Contemporary World Press
Also known as: 当代世界出版, 当代世界, 理想国丨当代世界出版社, 当代世界出版社有限公司
- Founded
- 1993
- Country / Region
- China
- Notable books
- RashomonChina's Struggle: 1600–2000The Arabs' Dream Palace: Nationalism, Secularization, and the Predicament of the Modern Middle East
About the publisher
Contemporary World Press focuses on social science books, with international politics, world political parties, and the politics, economy, military affairs, historical events and biographies of various countries as its publishing priorities; it also publishes the monthly journal Contemporary World. Judging from the 127 titles in the database, foreign literature, world history, history readers and Eastern philosophy are also visible publishing areas. Ryūnosuke Akutagawa's Rashōmon, Xu Zhongyue's The Struggle for China: 1600–2000 and the Asia Trilogy represent its editorial orientation, while works by Guo Jianlong, Sheng Xunchang and Mao Jiaqi reflect a sustained interest in Asian history and culture and modern biographical subjects. Public information on the press's fuller publishing profile is limited.
Zhu Di, Founder of the Ming Dynasty: The Realm · Yongle (2 Volumes)
Contemporary World Press · 2022
This book aims to present to readers the sixty-four-year life of Zhu Di—a dominant ruler and master of power politics—in all its intrigue and legendar…
Zhu Di, Founder of the Ming Dynasty: The Realm
Contemporary World Press · 2022
The first volume, *Jiangshan* (*The Realm*), traces Zhu Di's journey of personal growth and his ingenious, tortuous, tense, and thrilling power strugg…
One-Way Street
Contemporary World Press · 2022
One-Way Street, originally Einbahnstraße, is one of the representative works of the German thinker Walter Benjamin, written in the mid-1920s. It consi…
The Complete Book of Wolf-Nature Rules
Contemporary World Press · 2021
This book covers: from wolf-like survival to human competition, human blood-red struggle and wolfish bloodshed, the wildness of wolves and the taming …
Chinese Culture Open Class: Sixteen Lectures on Chinese Zodiac Culture
Contemporary World Press · 2021
The Chinese linked humans with twelve animals, projecting their understanding of the world and life onto them，hence the zodiac culture. Zodiac culture…
Chinese Culture Open Class: Thirteen Lectures on Food Culture
Contemporary World Press · 2021
Food culture is a cultural phenomenon that emerged over the course of human social and cultural development, encompassing human needs, production, and…
Chinese Culture Open Class: Five Lectures on the History of Philosophy
Contemporary World Press · 2021
The place of philosophy in Chinese culture has always been comparable to the place of religion in other cultures. In China, philosophy concerns everyo…
Chinese Culture Open Class: Nine Lectures on the History of Literature
Contemporary World Press · 2021
Chinese literature is the crystallization of the wisdom and creativity of the Chinese nation, and it possesses tremendous vitality and continuity with…
Guiguzi's Vertical and Horizontal Wisdom and Stories
Contemporary World Press · 2020
This book covers the wondrous wisdom and stories of the Zhouyi, the strategic wisdom and stories of Jiang Ziya, the vertical and horizontal wisdom and…
The Allure of Cities (12-Volume Set)
Contemporary World Press · 2020
The Allure of Cities is a twelve-volume cultural reader devoted to China's old cities, with each volume covering one of twelve cities: Beijing, Shangh…
Let's Open a Shop: Learn to Open a Coffee Shop, Milk Tea Shop and Dessert Shop in 72 Hours
Contemporary World Press · 2019
Drawing on the current landscape and trends of China's beverage industry, this book uses small boutique shops suited to young investors as its entry p…
Grant Me a Beautiful Little House
Contemporary World Press · 2019
I wrote this book, on the one hand, to use my clumsy words to present a little earthly paradise within the city, and to share this leisurely and tranq…
Strategies of the Golden Branch: Princesses Who Influenced Chinese History
Contemporary World Press · 2019
The princesses of successive dynasties, by virtue of their special status, connections, and resources, inevitably became a social or political force—g…
Zhu Yuanzhang: Emperor from Common Cloth
Contemporary World Press · 2019
Zhu Yuanzhang: Emperor from Common Cloth is a popular history of the Ming by the online writer Qingfeng Mingyue, also known as Ming History Made Easy,…
Left-Brain Right-Brain Selling
Contemporary World Press · 2018
Left-Brain Right-Brain Selling is Yang Sen's book on sales method, drawn from his own experience rising from salesperson to sales director to general …
Wu Zetian's Wisdom of Control and Maxims
Contemporary World Press · 2017
Wu Zetian was the only female emperor in Chinese history, the oldest to ascend the throne (at 67), and one of the longest-lived (dying at 82). She was…
Bao Zheng's Judicial Wisdom and Stories
Contemporary World Press · 2017
According to historical records, comic books in the true sense should have emerged during the Ming and Qing dynasties, when Chinese chapter novels wer…
Listening to Economists Tell Stories
Contemporary World Press · 2017
Not a clue about economics? No problem. Listen to Economists Tell Stories is genuinely there for you. No idea about management? No problem. Listen to …
Fine Books in Social Sciences: Chinese-Style Wisdom
Contemporary World Press · 2017
This book draws on the past to serve the present, combining ancient and modern to expound 16 major aspects of Chinese wisdom, which have value in pers…
The Runner Speaks
Contemporary World Press · 2017
“Many of my methods for writing novels were learned each morning while running along the road—learned naturally, firsthand, and in a practical way. I …
Frequent authors
Wang Mingzhe (13)李世化 (11)郭继承 (7)刘亚玲 (5)刘啸 (5)刘飞滨 (4)岳大鹏 (4)慕小刚 (4)Guo Jianlong (4)李芙蓉 (3)桑广书 (3)燕山刀客 (3)