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.
Arguing Out a Beautiful New World: A Dialogue Between Philosophy and Social Justice
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2025
This is not merely a book that teaches you how to win arguments with unassailable logic; it is a compact work of philosophy that weaves together ethic…
Boluomi's Summer Memories
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2025
In this collection of forty lyrical essays, American poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil uses food as a lens to trace her coming-of-age memories as the daughte…
Restart Your Life Starting with Tonight's Dinner!
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2025
When Motivation Stops Working: A Five-Step Practice for Self-Calm is a Chinese short-story collection by the Japanese author Mitsuyo Kakuta, originall…
The Photovoltaic War
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2025
Anti-dumping and countervailing investigations, steep tariffs, technology "chokepoints"... a relentless wave of Western封锁! Yingli, Suntech, Tongwei, L…
The Classic of Mountains and Seas: Strange Visions
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2025
Shanhai Jian Gui (Monsters Beyond Mountains and Seas) is the debut short story collection by author Xuanye Ye, published by Dukou Culture and Wenhui P…
The Overwork Warning Line
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2025
What Is the Overwork Warning Line? Japan's government has set a rule: working more than 80 hours of overtime a month puts you past the overwork warnin…
Summer Memories of Jackfruit
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2025
Summer Memories of Jackfruit is the second collection of lyrical essays by the American poet and essayist Aimee Nezhukumatathil, originally published …
Neighbors to Ghosts: Japan and the Japanese Through the Eyes of a Chinese Engineer Stationed in Japan
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2025
The book collects 76 pieces in four sections: Part One, "Neighbors with Ghosts," depicts encounters between Chinese people in Japan and Japanese peopl…
Slapstick
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2025
Slapstick, or Lonesome No More! is the eighth novel by Kurt Vonnegut, published in 1976 and described by the author as "the closest I have come to an …
A Fragrant Lie in the Dark
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2025
In a storm, a freighter struggles into harbor off Yokohama. The crew opens a foul-smelling container and finds a mountain of corpses; from beneath it …
When Life Has No Direction, Walk Toward Yourself (Exclusive First Release)
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2025
Tired of the workplace at 30—should you keep enduring it or follow your passion? How do you choose? Laid off at 40—no opportunities ahead, no way back…
Every One a Detective
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2025
Every One a Detective is the second short-story collection in the "Watson Power" series by Soichiro Oyama, the "god of the short detective story," fol…
The Suicide Note Mystery
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2025
One midsummer, a suspicious fall from a building draws police attention. The victim leaves behind only a mystery novel in place of a suicide note—The …
My Ordinariness Is Incomparable: A Liberation Manifesto for an Average Life
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2025
Not exactly obese, but clueless about what a V-line is; never at the bottom of the class, but practically never in the top few either; none of my feat…
Seeing the Strange in Mountains and Seas
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2025
The Feast: A never-diminishing piece of taishui—the flesh of a mythical fungus—falls into a famine-stricken village, only to herald the annihilation o…
The Ruined City
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2025
The Will Mystery
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2025
In midsummer, Tokyo breaks one heat record after another. A woman falls from a rooftop and dies under a bridge beside the expressway. When detectives …
In Search of Zhuge Liang on the Northern Expedition Road
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2025
“The south is now subdued; our troops and armor are sufficient. It is time to reward and lead the three armies north to restore the Central Plains, to…
A Bellflower
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2025
A Bellflower is a representative work by the Japanese mystery writer Mikihiko Renjo, whose novella The Backflow River Love Suicide won the 34th Myster…
The 5-Minute Power Rest Method
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2025
This book tackles a common question that few have systematically answered: why is it that when work is too busy and there is always no time to rest, o…
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)