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Chongwen Publishing House

Also known as: 崇文书局(原湖北辞书), 崇文书局(原湖北辞书出版社), 崇文书局有限公司

Founded
1985
Country / Region
China
Notable books
Call to Arms: Centenary EditionWandering: Centenary EditionWild Grass: Centenary Edition

22 books 21 authors

About the publisher

Chongwen Publishing House is a publisher based in China that focuses on collating and disseminating classical Chinese literature, traditional philosophical texts and modern classic works, with common categories including classical literature, Eastern philosophy, classic works and prose miscellanies. Although the library contains only 12 titles, they clearly reflect the house's emphasis on literary and historical classics: centenary editions of Lu Xun's Call to Arms, Wandering, Wild Grass and Old Tales Retold, as well as collated editions of Song and Ming thought and scholarship such as The Complete Works of Wang Anshi, Classified Conversations of Zhu Xi, The Complete Works of the Two Cheng Brothers and Record of Daily Knowledge. Its author resources involve classic figures such as Lu Xun, Wang Anshi, Zhu Xi, Li Jingde, Gu Yanwu, Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi, along with contemporary editors such as Zhang Xuhui. Its publishing character lies in presenting classics through rigorous textual collation and series-based organization, balancing literature and philosophy for readers interested in traditional culture. As public information is limited, the above description is based only on the directions reflected in the library's titles.

Published (22)

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Rating 4.6
Record of Daily Knowledge Gu Yanwu Chongwen Publishing House · 2026 This is the representative work of Gu Yanwu, the famous thinker and scholar of the late Ming and early Qing. Upholding the ideal of "illuminating the …
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Tao Te Ching Laozi Chongwen Publishing House · 2026 The Tao Te Ching is traditionally attributed to Laozi in the late Spring and Autumn period and is the core classic of the Chinese Daoist school. Just …
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Michel Foucault: A Philosophical Attempt to Escape the Self Yasuyuki Shinkai Chongwen Publishing House · 2025 Michel Foucault was a French philosopher who deeply influenced twentieth-century thought. His lifelong intellectual practice not only interrogated the…
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A Brief Survey of Rare Book Catalogues of the Past Three Hundred Years 严佐之 Chongwen Publishing House · 2025 This book is one of the representative works on bibliography and textual scholarship by Yan Zuozhi, professor at the Institute of Ancient Books, East …
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Rating 4.5
Complete Works of the Two Cheng Brothers (2 Volumes) 程颢 / 程颐 / 张旭辉 Chongwen Publishing House · 2023 This edition of The Complete Works of the Two Cheng Brothers (2 volumes) is collated and punctuated on the basis of the Tu Langxuan Zongying edition f…
Call to Arms: Centenary Edition cover
Rating 4.9
Call to Arms: Centenary Edition Lu Xun Chongwen Publishing House · 2022 In August 1923, Call to Arms was first published by the Xinchao Society of Peking University, nearly a hundred years ago. The first edition of Call to…
Wandering: Centenary Edition cover
Rating 4.8
Wandering: Centenary Edition Lu Xun Chongwen Publishing House · 2022 In August 1926, Panghuang (Wandering) was first published by Beixin Book Company in Beijing, nearly a hundred years ago. The first edition of Wanderin…
Wild Grass: Centenary Edition cover
Rating 4.8
Wild Grass: Centenary Edition Lu Xun Chongwen Publishing House · 2022 In July 1927, Wild Grass was first published by Beixin Book Company, nearly a century ago. The first edition of Wild Grass was edited and finalized by…
Old Tales Retold: Centenary Edition cover
Rating 4.7
Old Tales Retold: Centenary Edition Lu Xun Chongwen Publishing House · 2022 In January 1936, *Old Tales Retold* was first published by Shanghai Culture and Life Press, nearly a century ago. The first edition of *Old Tales Reto…
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Rating 4.5
Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dusk: Centenary Edition Lu Xun Chongwen Publishing House · 2022 In September 1928, *Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dusk* was first published by Weiming Press in Beijing, nearly a century ago. The first edition of *Dawn B…
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Rating 4.7
The Complete Works of Wang Anshi (6 Volumes) Wang Anshi Chongwen Publishing House · 2021 Wang Anshi was a renowned statesman, man of letters, and thinker of the Northern Song dynasty and of Chinese history at large. He delved deeply into c…
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Rating 4.7
Classified Conversations of Master Zhu (8 Volumes) Zhu Xi / 黎靖德 Chongwen Publishing House · 2021 This book is a topical compilation of Zhu Xi's recorded conversations with his disciples from after his fortieth year. No study of Confucianism can av…
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Rating 4.5
Excerpts from the Extensive Records of the Taiping Era (4 Volumes) Feng Menglong Chongwen Publishing House · 2021 Taiping Guangji is one of the large encyclopedic compilations made in the early Northern Song. In five hundred volumes with a ten-volume table of cont…
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Rating 4.5
Classified Anthology of Ancient Prose (Two Volumes) 姚鼐 Chongwen Publishing House · 2021 Compiled by Yao Nai of the Qing dynasty, Guwen Ci Lei Zuan is a comprehensive anthology of classical Chinese prose that embodies the literary principl…
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Rating 3.6
Genius Doctor (By Chapter) 柳下挥 Chongwen Publishing House · 2021 So you command vast wealth and supreme power—so what? I hold your life in my hands. Qin Luo, born into an old family of traditional Chinese medicine, …
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Rating 4.3
History of Chinese Ethics Cai Yuanpei Chongwen Publishing House · 2020 In modern China, amid the eastward spread of Western learning and the tide of Chinese-Western cultural exchange, Cai Yuanpei assessed the situation, a…
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Dominating the World Online Shi Luoye Chongwen Publishing House · 2015 Dominating the World Online is a long online-game competitive novel by web author Shi Luoye, following his earlier work The Pirated Myth of Online Gam…
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My Wife Is a Princess Chulian Cuican Ru Xiahua Chongwen Publishing House · 2015 During a cosplay event, young Li Luyou meets Annanxiu, a little girl who fell to Earth from another world. This self-styled "Her Royal Highness," a sp…
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The Genius Doctor 柳下挥 Chongwen Publishing House · 2015 The Genius Doctor is a long urban novel by web author Liu Xia Hui, serialized on Qidian.com from April 2010 and completed in September 2012; a print e…
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The Complete Works of Meng Haoran 孟浩然 / Ke Baocheng Chongwen Publishing House · 2013 The Complete Works of Meng Haoran (full title: The Complete Works of Meng Haoran: Collected Collations, Annotations, and Commentary) is compiled by Ke…

Frequent authors

Lu Xun (5)柳下挥 (2)严佐之 (1)Feng Menglong (1)Chulian Cuican Ru Xiahua (1)包诚 (1)Xia Sheng (1)Shi Luoye (1)姚鼐 (1)孟浩然 (1)张旭辉 (1)Yasuyuki Shinkai (1)