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Shidai Literature Publishing House

Also known as: 时代文艺, 时代文艺出版

Founded
1984
Country / Region
China
Notable books
Zitu Classics Library: Yukio Mishima · The Decay of the AngelZitu Classics Library: Yukio Mishima · Spring SnowZitu Classics Library: Yukio Mishima · Runaway Horses

374 books 197 authors

About the publisher

Shidai Literature Publishing House is a literary publisher known for foreign literature and classic works. Judging from the more than 300 titles in the catalog, its publishing focus is on foreign literature, essays and miscellaneous writings, classic works, and world masterpieces, with attention to translation quality and series-based presentation. Representative books include Yukio Mishima's Spring Snow, Runaway Horses, The Decay of the Angel, and Forbidden Colors in the Zitu Classic Library series, as well as Yasunari Kawabata's Snow Country, Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Lu Xun's essays, and the four-volume The Sea of Fertility. Its translator resources include Chen Dewen, Gao Huiqin, Lu Qiushi, and Ding Kaite, while the authors involved include Yukio Mishima, Yasunari Kawabata, Lu Xun, and Jane Austen. The publisher is characterized by translated literature and reissues of classics, balancing popular reading with cultural accumulation; public information about its complete catalog and publishing plans is limited.

Published (374)

Child Education Psychology cover
Rating 4.2
Child Education Psychology Alfred Adler / 丁伟 Shidai Literature Publishing House · 2021 Adler's The Psychology of Children's Education is a classic work of psychology that first proposed that children possess a sense of inferiority, which…
The Story of Love cover
Rating 4.0
The Story of Love 艾瑞克·西格尔 / 桑桥 Shidai Literature Publishing House · 2021 Erich Segal's novel Love Story tells of Oliver Barrett IV, a young man of distinguished background, and Jennifer Cavilleri, a working-class girl, who …
Illustrated Chinese Characters (Primary School Edition) Grades 3–4 cover
Rating 3.8
Illustrated Chinese Characters (Primary School Edition) Grades 3–4 Xu Shen / 《画说汉字》编辑部 Shidai Literature Publishing House · 2021 This book provides detailed illustrated explanations of the 1,000 Chinese characters that students in grades 3–4 are required to recognize, following …
Illustrated Chinese Characters (Primary School Edition) Grades 5-6 cover
Rating 3.7
Illustrated Chinese Characters (Primary School Edition) Grades 5-6 《画说汉字》编辑部 / Xu Shen Shidai Literature Publishing House · 2021 Based on the Chinese language textbooks for grades 5–6, this book provides detailed illustrated explanations of the 900 Chinese characters students in…
Blind Men Touching an Elephant cover
Rating 3.5
Blind Men Touching an Elephant 于永芳 / 张淑影 Shidai Literature Publishing House · 2021 This collection features over a thousand humorous jokes. People with a sense of humor are never tiresome, and humorous topics never create pressure. B…
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Rating 3.2
The Cat Catches the Mouse 于永芳 / 张淑影 Shidai Literature Publishing House · 2021 This collection features over a thousand humorous jokes. People with a sense of humor are never tiresome, and humorous topics never create pressure. B…
Women Should Have a Sense of Refinement Series (May You Be Beautiful and Unrestrained, Independent and Free; a Woman's Vision Determines the Outcome...) cover
Rating 2.3
Women Should Have a Sense of Refinement Series (May You Be Beautiful and Unrestrained, Independent and Free; a Woman's Vision Determines the Outcome...) 魔女shasha / Dale Carnegie / 加藤惠美子 / 关口由纪 Shidai Literature Publishing House · 2021 This boxed set includes the following nine books: May You Be Beautiful and Uninhibited, Free and Yourself; A Woman's Outlook Determines Her Ending; A …
A Woman's Horizons Determine the Outcome cover
Rating 2.2
