Dalian Publishing House

Founded
1987
Country / Region
China
Notable books
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Fantasy Kingdom World Classics)Qu YuanZhu Shenghao and Song Qingru's Selection of Ci by Famous Tang and Song Poets

218 books 156 authors

About the publisher

Dalian Publishing House is a Chinese publisher focusing on children's literature, primary and secondary school education, and urban culture books. Its catalogue contains 218 titles, covering common categories such as world classics, general biography, classical poetry, foreign literature, essays and miscellaneous writings, and science fiction. Representative books include the "Fantasy World Classic Masterpieces" series, such as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and The Wind in the Willows, biographies such as Qu Yuan, an anthology of famous Tang and Song ci poems selected by Zhu Shenghao and Song Qingru, and the "Dajia Wencong" essay collections. Its author resources include Chinese and foreign writers and scholars such as Lewis Carroll, Kenneth Grahame, You Guoen, Zhu Shenghao, and Song Qingru. The publisher has developed certain strengths in children's literature and the introduction of classic works; publicly available information on its publishing background is limited.

Published (218)

Founders: A Chronicle of the Creation of New China's Customs cover
Rating 3.8
Founders: A Chronicle of the Creation of New China's Customs 洪卫国 Dalian Publishing House · 2026 This is a work of documentary literature that comprehensively records the founding of the Customs of New China and was selected for the 2021 National …
Return to Earth cover
Rating 3.4
Return to Earth Peng Xuluo Dalian Publishing House · 2026 I am an astronaut who joined an international mission to deep space to find a new planet habitable for humanity. After our ship left the solar system,…
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Fantasy Kingdom World Classics) cover
Rating 4.6
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Fantasy Kingdom World Classics) 刘易斯·卡洛尔 / 邵言 Dalian Publishing House · 2025 Young Alice follows a waistcoat-wearing, talking rabbit down a rabbit hole and tumbles into a wondrous underground world. There, a sip of water shrink…
Qu Yuan cover
Rating 4.5
Qu Yuan 游国恩 Dalian Publishing House · 2025 Qu Yuan is the magnum opus of You Guoen, a leading master of Chu Ci studies and a towering figure in contemporary Qu Yuan scholarship. Tracing Qu Yuan…
The Wind in the Willows (Fantasy Kingdom World Classics) cover
Rating 4.3
The Wind in the Willows (Fantasy Kingdom World Classics) Kenneth Grahame / 邵言 Dalian Publishing House · 2025 On the picturesque banks of the Thames live four close friends: the good-natured Mole, the clever Water Rat, the arrogant Toad, and the steady, depend…
Great Masters Series: The Bitterest Is Life cover
Rating 4.3
Great Masters Series: The Bitterest Is Life Lao She / Qi Baishi / Feng Zikai / Man Yan Dalian Publishing House · 2025 This book centers on the hardships and suffering of life, bringing together essays and paintings by writers such as Lao She and Feng Zikai that portra…
Masters' Literary Series: Talking About Foreigners in Depth cover
Rating 4.2
Masters' Literary Series: Talking About Foreigners in Depth Lao She / Man Yan / 零露 / 孙之儁 Dalian Publishing House · 2025 The book is divided into two parts, 'Real People' and 'Fiction,' and selects Lao She's writings on relations between Chinese and foreigners in the 193…
Masters' Literary Series: Losing Our Tempers cover
Rating 4.2
Masters' Literary Series: Losing Our Tempers Lao She / Man Yan / 零露 / 孙之儁 Dalian Publishing House · 2025 People immersed in a culture do not necessarily know what that culture is really like. Naughty Tempers collects Lao She's most widely read pieces port…
Great Masters Series: Holding Forth cover
Rating 4.2
Great Masters Series: Holding Forth Lao She / Feng Zikai / 零露 / 怀朴 Dalian Publishing House · 2025 This volume takes up enduring questions in Chinese social life, gathering satirical and critical essays by Lao She and cartoons by Sun Zhijun, includi…
Masters' Literary Series: A Home to Return To cover
Rating 4.2
Masters' Literary Series: A Home to Return To Lao She / Feng Zikai / Qi Baishi / 怀朴 Dalian Publishing House · 2025 This collection gathers essays on domestic life by Lao She, paired with warm illustrations by the renowned contemporary painter Feng Zikai. The editor…
Tracing the City's Origins: Dalian's Opening as a Port and Establishment as a City cover
Rating 4.0
Tracing the City's Origins: Dalian's Opening as a Port and Establishment as a City 蒋耀辉 Dalian Publishing House · 2025 The "Reading Dalian" series aims to "survey the city's overall landscape, trace its origins, and chronicle its local customs," presenting Dalian's hum…
The Covenant of the Earth God cover
Rating 4.0
The Covenant of the Earth God 方先义 Dalian Publishing House · 2025 One day, while fishing, the village boy Shi Xiaoliu hooks a rare red-finned, golden-scaled carp. After a fierce struggle, the fish slips free and esca…
Dream of a Summer Night (Chinese Original Fantasy Children's Literature Series) cover
Rating 4.0
Dream of a Summer Night (Chinese Original Fantasy Children's Literature Series) 赵冰波 Dalian Publishing House · 2025 What dreams does the cricket Jiling dream on a summer night? What joys and confusions await the little mountain god who comes to the city? What is the…
The Child Who Blows the Whale Whistle cover
Rating 4.0
The Child Who Blows the Whale Whistle Zhou Rui Dalian Publishing House · 2025 Without hope, life has nothing left but despair. Through the true lives of several families with autistic children, the author uses a documentary appr…
The Whale Circus cover
Rating 4.0
The Whale Circus 九穗 Dalian Publishing House · 2025 This is a novel about life and growing up. In the stories Grandpa tells Ronan, who has lost his father, a wondrous J Circus appears. During a circus p…
Breaking Willows at Baqiao: Travel Life in Ancient China cover
Rating 4.0
Breaking Willows at Baqiao: Travel Life in Ancient China Wang Zijin Dalian Publishing House · 2025 Bridging the Ba Bridge: Travel and Journey Life in Ancient China is a book on the history and culture of travel in ancient China. Through meticulous a…
Red Yellow Blue cover
Rating 3.9
Red Yellow Blue Zhou Rui Dalian Publishing House · 2025 On the red, yellow, and blue planets, only red, yellow, and blue exist respectively; no other colors can survive there. After unifying their planets' …
Seeking the Old in Dwellings: Dalian's Old Buildings cover
Rating 3.9
Seeking the Old in Dwellings: Dalian's Old Buildings 晚述 Dalian Publishing House · 2025 The "Reading Dalian" series aims to "capture the outline of a city, trace its origins, and describe its sights and customs," presenting Dalian's cultu…
Five Thousand Years of China for Children: From the Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty cover
Rating 3.9
Five Thousand Years of China for Children: From the Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty Zhu Liangzhi / 姜波 Dalian Publishing House · 2025 This book is the Ming–Qing volume of the series *Five Thousand Years of Chinese History for Children*, a narrative history written for young readers. …
Riding the Waves and Battling the Sea cover
Rating 3.9
Riding the Waves and Battling the Sea 凌晨 Dalian Publishing House · 2025 On his birthday, Ling Bo wins a phone in a raffle—but instead of being happy, he feels uneasy, even a little afraid. Ling Bo's father went to sea year…

Frequent authors

滕贞甫 (14)Yang Peng (13)Zhang Fuyuan (10)于薇 (8)徐牧心 (8)Wang Guodong (7)姜波 (6)Zhu Liangzhi (6)Lao She (6)Zhou Rui (5)刘春华 (4)刘益令 (4)