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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)

Complete Works of One Hundred Tang and Song Ci Poets, Volume 10 cover
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Complete Works of One Hundred Tang and Song Ci Poets, Volume 10 Zhong Shuhe Writers Publishing House · 2026 Ci poetry arose in the Tang dynasty, flourished in the Five Dynasties, and ultimately became the representative literature of the Song dynasty. As "th…
Complete Works of One Hundred Tang and Song Ci Poets, Volume 1 cover
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Complete Works of One Hundred Tang and Song Ci Poets, Volume 1 Zhong Shuhe Writers Publishing House · 2026 Ci poetry originated in the Tang, flourished in the Five Dynasties, and ultimately became the "literature of an age" in the Song. Ci, a "surplus of sh…
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Xiao Hong's Prose Xiao Hong Writers Publishing House · 2026 Selected Essays of Xiao Hong is a collection of Xiao Hong's finest essays. This volume brings together more than seventy of her celebrated essays, gat…
Collected Works of Tie Yang: Prose, Waiting for a Cuckoo cover
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Collected Works of Tie Yang: Prose, Waiting for a Cuckoo 铁扬 Writers Publishing House · 2026 Waiting for a Cuckoo gathers a number of the author's prose works, whose subjects include his childhood hometown, sketches of local scenes and customs…
Zong Pu's Fiction (Writers' Fiction Collection) Hardcover cover
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Zong Pu's Fiction (Writers' Fiction Collection) Hardcover Zong Pu Writers Publishing House · 2026 This selection of Zong Pu's short stories includes her finest and most representative work, among them "The Un sinking Lake," "Dream on the Strings," …
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The Lost World Arthur Conan Doyle / 谢娟 Writers Publishing House · 2026 The novel tells of Professor George Edward Challenger's claim to have discovered prehistoric life in South America, which causes an uproar in British …
The Red Chamber, Dazzling Red cover
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The Red Chamber, Dazzling Red Zhou Ruchang / 周伦玲 Writers Publishing House · 2026 This book is a collection of Zhou Ruchang's essays on Dream of the Red Chamber. Nearly 400 pieces, each approaching the novel from a new angle to expl…
Selected Poems of Iran (Volume II) cover
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Selected Poems of Iran (Volume II) 穆宏燕 / Zhao Zhenjiang / 蒋朗朗 / 宁琦 Writers Publishing House · 2026 This volume is drawn from modern Bulgarian literature (mid-19th century to the present) and is divided into three periods: poetry of the national libe…
Four Dreams of the Red Dust: A Biography of Tang Xianzu (Biographies of Chinese Historical and Cultural Figures) cover
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Four Dreams of the Red Dust: A Biography of Tang Xianzu (Biographies of Chinese Historical and Cultural Figures) 谢柏梁 Writers Publishing House · 2026 The author of Red Dust and Four Dreams: A Biography of Tang Xianzu has long been engaged in Tang Xianzu studies and commands a wealth of material on h…
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A History of Chinese Calligraphy 陈彬龢 / 白蕉 / 履公 Writers Publishing House · 2026 Calligraphy is China's national art and, deep down, the art that colors the Chinese heart. The ancients said the written word is the picture of the mi…
Selected Poems of Iran (Volume I) cover
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Selected Poems of Iran (Volume I) 穆宏燕 / Zhao Zhenjiang / 蒋朗朗 / 宁琦 Writers Publishing House · 2026 Iran evolved from the ancient civilization of Persia. Amid drastic social change, Iranian poetry likewise transformed from strict classical metrical v…
Selected Hungarian Poems cover
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Selected Hungarian Poems Zhao Zhenjiang / 冯植生 / 蒋朗朗 / 宁琦 Writers Publishing House · 2026 Hungary is a key country on the Belt and Road linking China with Central and Eastern Europe, and also a nation once regarded as having "no relatives" …
The Imagination of Criticism cover
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The Imagination of Criticism 刘复生 Writers Publishing House · 2026 Criticism's Imagination collects a series of papers the author published in recent years, covering contemporary literary history research, literary an…
Resting Horse Manor cover
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Resting Horse Manor 孙惠芬 Writers Publishing House · 2026 A fire on their wedding night destroys the happy life of a newly married couple, and the villagers of Xiema Villa embark on a colorful existence under…
Song of Life: Shabi's Poetry Collection cover
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Song of Life: Shabi's Poetry Collection 艾卜·卡赛姆·沙比 / 杨孝柏 Writers Publishing House · 2026 Abu al-Qasim al-Shabbi was born on the outskirts of Tozeur in southern Tunisia. Raised in a traditional Arabic education, he entered the Zaytuna Islam…
Tidings of the Book of Songs (Expanded Edition) cover
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Tidings of the Book of Songs (Expanded Edition) 黄德海 Writers Publishing House · 2026 Through reading, analyzing, and selecting from two thousand years of commentary on the Book of Songs, The Message of the Book of Songs (Expanded Editi…
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Return to the Sea Zhang Ling Writers Publishing House · 2026 Return to the Sea tells a story of cross-cultural romance set in Toronto, Canada. A Chinese mother and daughter share a home with a Canadian man who r…
The Red Chamber, a Different Red cover
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The Red Chamber, a Different Red Zhou Ruchang / 周伦玲 Writers Publishing House · 2026 Ci poetry arose in the Tang, flourished in the Five Dynasties, and finally became the "literature of a single era" for the Song. Ci is "the remainder …
The Virtue of Criticism cover
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The Virtue of Criticism 王鹏程 Writers Publishing House · 2026 This collection brings together representative essays by the young critic Wang Pengcheng from his years of work in literary criticism. Wang admires th…
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Zhang Xueliang: The Young Marshal's Nirvana Chaozhu Wang Writers Publishing House · 2026 Under the guidance of the Central Leading Group for Film and Television Creation on Major Revolutionary Historical Themes, *Zhang Xueliang: The Young …

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)