Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House
Also known as: 文匯出版社, 文滙出版社
- Founded
- 1985
- Country / Region
- China
- Notable books
- MiddlemarchThe Grapes of WrathSnow Country
About the publisher
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House focuses on foreign literature, science fiction, and quality fiction. Its catalogue of 218 titles spans literature, mystery and detective fiction, and social novels. Representative books include Middlemarch, The Grapes of Wrath, Snow Country, and The Complete Short Stories of Arthur C. Clarke, as well as Gu Long's Happy Heroes and Remarks on Lyrics in the World. In translation, translators such as Chen Jinhui, Chen Zongchen, Huang Yuesheng, and Qin Peng work alongside authors including George Eliot, John Steinbeck, Yasunari Kawabata, and Arthur C. Clarke, giving the press a profile that balances literary classics and genre fiction. Public information on its other publishing areas is limited.
Middlemarch
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2026
Middlemarch is a fictional English country town created by the author, where beneath a calm and harmonious surface lie hidden emotional undercurrents.…
The Grapes of Wrath
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2026
“Those wandering people, driven from home, want to escape a wretched past. Yet along the way they meet with many incredible things. Some are cruel and…
A Minimalist History of the Universe
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2026
Before this interstellar journey begins, the author makes you two gentle promises: 1. Only one formula appears in the whole book: E=mc2; 2. Not a sing…
The Fear of Death and Strategies for Life
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2026
Everyone dies. How to face death is a lesson each of us must learn for life. Zygmunt Bauman, "the greatest sociologist of our time," argues that human…
Nightmare Market
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2026
This collection gathers 21 selected short stories by Stephen King; malevolent supernatural forces and moments of horror seeping into everyday life tog…
When We Are Even Lighter Than Light
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2026
If time is a river that can bend, and the universe an ever-expanding enigma, then the boundaries of self and identity can be elastic too. This is a st…
Keep Walking, Keep Walking: Love This World
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2026
This collection brings together representative essays by 22 modern and contemporary literary masters, including Shi Tiesheng, Wang Zengqi, and Xiao Ho…
My Beloved Little Wild Beast: A 17-Year Promise with Martha
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2026
This is no ordinary pet story but a record of trauma forged in blood and tears, a requiem tempered by love and pain. It teaches us to see cats anew, t…
Past Events of Chongzhen
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2026
A definitive work by Chen Wutong, a leading historian of the Ming dynasty, revealing why Emperor Chongzhen hastened the fall of the Ming—a tragedy of …
What to Do When Alzheimer's Comes to Our Home
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2026
One in three people aged 85 has Alzheimer's disease. It runs a long course, varies from person to person, cannot be cured, and is extremely difficult …
16 Laws of Communication Skills
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2026
Ever feel ignored when you speak up in meetings? Right, but no one listens? No matter what you say, they just won't budge? From John C. Maxwell, autho…
The Futurological Congress
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2025
Layers of illusion × fevered intensity × surreal disorientation Ijon Tichy attends the Eighth World Futurological Congress—and is catapulted into the …
A Bellflower
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2025
In the back alleys of the pleasure quarter on a rainy night, the balloon flower clenched in the dead hand conceals a morbid confession; in a dim room …
Everyone Loses Control of Their Emotions
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2025
Why is it that we understand all the reasoning, yet still can't control our emotions? Can emotions only create problems and never solve them? Would we…
Caligula
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2025
“People always assume that a man suffers so much because the woman he loves died overnight. In truth his suffering goes deeper: it is the discovery th…
Daydreamer
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2025
It contains 90 hugely popular records of wild "random thoughts" plus 3 short stories. Breaking convention, it uses a Shinsuke Yoshitake-style approach…
Fearless of Borders: A Journey of Escape from Afghanistan to Europe
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2025
This book tells the harrowing journey of an acclaimed young war correspondent who accompanies his Afghan refugee friend across Europe in search of a n…
Music and Mankind
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2025
165 million years ago, rhythm was born. 66 million years ago, the first melody emerged. 40,000 years ago, Homo sapiens created the first musical instr…
Bad Tooth
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2025
My mother said she was born with a witch's power and turned my long-absent father into a goblin; a black cat named Smudge dies of illness, and her own…
Arguing a Beautiful New World: A Dialogue Between Philosophy and Social Justice
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2025
The author, British scholar Ariana Shavisi, argues that many of the conspicuous cultural divides of the twenty-first century actually stem from subfie…
Frequent authors
Gu Long (23)陈磊·半小时漫画团队 (15)Luo Zhenyu (7)特里·普拉切特 (5)皮耶尔·勒迈特 (5)迈克尔·克莱顿 (5)Shan Hua (4)华楠 (4)滕小涵 (4)Chizuko Ueno (3)丹·西蒙斯 (3)乔纳森·肯尼迪 (3)