Hainan Publishing House
Also known as: 理想国丨海南出版社, 理想国|海南出版社, 理想国 | 海南出版社, 海南出版社有限公司
- Founded
- 1985
- Country / Region
- China
- Notable books
- Anna Karenina (Complete Two Volumes, Dook Classics Library)The Social Contract: Expert Guided Reading EditionCollected Essays of Lu Xun
About the publisher
Hainan Publishing House is a comprehensive publisher known for literary and intellectual works, covering foreign literature, philosophy, classics, world-famous works, classical poetry and prose miscellanies. Its catalog includes foreign literary classics such as Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and Romain Rolland's Jean-Christophe, philosophical works such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau's The Social Contract: Expert Companion Edition, and Chinese classics and poetic studies such as Lu Xun's essays and prose collections and Wang Guowei's Renjian Cihua, as well as illustrated popular-science works like Fabre's Insects. The involvement of translators such as Zhong Shufeng, Fu Lei and Chen Xiaoqing reflects the publisher's emphasis on translation quality and expert guidance. Public information is limited, and the above is based mainly on the books in the catalog.
The Demon-Haunted World
Hainan Publishing House · 2026
[Final work by astronomer and Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Sagan, using scientific thinking to debunk lies. Highly recommended by Professors Wu Guosheng…
Getting Through: A Complete Account of the Most Tumultuous Years in the History of the Republic, Volume 1
Hainan Publishing House · 2026
More profound, more real, and more tear-inducing than Ordinary World! A chronicle of China's most frenzied thirty years, 1949–1976! A complete account…
The Lifetime Reading Plan
Hainan Publishing House · 2026
The Lifetime Reading Plan is a grand reading plan recommended by Professor Clifton Fadiman—an American radio and television host, renowned journalist,…
Getting Through: A Complete Account of the Most Tumultuous Years in the History of the Republic, Volume 3
Hainan Publishing House · 2026
More profound, more real, and more tear-inducing than Ordinary World! A chronicle of China's most frenzied thirty years, 1949–1976! A complete account…
Getting Through: A Complete Account of the Most Turbulent Years in the History of the Republic 2
Hainan Publishing House · 2026
More profound, more real, and more tear-inducing than Ordinary World! A chronicle of China's most frenzied thirty years, 1949–1976! A complete account…
Enduring: A Complete Account of the Most Turbulent Times in the History of the Republic
Hainan Publishing House · 2026
A complete account of 1949–1976, the most tumultuous years in the history of the People's Republic. The Zhang family landlords are shot during land re…
Kindling the Flame of Reason
Hainan Publishing House · 2026
Recommended by Chen Jiaying! A major English-language work by Douglas Hofstadter, author of Gödel, Escher, Bach, at seventy! Steven Pinker praises it …
Mountains and Rivers Change
Hainan Publishing House · 2026
A riveting history of the late Qing dynasty's descent into disorder, conflict, and collapse! A major new work by the acclaimed historian Yuan Canxing!…
Love of Mountains and Seas (Adapted from the TV Drama of the Same Name Starring Huang Xuan and Zhang Jiayi)
Hainan Publishing House · 2026
As one of the dramas in the "Ideal Shines on China" showcase celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China by the …
The Invisible Suspect
Hainan Publishing House · 2026
Life is always hard to predict: you set your heart on one thing, and something else happens instead. On a deep winter night of rain, a car accident oc…
Illustrated Character Lessons of the Chengzhong Mengxue School (Dictionary Edition)
Hainan Publishing House · 2025
Chengzhong Mengxuetang Zike Tushuo (Dictionary Edition) is the first Chinese language textbook compiled by a school in modern China, and can be regard…
A History of Schools of Modern Chinese Fiction
Hainan Publishing House · 2025
This book is the first scholarly monograph to examine modern Chinese fiction from the perspective of literary schools. The author theoretically dispel…
The Trajectory of Cultural Exchange: A History of Cane Sugar in China
Hainan Publishing House · 2025
This book is an important work by Mr. Ji Xianlin, exploring the history of cultural exchange surrounding cane sugar worldwide. By studying the history…
Fifteen Discourses on Confucianism
Hainan Publishing House · 2025
At the turn of the century, the renowned contemporary Chinese philosopher Tang Yijie proposed the philosophical thesis of “returning to the roots to o…
The Predicament of Liang Qichao: Liang Qichao and Late Qing Self-Reform
Hainan Publishing House · 2025
Following his acclaimed biography Liang Qichao, Xie Xizhang continues the story, approaching it through deeper intellectual-history research to take u…
Modern Schools of Thought and Their Representative Figures
Hainan Publishing House · 2025
This volume collects the author's studies of social thought and his monographic studies of several cultural masters. Mainly from the perspective of in…
Jihai 1839: A Journey of Gong Zizhen
Hainan Publishing House · 2025
Jihai 1839: One Journey of Gong Zizhen is a book of illumination for people at life's midpoint by the well-known scholar Yu Shicun. Through a biograph…
An Outline of Modern Chinese Scholarship
Hainan Publishing House · 2025
Against the backdrop of modern and contemporary Chinese culture and intellectual life, this book begins with the concept of modern Chinese scholarship…
The Form and Spirit of Chinese Intellectuals
Hainan Publishing House · 2025
In this book, the author Yue Daiyun, a distinguished figure in Chinese academia who has made vital contributions to the development of comparative lit…
It's Been a Long Time Since I Had a Proper Meal
Hainan Publishing House · 2025
This book is a collection of food essays by "God of Food" Cai Lan, featuring 54 selected pieces on his culinary experience and 71 on ingredients. Cai …
Frequent authors
Time-Life Books (22)陈磊·半小时漫画团队 (11)Zhou Haohui (9)Chang Shuxin (8)Gong Pengcheng (6)Yu Shicun (5)Hanchuanzi (Wang Yuerui) (5)二混子 (4)意公子 (4)Yang Tianshi (4)Chen Lei (4)马小丽 (4)