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The Commercial Press

Also known as: 商务印书馆(香港), 商务印书馆（1957年8月上海版影印清道光二十八年刻本）, 商务印书馆（初版）, 商务印书馆(北京), 商务印书馆（涵芬楼影印）, 商務印書館, 商务印书馆有限公司

Founded
1897
Country / Region
China
Notable books
Collected Commentaries on the AnalectsHamletCommentary on the Zhouyi

1751 books 1716 authors

About the publisher

The Commercial Press is a publisher known for classic works and academic publishing, with titles spanning Eastern philosophy, foreign literature, world history, social culture, and applied psychology. Its list includes classical commentaries such as Zhu Xi's Collected Commentaries on the Analects and Wang Bi's Commentary on the Zhouyi, as well as modern annotated translations like Zhuangzi with Modern Notes and Translation. In foreign literature it offers War and Peace and Crime and Punishment, while in world history it carries Braudel's The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II. Applied psychology is represented by Irvin D. Yalom's Existential Psychotherapy, and ethical texts include a Greek-Chinese-English edition of the Nicomachean Ethics. Its authors and translators include Zhu Xi, Wang Bi, Yalom, Braudel, and translators such as Huang Zheng, Zhang Yiling, Shen Dongyu, and Tang Jialong, balancing the editing of original texts with academic translation.

Published (1751)

