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Rating 3.4
Overlapping Things 牛依河 Writers Publishing House · 2026 The Zhuang poet Niu Yihe's collection Overlapping Things contains more than 170 poems. The author was born in a Zhuang and Yao mountain village surrou…
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Rating 3.4
刘珍与范明 庞羽 Writers Publishing House · 2026 Liu Zhen and Fan Ming is the first short-story collection by young writer Pang Yu to focus on the love and married life of the post-90s generation. It…
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Rating 3.4
Palace Craftsman of the Great Ming: The Legend of Kuai Xiang 赵苏苏 Writers Publishing House · 2026 Through the legendary life of Kuai Xiang, this book tells the stories that unfolded inside and outside the court during the reigns of six emperors of …
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Rating 3.4
Saina and Dula 路远 Writers Publishing House · 2026 Saina and Dula, two sisters in the Ulan Muqir, share the same beauty but possess utterly different temperaments, and thus lead截然不同 lives. In a frenzie…
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Rating 3.4
Elegance South of the River 杨满沧 Writers Publishing House · 2026 <i>Wind Blowing Across the South Bank of the Long River</i> is a collection of prose essays that looks back on the landscape and people of the author'…
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Rating 3.4
A Bond with Qinqiang 朱佩君 Writers Publishing House · 2026 The essay collection Qin Qiang Yuan (A Bond with Qinqiang) contains roughly two kinds of writing: one on life in and around the opera Qinqiang, the ot…
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Rating 3.4
Going Far Away: Embrace Love, Embrace Light 闻涓 Writers Publishing House · 2026 This is a collection of travel notes and essays the author wrote for her own past, and even more, a book for contemporary women about life's growth an…
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Rating 3.4
Selected Poems of Shuang Ning 霜凝 Writers Publishing House · 2026 Poetry, calligraphy, and painting have always been the author's most faithful companions in leisure hours. The author excels at classical-style poetry…
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Rating 3.4
The Red Collar Insignia in the Envelope 刘泽君 / 刘英 Writers Publishing House · 2026 Ping'er was born on the Loess Plateau of northern Shaanxi, spent her childhood drifting across the Mu Us Desert, and was repeatedly forced out of scho…
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Rating 3.4
Fragrant Exquisiteness 蔡越涛 Writers Publishing House · 2026 Xiang Linglong by Cai Yuetao is a sweeping love story of contemporary Chinese intellectuals, a sublime song of kindred spirits. The Song, Chen, and Yu…
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Rating 3.4
The Long Spring (Part Two) 夏甲乙 Writers Publishing House · 2026 When the market wave was just beginning to rise, Xia Tian, a recent university graduate, was assigned to work at the World Exhibition Center, where he…
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Rating 3.4
In the Same Boat 忽培元 Writers Publishing House · 2026 This novel tells the story of Tongzhou Village, a six-hundred-year-old historic village, and its dramatic transformation over a decade. It examines th…

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)