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

328 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 (328)

Trapped in a Dead End: The Anguish of the "Infinite Competition Society" cover
Rating 4.0
Trapped in a Dead End: The Anguish of the "Infinite Competition Society" 金敬哲 / 艾同立 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2026 South Korea's neoliberal policies have plunged every generation into extreme burnout and competition: under a brutal exam-elimination system, schoolch…
Collected Works of Ge Jianxiong (VII): Cold Eyes, Warm Words cover
Rating 4.0
Collected Works of Ge Jianxiong (VII): Cold Eyes, Warm Words Ge Jianxiong Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2026 The seventh volume of the Collected Works of Ge Jianxiong consists of two parts, Lengyan Reyen (Cold Eye, Warm Words) and Lengyan Reyen Xubian (Cold E…
The Marketing Plan Bible (2 Volumes) cover
Rating 4.0
The Marketing Plan Bible (2 Volumes) 艾伦·迪布 / 罗伯特·布莱 / Yi Wenbo / 曹烨 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2026 This set includes two books: The One-Page Marketing Plan That Closes the Deal and The Full-Process Marketing Plan Execution Handbook. The One-Page Ma…
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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…
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…
Are You Really Smarter Than a Chimpanzee? Tracking the Unusual Behavior and Psychology of Highly Intelligent Animals cover
Rating 3.9
Are You Really Smarter Than a Chimpanzee? Tracking the Unusual Behavior and Psychology of Highly Intelligent Animals 本·安布里奇 / 黄青萍 / 于夙凤 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2026 All animals share a common origin—so what makes humans special? ★Do Serbs and Britons show a strong "pecking order" tendency? ★In visual and numerical…
Collected Works of Ge Jianxiong, Vol. IV: North, South, East and West cover
Rating 3.9
Collected Works of Ge Jianxiong, Vol. IV: North, South, East and West Ge Jianxiong Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2026 This volume includes Ge Jianxiong's 'Arctic Diary,' published here for the first time, along with revised editions of 'At the Edge of Heaven and Earth…
Collected Works of Ge Jianxiong, Vol. VI: Traces of History cover
Rating 3.9
Collected Works of Ge Jianxiong, Vol. VI: Traces of History Ge Jianxiong Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2026 Volume VI of the collected works of the contemporary historian Ge Jianxiong gathers his reflections on more than two thousand years of history, from t…
All Rivers Converge: Lectures by International Masters of World Environmental History cover
Rating 3.9
All Rivers Converge: Lectures by International Masters of World Environmental History 费晟 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2026 This volume collects the transcripts of 29 lecture series by environmental history experts from China and abroad. Spanning land and sea, the Arctic an…
Why We Are Obsessed with the Real cover
Rating 3.9
Why We Are Obsessed with the Real 埃米莉·布特尔 / 马雅 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2026 Authenticity is one of the most powerful rallying cries in contemporary culture. But does “being yourself” really mean freedom? From the perspective o…
Inventing Chinese Poetry: The Translation and Spread of Classical Chinese Poetry in the West cover
Rating 3.9
Inventing Chinese Poetry: The Translation and Spread of Classical Chinese Poetry in the West 谭夏阳 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2026 This book takes readers on a fascinating cultural journey across the long history of East–West exchange, showing how classical Chinese poetry shone li…
12 Weeks to Fly Like Jordan (The Super Strong Closed-Door Training Plan from the Personal Trainer to Jordan and Kobe: Rapidly Build an NBA Athlete's Physique) cover
Rating 3.9
12 Weeks to Fly Like Jordan (The Super Strong Closed-Door Training Plan from the Personal Trainer to Jordan and Kobe: Rapidly Build an NBA Athlete's Physique) 蒂姆·S.格罗弗 / 易伊 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2026 This is the strength and conditioning program that legions of basketball fans and professional athletes have been waiting for. Today, Tim Grover—Micha…
Chinese Collectibles You Don't Know About cover
Rating 3.8
Chinese Collectibles You Don't Know About 冯玮瑜 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2026 In this book, Feng Weiyu faithfully recreates 34 auctions at the world's top auction houses—Sotheby's, Christie's, and China Guardian—the echo of the …
Moving Forward with Resilience cover
Rating 3.8
Moving Forward with Resilience Yu Minhong Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2026 Yu Minhong's major new book for 2026: a personal account of setting out in business once more. Life's setbacks may be the best opportunity heaven give…
A Year at Cambridge: An Autoethnography of Love and Embrace cover
Rating 3.7
A Year at Cambridge: An Autoethnography of Love and Embrace 邱不苑 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2026 A Year at Cambridge: An Autoethnography of Love and Embrace is a work of nonfiction about elite education and women's emotional growth. It begins with…
Historical Facts and Historical Insight: A Glimpse into Research on Historical Materials of Modern Chinese Literature cover
Rating 3.6
Historical Facts and Historical Insight: A Glimpse into Research on Historical Materials of Modern Chinese Literature 梨保荣 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2026 This book explores the study of historical materials in modern Chinese literature from three aspects: textual research, identification of errors, and …
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Rating 3.5
Maximize Profits Charles Koch / 刘寅龙 / MBM®顾问组 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2026 In 1961, Charles Koch joined Koch Industries, the company his father had founded, then valued at just $21 million. Today, Koch Industries is worth abo…
Financial Superhubs: The Operating Philosophy of Connections, Wealth, and Power in the Financial World cover
Rating 3.5
Financial Superhubs: The Operating Philosophy of Connections, Wealth, and Power in the Financial World 桑德拉·纳薇蒂 / 潘丽君 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2026 Today the world's most influential organizations are not governments but financial institutions. The financial industry holds a supreme position in so…
Gazetteer of the Eight Sufferings Temple cover
Rating 3.4
Gazetteer of the Eight Sufferings Temple 玲珑 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2026 Some are human, some are demons; some are pure, some are defiled. They are the revelers drunk on the red dust, and the boatmen rowing through the sea …
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Rating 3.2
The Earth After Rain 缪睫 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2026 In this work of nonfiction, Zhong Min and the author Miao Jie—both once cogs in the urban grind—are doers who act on their convictions. One after anot…

Frequent authors

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