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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 6: Eleven Poets Including Lu You and Zhang Xiaoxiang cover
Rating 4.0
Complete Works of One Hundred Tang and Song Ci Poets, Volume 6: Eleven Poets Including Lu You and Zhang Xiaoxiang Zhong Shuhe Writers Publishing House · 2026 Volume 6 of The Complete Ci of the Hundred Masters of the Tang and Song, edited by the renowned publisher and scholar Zhong Shuhe, is a systematic ant…
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Rating 4.0
The Wasted Years Ye Xin Writers Publishing House · 2026 The work depicts a group of Shanghai sent-down youth who settle in a remote mountain area of Guizhou in the 1970s. With the fates of Ke Bizhou and Du …
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Rating 4.0
Selected Vietnamese Poems 夏露 / Zhao Zhenjiang Writers Publishing House · 2026 Vietnam has valued poetry throughout its history, and its poetic works are vast and numerous. In translating this book, representative works were sele…
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Rating 4.0
The Sea Wind 赵德发 Writers Publishing House · 2026 Set in Matisuo on the coast of the Yellow Sea, in port cities such as Qingdao, Shanghai and Dalian, and on the vast ocean, The Great Sea Wind chronicl…
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Rating 4.0
Trance State 陈楸帆 Writers Publishing House · 2026 Chen Qiufan's novella and short story collection *The State of Trance* is one volume in the "New Forces in Chinese Literature" series. The series aims…
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Rating 4.0
Only Eighty 童自荣 Writers Publishing House · 2026 Tong Zirong is a famous Chinese voice actor, known to the world for the role of Zorro; his elegant, gorgeous, and aristocratic vocal timbre brought to…
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Rating 3.9
Honest Street 王方晨 Writers Publishing House · 2026 The novel *Laoshi Street* begins with the nationwide wave of urban demolition, taking this social process of modernization, urbanization, and internat…
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Rating 3.9
Collected Works of Tie Yang, Prose: Mother's Big Bowl 铁扬 Writers Publishing House · 2026 Mother's Big Bowl is the author's first essay collection, the reflections of a painter on art and life. Gathering a number of "village matters" into a…
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Rating 3.9
Eaglets Fly Over the Pamirs 毕然 Writers Publishing House · 2026 As a必经之地 on the Silk Road connecting Eastern and Western cultures, the Pamir Plateau has always been a high ground of human dreams. "Eaglets Fly Over …
Complete Works of One Hundred Tang and Song Ci Poets, Volume 2 cover
Rating 3.9
Complete Works of One Hundred Tang and Song Ci Poets, Volume 2 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. As "the residue of s…
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Rating 3.9
Birth 杨绍斌 Writers Publishing House · 2026 Birth is a semi-autobiographical novel by writer Yang Shaobin, completed over twenty-four years and four major revisions. Told in a rare second-person…
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Rating 3.9
This Feeling Will Still Flow in Your Heart 潘耀明 Writers Publishing House · 2026 Renowned Hong Kong writer and publisher Pan Yaoming has been engaged in research on contemporary Chinese writers and the publication of related works …
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Rating 3.9
Espionage in the Seven States 2: Secret War in Handan 贾涤非 Writers Publishing House · 2026 *Espionage in the Seven States 2* continues from the first volume, and the story escalates once more amid the tense circumstances of the late Warring …
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Rating 3.9
Collected Works of Tie Yang: Novel, Me on the Big Cart 铁扬 Writers Publishing House · 2026 "The Me on the Cart" can be read as the painter Tie Yang's autobiographical novel. By searching for and verifying the life experiences of his grandfat…
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Rating 3.9
Traveling Around the World on Horseback 海勒根那 Writers Publishing House · 2026 The author is one of the most notable Mongolian writers born in the 1970s. He attended the 2018 National Youth Writers' Conference and the 2019 Nation…
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Rating 3.9
Please Look into the Child's Eyes 高凯 Writers Publishing House · 2026 This is one of the crowning achievements of children's poet Gao Kai and a collection brimming with wonder and a realist spirit, gathering around 100 c…
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Rating 3.9
The Martyr Warrior: A Biography of Li Zhi 高志忠 Writers Publishing House · 2026 Li Zhi was a prominent thinker and man of letters of the Ming dynasty and a leading master of the Taizhou School. He passed the provincial examination…
Complete Works of One Hundred Tang and Song Ci Poets, Volume 3 cover
Rating 3.9
Complete Works of One Hundred Tang and Song Ci Poets, Volume 3 Zhong Shuhe Writers Publishing House · 2026 Ci poetry originated in the Tang, flourished in the Five Dynasties, and ultimately became the signature literary form of the Song dynasty. As "the sur…
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Rating 3.9
A Chronicle of Rivers and Mountains Jia Pingwa Writers Publishing House · 2026 河山传 is Jia Pingwa's latest novel and his twentieth published full-length novel. It was first published in Issue 5 of Harvest in 2023 and selected for …
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Rating 3.9
Apricot Garden 董夏青青 Writers Publishing House · 2026 Dong Xiaqingqing's novella and short story collection Apricot Garden is one of the titles in the "New Forces in Chinese Literature Series." The series…

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)