Guangdong People's Publishing House

Also known as: 廣東人民出版社, 广东省出版集团广东人民出版社, 广东人民出版社有限公司

Founded
1951
Country / Region
China
Notable books
Love on Paper: Parents' Love in LettersRecords of Instruction and PracticeThe Republic

327 books 418 authors

About the publisher

Guangdong People's Publishing House is a comprehensive publisher whose list spans Eastern philosophy, philosophical works, history, foreign literature, documentary literature and classical literature. Its holdings include 255 titles, with representative books such as Wang Yangming's Instructions for Practical Living, Plato's Republic, Jiang Tingfu's Modern Chinese History, Natsume Soseki's I Am a Cat, Albert Camus's The Stranger, Nazi Germany and the Philosophers: A Man's Exile, The Winter of Literature: Artists under Hitler's Rule in 1933, and the five-volume Three Words and Two Slaps. Its authors and translators include Wang Yangming, Plato, Jiang Tingfu, Natsume Soseki, Albert Camus, Ding Wei, Xu Jianxiong and Li Yumin. The publisher balances philosophical classics, historical works and translated foreign literature, with attention to both classical and documentary literature. Public information is limited, so this introduction focuses on the publishing directions reflected in its catalog.

Published (327)

The Stranger (New Edition) cover
Rating 4.6
The Stranger (New Edition) Albert Camus / Li Yumin Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2026 The Stranger is the novel that made Albert Camus famous, a masterpiece of existentialist literature, and a defining work of the absurd. It tells of an…
I Am a Cat cover
Rating 4.6
I Am a Cat Natsume Sōseki / 徐建雄 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2026 I Am a Cat is Natsume Sōseki's masterpiece. Through the eyes of a cat, the novel observes and comments on the daily life of its master Kushami, a midd…
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Rating 4.5
No Longer Human Osamu Dazai / Cao Jieping Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2026 No Longer Human is an influential novel by the Japanese novelist Osamu Dazai, published in 1948. It is an autobiographical novel—a delicate autobiogra…
Seven Faces of the Great Ming Dynasty cover
Rating 4.5
Seven Faces of the Great Ming Dynasty Zhang Hongjie Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2026 Through a literary lens, Seven Faces of the Ming Dynasty portrays seven figures in their historical and cultural contexts, probing the little-known ha…
Rashomon (New Edition) cover
Rating 4.4
Rashomon (New Edition) Ryūnosuke Akutagawa / 朱娅姣 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2026 This edition of Rashomon collects fifteen stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, including "Rashomon," "In a Grove," "Hell Screen," and "The Nose." In "Rasho…
The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind (Unabridged Translation, One-Million-Copy Commemorative Edition) cover
Rating 4.4
The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind (Unabridged Translation, One-Million-Copy Commemorative Edition) Gustave Le Bon / 亦言 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2026 A monumental work of psychology that lays bare politics, economics, and management, The Crowd is celebrated as the founding text of group psychology. …
Inferiority and Transcendence cover
Rating 4.3
Inferiority and Transcendence Alfred Adler / 曹晚红 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2026 In this work by Alfred Adler, a pioneer of human psychology, the author begins with the search for life's meaning and inspires us to understand the tr…
Sea of Learning: Mobility and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Guangzhou cover
Rating 4.3
Sea of Learning: Mobility and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Guangzhou 麦哲维 / 沈正邦 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2026 In 1825, during the Daoguang reign, Ruan Yuan founded a academy on Yuexiu Hill (then called Yuexiu Shan) north of Guangzhou city—Xuehaitang, the Hall …
Six Records of a Floating Life (Fully Translated and Annotated Edition) cover
Rating 4.3
Six Records of a Floating Life (Fully Translated and Annotated Edition) Shen Fu / 徐小泓 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2026 Six Records of a Floating Life is an autobiographical prose work written by the Qing dynasty literatus Shen Fu, in six volumes: "Records of Boudoir Pl…
