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Xinhua Publishing House

Also known as: 新华出版社有限责任公司

Founded
1979
Country / Region
China
Notable books
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Volume I: The Birth of BritainArt as ExperienceUniversity of Chicago Guide to Paper Writing (8th Edition)

541 books 616 authors

About the publisher

Xinhua Publishing House is known for books on politics, journalism, biography and the social sciences. Its 519 titles in the catalog cover world history, social culture, history reading, military affairs, language and writing, and applied psychology. Representative books include Winston Churchill's multi-volume A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, John Dewey's Art as Experience, Wayne Booth's The Craft of Research, and The Chicago Guide to Writing About Research, as well as military history such as Defeat into Victory: The Decisive Campaign in Burma and India, 1942–1945. Its authors range from international figures such as Churchill, Dewey and Booth to Chinese writers including Wu Hao, Luo Dingzi, Li Xuehua and Zhao Hong, giving the press a distinctive profile that balances classic translation with practical writing and emphasizes both history and the social sciences.

Published (541)

The Backbone of a Great Nation: The Striving Lives of State Preeminent Science and Technology Award Winners cover
Rating 4.0
The Backbone of a Great Nation: The Striving Lives of State Preeminent Science and Technology Award Winners 中国科协创新战略研究院 / 任福君 / 扈永顺 Xinhua Publishing House · 2025 This book is a collection of stories about scientists. Drawing on the achievements of the Academic Growth Data Collection Project for Senior Scientist…
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Rating 4.0
Intellectuals 保罗·约翰逊 / 杨正润 Xinhua Publishing House · 2025 After Intellectuals was published in London, it immediately provoked strong reactions on both sides of the Atlantic; it was reprinted again and again …
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Rating 4.0
Carrying Through the Ages: A Biography of China's Grand Canal 胡梦飞 Xinhua Publishing House · 2025 This book is a popular work on history and culture written by a specialist scholar of the Grand Canal, offering a comprehensive and systematic overvie…
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Rating 4.0
The Attention Crisis 约翰·海利 / 董亚丽 Xinhua Publishing House · 2025 Attention Crisis is a bold new multidimensional exploration of attention that unlocks how we fell into an attention crisis—and how we can get out. It …
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Rating 4.0
Debates in Economics 穆瑞·罗斯巴德 / 刘若霞 / 唐毓璇 / 郑元 Xinhua Publishing House · 2025 This book reviews the Austrian School's theories of exchange, price, monopoly, and competition, systematically sorts out the views and methodologies o…
Bring a Book to Graduate School: A Quick Introduction to Key Academic Skills for Graduate Students cover
Rating 4.0
Bring a Book to Graduate School: A Quick Introduction to Key Academic Skills for Graduate Students 扎卡里·肖尔 / 姜昊骞 Xinhua Publishing House · 2025 What is the hardest part of graduate school? A heavy workload? High expectations? More than that, it is the lack of effective methods to do your best.…
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Rating 4.0
Critical Thinking and Persuasive Writing: Advanced Techniques for Independent Thinkers 路易丝·卡茨 / 刘丰瑜 Xinhua Publishing House · 2025 What are you writing? Who are you writing for? More importantly—why write at all? To produce persuasive writing, you must not only answer these questi…
How to Successfully Pass the Defense: Strategies and Skills for Thesis Defense cover
Rating 4.0
How to Successfully Pass the Defense: Strategies and Skills for Thesis Defense 罗伊娜·默里 / 高娟 Xinhua Publishing House · 2025 Are you so anxious the night before your defense that you cannot sleep? Are you afraid you will freeze up and lose your words in front of the examiner…
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Rating 4.0
How to Maximize Your Academic Influence 帕特里克·邓利维 / 简·丁克勒 / 王昌志 / Wang Guoping Xinhua Publishing House · 2025 To advance individual academic development, break down academic barriers, and promote scholarly exchange, the author conducted an eight-year systemati…
The Truth About the Soviet Union: Reflections on 101 Important Questions (3 Volumes) cover
Rating 4.0
The Truth About the Soviet Union: Reflections on 101 Important Questions (3 Volumes) 陆南泉 / 黄宗良 / 郑异凡 / 马龙闪 / 左凤荣 Xinhua Publishing House · 2025 A major part of this book is an objective assessment of the Soviet model, noting that it played an important role in the early years of the Soviet sta…
From Graduate Student to Tenured Professor: Chicago Academic Career Planning cover
Rating 4.0
From Graduate Student to Tenured Professor: Chicago Academic Career Planning 约翰·A. 戈德史密斯 / John Komlos / Penny Schine Gold / 肖志宏 Xinhua Publishing House · 2025 Competition for jobs in traditional academic fields is growing ever fiercer. For most students who aspire to make academic research their lifelong car…
The Tragedy of a Great Nation: The Causes and Consequences of the Soviet Collapse (Revised Edition) cover
Rating 4.0
The Tragedy of a Great Nation: The Causes and Consequences of the Soviet Collapse (Revised Edition) 尼古拉·伊万诺维奇·雷日科夫 / 徐昌翰 Xinhua Publishing House · 2025 Tragedy of a Great Power: The Causes and Consequences of the Soviet Collapse traces through the mists of time, offering a detailed, vivid, and compreh…
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Rating 3.9
Power Transition of Great Powers 张啸天 Xinhua Publishing House · 2025 This book offers a strategic vision and touches on today's global hotspots. For anyone concerned with great-power relations and where they are headed,…
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Rating 3.9
Position Xiao Renfu Xinhua Publishing House · 2025 The officialdom is a microcosm of society, and society is a grand officialdom. Here, it is never a simple division between right and wrong, black and …
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Rating 3.9
Greenmantle 约翰·巴肯 / Wang Guoping Xinhua Publishing House · 2025 After the huge success of the thriller The Thirty-Nine Steps, readers wrote to the author John Buchan urging him not to let his hero Richard Hannay re…
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Rating 3.9
At 60, We Take a Round-the-World Trip 刘军 Xinhua Publishing House · 2025 This book is a travelogue of a round-the-world journey. During 410 days of travel, the author experienced firsthand the magnificence of the planet we …
The Key to the Records of the Grand Historian: Sima Qian's Spiritual World cover
Rating 3.9
The Key to the Records of the Grand Historian: Sima Qian's Spiritual World 景如 Xinhua Publishing House · 2025 This book is an accessible spiritual biography of Sima Qian, written by reading the text of the Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji) and related tra…
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Rating 3.8
Stanford University Ethics Course 苏珊·利奥托 / 钟欣奕 Xinhua Publishing House · 2025 This is not your imagination: we live in an age of moral decline. In public affairs, we are bombarded with reports: government leaders act against the…
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Rating 3.8
High-Scoring Thesis Writing for Graduate Students (4th Edition) 约翰·比加姆 / 李岩 Xinhua Publishing House · 2025 This book deconstructs the entire process of master's thesis writing—from the research proposal, literature review, research methods, findings and con…
How to Successfully Complete Your Thesis: Strategies and Techniques for Thesis Writing cover
Rating 3.8
How to Successfully Complete Your Thesis: Strategies and Techniques for Thesis Writing 罗伊娜·默里 / 郑炯琳 Xinhua Publishing House · 2025 This book is a guide to thesis writing for university students and faculty across disciplines. It presents general strategies for thesis writing from …

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