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Bashu Publishing House

Also known as: 巴蜀, 四川出版集团巴蜀书社

Founded
1983
Country / Region
China
Notable books
Preface to the Orchid Pavilion CollectionDream of the Red ChamberThe Record of Learning

1100 books 241 authors

About the publisher

Bashu Publishing House is a publisher centered on collating and publishing classical Chinese cultural texts, with its main publishing areas covering classical literature, Eastern philosophy, ancient poetry, and educational classics. Its library currently holds 1,075 titles, including representative works such as Dream of the Red Chamber, the Preface to the Orchid Pavilion Gathering, Renjian Cihua, and Out to the Frontier, involving authors such as Cao Xueqin, Wang Xizhi, Wang Guowei, Wang Changling, Liu Xie, and Yan Yu. These reflect the publisher's focus on literary classics, poetry criticism, and philosophical readings. Its publishing character lies in working around ancient texts and canonical works, with attention to textual collation and presentation. Public information on its more detailed publishing background and series plans is limited; this introduction is based only on the library's book information.

Published (1100)

We Misunderstood This World cover
Rating 4.0
We Misunderstood This World 济群 / Zhou Guoping Bashu Publishing House · 2026 In our time, material life has grown richer than ever, yet the quality of life has declined rather than improved. We are driven by the pace of the age…
Canglang's Remarks on Poetry cover
Rating 4.8
Canglang's Remarks on Poetry 严羽 Bashu Publishing House · 2025 Canglang Shihua (Canglang's Discourses on Poetry) is a work of poetic theory by Yan Yu of the Southern Song dynasty. Using Chan Buddhism as an analogy…
The First Half of My Life (Complete 2 Volumes) cover
Rating 4.4
The First Half of My Life (Complete 2 Volumes) 爱新觉罗·溥仪 Bashu Publishing House · 2025 【The unabridged memoirs of the last emperor, a faithful reflection of a turning point in modern Chinese history.】 From Emperor to Citizen is the memoi…
Cultivation Methods of the Inner Secret Instructions of the Purple Court cover
Rating 3.2
Cultivation Methods of the Inner Secret Instructions of the Purple Court Anonymous Bashu Publishing House · 2025 A Daoist cultivation text dating roughly to the Northern and Southern Dynasties, integrating the arts of visualization (cunsī) and breath refinement. …
Flowers in the Mirror (Illustrated Edition · Full-Color Collector's Edition · Complete Text with Full Annotations and Collected Commentary) cover
Flowers in the Mirror (Illustrated Edition · Full-Color Collector's Edition · Complete Text with Full Annotations and Collected Commentary) Li Ruzhen Bashu Publishing House · 2025 Flowers in the Mirror is a full-length vernacular novel in one hundred chapters by the Qing dynasty literatus Li Ruzhen. The first half recounts how, …
Preface to the Orchid Pavilion Collection cover
Rating 5.0
Preface to the Orchid Pavilion Collection Wang Xizhi Bashu Publishing House · 2024 The Preface to the Orchid Pavilion Collection, also titled Preface at the Riverside Pavilion, the Purification Gathering Manuscript, or the Third Day …
Dream of the Red Chamber cover
Rating 5.0
Dream of the Red Chamber Cao Xueqin Bashu Publishing House · 2024 One of the four great classical novels of Chinese literature
Odes of Bei cover
Rating 4.9
Odes of Bei Anonymous Bashu Publishing House · 2024 Drifting is that cypress boat, Drifting on its way. Sleepless I lie, restless, As if with hidden grief. Not that I have no wine, To roam and ease my h…
Poetic Remarks in the Human World cover
Rating 4.9
Poetic Remarks in the Human World Wang Guowei Bashu Publishing House · 2024 A work of literary criticism by Wang Guowei. Having absorbed Western aesthetic thought, the author offers a fresh critique of classical Chinese litera…
The Record of Learning cover
Rating 4.9
The Record of Learning 乐正克 Bashu Publishing House · 2024 A chapter in the Records of Ritual (the Lesser Dai Records of Ritual), a monograph on ancient Han Chinese institutions and ceremonial regulations, wri…
Going Out to the Frontier cover
Rating 4.9
Going Out to the Frontier 王昌龄 Bashu Publishing House · 2024 With vigorous strokes the poet gives a highly artistic summation of frontier war life, tightly weaving landscape, narrative, lyricism, and commentary …
The Use of Spies cover
Rating 4.9
The Use of Spies Anonymous Bashu Publishing House · 2024 Sun Tzu said: In general, when raising an army of one hundred thousand and marching a thousand li, the expenses of the common people and the outlays o…
Prayers and Oaths cover
Rating 4.8
Prayers and Oaths Liu Xie Bashu Publishing House · 2024 "Zhu Meng" is the tenth chapter of The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons. This chapter focuses on zhu texts (invocations) while also discussing…
Airs I: Zhou Nan cover
Rating 4.8
Airs I: Zhou Nan Anonymous Bashu Publishing House · 2024 The Book of Songs is the first anthology of poetry in the history of Chinese literature. It exerted a profound influence on the development of later p…
Chapter on Shape cover
Rating 4.8
Chapter on Shape Anonymous Bashu Publishing House · 2024 Military Formation (Xing) is the fourth chapter of The Art of War. It discusses factors that are objective, stable, and readily observable, such as th…
The Complete Works of Meng Haoran cover
Rating 4.8
The Complete Works of Meng Haoran 孟浩然 Bashu Publishing House · 2024 The Complete Works of Meng Haoran: Collated, Annotated, and with Collected Commentary brings together all of Meng Haoran's poems, including supplement…
Waging War cover
Rating 4.8
Waging War Anonymous Bashu Publishing House · 2024 Campaign Planning is the second of the thirteen chapters of The Art of War. It discusses war mobilization after the temple calculations and obtaining …
Canglang's Remarks on Poetry cover
Rating 4.8
Canglang's Remarks on Poetry 严羽 Bashu Publishing House · 2024 "Canglang Shihua" (Canglang's Remarks on Poetry) is a work of ancient Chinese poetic theory and aesthetics by Yan Yu, written approximately between th…
Antony and Cleopatra cover
Rating 4.8
Antony and Cleopatra William Shakespeare Bashu Publishing House · 2024 Antony and Cleopatra is a Roman tragedy written by Shakespeare around 1607, drawing on Plutarch's Parallel Lives.
Othello cover
Rating 4.8
Othello William Shakespeare Bashu Publishing House · 2024 Othello is one of Shakespeare's four great tragedies, written around 1603. The play was first performed on November 1, 1604, at Whitehall Palace in Lo…

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