Kaiming Press
- Founded
- 1988
- Country / Region
- China
- Notable books
- 1984: A Generation's Stern Conscience, a Terrifying Prophecy That Transcends Its Time!Of Human BondageFu Lei's Family Letters
About the publisher
Kaiming Press specializes in educational and cultural books, balancing Chinese and foreign literary classics with language education. Its catalogue places notable emphasis on translated foreign literature, including George Orwell's 1984, W. Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage, Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Stefan Zweig's Decisive Moments in History and Ryūnosuke Akutagawa's Rashōmon, often in established or complete unabridged translations. In language education, it offers different editions of Wenxin, co-authored by Xia Mianzun and Ye Shengtao, alongside essay collections such as Fu Lei's Family Letters. Its common categories cover foreign literature, classic works, essays, language and writing, examinations and literary appreciation, reflecting a direction that values both classic reading and Chinese language learning. Public information is limited; the above is drawn only from the books in the database.
A Thousand Questions to Pass: 1000 Intensive Exercises in English Reading and Cloze for the College Entrance Examination
Kaiming Press · 2023
This book is a targeted exam-preparation volume for the reading comprehension and cloze sections of the Chinese college entrance examination (Gaokao).…
1000 Intensive Exercises in English Reading and Cloze
Kaiming Press · 2023
With 1,000 questions for high school English reading and cloze, this book is organized into 25 weeks of practice, each week containing 1 cloze passage…
When the Stars of the Great Song Shone (A Misunderstood Great Dynasty) (Volumes 1 & 2)
Kaiming Press · 2023
When the Stars of the Great Song Shone is a collective portrait of historical figures centered on the Northern Song, organized into volumes by imperia…
Rashomon
Kaiming Press · 2022
Rashomon portrays a dismissed servant and an old woman robber. Confronted with a stark choice between life and death, they each come to feel that surv…
The Heart of Writing: A Refreshingly New Chinese Language Course (2021 Edition)
Kaiming Press · 2021
Knowledge is dry; stories are engaging. Weaving knowledge deftly into engaging stories so that readers absorb a great deal while reading is surely the…
Talks on Essays with Examples: What Exactly Makes a Good Essay Good (2021 Edition)
Kaiming Press · 2021
This book, compiled by Mr. Ye Shengtao to guide young people in appreciating literature, selects twenty-seven works by celebrated authors. Each entry …
Seventy-Two Writing Lessons: Xia Mianzun and Ye Shengtao Teach You to Write (2021 Edition)
Kaiming Press · 2021
This book is a guide to composition co-authored by Xia Mianzun and Ye Shengtao. Its chapters are selected from the 180 Lessons in Chinese Language the…
Cultivation in Writing (2021 Edition)
Kaiming Press · 2021
First published in the 1930s and reissued by Kaiming Press in 2021, Tang Tao's *The Cultivation of Writing* is a classic guide to composition by a sch…
Informal Talks on Composition (2021 Edition)
Kaiming Press · 2021
On Essay Writing is a book about how to write by Mr. Zhang Zhongxing, a veteran who spent more than half a century working with the Chinese language a…
Methods of Writing: Writing Well Takes Just These Steps (2021 Edition)
Kaiming Press · 2021
First published by Kaiming Book Company in 1922, this book grew out of Xia Mianzun's lecture notes at Changsha First Normal School and Chunhui Middle …
Loving Reading and Seeking Deep Understanding: Ye Shengtao on Reading (2021 Edition)
Kaiming Press · 2021
This book is a work by Mr. Ye Shengtao on how to read, titled in full Good at Reading and Seeking Deep Understanding: Ye Shengtao on Reading. The book…
Falling Flowers on the Water Are All Writing: Ye Shengtao on Writing (2021 Edition)
Kaiming Press · 2021
This book is Mr. Ye Shengtao's guide to how to write, full title Falling Flowers on the Water Are All Essays: Ye Shengtao on Writing. The book is divi…
How to Read a Book: A Good Method Matters More Than Effort (2021 Edition)
Kaiming Press · 2021
This book is a combined edition of How to Do Close Reading and How to Do Extensive Reading, two guidebooks for secondary-school Chinese language teach…
Basic Skills in Composition: How to Write Vividly and Interestingly (2021 Edition)
Kaiming Press · 2021
Originally published as An Outline of Rhetoric, this book is by Zhang Zhigong, a renowned Chinese linguist and educator. It is divided into four chapt…
1984: A Generation's Stern Conscience, a Terrifying Prophecy That Transcends Its Time!
Kaiming Press · 2020
1984 is an outstanding dystopian and anti-totalitarian political satire. It offers a bold and brilliant analysis of dictatorship, terrifying totalitar…
Of Human Bondage
Kaiming Press · 2020
Your fate is in your hands. The protagonist, Philip, should have been a rich second-generation heir, but he was born with a clubfoot and lost his pare…
When the Stars of Humanity Shine: A Renowned Master's Complete Translation of a Classic, Directly from German, Unabridged Definitive Edition
Kaiming Press · 2020
A fugitive bandit with the blood of a hero; a strange, forgotten little door that brought down a thousand-year empire; a loyal major general's one-min…
Pride and Prejudice
Kaiming Press · 2020
Pride and Prejudice is the representative work of British woman writer Jane Austen and one of her most popular novels, having been adapted into films …
The Painted Veil
Kaiming Press · 2020
Unabridged full text. Maugham's penetrating study of human nature. The collector's edition from Maugham's former residence. A Douban top-rated book. A…
Let Life Be Beautiful Like Summer Flowers: Selected Classic Poems of Tagore
Kaiming Press · 2020
Stray Birds: Selected Poems of Tagore gathers five classic representative works by Tagore: The Crescent Moon, Stray Birds, The Gardener, Fireflies, an…
Frequent authors
Ye Shengtao (12)Xia Mianzun (6)陈望北 (4)分析师Boden (2)埃里克·伯恩 (2)New Oriental Exam Research Center (2)Lin Huiyin (2)Liang Sicheng (2)W. Somerset Maugham (2)田媛 (2)Jane Austen (2)鲁道夫·德雷克斯 (2)