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)

See You on Stage (World Book Day Exclusive Premiere) cover
Rating 2.5
See You on Stage (World Book Day Exclusive Premiere) Zhang Fan Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2026 This book is a collection of interviews focused on actors' feelings about performance. Through conversations with ten actors, it examines how actors e…
Love on Paper: Parents' Love in Letters cover
Rating 4.8
Love on Paper: Parents' Love in Letters 张冲波 / 骆淑景 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2025 Love on Paper: Parents' Love in Letters is an epistolary work of nonfiction. The authors, Zhang Chongbo and Luo Shujing, are a married couple and a hu…
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Rating 4.6
Nazis and Philosophers: A Personal History of Exile 卡尔·洛维特 / 区立远 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2025 ★ Endorsed by Chen Jiaying, Liu Qing, Leung Man-tao, and Xu Zhiyuan; with recommendations from Zhou Lian, Yu Mingfeng, Zhang Nian, and Lu Dapeng ★ A f…
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Rating 4.5
What I Have Lived For: The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell Bertrand Arthur William Russell / 靳婷婷 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2025 Bertrand Russell was a renowned philosopher and mathematician, hailed as the prophet of the century. He made achievements in many fields beyond philos…
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Rating 4.5
Cybernetics and Scientific Methodology Jin Guantao / Hua Guofan Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2025 This is an interdisciplinary popular theoretical work co-authored by Jin Guantao and Hua Guofan. In the late 1970s the manuscript circulated in hand-c…
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Rating 4.4
The Evil of Silence: Danger and Power in the City of Angels 保罗·普林格尔 / 李磊 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2025 This is a work of narrative nonfiction that combines crime, scandal at an elite university, and investigative reporting. In April 2016, Paul Pringle, …
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Rating 4.4
Silent Spring (Illustrated General Knowledge Edition) 蕾切尔·卡森 / 王晋华 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2025 Rachel Carson, a biologist and pioneer of the environmental movement, wrote Silent Spring as a classic work. With rigorous scientific rationality and …
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Rating 4.3
Rubber Empire 格雷格·米特曼 / 田泽浩 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2025 In the first half of the 20th century, the American industrial giant Firestone built a vast rubber empire in Liberia. With the tacit approval, and ind…
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Rating 4.2
Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties 大卫·德容 / 闾佳 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2025 This book reveals the true story of how five of Germany's wealthiest business families—the Quandts, the Flicks, the Finks, the Porsche-Piëchs, and the…
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Rating 4.2
Companionship as Healing: Young Child Observation from the Family to the Wider World 西莫内塔·M.G.阿达莫 / 玛格丽特·拉斯廷 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2025 This book, part of the "Gravity Book Series," is a work of both popular science and professional literature on child psychology. Originally titled You…
The Great Ritual Controversy: Emperor Jiajing's Ritual Reform and the Reshaping of Imperial Power cover
Rating 4.2
The Great Ritual Controversy: Emperor Jiajing's Ritual Reform and the Reshaping of Imperial Power 尤淑君 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2025 In the sixteenth year of the Zhengde reign (1521), Emperor Wuzong of Ming, Zhu Houzhao, died without an heir, leaving the throne vacant. Grand Secreta…
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Rating 4.2
Red Earth: The Existence and Time of a Migrant Village 夏佑至 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2025 Red Earth is a small village in the hilly heartland of central China. Its author, Xia Youzhi, was born and raised here, and from the village primary s…
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Rating 4.1
Unfinished Happiness: A Social Prescription from the Wei-Jin Scholars 董铁柱 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2025 This is a popular academic book that draws on A New Account of Tales of the World (Shishuo Xinyu) to reinterpret the famous scholars of the Wei and Ji…
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Rating 4.1
The Great Rites Controversy 尤淑君 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2025 The Zhengde Emperor died without an heir, and Zhu Houcong, the heir of the Xing princedom, succeeded to the throne as the Jiajing Emperor. The civil a…
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Rating 4.1
Bad City: Peril and Power in the City of Angels 保罗·普林格尔 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2025 In April 2016, Paul Pringle, a veteran investigative reporter at the Los Angeles Times, received a tip from a hotel employee: Carmen Puliafito, dean o…
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Rating 4.0
The Power of Hope: The Plight and Future of Underprivileged American Teenagers 卡罗尔·格雷厄姆 / 祁涵 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2025 Why is hope such an important measure of economic and social well-being? Economist Carol Graham surveyed young people in two regions—Peru and Missouri…
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Rating 4.0
Melons on the Same Vine: Emperors and Subjects in the Ming Dynasty 施珊珊 / 康海源 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2025 The political metaphor behind a pair of twin melons, decoding the power struggles between emperor and ministers, court and locality; Highly recommende…
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Rating 4.0
Companionship Is Also a Form of Healing 西莫内塔·M.G.阿达莫 / 玛格丽特·拉斯廷 / 方红 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2025 This book is compiled from observation materials produced by the Tavistock toddler observation seminar, with each chapter devoted to one child's obser…
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Rating 4.0
The War of Succession 詹姆斯·B.斯图尔特 / 蕾切尔·艾布拉姆斯 / 李磊 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2025 A work of investigative journalism co-written by two Pulitzer Prize winners—and the real-life inspiration for the hit HBO series Succession. Sumner M.…
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Rating 4.0
Forest of Laughter 游戏主人 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2025 The Forest of Laughter was compiled in the Qing dynasty by an editor who signed himself 'The Gamester' (Youxi Zhuren). It is a collection of jokes in …

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