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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

315 books 330 authors

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.

Published (315)

The 5-Minute Power Rest Method cover
The 5-Minute Power Rest Method 苏西·雷丁 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…
A Bellflower cover
A Bellflower Mikihiko Renjo 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…
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Rating 4.6
Old Times South of the City: Guided Reading Edition by Renowned Writers Lin Haiyin Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2024 First published in 1960, Memories of Peking is a collection of short stories by Lin Haiyin based on her childhood in old Beijing between the ages of s…
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Rating 4.5
Land of Blood and Honey: A Journey Through the Balkans 刘子超 Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2024 If The Lost Satellite is seen as Liu Zichao's affectionate exploration of the heart of Central Asia, then Land of Blood and Honey is another long gaze…
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Rating 4.4
Living for Yourself: A 700-Year Pursuit of Humanism 莎拉·贝克韦尔 / 冯子龙 Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2024 Over seven hundred years, humanism flourished, producing a line of figures and human heroes representing humanity in philosophy, literature, art, and …
The Maid's Strange Tales: A Short Story Collection Commemorating the 25th Anniversary of Otsuichi's Debut cover
Rating 4.3
The Maid's Strange Tales: A Short Story Collection Commemorating the 25th Anniversary of Otsuichi's Debut Otsuichi (Hirotaka Adachi) / 潘郁灵 Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2024 Obsession, carried far enough, becomes a blade that wounds its bearer. A stubborn maid wanders into a deserted old house, hears eerie crying, and seek…
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Rating 4.2
The Seventh Answer 保罗·霍尔特 / 朱寒依 Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2024 At midnight, the medieval plague doctor roams the modern streets. In a dim alley, an unidentified male corpse vanishes into thin air and reappears out…
消费主义如何操控我们 cover
Rating 4.2
消费主义如何操控我们 齐格蒙特·鲍曼 / 李康 Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2024 Consumerism is an economics of excess, waste, and deception. It pins its hopes on consumer irrationality in order to stir up consumerist sentiment. Co…
From Question to Output: Chizuko Ueno's Art of Knowledge Production cover
Rating 4.2
From Question to Output: Chizuko Ueno's Art of Knowledge Production Chizuko Ueno Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2024 From Question to Output: Chizuko Ueno's Art of Knowledge Production is a research methods guide by Japanese sociologist and University of Tokyo profes…
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Rating 4.0
Notes from Mountain Living Yu Qiuyu Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2024 This book was created by Yu Qiuyu between 1992 and 1994, devoting more than two years to it wholeheartedly. It comprises eleven essays and won the Sec…
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Rating 3.9
Farther Away Jonathan Franzen Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2024 Farther Away is a collection of essays by the American novelist Jonathan Franzen (author of The Corrections and Freedom), originally published in Engl…
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Rating 3.9
Bad Grief, Good Grief: A Philosophical Guide 迈克尔·乔比 / 杨春丽 Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2024 Grief is the anguish of losing someone deeply loved, a terrible helplessness, a tossing about in an emotional storm. Grief is unavoidable. Yet we tend…
Half-Hour Comics: Journey to the West 2 cover
Rating 3.9
Half-Hour Comics: Journey to the West 2 陈磊·半小时漫画团队 Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2024 Led by Chen Lei (pen name: Hunzi Ge), the Half-Hour Cartoon team clarifies the main storyline and spiritual core of Journey to the West using only wit…
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Rating 3.8
When Light Takes Shape 玛丽·皮弗 / 李文远 Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2024 A Harvard-trained "cultural therapist" helps you part the clouds and bask in the sun. In this luminous memoir, Mary Pipher offers readers her insights…
Half-Hour Comics: Water Margin cover
Rating 3.8
Half-Hour Comics: Water Margin 陈磊·半小时漫画团队 Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2024 Follow seven core heroes and take in the entire plot of Water Margin! Lin Chong's journey to Mount Liang is a transformation from wide-eyed innocent t…
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Rating 3.8
The Person Who Cleans the Rooms of the Deceased 中山七里 / 百里 Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2024 Kasumi stumbles into a job at a company that claims to do “special cleaning”—special because what they clean are rooms where decomposing bodies once l…
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Rating 3.7
In Search of the Tenth Island 戴安娜·马库姆 / 钱家音 Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2024 The author, Diana Marcum, is an ordinary American woman. Before she was ten, both her parents died in accidents. To make a living, she waited tables i…
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Rating 3.6
Return to Aberdeen 凯里·哈德森 / 黄瑶 Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2024 The author, Kerry Hudson, was born in Aberdeen, then one of the poorest cities in Britain. Her childhood was not a happy one—poverty, violence, and cr…
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Rating 3.6
History, Myth, Lies: The Truth About Inflation 马克·莫比乌斯 / 许可 Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2024 This book explains that in our rapidly changing world, constant technological innovation produces cheaper and better products. These changes are no lo…
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Rating 3.5
A Family's Film History 许金晶 / 孙海彦 Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2024 A Family's History of Cinema tells the story of three generations of a family devoted to cinematic art, divided into two main parts: "Interviews" and …

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)