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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)

The State Theory of Money cover
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The State Theory of Money 格奥尔格·弗里德里希·克纳普 / 李黎力 The Commercial Press · 2025 Georg Friedrich Knapp's The State Theory of Money is a milestone in the history of monetary thought. The book proposed that "money is a creature of th…
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Schools of Modern Linguistics (Revised and Enlarged Edition) 冯志伟 The Commercial Press · 2025 Language permeates every domain of human life; no activity connected with human social existence is possible without it. What are the main schools of …
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History of the Xiongnu 巴克尔 / E.H.Parker / 向达 The Commercial Press · 2025 A monograph on ethnic history by the American sinologist Parker, comprising seven chapters—"The Ancient History of the Huns," "The Reign of Modu," "Th…
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Gained and Nothing Gained Ernest Miller Hemingway / 曹明伦 The Commercial Press · 2025 Hemingway's To Have and Have Not (1937) is the author's fourth novel, published after The Torrents of Spring (1926), The Sun Also Rises (1926), and A …
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A Transformative Reading of Modern Fiction Wang Dingjun The Commercial Press · 2025 Modern Fiction Close Reading is a guide to the path written by Wang Dingjun for those interested in literature. It dismantles the art of fiction from …
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Collected Talks on Pursuing Learning Ge Xiaoyin The Commercial Press · 2025 This book collects the academic essays of Professor Ge Xiaoyin of Peking University and is also her retrospective on four decades of scholarly endeavo…
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China in Arabic Ancient Books (Literature and History Volume) 葛铁鹰 The Commercial Press · 2025 This book compiles records about China in classical Arabic works of history and literature, mainly including dictionaries, historical documents, and l…
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Purple Clay Teapots in the Guafanlou Collection Feng Qiyong The Commercial Press · 2025 This is Volume 7 of the Guafanlou Outer Collection, featuring 37 Yixing teapots collected by Mr. Feng Qiyong, most of them made by celebrated masters.…
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History of the Eastward Spread of Europeanization 张星烺 The Commercial Press · 2025 A comprehensive account of the eastward spread of European culture from the Han dynasty to the 1930s, and of its collision with and influence on Chine…
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Moving Between Teaching and Not Teaching 钱梦龙 The Commercial Press · 2025 The words “teaching” and “not teaching” in the title come from Mr. Ye Shengtao’s idea that “teaching is meant to reach the point where teaching is no …
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Ming Blue-and-White Porcelain in the Guafanlou Collection Feng Qiyong The Commercial Press · 2025 This is Volume 6 of the Gualou Waiji series and presents over 100 pieces of Ming blue-and-white porcelain from Feng Qiyong's collection. Mr. Feng's bl…
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The Joy of Life 约翰·卢伯克 / 曹明伦 The Commercial Press · 2025 The Pleasures of Life is a collection of essays written by Sir John Lubbock—British banker, Liberal politician, philanthropist, scientist, and polymat…
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The Translator David Hawkes 张婷 The Commercial Press · 2025 This book is a systematic and comprehensive study of David Hawkes, the renowned contemporary British sinologist and translator, focusing on his Englis…
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The Blue-Eyed Bandit: Episodes of Mexican Life, 1861–1863 阿尔塔米拉诺 / 段若川 / Zhao Zhenjiang The Commercial Press · 2025 This book is the posthumous work and masterpiece of the famous nineteenth-century Mexican writer Altamirano. Its original title is El Zarco, and the a…
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Reminiscences of Li Jieren 龚静染 The Commercial Press · 2025 Li Jieren led a legendary life, achieving distinction in writing, business, and politics—something extremely rare among writers of his time. He spent …
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Ladies' Bookplates 诺娜·拉布谢尔 / 李江艳 The Commercial Press · 2025 Published in 1895, Ladies' Bookplates is the earliest monograph on Western women's bookplates and a classic of Western bookplate studies. A guide for …
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Cape Cod 梭罗 / 李家真 The Commercial Press · 2025 Cape Cod recounts Thoreau's three visits to Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in an intricate, layered narrative. Beyond his customary vivid descriptions of sc…
Publishing, Culture and Power in Premodern China (16th–17th Centuries) cover
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Publishing, Culture and Power in Premodern China (16th–17th Centuries) 周启荣 / 张志强 / 夏维中 The Commercial Press · 2025 In Publishing, Culture, and Power in Early Modern China (16th–17th Centuries), the author examines the production of books in sixteenth- and seventeen…
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Seeking Through Painted Words: An Oral History of Quan Shanshi 全山石 / 全根先 / 陈都 The Commercial Press · 2025 This book is compiled from oral history interviews with Mr. Quan Shanshi conducted by the China Memory Project Center of the National Library. It revi…
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How to Teach Artificial Intelligence to Speak Like a Human? 徐英瑾 The Commercial Press · 2025 What is the essence of AI? Where does the distinction lie between natural language and artificial language? Is ChatGPT a milestone on the road of AI d…

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