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 3.5★ Rambling Notes on Stamps (Complete in Three Volumes) 谭夏阳 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2025 Stamps, as a medium of communication and a carrier of content, in a sense bear Chinese traditional culture. Behind each stamp set—from topic selection… 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★ The Golden Age of the Tang Dynasty 黄中业 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2025 This book recounts the course of society moving from postwar devastation to prosperity over more than two hundred years, from the great chaos at the e… Rating 3.2★ Li Shimin: Emperor of a Prosperous Age 石云涛 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2025 He helped his father raise an army, laying a solid foundation for the establishment of the Tang Dynasty; he launched the Xuanwu Gate Incident and smoo… Rating 3.0★ Breaking the Trap 邰治冶 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2025 Set against the backdrop of real estate and built around the ever-relevant topic of "the house," Breaking Free paints a panorama of ordinary lives. It… The Eunuchs of the Ottoman Empire: From African Slaves to Power Brokers Jane Hathaway Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2025 This book is a representative monograph by Jane Hathaway, professor of history at Ohio State University and an expert on the Ottoman Empire, and the f… From Liu Bang to Wang Mang: Reform and Regression Across the Ages 谌旭彬 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2025 Following The Two-Thousand-Year Legacy of Qin Institutions, historian Chen Xubin turns to the Western Han in this new study, retelling the repeated sh… Nature Writing Trilogy: Silent Spring, A Sand County Almanac, Walden Henry David Thoreau / 奥尔多·利奥波德 / 蕾切尔·卡逊 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2025 The Nature Writing Trilogy gathers three foundational works of American nature writing and ecological thought, opening for readers a path of ideas tha… Reading, Too Ge Jianxiong Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2025 Reading, Too is a collection of essays personally selected by Ge Jianxiong, a senior distinguished professor at Fudan University and a historical geog… Living with Grief: Young Adults Who Have Lost a Parent 李昀鋆 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2025 This book focuses on a group long overlooked by mainstream voices: young people who lost a parent during adolescence or early adulthood. The author, L… Melons Growing from One Stem: The Emperor and His Subjects in the Ming Dynasty 施珊珊 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2025 In the summer of the fifth year of the Hongwu reign (1372), Zhang Guan, a melon grower from Jurong County in Yingtian Prefecture, carried a pair of me… Milk Wave: Body, Science, and Hope 麦秀华 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2025 Bottled soy milk, English-style milk tea, silk-stocking milk tea, formula powder... how exactly did these various dairy products enter the daily lives… A Tale of Two Melons: Emperor and Subject in Ming China 施珊珊 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2025 In the summer of the fifth year of the Hongwu reign (1372), Zhang Guan, a melon grower in Jurong County, cultivated a pair of melons joined on a singl… Habitus: You Can't Change Where You Come From, but You Can Remake Yourself 多丽丝·马丁 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2025 Have you ever felt out of place in a certain setting? Do you keep striving yet always feel that something is missing? The German writer and social obs… Rating 4.7★ The Republic Plato / 丁伟 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2024 Considered the most outstanding and popular philosophical work, required reading in philosophy courses in any country, regarded as the foundational te… Rating 4.6★ Three Words and Two Slaps (Complete 5 Volumes) Feng Menglong / Ling Mengchu Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2024 "Sanyan Erpai" is the collective name for Yushi Mingyan, Jingshi Tongyan, Xingshi Hengyan, Chuke Paian Jingqi, and Erke Paian Jingqi. The "Sanyan" wer… Rating 4.6★ The Winter of Literature: 1933, Artists Under Hitler's Rule 乌维·维特施托克 / 陈早 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2024 In February 1933, the will to poetry collapsed before political fanaticism. No sooner had Hitler taken office as German chancellor than he launched a … Rating 4.5★ The Doctor Who Fooled the World 布莱恩·迪尔 / 林晓钦 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2024 This book chronicles the full story of how Andrew Wakefield, a British doctor dubbed the "father of the anti-vaccine movement," committed scientific f… Rating 4.5★ The Complete Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece Gustav Schwab / 高中甫 / 关惠文 / 高翚 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2024 The Complete Greek Myths and Legends, a hardcover collector's edition with sprayed edges, brings together the full texts of The Myths of the Gods, The… Rating 4.5★ Queen of the Sea: A History of Lisbon Barry Hatton Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2024 Lisbon is the capital of Portugal and one of Europe's oldest cities, with a history of settlement dating back two thousand years. It sits at the mouth…Frequent authors
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