Nanjing University Press
Also known as: 理想国|南京大学出版社, 理想国丨南京大学出版社
- Founded
- 1984
- Country / Region
- China
- Notable books
- Collected Works of Pulitzer Prize-Winning PlaywrightsThe Sunken Stone and the Tongue of Fire: The Complete Poems of Tomas TranströmerDesert Islands and Other Texts
About the publisher
Nanjing University Press is a comprehensive university publisher known for its translations and academic works in the humanities and social sciences, covering literature, world history, biography and social issues. Judging from the books in our database, it publishes poetry classics such as the complete poems of Tomas Tranströmer in The Sorrow Gondola and the Station of Fire, world history titles including Orlando Figes's The Crimean War, biographical works such as Milan Kundera: A Writer's Life, and a personal history of Eastern Europe and the secret police in the M Translation Series. Its contributors include translators Li Li, Liu Yunhong and Xu Jun, reflecting an emphasis on translation quality and textual depth. Given limited public information, its full publishing scope and series system remain to be further supplemented.
The Soul at Work: From Alienation to Autonomy
Nanjing University Press · 2025
This book is the representative work of the Italian writer and media theorist Franco "Bifo" Berardi, translated into Chinese for the first time (from …
I Saw, I Listened, I Thought...
Nanjing University Press · 2025
Agamben's name is often associated with the Homo Sacer series: sovereignty, the state of exception, biopolitics—words that sound too heavy. But openin…
Tired of Being Yourself: Depression and Society
Nanjing University Press · 2025
Tired of Being Yourself: Depression and Society is the magnum opus of the French sociologist Alain Ehrenberg. The original French edition, La fatigue …
Marxist Thought and the City
Nanjing University Press · 2025
Marxist Thought and the City (La Pensée marxiste et la ville) is the volume most closely tied to Marxist thought in Henri Lefebvre's series of works o…
Uncomputable: Games and Politics in the Long Digital Age
Nanjing University Press · 2025
Uncomputable is a media-studies monograph by Alexander R. Galloway, professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York Unive…
The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History
Nanjing University Press · 2025
"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." This fragment of a line from the ancient Greek poet Archilochus is the starting poi…
Deleuze on Cinema
Nanjing University Press · 2025
This book is a monograph by the American scholar Ronald Bogue interpreting Deleuze's film theory, translated into Chinese by Tian Zhengzheng and inclu…
Collected Works of Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwrights
Nanjing University Press · 2024
Collected Works of Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwrights is published by Nanjing University Press in its Watchman series and brings together representati…
Contempt for the Masses: An Experiment in Modern Cultural Struggle
Nanjing University Press · 2024
Contempt for the Masses: An Experiment in the Cultural Struggles of Modern Society is a short theoretical work by the contemporary German philosopher …
The False Death of Thought
Nanjing University Press · 2024
The False Death of Thought is a work by the German philosopher and cultural theorist Peter Sloterdijk on "theory as a form of life," translated into C…
English Love Collection Bilingual Series: Love Is Only a Distance of 0.01
Nanjing University Press · 2023
What is love? Love is a chord, a picture, a sigh, a memory, a touch of youth, a ray of sunset, a promise, a care... We spend our whole lives seeking l…
English Love Collection Bilingual Series: That Year, We Went Our Separate Ways
Nanjing University Press · 2023
In the course of a human life, we encounter many things: some gradually fade with time and are forgotten, while others grow more vivid and are never l…
English Love Collection Bilingual Series: I Wait for You in My Memories
Nanjing University Press · 2023
In this selfish world, a man's only unselfish friend, the only one that never deserts him, the only one that never proves ungrateful, is his dog. Wait…
English Love Collection Bilingual Series: An Angel Kissed That Sea
Nanjing University Press · 2023
This collection features over fifty essays by celebrated authors, whose great creations bring vividly to life the memorable moments of beauty and pain…
Milan Kundera: A Writer's Life
Nanjing University Press · 2022
Milan Kundera is one of the most influential writers of our time and a multiple winner of major international literary awards. Born in Czechoslovakia,…
Loitering with Intent
Nanjing University Press · 2022
Loitering with Intent is a 1981 novel by the Scottish writer Muriel Spark, shortlisted for the Booker Prize that year; the Chinese edition, translated…
Arendt: The Origin of Politics
Nanjing University Press · 2022
Hannah Arendt is a thinker with a wide readership who is nevertheless notorious for her difficulty: What were her political positions? Was she a class…
Amoral Politics: The Persistent Truth of Machiavellism
Nanjing University Press · 2022
This book is the magnum opus of Israeli philosopher Ben-Ami Scharfstein, originally published in English as Amoral Politics: The Persistent Truth of M…
The Sunken Stone and the Tongue of Fire: The Complete Poems of Tomas Tranströmer
Nanjing University Press · 2021
Tranströmer excels at deploying images of every kind, forging subtle connections between things usually unrelated and creating chances for encounter. …
Imaginist Translation Series 046: Crossing the Storm: Britain, Slavery, and the American Revolution
Nanjing University Press · 2021
In this book, Simon Schama, with impassioned and superlative narrative art, tells the story of the many unknown abolitionists and Black people who fou…
Frequent authors
俞鑫 (4)吴文智 (4)杨一兰 (4)Georges Bataille (3)蒂莫西·加顿艾什 (3)伊娃·霍夫曼 (2)Zhang Xiaohua (2)Peter Sloterdijk (2)Wangyu (2)汪仲 (2)王玫 (2)胡洲贤 (2)