About the publisher
Beijing Daily Press takes world history, historical reading and foreign literary translations as important publishing directions, alongside science fiction and prose. Its catalogue includes Edward Gibbon's unabridged The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Gu Cheng's Southern Ming History and his works on Ming history, reflecting a balance between general and dynastic history; in literature there are Fu Lei's translations of Balzac and of world classics, as well as science fiction and prose such as The Universe Omnipotent Detective Agency, A Canticle for Leibowitz and The Peregrine, with authors ranging from Gibbon, Gu Cheng and Balzac to Fu Lei, Romain Rolland and Douglas Adams. Building on current affairs, history and culture, Beijing-flavoured culture and children's books, the press combines classic translation with original historical writing, emphasising complete editions and translation quality. Public information is limited, so other details are omitted.
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Rating 4.1★ The Long Road to Justice 艾玛 Beijing Daily Press · 2025 A news report about a death-row inmate turning himself in catches the attention of Mu Lian, an associate professor of legal history—the convict confes… Rating 4.0★ A Chronicle of Life in the Qing Dynasty 橘玄雅 Beijing Daily Press · 2025 The Qing dynasty as seen in palace dramas may be far from the real thing: imperial consorts did not have themselves undressed and carried wrapped in q… Rating 4.0★ Two Classics by Louise Hay, Global Pioneer of Self-Healing: Love Yourself Every Day + Write Down Loving Yourself Every Day (2 Volumes) 露易丝·海 / 谢佳真 / Li Ying Beijing Daily Press · 2025 This set is a spiritual guide dedicated to helping you rediscover yourself and build a healthier way of living. Through small daily acts of self-love,… Rating 4.0★ 31 Ways of Seeing That Changed Art 威尔·贡培兹 Beijing Daily Press · 2025 Following The Story of Modern Art in 150 Years, British art critic Will Gompertz offers another collection of art writing in 31 Ways of Seeing That Ch… Rating 4.0★ Just Like That, Slavoj Became Žižek: A Sociological Examination of a Rapidly Rising Intellectual 埃利兰·巴莱尔 / 季广茂 Beijing Daily Press · 2025 How did Žižek grow up in his geographical environment, thrive in his cultural context, and at what cost did he rise from obscurity to worldwide fame a… Rating 4.0★ Half-Hour Comic World History (3 Volumes) 陈磊·半小时漫画团队 Beijing Daily Press · 2025 Mixo Ge draws and narrates his new work—spend half an hour with these comics and grasp world history across nations! Super-clear mind maps untangle th… Rating 4.0★ Stories from the Analects 下村湖人 / 徐建雄 Beijing Daily Press · 2025 This book is a collection of stories from the Analects. Using passages from the Analects as material and framework, with Confucius and his disciples a… Rating 3.9★ A Rust-Free Life: 102-Year-Old Grandma Tetsuyo Never Lets Inner Friction Wear Her Down 石井哲代 / 日本中国新闻社 Beijing Daily Press · 2025 Grandma Tetsuyo Ishii was born in 1920 in Japan. She taught elementary school for over thirty years and, after retiring, kept farming until she was ne… Rating 3.9★ Half-Hour Manga: The Forbidden City—Cultural Relics 陈磊·半小时漫画团队 Beijing Daily Press · 2025 This is the third volume in the "Half-Hour Manga: The Forbidden City" series and the closing volume of the set. The first two volumes covered how the … Rating 3.9★ Before the Coffee Gets Cold 川口俊和 / 丁世佳 Beijing Daily Press · 2025 In a basement café on a Tokyo street corner sits a mysterious seat that can carry you through time. Pour a cup of hot coffee, sit quietly for a moment… Rating 3.8★ The Strange Rock Hall Incident 高野结史 / 丁宇宁 Beijing Daily Press · 2025 [Live-action murder mystery + simulated murder + locked-room murder, snowstorm mountain villa + honkaku mystery + mind-bending + suspense] The award-w… Rating 3.8★ Publication Prohibited 长江俊和 / 王星星 Beijing Daily Press · 2025 I received a strange manuscript... The author is Wu Cheng Ruoqiao, and it runs to 150 sheets of A4 paper, recording four months of his interviews. It … Rating 3.8★ The Beauty of Ancient Beads 许丽虹 / 梁慧 Beijing Daily Press · 2025 This book is about ancient beads—each small bead carrying within it centuries of vicissitude. Through pendants, earrings, rings, prayer beads, bracele… Rating 3.8★ Half-Hour Comics: The Forbidden City (3 Volumes) 陈磊·半小时漫画团队 Beijing Daily Press · 2025 Five years in the making, a labor of love from the Hunzhi team! Authoritatively reviewed by 17 Palace Museum experts—rigorous and reliable! Celebratin… Rating 3.8★ True Cases Are Even More Chilling 没药花园 Beijing Daily Press · 2025 This book is a collection of true crime stories created by the team behind the million-follower WeChat account "Myrrha Garden." It contains 14 chapter… Rating 3.8★ Birthplace of Peking Opera Yung Ho Chang Beijing Daily Press · 2025 With meticulous historical sources and vivid prose, this book brings to life the story of Peking Opera's origins: more than two hundred years ago, the… Rating 3.6★ Writing Down Every Day of Loving Yourself: A Practice Manual for Self-Love 露易丝·海 / Li Ying Beijing Daily Press · 2025 Write Yourself into Self-Love: A Self-Love Practice Workbook is Louise Hay's gift of love and strength to the world, and the distillation of her years… Rating 3.6★ Half-Hour Comics: The Forbidden City, Cultural Relics Volume 陈磊·半小时漫画团队 Beijing Daily Press · 2025 The Forbidden City houses over 1.8 million national treasures and more than 9,000 rooms, crystallizing the brightest essence of Chinese civilization! … Rating 3.6★ The Trap Within the Precinct 横山秀夫 Beijing Daily Press · 2025 This is a short-story collection by the Japanese crime writer Hideo Yokoyama, originally published in Japanese as In no Kisetsu (The Shadowy Season); … Rating 3.5★ Beside the Bed: Zhao Kuangyin, Li Yu, and Their Era 张明扬 Beijing Daily Press · 2025 “How can I allow another man to snore beside my bed?” Zhao Kuangyin's declaration to the Southern Tang was at once a political statement of his resolv…Frequent authors
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