Beijing October Arts & Literature Publishing House
Also known as: 北京出版集团公司，北京十月文艺出版社
- Founded
- 1983
- Country / Region
- China
- Notable books
- The Collected Works of SanmaoThe Complete Works of Wang Xiaobo (15 Volumes)Stories of the Sahara
About the publisher
Founded in 1983, Beijing October Arts & Literature Publishing House is a professional literary publisher under the Beijing Publishing Group. Public information is limited; judged from the 21 titles in the catalog, its publishing focuses on social fiction, documentary literature, quality fiction, classical poetry, folk literature and prose miscellany, covering both contemporary full-length works and popular classical readers. Representative books include Ye Guangqin's Last Year's Weather, the Old Pavilion and The Top Scholar's Matchmaker, Zhou Zuoren's Reminiscences of Zhitang, Zhou Meisen's In the Name of the People, Chen Yan's The Broad Mansion of the Human World, and Shi Jiepeng's My Heart Lingers: Twenty Lectures on King Hui of Liang's Classical Poems. Its authors include Ye Guangqin, Zhou Zuoren, Chen Yan, Zhou Meisen, Shi Yifeng, Ma Xiaosheng and Sunan, giving it a solid publishing character in contemporary fiction, prose and poetry.
Last Year's Weather, Old Pavilions and Terraces
Beijing October Arts & Literature Publishing House · 2026
Last Year's Weather, the Old Pavilion is made up of a series of novellas depicting the lives of ordinary people in Beijing, each titled after a Beijin…
Myriad Mansions on Earth
Beijing October Arts & Literature Publishing House · 2026
"Oh, for a great mansion of ten thousand rooms to shelter all the poor scholars of the world and make them smile!" When Du Fu's timeless lament meets …
Qingmuchuan
Beijing October Arts & Literature Publishing House · 2026
This book follows the legendary life of Wei Futang, the bandit chief of Qingmuchuan, as its main thread, with three subplots involving Feng Ming, Feng…
Coptis and Magnolia Bark
Beijing October Arts & Literature Publishing House · 2026
Huanglian Houpo is a collection of novellas, gathering more than ten of them. The title novella Huanglian Houpo tells of a family of imperial physicia…
Teahouse
Beijing October Arts & Literature Publishing House · 2026
This volume contains Ye Guangqin's TV series script adapted from Lao She's Teahouse and her original stage play Family Portrait. Teahouse traces the r…
Angry Youth
Beijing October Arts & Literature Publishing House · 2026
Angry Youth is Ma Xiaoquan's breakout work, composed of four independent yet closely interlinked novellas. The book focuses on four characters: Chu Xi…
Unable to Break Free: Three Generations of Women Trapped by "Having a Son"
Beijing October Arts & Literature Publishing House · 2026
From my grandmother's generation onward, a woman's value was bearing sons. My grandmother gave birth to eight children: six daughters and two sons. Wh…
Lost City
Beijing October Arts & Literature Publishing House · 2026
Set in the first decade of the new century and taking as its specimen a southern county town with more than 2,500 years of history, *The Lost City* se…
The Free-Range Years
Beijing October Arts & Literature Publishing House · 2026
This novel tells the story of a boy, Ren Chong, from birth through primary school. In the early 1980s, a small riverside county town had a machinery f…
The Resurrected Ghost
Beijing October Arts & Literature Publishing House · 2026
Through the extraordinary saga of peasant entrepreneur Ma Qian—his dramatic rise and fall, his death and resurrection, and his resurrection followed b…
Reminiscences of Zhitang
Beijing October Arts & Literature Publishing House · 2025
Time flows like water: an ordinary fifty or a hundred years slips by in a flash, truly like a single morning or evening, and yet people and circumstan…
The Road of Clouds
Beijing October Arts & Literature Publishing House · 2025
This is a book that does not urge you to "get on the road quickly"; it first makes you stop and see clearly what we are actually talking about when we…
My Heart Is Longing: Liang Huiwang's Twenty Lectures on Classical Poetry
Beijing October Arts & Literature Publishing House · 2025
A book of close reading and original insight into classical Chinese poetry. Four thousand years of Chinese history, three thousand years of classical …
Beijing: City and Years
Beijing October Arts & Literature Publishing House · 2025
In 2018, Beijing: City and Years won the 7th Lu Xun Literary Prize. Beijing: City and Years is a collection of essays written by Ning Ken with photogr…
City and Years
Beijing October Arts & Literature Publishing House · 2025
City and Years is a collection of novellas and short stories by the writer Ning Ken, published by Beijing October Arts & Literature Publishing House i…
Lost in the World
Beijing October Arts & Literature Publishing House · 2025
Lost in the World is a collection of essays and sketches selected and arranged by Yu Hua himself, published by Beijing October Arts and Literature Pub…
Open Secrets
Beijing October Arts & Literature Publishing House · 2024
Open Secrets is a short-story collection published in 1994 by the Canadian writer Alice Munro, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature, and stand…
Too Much Happiness
Beijing October Arts & Literature Publishing House · 2024
Too Much Happiness is the tenth short-story collection by the Canadian writer Alice Munro, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature; the English o…
In the Name of the People
Beijing October Arts & Literature Publishing House · 2024
A project division chief is reported for taking millions in bribes. When division chief Hou Liangping comes to search his home, he instead finds a pla…
Fleeting Shadows of the Passing Years
Beijing October Arts & Literature Publishing House · 2024
An eighty-eight-year-old man sits at an old desk in Yanyuan and unfolds, piece by piece, nearly a century of his life. Zhang Zhongxing writes no legen…
Frequent authors
Wang Xiaobo (16)Keigo Higashino (12)Ye Guangqin (8)Sanmao (7)Zhou Meisen (5)Ge Fei (5)保罗·柯艾略 (4)Alice Munro (4)Zhou Zuoren (3)马笑泉 (3)He Jianming (2)Yu Hua (2)