Commentary on the Zhouyi cover
4.9
Commentary on the Zhouyi 王弼 The Commercial Press · 2026 Annotated Zhouyi, written by Wang Bi, the Wei-dynasty Three Kingdoms metaphysical thinker, is the founding work of philosophical Yijing studies and ma…
The Social Contract · Discourse on the Origin of Inequality cover
4.5
The Social Contract · Discourse on the Origin of Inequality 让·雅克·卢梭 / 何兆武 The Commercial Press · 2026 The Social Contract and the Discourse on the Origin of Inequality form an important part of the Western political and cultural tradition. With a long …
On Government cover
4.3
On Government 洛克 The Commercial Press · 2026 It is the most important work of political theory by the seventeenth-century English thinker Locke. Its basic aim is to provide foundational answers t…
Wind and Snow at Dingling: The Opening of the Underground Palace of the Ming Dingling Tomb cover
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Wind and Snow at Dingling: The Opening of the Underground Palace of the Ming Dingling Tomb Yue Nan / 杨仕 The Commercial Press · 2026 This book is a panoramic, multi-faceted work of archaeological reportage on the excavation of Dingling. It not only discloses the detailed process of …
A Peerless Echo: The Excavation of the Tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng at Leigudun cover
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A Peerless Echo: The Excavation of the Tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng at Leigudun Yue Nan The Commercial Press · 2026 Just as many major archaeological discoveries in the world began with road construction, house building, pit digging, or dam building in the field, th…
Lonely Souls of the Western Han: The Excavation of the Han Tombs at Mawangdui, Changsha cover
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Lonely Souls of the Western Han: The Excavation of the Han Tombs at Mawangdui, Changsha Yue Nan The Commercial Press · 2026 In the next chamber to be excavated at Mawangdui, a serpent-like blue flame suddenly burst out, injuring the director of the institute's administrativ…
The Peerless Sage of War: Deciphering The Art of War at Yinqueshan cover
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The Peerless Sage of War: Deciphering The Art of War at Yinqueshan Yue Nan The Commercial Press · 2026 In the spring of 1972, a Han dynasty tomb was discovered at Yinqueshan in Linyi, Shandong, and a trove of bamboo slips came to light. The emergence of…
A Heaven-Bestowed Kingdom: The Astonishing Discovery of the Sanxingdui and Jinsha Sites cover
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A Heaven-Bestowed Kingdom: The Astonishing Discovery of the Sanxingdui and Jinsha Sites Yue Nan The Commercial Press · 2026 A jade pit suddenly appears in the tranquil Moon Bay, and the Yan family digs for treasure late at night. Secrets leak on the streets of Chengdu, and …
The Sorrow of the Yue State: The Excavation of the Nanyue King's Tomb in Guangzhou cover
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The Sorrow of the Yue State: The Excavation of the Nanyue King's Tomb in Guangzhou Yue Nan The Commercial Press · 2026 This book recounts the discovery and excavation of the tomb of Zhao Hu (Mo), the second king of Nanyue, on Xianggang Hill in Guangzhou in the 1980s. W…
Searching for Ancestors: The Disappearance of the "Peking Man" Skull Fossil cover
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Searching for Ancestors: The Disappearance of the "Peking Man" Skull Fossil Yue Nan The Commercial Press · 2026 Was the 'Peking Man' fossil lost through theft or destruction? Did it sink to the ocean floor, or had it long since turned to dust? This mystery has l…
The Resurrected Legion: A Record of the Discovery of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses in the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang cover
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The Resurrected Legion: A Record of the Discovery of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses in the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang Yue Nan The Commercial Press · 2026 This book faithfully reconstructs the detailed process of the discovery and excavation of the Terracotta Army in the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, and u…
The Blind Man in the Labyrinth: A Study of Coloniality in Borges's Works cover
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The Blind Man in the Labyrinth: A Study of Coloniality in Borges's Works 陈宁 The Commercial Press · 2026 This book is the final output of the National Social Science Fund project "A Study of Western Discourse in Borges's Works (18BWW073)." Totaling 350,00…
Twilight of the Imperial Tombs: A Record of the Theft of Treasures from the Underground Palace of the Eastern Qing Tombs cover
3.9
Twilight of the Imperial Tombs: A Record of the Theft of Treasures from the Underground Palace of the Eastern Qing Tombs Yue Nan The Commercial Press · 2026 In July 1928, the warlord Sun Dianying led his troops into the underground palaces of Emperor Qianlong and Empress Dowager Cixi, split open their coff…
An Eternal Scholarly Case: Decoding the Xia-Shang-Zhou Chronology Project cover
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An Eternal Scholarly Case: Decoding the Xia-Shang-Zhou Chronology Project Yue Nan The Commercial Press · 2026 In the face of a brilliant Chinese civilization and the enduring academic mystery left by Sima Qian, with what frame of mind and what actions would Ch…
汉语强调的多声表达 cover
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汉语强调的多声表达 鲁莹 The Commercial Press · 2026 This book addresses a broad question by starting from the semantic sources and pragmatic conditions of emphatic expressions and examining a set of mic…
Defence of Usury cover
Defence of Usury Jeremy Bentham The Commercial Press · 2026 Defence of Usury is the first complete work on political economy by the English philosopher and jurist Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832), published in London…
Existential Psychotherapy (A Classic Textbook for Psychotherapists!) cover
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Existential Psychotherapy (A Classic Textbook for Psychotherapists!) 欧文·D.亚隆 / 黄峥 / 张怡玲 / 沈东郁 The Commercial Press · 2025 Existential psychotherapy is not a separate school of therapy but a philosophical orientation, or philosophy of life, that every psychotherapist may d…
Nicomachean Ethics I.1–III.5 (Greek-Chinese-English Parallel Text) cover
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Nicomachean Ethics I.1–III.5 (Greek-Chinese-English Parallel Text) Aristotle / 廖申白 The Commercial Press · 2025 Volume I discusses the good in 13 chapters; Volume II discusses moral virtue in 9 chapters; Volume III, chapters 1–5 discuss chosen action. This porti…
The Complete Poems of Shakespeare cover
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The Complete Poems of Shakespeare William Shakespeare / 曹明伦 The Commercial Press · 2025 Shakespeare was first a poet celebrated in English letters, and only then a great playwright. This volume gathers all of his poetic works. Shakespeare…
Huainanzi cover
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Huainanzi Liu An The Commercial Press · 2025 Compiled by Liu An, King of Huainan of the Western Han, with his retainers during the reign of Emperor Wu, the Huainanzi is a monumental work of philo…

Frequent authors

Plato (21)Xu Yuanchong (21)William Shakespeare (15)王宁 (15)Sun Zhouxing (14)Yu Taishan (13)杨武能 (13)Bertrand Arthur William Russell (12)Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (12)顾德希 (11)Yue Nan (10)Baruch Spinoza (10)