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)
Rating 4.7★ System of Transcendental Idealism 谢林 / 先刚 Peking University Press · 2025 In this book the author reveals the essential identity and structural coherence of the natural world and the spiritual world, and employs a dialectica… Rating 4.7★ The Origin of All Philosophy 谢林 / 王丁 Peking University Press · 2025 The book consists of three texts: The Natural Nature of Philosophy as Science, The Origins of All Philosophy, and Exposition of the Process of Nature.… Rating 4.6★ Right and Wrong, Crooked and Straight: Legal Principles in Individual Cases 苏力 Peking University Press · 2025 Using cases that once sparked widespread public controversy—such as the Yao Jiaxin case, the Xu Ting case, and the "pornographic disc" case—as researc… Rating 4.6★ A Brief History of Chinese Prose Chen Pingyuan Peking University Press · 2025 This book traces the development of Chinese prose in chronological order, focusing on the evolution of prose as a genre and highlighting the course an… Rating 4.6★ Criminal Law (Ninth Edition) 高铭暄 / 马克昌 Peking University Press · 2025 This textbook is one of the core-course textbooks for law majors in national higher education institutions organized by the Ministry of Education for … Rating 4.6★ The Russian Idea 别尔嘉耶夫 / 张百春 Peking University Press · 2025 This book makes a clear distinction between "idea" and "thought," directly linking the "Russian Idea" with "Russian thought" for the first time. It su… Rating 4.6★ A Course in Modern Chinese Grammar Research (Fifth Edition) 陆俭明 Peking University Press · 2025 This book was first published in 2003 and has undergone multiple revisions. The fifth edition continues the author's three basic principles: reflectin… Rating 4.6★ Collected Works of Wang Xuan (Revised Edition) 《王选文集》编委会 Peking University Press · 2025 This collection gathers articles by Academician Wang Xuan—the “contemporary Bi Sheng”—on the retrospect of printing and publishing technologies such a… Rating 4.6★ A Millennium of World Economic Statistics (Revised and Corrected Edition) 安格斯·麦迪森 / 伍晓鹰 / 施发启 Peking University Press · 2025 This book not only reviews the course of world economic development from the 1st century AD to the early 21st century and explores the reasons for the… Rating 4.6★ The Unfinished May Fourth: Historical Scene and Intellectual Dialogue Chen Pingyuan Peking University Press · 2025 Professor Chen Pingyuan is one of the foremost contemporary interpreters of the May Fourth movement, weaving his own life experience and scholarly pur… Rating 4.6★ A Brief History of Chinese Fiction Chen Pingyuan Peking University Press · 2025 This book traces the development of Chinese fiction, surveying the history of ancient fiction of the Qin and Han dynasties, Six Dynasties tales of the… Rating 4.6★ Collected Works of Zhang Shaokang (Volume 9): Annotated, Revised, and Modern Chinese Translation of The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons (Part Two) 张少康 Peking University Press · 2025 This book provides a collated and annotated edition and modern Chinese translation of the classic work of literary criticism The Literary Mind and the… Rating 4.6★ As If Real: The Vitality of Chinese Musical Instruments 林谷芳 Peking University Press · 2025 This book is one volume in the Elegant Reading series, Peking University Press's fine collection devoted to popularizing traditional Chinese culture. … Rating 4.6★ Mencius: New Annotations and a New Translation 杨逢彬 Peking University Press · 2025 This book is a companion volume to the New Annotated Translation of the Analects. It likewise applies modern linguistic methods to 108 difficult passa… Rating 4.6★ Small Ci, Great Elegance: Ye Jiaying on the Cultivation and Realm of Ci Poetry Chiaying Yeh Peking University Press · 2025 This book is the edited transcript of Ye Jiaying's 2012 lectures at Nankai University for CCTV's Chinese University Open Course. The original open cou… Rating 4.6★ Lectures on Selected Ci Poems by Northern Song Masters Chiaying Yeh Peking University Press · 2025 Among the richly varied ci poems of the Northern Song masters, some readers are drawn to the broad-mindedness of Yan and Ou, others to Liu Yong's sens… Rating 4.6★ The Dream of Knights-Errant of Scholars Through the Ages (Expanded Edition) Chen Pingyuan Peking University Press · 2025 This is a study of stories about martial arts chivalry. The book is divided into nine chapters and covers two main areas: first, a chronological accou… Rating 4.6★ One Flower, One World Zhu Liangzhi Peking University Press · 2025 The book is divided into six sections and forty-eight pieces. In plain, unadorned prose, Mr. Ji writes of his feelings for all things under heaven and… Rating 4.6★ Textbook on the General Part of Criminal Law (6th Edition) 乌尔斯·金德霍伊泽尔 / 蔡桂生 Peking University Press · 2025 Law is a normative science. The norms of criminal law divide into conduct norms and sanction norms. Conduct norms aim to protect legal interests such … Rating 4.6★ Mechanics (Physics Track) 舒幼生 Peking University Press · 2025 Mechanics (Physics Track) is a general physics mechanics textbook written for university physics majors. It is suitable for comprehensive science univ…Frequent authors
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