Guangming Daily Press

Founded
1981
Country / Region
China
Notable books
A History of the Second World WarA Tree Grows in BrooklynFrom Idealism to Empiricism

92 books 105 authors

About the publisher

Guangming Daily Press focuses on academic and social science, theory, education and young people's reading, and also covers world history, foreign literature, social culture, historical reading and philosophy. Among its books, Liddell Hart's History of the Second World War, Tocqueville's The Old Regime and the French Revolution, Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, and works such as From Idealism to Empiricism, fin-de-siècle Vienna and A History of Western Philosophy reflect its emphasis on historical narrative, translation of ideas and retranslation of classics. Its author resources include Liddell Hart, Tocqueville, Betty Smith, Gu Zhun and Carl E. Schorske. In terms of publishing features, the press relies on series such as the Guangming Academic Library, the University Social Science Library and the West Wind Translation Series to form a comprehensive multi-disciplinary and multimedia publishing structure, continuing to position itself as a spiritual home for intellectuals. Public information is limited, and the above is summarized mainly from the books in the database.

Published (92)

The Underground Party cover
Rating 3.9
The Underground Party 杨少衡 Guangming Daily Press · 2026 The Underground Party tells of the "Qian Yiwei Line," a communist underground network that the Japanese, during their occupation, were desperate to sm…
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Rating 3.6
A General History of China in Jokes 黄一鹤 Guangming Daily Press · 2026 Read anecdotes, learn history. 96 of history's most influential figures, 980 witty and fascinating classic anecdotes—a fresh and distinctive history o…
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Rating 3.2
Water Flowing Away at the White River 穆达 Guangming Daily Press · 2026 This novel unfolds along two parallel narrative threads across two distinct settings in time and space, painting a vast historical panorama of Chinese…
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Rating 3.2
Sunrise and Sunset 杨晓升 Guangming Daily Press · 2026 “Rules”—a slow knife quietly flaying everyone. How do ordinary people struggle across different eras and circumstances? A mother of six cannot go home…
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Rating 3.2
Words in Sleep 张鲜明 Guangming Daily Press · 2026 Meyu (Dream Words) is a series of prose pieces built from dream material—a distinctive kind of “dream narrative.” Cutting in from the subconscious, it…
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Rating 3.0
Official Career: The Promotion Path of a Deputy Director of the Municipal Government Office 铁翎 Guangming Daily Press · 2026 [Workplace politics + promotion and raise + realistic + little guy] Will pie really fall from the sky? Almost every answer is no. Li Wentao, deputy di…
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Rating 2.6
The Passionate Peng Qingyi 翟杰 / 纳兰泽芸 Guangming Daily Press · 2026 This book recounts Mr. Peng Qingyi's early life: orphaned at a young age, he endured many hardships, from begging on the streets to becoming one of th…
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Rating 4.6
From Idealism to Empiricism 顾准 Guangming Daily Press · 2025 From Idealism to Empiricism is a work by the renowned Chinese scholar, thinker, and economist Gu Zhun. It comprises notes from academic discussions co…
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Rating 3.9
Soaring Against the Wind (Revised and Expanded Edition) 吴士宏 Guangming Daily Press · 2025 This is a story of rising against the wind from a starting point of self-doubt. Having lost the chance to attend school young, endured hardship, and c…
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Rating 3.8
Highly Reliable Product Development Li Feng / 冉好思 / 卜蓉 Guangming Daily Press · 2025 Starting from basic concepts, this book explains in detail the theory and practice of high-reliability product development and further explores their …
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Rating 3.2
The Secret of I Am the Company 王新安 Guangming Daily Press · 2025 The book adopts the structure of a traditional Chinese chapter novel, beginning with the Tang-dynasty monk Xuanzang returning from the Western Paradis…
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Rating 3.2
The Stoic Garden of Happiness 向问天 Guangming Daily Press · 2025 An interpretation of ancient Greek Stoic philosophy, summarizing its core thought under "one rationality, two distinctions, three principles, four vir…
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Rating 2.8
Ecosystem 5.0: Practice of the Black Sea Ecosystem Strategy 王京刚 / 沈自珍 / 刘清德 Guangming Daily Press · 2025 The "Black Sea Ecological Strategy" represents new thinking for business ecosystems in the digital economy era. It focuses on co-construction between …
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Rating 2.8
Consultative Work Method 陈震 Guangming Daily Press · 2025 Consultative working is the most important transformation for the future workplace. In the industrial era, goal-oriented thinking—goals being akin to …
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Rating 4.7
A History of the Second World War 利德尔·哈特 / 顾剑 Guangming Daily Press · 2024 Among the vast number of histories of the Second World War, Liddell Hart's History of the Second World War is undoubtedly an authoritative work. Drawi…
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Rating 4.2
A History of Western Philosophy Frank Thilly / 贾辰阳 / 解本远 Guangming Daily Press · 2024 This book traces the development of Western philosophy and grew out of the lecture notes Professor Thilly used in his university teaching. It is divid…
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Rating 3.6
So Many Demons in the Jianghu 谢小禾 Guangming Daily Press · 2024 "Moving chess pieces to gather hidden waves—he is the legendary secret-police commander who holds power over the court. The world knows only that he i…
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Rating 3.0
The Old Buddha Is Unhappy 端木赐香 Guangming Daily Press · 2024 As a woman, Cixi lost her husband in early life and her son in middle age, and in her later years felt betrayed by her own puppet emperor. She had her…
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Rating 2.5
The Way of Connection: A Dialogue with the World 梁斯乔 Guangming Daily Press · 2024 Through hundreds of days of lonely wandering, repeatedly beset by difficulties, the author also received help from strangers countless times. The auth…
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Rating 2.5
Chunyan's Diary An Zi / 李春燕 Guangming Daily Press · 2024 With Li Chunyan as the protagonist, this book presents in diary form a true account of the growth of community work and community workers in China ove…

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