About the publisher

Founded in 1997 and based in Beijing, Taihai Publishing House takes “building cultural bridges and promoting cross-strait unity” as its mission, focusing on Taiwan-related studies, social sciences and humanities, Chinese and foreign history, and literature. Judging from the 709 titles in the database, its publishing centers on foreign literature and classic works, with attention to Eastern philosophy, architecture, and social culture. Representative books include Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha and Steppenwolf and the four-volume Hesse literary series, Liang Sicheng’s A History of Chinese Architecture, Lao She’s Teahouse (unabridged classic edition), Sun Wu’s The Art of War, and collections by W. Somerset Maugham, Yasunari Kawabata, and Yukio Mishima. Its authors include major foreign writers such as Hesse, Maugham, Kawabata, and Mishima, as well as Liang Sicheng, Lao She, and Sun Wu. Its publishing features complete presentation of classic texts and series-based organization of foreign literature; public information on its Taiwan-related studies titles and authors is limited.

Published (799)

Rating 3.8★ The Adventurous Life of the Wind-Riding Youth 保罗·柯艾略 / 张含笑 Taihai Publishing House · 2024 A life story from Paulo Coelho, Brazil's beloved literary treasure. Drawing on years of firsthand experience, reflection, and insight, each story shin… Rating 3.7★ 40 Exercises to Overcome Low Self-Esteem 苏绚慧 Taihai Publishing House · 2024 Do you often feel you're not good enough? So you push yourself harder, and still feel you're not good enough—your mood sinks further, and you feel eve… Rating 3.7★ The Ming Dynasty History You Get Addicted to at First Read (Volume 1) 顾道惊城 Taihai Publishing House · 2024 This book chronicles the life of Zhu Yuanzhang, founding emperor of the Ming dynasty, from his impoverished origins to his establishment of the Ming a… Rating 3.7★ The Ming Dynasty History You Get Addicted to at First Read (Volume 3) 顾道惊城 Taihai Publishing House · 2024 A Ming Dynasty History You Can't Put Down, Volume 3 is a new work in the "A Chinese History You Can't Put Down" series. It describes events from the a… Rating 3.7★ The History of the Great Yuan Dynasty That You Must Stay Up All Night to Finish 覃仕勇 Taihai Publishing House · 2024 The Yuan Dynasty was the first unified dynasty in Chinese history established by an ethnic minority. Rising from the vast steppes of Mongolia, the Yua… Rating 3.7★ Comic History of China: Song Dynasty Fan Deng / 帆书团队 Taihai Publishing House · 2024 Ma Xiaofei—a wildly imaginative kid who loves adventure—and his two good friends Xia Linlin and Liu Dazhuang have plenty of puzzles in everyday life: … Rating 3.7★ The Principles of Influence 佐伊·钱斯 / 黄邦福 / 郭舫 Taihai Publishing House · 2024 Influence has long been misunderstood as manipulation, coercion, or compliance. Zoe Chance, a professor at Yale University and a Harvard PhD, argues t… Rating 3.6★ Infantry Squad and Platoon Tactics Manual 黄子豪 Taihai Publishing House · 2024 This book covers the organization, tactics, and related doctrine of infantry squad and platoon units, with a detailed account of the development of in… Rating 3.6★ Six Hundred Years of Great Power Rivalry 虚声 Taihai Publishing House · 2024 This book surveys the history of seven world powers—Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, Britain, France, Germany, and the United States—as they contende… Rating 3.6★ 38 Ways of Life for Emperors, Kings, Generals, and Ministers 艾公子 Taihai Publishing House · 2024 38 typical imperial elites, 38 ways of living—encompassing every model of elite life in ancient China and, imperceptibly, forming a miniature history … Rating 3.6★ Small Unit Combat Skills Manual 胡毅秉 Taihai Publishing House · 2024 In military terms, a "small unit" is a force that fights at battalion, company, or platoon level. Small-unit tactics (SUT) are a mature art, and their… Rating 3.6★ Positive Dialogue 麦可·索伦森 / 江美娜 / 张积模 Taihai Publishing House · 2024 How can you get others to really listen to you? What should you say to defuse an awkward situation? How can you build rapport with the person you're t… Rating 3.6★ The History of the Great Jin Dynasty That You Must Stay Up All Night to Finish 覃仕勇 Taihai Publishing House · 2024 The Western and Eastern Jin dynasties have a low profile in Chinese history. The Western Jin in particular, though it unified the three kingdoms of We… Rating 3.5★ Blow Up: A Practical Handbook for Personal Branding 孔蓓 / 查克 Taihai Publishing House · 2024 American management scholar Tom Peters said: “The work survival rule of the 21st century is to build a personal brand.” With a personal brand, you wil… Rating 3.5★ Return: The Three Kingdoms on Site 成长 Taihai Publishing House · 2024 Return to the Three Kingdoms: On Site takes history, artifacts, and relics as its threads; through a survey of artifacts from the late Han and Three K… Rating 3.5★ Modern Motorized Infantry Battalion and Company Tactics 战例译注工作室 Taihai Publishing House · 2024 This book is compiled and translated from the Russian Federation Ground Forces Combat Regulations concerning battalion and company combat. The Russian… Rating 3.5★ Social Anxiety 加藤谛三 / 赵碧琼 Taihai Publishing House · 2024 Some people have deeply troubled relationships: they keep trying to be good to others, yet never get good responses. They cannot help ingratiating the… Rating 3.5★ Strange Forensic Cases 陆玩 Taihai Publishing House · 2024 Ten years as a forensic examiner, adapted from cases he personally handled; 37 kinds of autopsy clues, including the rose-teeth phenomenon and the rev… Rating 3.5★ Whom Did the Philosophers Love? 黄鼎元 Taihai Publishing House · 2024 A major work by philosophy PhD Huang Dingyuan, telling the little-known stories of Socrates, Rousseau, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and other great philoso… Rating 3.5★ You and I Are Both Parties 2 曹祐诚 / 张晓辉 Taihai Publishing House · 2024 In the previous book, the author set out to narrate life's joys and sorrows; this sequel focuses on gains and losses in the workplace. A certain lectu…

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