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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

54 books 74 authors

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.

Published (54)

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Albert Camus: A Biography Herbert R. Lotman Nanjing University Press · 2018 This is not a biography that gilds Camus. What Lottman does is almost clumsily painstaking: digging through archives, checking old newspapers, seeking…
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Andrei Tarkovsky: Elements of Cinema Robert Bird Nanjing University Press · 2018 This book is a scholarly monograph by the American scholar Robert Bird on the film aesthetics of the Soviet director Andrei Tarkovsky (1932–1986), ori…
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Rating 3.9
The Impossible Georges Bataille Nanjing University Press · 2017 The Impossible is an important text by the French thinker and novelist Georges Bataille centered on the issue of "poetry." The book consists of three …
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French Literature Classics Series (Series I, 6 Volumes) Jean-Jacques Rousseau / 安托万·德·圣埃克苏佩里 / George Sand / Chateaubriand / Elsa Triolet Nanjing University Press · 2017 The French Literature Classics Series is an open-ended collection of French literary works edited by Xu Jun, a veteran French translator and professor…
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Rating 4.3
White Collar: The American Middle Classes C.赖特·米尔斯 Nanjing University Press · 2016 White Collar: The American Middle Classes is C. Wright Mills's landmark work, published in 1951, and an important starting point for the entry of the …
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The Infinite Conversation Maurice Blanchot Nanjing University Press · 2016 The Infinite Conversation (L'Entretien infini) is one of the most important works by the French writer and thinker Maurice Blanchot. The Chinese trans…
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Rating 3.1
The Devil's Records Wangyu Nanjing University Press · 2014 The Devil's Records is a xianxia epic by Wang Yu, written after A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality. Serialization on Qidian began in Novemb…
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IELTS Official Grammar Guide Yang Fan Nanjing University Press · 2014 Published by Nanjing University Press, The IELTS Official Grammar Guide is a grammar-focused study companion for IELTS candidates. The book is divided…
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The Devil's Records Wangyu Nanjing University Press · 2014 The Devil's Records is a long-form cultivation novel by Wang Yu, a platinum author on Qidian Chinese Network, written after A Record of the Mortal's C…
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Cronopios and Famas Julio Cortázar Nanjing University Press · 2012 Cronopios and Famas is a 1962 short-prose collection by the Argentine writer Julio Cortázar. It is difficult to classify in terms of genre and is one …
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Rating 3.9
I Am a Monster 1 Zhang Xiaohua Nanjing University Press · 2011 I Am a Monster 1 is an urban fantasy novel by the web author Zhang Xiaohua and the first volume of the I Am a Monster trilogy published by Nanjing Uni…
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Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales Angela Carter Nanjing University Press · 2011 Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales is a collection of folk tales edited by the British writer Angela Carter. Its original English title is Angela Car…
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I Am a Monster Zhang Xiaohua Nanjing University Press · 2011 I Am a Monster is an urban supernatural novel by the web author Zhang Xiaohua, written after his novel The First Chaos in History and first serialized…
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Comprehensive Mirror for Aid in Government: Student Edition Yang Fei / Sima Guang Nanjing University Press · 2010 Comprehensive Mirror for Aid in Government: Student Edition is a student reader adapted by Yang Fei from the annalistic general history Comprehensive …

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)