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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)

The Tongue Hunter (Revised Edition) cover
Rating 3.8
The Tongue Hunter (Revised Edition) 房伟 Writers Publishing House · 2026 Hunter of Tongues (Revised Edition) is a series of war-resistance novels by the young writer Fang Wei, best seen as a "combination punch" of historica…
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Rating 3.8
Northern Song Literatus: A Biography of Ouyang Xiu 邵振国 Writers Publishing House · 2026 The Northern Song Scholar-Official: A Biography of Ouyang Xiu is a detailed, well-sourced biography covering Ouyang Xiu's literary and political caree…
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Rating 3.8
Selected Fine Works of Ethnic Literature (2018-2022): Short Story Volume 石一宁 Writers Publishing House · 2026 This volume gathers outstanding short stories published in the Chinese-language edition of Ethnic Literature between 2018 and 2022—works that won the …
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Rating 3.8
Chart of the Heart's Sea 林森 Writers Publishing House · 2026 Lin Sen's collection of novellas and short stories, Chart of the Heart's Sea, is one volume in the "New Forces in Chinese Literature" series. The seri…
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Rating 3.8
Why Are You Guilty: Selected Works of Si Jidong 斯继东 Writers Publishing House · 2026 Xu Zhiqiang
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Rating 3.8
Selected Literary Criticism of Wang Xianpei 王先霈 Writers Publishing House · 2026 To advance innovation and vitality in literary criticism in Hubei Province, showcase the "E-school literary criticism" brand with Jingchu characterist…
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Rating 3.8
The Complete Works of Liu Zheng (Volume 15) 刘征 Writers Publishing House · 2026 After Mr. Liu Zheng retired from the People's Education Press in 1990, he moved from one nursing home to another on the outskirts of Beijing for great…
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Rating 3.8
On Yan Geling Liu Yan Writers Publishing House · 2026 Yan Geling's first novel was published by the PLA Literature and Art Publishing House in 1986, but she left soon after to study in the United States. …
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Rating 3.8
New Youth Studying Abroad 廖元辛 Writers Publishing House · 2026 This book is not a study-abroad guide, nor a motivational manual from success stories at the top of the pyramid. It is simply the testimony of a group…
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Rating 3.8
Yingge Rice 陈崇正 Writers Publishing House · 2026 Yingge Fan is a novel centered on the culture of Yingge dance in Chaoshan. Through three stories spanning nearly a century, it weaves together the liv…
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Rating 3.8
Great Winds in the Political Arena: A Biography of Wang Anshi 毕宝魁 Writers Publishing House · 2026 Wang Anshi was an accomplished statesman and man of letters of the Northern Song dynasty. This book presents his life in three parts. The first depict…
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Rating 3.8
Never Fall Behind 冈察尔 / 王艺锦 / 娜佳 Writers Publishing House · 2026 Most of the works in this book draw on history, war, and real life, depicting the relationships between people and war, people and construction, and p…
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Rating 3.8
Embracing the Sun 优秀蒙古文文学作品翻译出版工程组委会 Writers Publishing House · 2026 The novella collection Embracing the Sun brings together five outstanding novellas from Mongolian-language literary creation since the founding of the…
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Rating 3.8
The Old Tavern 高满堂 / 李洲 Writers Publishing House · 2026 In the troubled times of the Republic of China, life was hard. Chen Huaihai, a man from Shandong, took his wife and daughter to "venture into the Nort…
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Rating 3.8
Poems of Farm Work 张中海 Writers Publishing House · 2026 The hollows worn into the stone steps by eaves-drip are years; the soul of the green-curtain sorghum hides in plant ash; the new wheat waves wrap the …
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Rating 3.8
Endless Summer 陆梅 Writers Publishing House · 2026 A novel of sixty thousand characters. *Endless Summer* is Lu Mei's coming-of-age novel for girls. Eleven-year-old "Old Saint" and her writer mother co…
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Rating 3.8
The Way to Become an Iron Tower 宁肯 Writers Publishing House · 2026 Work long enough on a transmission tower and you gradually become one—as resilient and upright as the steel itself. The book is divided into three sec…
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Rating 3.8
Plucking Rosy Clouds in a Dream: A Biography of Liu Xie 缪俊杰 Writers Publishing House · 2026 The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons stands as a towering peak in classical Chinese poetic criticism and a monument of literary theory. Liu Xi…
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Rating 3.8
Collected Works of Tie Yang, Art Prose and Essays: Records of Major Heat 铁扬 Writers Publishing House · 2026 The book began during the Great Heat solar term, when a village performance in a rural setting showed the author a glimpse of artistic elements that l…
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Rating 3.8
Pure Lotus: A Biography of Zhu Ziqing 叶炜 Writers Publishing House · 2026 Mr. Zhu Ziqing is a renowned poet, writer, scholar, and educator in the history of modern Chinese literature, as well as a notable fighter for the New…

Frequent authors

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