Peking University Press
Also known as: 北京大學出版社, 北京大学, 北大, 北京大学出版社发行部（电子）, 北京大学出版社有限公司
- Founded
- 1979
- Country / Region
- China
- Notable books
- Dream of the Red ChamberRelativity: The Special and General Theory (15th Edition) (with Einstein's Papers on Unified Field Theory and Other Classic Papers)欧几里得《几何原本》
About the publisher
Peking University Press is a comprehensive university press whose publishing areas cover classical literature, popular science, social culture, world history, Western philosophy, and culture. Its catalogue contains 6,031 titles, with representative books including A Dream of Red Mansions, Relativity: The Special and General Theory (15th Edition) (with Einstein's classic papers on unified field theory and other topics), Elements, Conics, The Aristocratic Families of the Eastern Jin, The Philosophy of Mythology (Volume I), The Philosophy of Mythology (Volume II), and The Origin of Continents and Oceans. Representative authors include Cao Xueqin, Zhou Ruchang, Albert Einstein, Euclid, Apollonius, Tian Yuqing, Schelling, and Xian Gang. The press has developed distinctive strengths in classical Chinese literature and in the translation of Western philosophical classics, while also covering scientific classics and social and cultural studies. As public information is limited, this description is based only on the books in the catalogue and offers no further extrapolation.
Relativity: The Special and General Theory (15th Edition) (with Einstein's Papers on Unified Field Theory and Other Classic Papers)
Peking University Press · 2026
A popular exposition of relativity written by Einstein himself for readers of moderate scientific background. The author introduces the main concepts …
Philosophy of Mythology (Volume I)
Peking University Press · 2026
The Philosophy of Mythology is another pure innovation of Schelling's and the core and principal part of his late philosophy (while the Philosophy of …
Public Opinion
Peking University Press · 2026
Public Opinion is at once a precise portrait of the modern news media system and a profound examination of the human panorama refracted through that s…
Philosophy of Mythology (Volume II)
Peking University Press · 2026
The Philosophy of Mythology is another pure innovation of Schelling's and the core content and principal part of his later philosophy (while the Philo…
The Universe (Volume II)
Peking University Press · 2026
Volume II of Cosmos reviews the history of scientific development in human civilization, from the age of Alexander the Great to the cosmological views…
The Origin of Continents and Oceans
Peking University Press · 2026
The Origin of Continents and Oceans is a classic scientific work by German meteorologist and geophysicist Alfred Wegener expounding the theory of cont…
Newton's Optics (with Young Newton in His Hometown)
Peking University Press · 2026
This book is Newton's classic work systematically presenting the results of his twenty years of optical research, and one of the landmarks marking the…
A Difficult Choice
Peking University Press · 2026
The author examines the image and psychology of intellectuals in the fiction of the May Fourth period, around the Great Revolution, and the 1930s and …
Selected Works of Marie Curie: Including Research on Radioactive Substances, Biography of Curie, The Autobiography of Marie Curie, and Other Historical Materials
Peking University Press · 2026
This volume brings together three works by Marie Curie: her doctoral dissertation, Recherches sur les substances radioactives (Research on Radioactive…
Procedure and Argumentation: The Essence of the Modern Rule of Law
Peking University Press · 2026
This book represents the culmination of the author's more than thirty years of research on legal procedure and legal argumentation. Procedure and argu…
The Private Tutoring of Criminal Law: Part Four (2 Volumes)
Peking University Press · 2026
Criminal Law Tutorials: Volume IV (2 vols.) adopts a dialogue format, faithfully replaying the scene of criminal law discussion sessions. Reading this…
The Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science
Peking University Press · 2026
Weyl not only personally took part in the far-reaching developments and debates in mathematics, physics, and the foundations of mathematics in the fir…
Uncollected Writings from the Ice-Drinking Studio: Revised and Enlarged Edition
Peking University Press · 2026
This volume collects Liang Qichao's previously published writings not included in the Collected Works of the Ice-Drinker's Studio (Yinbingshi Heji), f…
Birds’ Modern Insurance Law (Tenth Edition)
Peking University Press · 2026
Birds' Modern Insurance Law is a classic insurance law textbook written by Professor John Birds. First published in 1982 and continuously revised sinc…
On Ten Fiction Writers
Peking University Press · 2026
This book is one of the most accomplished works of author studies in literary research. Focusing on ten writers—Yu Dafu, Lao She, Wu Zuxiang, Zhang Ti…
Early Idealist Works
Peking University Press · 2026
This volume collects four texts—On the Possibility of a Form of All Philosophy, On the I as the Principle of Philosophy, Philosophical Letters on Dogm…
The Starting Point of Modern Chinese Fiction: A Study of Fiction in the Late Qing and Early Republican Period
Peking University Press · 2026
Grounded in the literary-historical concept of "20th-century Chinese literature," this book takes the clash of Eastern and Western cultures and the st…
Confucianism, Divination Arts and Politics: A Political-Cultural History of Calamities and Anomalies (Second Edition)
Peking University Press · 2026
In ancient China, "calamities and anomalies" were often regarded as omens or warnings from Heaven regarding human affairs, carrying special political …
Beijing: The City and Its People
Peking University Press · 2026
Beijing: The City and Its People reads modern and contemporary Chinese literature about urban Beijing as a kind of pan-native-soil literature, explori…
A Study of Rawls's Theory of Justice
Peking University Press · 2026
A major scholarly work by Professor He Huaihong, A Study of Rawls's Theory of Justice offers a comprehensive and systematic analysis of the theory of …
Frequent authors
凤凰高新教育 (51)Longma Gaoxin Education (38)Chen Pingyuan (34)北大微讲堂 (26)王立彦 (24)Chiaying Yeh (22)Wang Bo (17)Justin Yifu Lin (16)孙祁祥 (14)秦春华 (14)Zhao Yuan (14)Chen Lai (14)