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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》

6337 books 5497 authors

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.

Published (6337)

Caste and Hindu Society (Third Edition) cover
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Caste and Hindu Society (Third Edition) 尚会鹏 Peking University Press · 2026 The caste system is a defining feature of Indian society and a key to understanding Indian society and culture. This book is a monograph on India's ca…
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Huygens' Treatise on Light: With Approaching Huygens 惠更斯 Peking University Press · 2026 The debate over the nature of light holds an extremely important place in the history of science. In 1672, Newton proposed his corpuscular theory of l…
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The Formation of Humus and the Role of Earthworms Charles Robert Darwin Peking University Press · 2026 Published in Charles Darwin's later years, The Formation of Vegetable Mould, through the Action of Worms is a major work that explores the crucial rol…
A History of Chinese Film Theory cover
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A History of Chinese Film Theory 陈山 Peking University Press · 2026 Drawing on a systematic review of primary sources including a wealth of periodicals and monographs, this book presents a complete account of the devel…
Confucianism, Divination Arts and Politics: A Political-Cultural History of Calamities and Anomalies (Second Edition) cover
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Confucianism, Divination Arts and Politics: A Political-Cultural History of Calamities and Anomalies (Second Edition) 陈侃理 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 cover
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Beijing: The City and Its People Zhao Yuan 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…
Selected Classical Works of Hippocrates cover
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Selected Classical Works of Hippocrates 希波克拉底 Peking University Press · 2026 Hippocrates is known as the "Father of Western Medicine." His works are the most important texts for studying Greek medicine and even ancient Western …
Wang Fuzhi's World of Yi Learning cover
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Wang Fuzhi's World of Yi Learning 张学智 Peking University Press · 2026 Wang Fuzhi, one of the three great thinkers of the Ming–Qing transition, embodied the creative spirit of "the Six Classics oblige me to break new grou…
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Son of the Earth Zhao Yuan Peking University Press · 2026 In China, a vast agricultural nation, intellectuals are bound to the countryside and the peasantry by countless ties, and harbor deep, broad feelings …
Philosophy Gate (Total Issue 47) cover
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Philosophy Gate (Total Issue 47) 程乐松 Peking University Press · 2026 To advance the discipline of philosophy and promote academic exchange among philosophers in China and abroad, the Department of Philosophy at Peking U…
Studies in Early Modern Chinese Thought cover
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Studies in Early Modern Chinese Thought Chen Lai Peking University Press · 2026 This volume collects multiple papers published over the years by Professor Chen Lai, a renowned contemporary historian of philosophy, in the field of …
An Outline of Chinese History: Illustrated Edition (2 Volumes) cover
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An Outline of Chinese History: Illustrated Edition (2 Volumes) Jian Bozan Peking University Press · 2026 Nearly twenty of Peking University's great historians—Jian Bozan, Wu Rongzeng, Tian Yuqing, Wang Jian, Wu Zongguo, Deng Guangming, and others—took tur…
Chinese Classical Studies (Volume 7) cover
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Chinese Classical Studies (Volume 7) 杜晓勤 Peking University Press · 2026 This is a comprehensive academic journal publishing articles on language, literature, and textual scholarship centered on classical Chinese works. It …
Lectures on Narratology cover
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Lectures on Narratology Zhao Yiheng Peking University Press · 2026 This book distills the author's more than forty years of reading, reflection, and teaching in narratology. Semiotics studies all texts of meaningful a…
Sanskrit Splendor on the Silk Road: A Study of Sino-Indian Literary Exchange as Reflected in Unearthed Documents cover
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Sanskrit Splendor on the Silk Road: A Study of Sino-Indian Literary Exchange as Reflected in Unearthed Documents Chen Ming Peking University Press · 2026 Drawing on Sanskrit and Chinese manuscripts unearthed from key Silk Road sites such as Dunhuang, Turfan, and Merv, this book teases out the implicit e…
Thirteen Lectures on Modern Western Thought cover
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Thirteen Lectures on Modern Western Thought 汪民安 Peking University Press · 2026 Western Modern Thought in Thirteen Lectures takes thirteen key concepts of Western modern thought as its entry points—including enlightenment, the con…
Complex Atmospheric Pollution: Integration of Observations, Models, and Data cover
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Complex Atmospheric Pollution: Integration of Observations, Models, and Data 朱彤 / 王会军 / 贺克斌 / 贺泓 Peking University Press · 2026 This book consolidates and elevates the research on observation, modeling, and data integration carried out under the National Major Research Plan on …
Tradition and Modernity: Perspectives on Humanism cover
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Tradition and Modernity: Perspectives on Humanism Chen Lai Peking University Press · 2026 Traditional and Modern: A Humanist Perspective gathers sixteen essays written by Professor Chen Lai between 1988 and 2000, focusing on the vitality of…
The Modern Chinese Judicial System (2 Volumes) cover
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The Modern Chinese Judicial System (2 Volumes) Chen Guangzhong Peking University Press · 2026 China's Modern Judicial System is the second volume of the three-volume A History of China's Judicial System, edited by Chen Guangzhong, a senior prof…
West beyond the Pamirs: Eight Lectures on Asian Archaeology cover
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West beyond the Pamirs: Eight Lectures on Asian Archaeology 魏正中 / 方笑天 / 王倩 Peking University Press · 2026 This book is compiled from a lecture series held at the School of Archaeology and Museology, Peking University, in the fall of 2022, covering the main…

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