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

276 books 278 authors

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.

Published (276)

Half-Hour Comics Economics: Everyday Common Sense cover
Rating 4.0
Half-Hour Comics Economics: Everyday Common Sense 二混子 / 半小时漫画团队 Hainan Publishing House · 2021 In the minds of most readers, economics is synonymous with jargon and obscurity. But Chen Lei (pen name: Er Hunzi) and his team behind Half-Hour Comic…
No One Belongs Here More Than You cover
Rating 4.0
No One Belongs Here More Than You Miranda July / 周嘉宁 Hainan Publishing House · 2021 When you wake up in the morning and feel you have nothing, think of this. Stand up and face east. Now praise the sky, praise the inner light of everyo…
Oxford General Education Course: African History cover
Rating 3.9
Oxford General Education Course: African History 约翰·帕克 / 理查德·拉思伯恩 / 欧玉芳 Hainan Publishing House · 2021 Africans are all Black? × Africa's racial groups are highly complex; Black people account for only about 60% of the continent's total population, whil…
Soul-Snatching Valley cover
Rating 3.9
Soul-Snatching Valley Zhou Haohui Hainan Publishing House · 2021 One quiet night, a boy in evening self-study suddenly bolts from his classroom in terror and runs madly for more than ten kilometers along the road un…
Confidant cover
Rating 3.9
Confidant Xu Wenbing Hainan Publishing House · 2021 People today pay ever more attention to their health, and wellness is no longer the preserve of the middle-aged and elderly—many millennials joined th…
The Dark One 3: Farewell Song cover
Rating 3.9
The Dark One 3: Farewell Song Zhou Haohui Hainan Publishing House · 2021 To defeat a flawless, highly intelligent killer, you have to be even more insane than he is! Everyone who receives a "Death Notice" is killed by the m…
Surviving in the Cracks: The Overburdened Middle-Class Family cover
Rating 3.9
Surviving in the Cracks: The Overburdened Middle-Class Family Alissa Quart / 黄孟邻 Hainan Publishing House · 2021 What did “middle class” once mean? It meant you could raise two children and send them to a good public school. It meant owning a house—not necessaril…
How Strange Is the Universe We Live In? cover
Rating 3.8
How Strange Is the Universe We Live In? 伊拉▪马克▪爱格多尔 / 杨立汝 Hainan Publishing House · 2021 This entertaining book uses humor and accessible language to clearly explain how a high school dropout completely changed our understanding of space a…
Half-Hour Comics: Chinese History 4 cover
Rating 3.8
Half-Hour Comics: Chinese History 4 二混子 Hainan Publishing House · 2021 It lays out a clear thread through the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, Song, and Yuan: the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period is like a square-da…
The Dark One Side Story: Punishment cover
Rating 3.8
The Dark One Side Story: Punishment Zhou Haohui Hainan Publishing House · 2021 Eumenides is locked deep in prison—so who is sending the mysterious note: all guilty people must be punished! A former nephrologist is abducted and ki…
Half-Hour Comics on Chinese History (Bonus Volume): Traditional Chinese Festivals cover
Rating 3.8
Half-Hour Comics on Chinese History (Bonus Volume): Traditional Chinese Festivals 陈磊·半小时漫画团队 Hainan Publishing House · 2021 Spend half an hour with these comics and the origins of traditional festivals become instantly clear. The Half-Hour Comics team led by Chen Lei (pen n…
Half-Hour Comics Economics 2: Financial Crisis cover
Rating 3.8
Half-Hour Comics Economics 2: Financial Crisis 陈磊·半小时漫画团队 Hainan Publishing House · 2021 For most readers, economics is synonymous with jargon and obscurity—but Chen Lei (pen name: Erhunzi) and his team behind the Half-Hour Manga series us…
Half-Hour Comics: Preventing Common Diseases cover
Rating 3.8
Half-Hour Comics: Preventing Common Diseases 陈磊·半小时漫画团队 Hainan Publishing House · 2021 (A new work by Erhunzi, pioneer of comic-style popular science! Make small changes to daily habits and easily ward off hidden risks of common diseases…
The Ominous Painting cover
Rating 3.8
The Ominous Painting Zhou Haohui Hainan Publishing House · 2021 The Ominous Painting was made by a monk whose dharma name was 'Kongwang' and had been sealed in Kumu Temple for many years. No one knew what it depict…
Half-Hour Comic History of China 2 cover
Rating 3.8
Half-Hour Comic History of China 2 二混子 Hainan Publishing House · 2021 Read half an hour of comics and grasp five thousand years of history. Comics make history accessible and set a new trend in reading (Half-Hour Comics:…
Half-Hour Comics: Chinese History 3 cover
Rating 3.7
Half-Hour Comics: Chinese History 3 二混子 Hainan Publishing House · 2021 Half an Hour of Comics, Three Thousand Years of History: Manga History of China 3 (the third volume in the series). With nothing but hand-drawn art an…
Hold Fast: Living Out the Best of Yourself cover
Rating 3.3
Hold Fast: Living Out the Best of Yourself 李菁 Hainan Publishing House · 2021 This is a personal growth book that helps you settle into the present moment and hold fast to yourself, offering a different way of living and a diffe…
1946: The Making of the Modern World cover
1946: The Making of the Modern World Victor Sebastian Hainan Publishing House · 2021 The great war ended in 1945, but peace was not easy. This book turns its lens on the first postwar year, 1946, arguing that it was in this year that t…
Very Short Introductions: Lost Civilizations (Four-Volume Set) cover
Very Short Introductions: Lost Civilizations (Four-Volume Set) Penelope Wilson / 约翰·帕克 / 理查德·拉思伯恩 / Robert Houston / 巴里·坎利夫 Hainan Publishing House · 2021 Very Short Introductions: Lost Civilizations is a four-volume history set in the Very Short Introductions series, published in March 2021 by Hainan Pu…
The Third Reich: Blitzkrieg 6 cover
Rating 4.2
The Third Reich: Blitzkrieg 6 Time-Life Books Hainan Publishing House · 2020 In the spring of 1940, after the occupation of Poland, Hitler turned his sights on Norway and Denmark, and then on Belgium, the Netherlands, and Franc…

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)