A Woman's Horizons Determine the Outcome Dale Carnegie / Li Ying Shidai Literature Publishing House · 2021 Bearing determines a woman's ending. Bearing means viewing a matter within a long time span and a vast space, which gives us a broader and more open m…
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Phantom of the Floating Clouds 常博涵 Shidai Literature Publishing House · 2021 This is a long traditional wuxia novel whose main thread is revenge and the pursuit of truth, interwoven with bizarre martial-world cases and courtly …
All Things Are Promising, and the World Is Worth It cover
Rating 4.5
All Things Are Promising, and the World Is Worth It Wang Zengqi Shidai Literature Publishing House · 2020 Savoring food, making friends, roaming far and wide… In Wang Zengqi's writing, everything he ate, saw and played with comes vividly to life. For no ot…
If Life Were All Cats cover
Rating 3.8
If Life Were All Cats 路易斯·韦恩 / 董乐 Shidai Literature Publishing House · 2020 The greatest cat artist of all time, and the classic collection of his paintings. This book is the first art collection by Louis Wain—the world's fore…
Ancient Chinese Fables, Volume 2 cover
Rating 3.2
Ancient Chinese Fables, Volume 2 王清锐 Shidai Literature Publishing House · 2020 This series serves both as a reference for primary and secondary school students learning idioms and as story reading for readers of different levels,…
Ancient Chinese Fables, Volume 1 cover
Rating 3.2
Ancient Chinese Fables, Volume 1 王清锐 Shidai Literature Publishing House · 2020 This series serves both as a reference for primary and middle school students learning idioms and as story reading for readers of different levels, of…
Ancient Chinese Fables, Volume 3 cover
Rating 3.1
Ancient Chinese Fables, Volume 3 王清锐 Shidai Literature Publishing House · 2020 This series serves both as a reference for primary and secondary school students learning idioms and as story reading for readers of different levels,…
Ancient Chinese Fables, Volume 4 cover
Rating 3.1
Ancient Chinese Fables, Volume 4 王清锐 Shidai Literature Publishing House · 2020 This series serves both as a reference for primary and secondary school students learning idioms and as story reading for readers of different levels,…
Ancient Chinese Fables, Volume 5 cover
Rating 3.0
Ancient Chinese Fables, Volume 5 王清锐 Shidai Literature Publishing House · 2020 This series serves both as a reference for primary and secondary school students learning idioms and as story reading for readers of different levels,…
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Rating 2.9
Essence of World Popular Science Stories: Stories of Scientific Mysteries 冯来运 / 周成龙 Shidai Literature Publishing House · 2020 This book is highly artistic, readable, and thought-provoking. It is an excellent read for anyone seeking to explore world art and broaden their artis…
Vinegar Is More Expensive Than Wine cover
Rating 2.7
Vinegar Is More Expensive Than Wine 于永芳 / 张淑影 Shidai Literature Publishing House · 2020 This collection features over a thousand humorous jokes. People with a sense of humor are never tiresome, and humorous topics never create pressure. Y…
Armchair Travels on Paper cover
Rating 3.8
Armchair Travels on Paper 程雨城 Shidai Literature Publishing House · 2019 This book's first stop sets out from Plato's Republic and calls along the way at Thomas More's Utopia and Denis Vairasse's The History of the Sevarite…
Those Who Speak Well All Live Cheat-Code Lives cover
Rating 3.2
Those Who Speak Well All Live Cheat-Code Lives 谷原诚 / 李贞慧 Shidai Literature Publishing House · 2019 Good Speakers Have Unstoppable Lives is a book on speaking that helps you reach people's hearts, conquer every challenge in different conversation sce…

Frequent authors

Yuwen Bao (43)《中学生博览》杂志社 (37)Feng Zhiyuan (30)陈德文 (14)Yukio Mishima (12)《作文与考试》杂志社 (8)Cao Sheng (8)Wang Fan (8)Victor Wang (8)Natsume Sōseki (7)张矗 (7)景喜猷 (7)