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.
Women's War for Survival
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2023
1. The Birth of Daughters: Do Japanese Parents Prefer Girls, and Has Women's Status in Japan Risen? In a society with declining birthrates and an agin…
The Land of China
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2023
This is the kind of general-readership book that changes the way you look at a map. Professor Han Maoli has taught "Chinese Historical Geography" at P…
Searching for Stars on an Island
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2023
One summer night, Lightman gazes at the stars from a small boat at sea and is suddenly overcome by an overwhelming sense of self merging into a vast a…
The Infinity and Nothingness of the Universe
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2023
Modern physics asks: can space be divided into ever smaller units, down to the infinitely small? Does space extend into ever larger regions, out to th…
语言塑造人类思维
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2023
Our native language and our second language actually offer us markedly different perspectives for extracting and encoding information. Language can ch…
Deliberate Practice for Memory
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2023
In an age when external storage tools such as computers and smartphones are gradually replacing the brain, what does memory actually mean to us? The a…
Breaking Down While Raising a Glass
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2023
This is the third essay collection by award-winning American author Jenny Lawson. It contains 35 essays—13 about psychotherapy, 6 about family life, a…
Before the Great Transformation: From Adam Smith to Alfred Marshall
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2023
A collection of anecdotes about classical economists: from Louis XIV's finance minister Colbert to "the founder of the neoclassical school" Alfred Mar…
The Cat's Confidence
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2023
A cat picture book that sparked a craze for copying among readers online in China and abroad! Author Lin Xingrui playfully slips cats into minimalist …
Half-Hour Comics: Journey to the West
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2023
Led by Chen Lei (pen name: Hunzige), the Half-Hour Cartoon team uses witty language and hand-drawn comics to untangle the main storyline and spiritual…
Half-Hour Comics: Dream of the Red Chamber (2 Volumes)
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2023
The ultimate fix for anyone with no patience for *Dream of the Red Chamber*! Led by Chen Lei (pen name: Hunzi Ge), the *Half-Hour Comics* team untangl…
The Optimal Life: How to Spend Money Without Regret
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2023
After the pandemic, it's time for a new way to live! You need this different kind of guide to wealth and life! This book doesn't teach you how to make…
Cleopatra: A Political Genius Obscured by Her Beauty
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2023
Later generations often attribute all of Cleopatra's success to her beauty, not knowing that beauty was merely one piece in her political chess game a…
A Brief History of Flowers
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2023
The floral world has never been just about butterflies and lovebirds—one book brings sixteen flowers into bloom, telling the stories, lore, and histor…
Secretary to the Top Leadership
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2023
Through the joys and sorrows of officials, the ruptures of human nature, love and marriage, the ups and downs of fate, the subversion of desire, the t…
The Principle of Super Symbols: All-New Revised and Expanded Edition
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2023
Traffic lights, crosswalks, warning lines… people obey signs without a moment's thought. Just as the world runs by the law of gravity whether or not y…
Half-Hour Comics: Dream of the Red Chamber 2
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2023
Led by Chen Lei (pen name: Hunzi Ge), the *Half-Hour Comics* team untangles the characters and plot of *Dream of the Red Chamber* using nothing but wi…
Sometimes I Truly Feel Despair
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2023
Feeling hopeless sometimes What should I do if I feel uneasy about work? Kishimi Ichiro: Some people feel uneasy about work and avoid the task of work…
From Founding to Fall: A Complete History of the Ming Dynasty's Brutal Power Struggles
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2023
The 276 years of the Ming Dynasty were 276 years of power being torn back and forth among emperors, grand secretaries, and eunuchs. This book takes hi…
A Weirdo as Weird as Me
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2023
Mr. Sel, whom nobody can reach after work, has a pair of detachable ears; the barber Ade keeps in his fridge a secret—he feeds on hair; "Can't Sleep" …
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)