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)
Rating 3.9★ The Milk Craze: Body, Science and Hope 麦秀华 / 吕红丽 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2025 Bottled soy milk, British milk tea, silk-stocking milk tea, formula milk powder... How did a bewildering array of dairy products enter the daily life … Rating 3.9★ A Bao A Bao Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2025 A Bao is a Miao woman, Miao name "Baoligei," Han name Li Yuchun, born in 1968 in a poor Miao village in southeastern Guizhou. She attended school only… Rating 3.9★ The Amber Road C.J.舒勒 / 战海 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2025 The Amber Road rivals the Silk Road, which traverses the Eurasian continent, as a storied route of European history. It begins in St. Petersburg, pass… Rating 3.8★ Red Earth 夏佑至 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2025 Chitu is a small village in the hilly region of central China. I want to write about the changes this village has undergone over the past forty years.… Rating 3.8★ A Grand History of Egypt 伯纳德·卢甘 / 吴一凡 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2025 This book is an introduction to Egyptian history. In lucid, concise prose it offers a brief overview of Egypt's vast sweep of history. Drawing togethe… Rating 3.8★ Unfinished Joy: Social Prescription Notes of Wei and Jin Literati 董铁柱 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2025 In the long river of history, the Wei and Jin period shines like a singular star with a distinctive light. Unfinished Joy: A Social Prescription from … Rating 3.8★ The Elegance of Poetry and Wine: Composing Splendid Chapters 葛景春 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2025 This book explores the poetry-and-wine culture of Tang-dynasty poets. For ancient literati, wine went with poetry: without poetry, wine lost its elega… Rating 3.8★ Living with Grief 李昀鋆 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2025 Living with Grief focuses on a vast group long overlooked by mainstream voices—young adults who lost parents early in life. Drawing on 13 months of fi… Rating 3.8★ The Chu Tomb 史杰鹏 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2025 Young scholar Fang Zijiao accidentally obtains a wooden figurine unearthed from a tomb of the Warring States period. He discovers that the figurine co… Rating 3.8★ The First Connection: How Love Shapes the Infant Brain 苏·格哈特 / 王燕 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2025 A classic of scientific parenting, a bestseller in Europe for over two decades, this book draws on empirical research in brain science, psychology, ge… Rating 3.7★ Habitus 多丽丝·马丁 / 刘于怡 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2025 Do you long to break free from class constraints? Do you want the next generation to live freer and achieve more than you? In Habitus, German social o… Rating 3.7★ The Power of Hope: The Struggles and Future of America's Disadvantaged Youth 卡罗尔·格雷厄姆 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2025 This book is an empirical study of "hope" by American economist and Brookings Institution senior fellow Carol Graham, translated into Chinese by Qi Ha… Rating 3.7★ Reading as Well Ge Jianxiong Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2025 This book collects over seventy essays of various kinds by Ge Jianxiong, a renowned scholar, historical geographer, and professor at Fudan University.… Rating 3.6★ Rambling Notes on Stamps, Volume I: Famous Literary Works and Opera 谭夏阳 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2025 A stamp, as a medium of communication and a carrier of content, can in a sense be said to embody traditional Chinese culture. Behind every stamp—from … Rating 3.6★ Strange Tales 6: Eclipsed Moon, Dark Cocoon Yang Xingche Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2025 This is the sixth installment in the Vernacular Records series, the representative work of celebrated novelist Yang Xingche. The second season compris… Rating 3.6★ Think Like Freud 丹尼尔·史密斯 / 韩竺媛 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2025 Sigmund Freud was not only a famous psychiatrist and psychologist, but also a thinker whose influence on modern culture runs deep. His research redefi… Rating 3.6★ If Plato Had a Podcast 马克·弗农 / 谢章义 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2025 What would the great philosopher Plato broadcast if he had a podcast of his own? This is an enlightening philosophy book that sharpens your thinking a… Rating 3.6★ Traveling Through Five Thousand Years of Peru 王甲红 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2025 Few countries would place statues of genocidal colonizers and of the liberators who drove independence in the same city, or have a square flanked on o… Rating 3.5★ Love on Paper: Parents' Love in Love Letters 张冲波 / 骆淑景 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2025 Paper Love: My Parents' Romance in Letters is a work of nonfiction chronicling the sincere yet quietly romantic love story of the older generation. In… Rating 3.5★ Rambling Notes on Stamps, Volume II 谭夏阳 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2025 Stamps are, in a sense, a medium of communication and a vessel of content that carries traditional Chinese culture. Behind every stamp—from theme sele…Frequent authors
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