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.
The Turning Point of Civilization: A General History of Humanity Written by Plague (World Book Day Exclusive Premiere)
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2025
At a time when humanity prides itself on being the lord of all creation and writing history's glorious chapters by its own will, The Turning Point of …
Pleasure and Nothingness (Exclusive First Release)
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2025
In this book, Žižek examines in detail how, in the post-pandemic era, people derive enjoyment from disaster, confrontation, and chaos while losing the…
An Unconventional Way of Living
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2025
An Unconventional Way of Living is a nonfiction interview collection by Japanese-Chinese author Yoshii Shinobu, following her book Tokyo's Eight Squar…
Farce
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2025
On the ruined wasteland of Earth at the end of the world, a hundred-year-old man is writing his memoirs. This centenarian is at once a doctor, a forme…
Everyone Loses Control of Their Emotions (Exclusive First Release)
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2025
· I know all the reasoning, so why can't I control my emotions? · Can emotions really only create problems and never solve them? · Would we be better …
Everyone Is a Famous Detective
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2025
Detective Wato Sōshi possesses a special ability: he can instantly boost the deductive powers of everyone around him! He becomes embroiled in a series…
A Traveler: The Travel Writings of Paul Bowles
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2025
A Traveler is a collection of travel essays by the American writer, translator, and composer Paul Bowles, written between 1950 and 1993, and a complet…
The Turning Point of Civilization: A Human History Told Through Plagues
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2025
Originally published as Pathogenesis: How Germs Made History, this book is by Jonathan Kennedy, who combines academic training in history, philosophy,…
In Search of Zhuge Liang on the Northern Expedition Trail
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2025
At the moment the Chu Shi Biao declared, "We must reward and lead the three armies to pacify the Central Plains in the north," Zhuge Liang's fate for …
The Turning Point of Civilization: A Human History Told Through Plagues
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2025
The Turning Point of Civilization: A Human History Told Through Plagues is a work by the British scholar Jonathan Kennedy, originally titled Pathogene…
The Eagles Breaking Through Northern Burma
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2025
During the Second World War in Asia, the Japanese fought three so-called battles to the last man, in which their forces were completely annihilated: a…
When Teens Turn Against School: A Teen Psychology Expert's In-Depth Conversations with Twelve Adolescents
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2025
Chen Yu, an adolescent psychology expert and nationally certified Level 2 psychological counselor, has found that school refusal is spreading rapidly …
The Daydreamer
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2025
The Daydreamer is an illustrated essay collection for adult readers by the Japanese picture-book author and illustrator Shinsuke Yoshitake, translated…
Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide for the Non-Perplexed
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2025
The Chinese translation of Slavoj Žižek's Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide for the Non-Perplexed. The book's starting point is that today, with an unprecede…
Enjoyment and Nothingness
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2025
Enjoyment and Nothingness is a work by the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek exploring the phenomena of "enjoyment" and "surplus-enjoyment"; the orig…
Restarting Life Begins with Today's Dinner!
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2025
11 heartwarming food stories, 33 life-changing miracles. In a lifetime, we all sit down to countless dinners, and the memory of each one is unique: th…
Chronicle of Chinese Stand-up Comedy
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2025
The author, Luobin, is one of China's first professional stand-up comedians, and draws on his own experience to chronicle the entire process of the Ch…
A Fragrant Lie in the Darkness
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2025
A freighter slowly comes to shore in a storm, and inside a reeking container a mountain of corpses is discovered. Beneath the pile, a surviving stowaw…
No Fear of Borders: An Escape from Afghanistan to Europe
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2025
This is not a book on refugees written from a safe distance. The author, Aikins, is a Canadian war correspondent based in Afghanistan and a 2025 Pulit…
The People Who Stand at the End
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2025
People are not born knowing what death is. The first death Hailey Campbell ever encountered was that of a friend who died trying to save a drowning pu…
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)