Collected Works of Ge Jianxiong, Vol. 8: What Makes China cover
Rating 4.3
Collected Works of Ge Jianxiong, Vol. 8: What Makes China Ge Jianxiong Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2026 Where does China's long history begin? How did Chinese civilization take root, flourish, and endure? How did the Chinese nation multiply and develop i…
The Hundred-Year Tudor Dynasty: A Chronicle of Life in England's Golden Age, 1485-1603 cover
Rating 4.3
The Hundred-Year Tudor Dynasty: A Chronicle of Life in England's Golden Age, 1485-1603 Ruth Goodman / 杨泓 / 缪明珠 / 王淞华 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2026 Trace the origins of the "empire on which the sun never sets" and take a history experience class in the Renaissance! In 1485, Henry Tudor ended the t…
Beyond the Pamirs: Crossroads of Eurasian Civilizations cover
Rating 4.2
Beyond the Pamirs: Crossroads of Eurasian Civilizations 侯杨方 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2026 At the crossroads of Eurasian civilizations, the Congling — the ancient name for the Pamir region — has witnessed thousands of years of change. It has…
Collected Works of Ge Jianxiong, Vol. III: The Long Flowing Waters cover
Rating 4.2
Collected Works of Ge Jianxiong, Vol. III: The Long Flowing Waters Ge Jianxiong Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2026 Ge Jianxiong corrected errors in the previously published 'Biography of Tan Qixiang: The Early Years' and 'The Later Years' and enriched them with new…
IBM and the Holocaust: How America's Corporate Giant Helped Nazi Germany Achieve Genocide cover
Rating 4.2
IBM and the Holocaust: How America's Corporate Giant Helped Nazi Germany Achieve Genocide 埃德温·布莱克 / 郭楚强 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2026 Only by precisely identifying Jews could Hitler efficiently carry out asset confiscation, ghettoization, deportation, enslavement, and ultimately geno…
Biography of Zhang Yinlin cover
Rating 4.1
Biography of Zhang Yinlin 李欣荣 / 曹家齐 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2026 Zhang Yinlin (1905–1942), styled Suchi and occasionally signing himself YANCHU, was a native of Dongguan, Guangdong, and a renowned historian who made…
The Allure of Crayfish: An Ethnography from Local Brand Building to Rice-Crayfish Symbiosis cover
Rating 4.1
The Allure of Crayfish: An Ethnography from Local Brand Building to Rice-Crayfish Symbiosis 张展鸿 / Ding Ling Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2026 Recommended by Fan Ke and Zhang Jinghong. From foreign wetlands to Chinese rice paddies, a transoceanic journey in search of the flavor of crayfish! I…
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Rating 4.0
The Change in Weather 彼得·弗兰科潘 / 方宇 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2026 This book's central claim is that the natural environment—and human transformation of it—is a key, even decisive, factor in global history, not merely…
Island Genius: The Important Implications of Savant Syndrome for Cognitive Neuroscience and Human Potential cover
Rating 4.0
Island Genius: The Important Implications of Savant Syndrome for Cognitive Neuroscience and Human Potential 达罗·A.特雷费特 / 易伊 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2026 For more than fifty years, Dr. Treffert has stayed close to this group of people, meeting them and coming to know their families and their lives. ★ In…
The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru: A Forgotten Tragedy of World War II cover
Rating 4.0
The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru: A Forgotten Tragedy of World War II 托尼·班纳姆 / 陈畅涌 / 顾叙嘉 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2026 In October 1942, the Japanese freighter Lisbon Maru set sail from Hong Kong carrying nearly 2,000 British prisoners of war, bound for Japanese munitio…
Chongzhen's Seventy-Two Hours cover
Rating 4.0
Chongzhen's Seventy-Two Hours 唐元鹏 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2026 Every dynasty's fall has its own particular story. On the sixteenth day of the third month in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, when Zhu Youjian, Emp…

Frequent authors

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