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)

Nominal Husband, Bring It On cover
Rating 3.1
Nominal Husband, Bring It On 段茯苓 Hainan Publishing House · 2020 Luo Zhicheng is a lawyer who was once warm-hearted and upright, even taking on cases for free. But after losing his ex-wife through his own fault, he …
Celebrated Popular Science Classics Series (14-Book Set) cover
Celebrated Popular Science Classics Series (14-Book Set) 迪克·斯瓦伯 / 丹·福尔克 / 斯蒂芬·杰·古尔德 / 哈尔·赫尔佐格 / 查尔斯·塞弗 / John Gribbin / 盖瑞·祖卡夫 / 马尔巴·塔罕 / 劳伦斯 · M. 克劳斯 / 戴维·费尔津 Hainan Publishing House · 2020 Celebrated Popular Science Classics Series is an e-book boxed set in Hainan Publishing House's "Classic Popular Science by Great Authors" line, collec…
Half-Hour Comic History of China 4 cover
Rating 3.9
Half-Hour Comic History of China 4 Chen Lei Hainan Publishing House · 2019 Half-Hour Comic History of China 4 is the fourth volume in the "Half-Hour Comic History of China" series. The author, Chen Lei (pen name Erhunzi), con…
Ten Days Before the Outbreak of World War II cover
Rating 3.3
Ten Days Before the Outbreak of World War II Richard Overy Hainan Publishing House · 2019 There are countless books on the origins of World War II, but few push the lens to the "ten days before the war began." Overy's greatest strength here…
The Last Financial Tycoon cover
The Last Financial Tycoon Deng Rongdong Hainan Publishing House · 2019 The Last Financial Tycoon is a full-length financial business-war novel by Deng Rongdong, published in January 2019 by Hainan Publishing House, with p…
Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dusk: Lu Xun's Prose Collection cover
Rating 4.7
Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dusk: Lu Xun's Prose Collection Lu Xun Hainan Publishing House · 2018 This volume collects Lu Xun's complete prose collections Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dusk and Wild Grass, along with other classic pieces. As "notes of r…
Camel Xiangzi: A Collection of Lao She's Stories cover
Rating 4.5
Camel Xiangzi: A Collection of Lao She's Stories Lao She Hainan Publishing House · 2018 The Camel Xiangzi (Lao She Novellas) collects Lao She's novels Camel Xiangzi, The Liu Family Compound, Opening Day and Mr. Ma's Trousers. All are repr…
Modern and Contemporary Chinese Essays: A Madman's Diary cover
Rating 4.4
Modern and Contemporary Chinese Essays: A Madman's Diary Lu Xun Hainan Publishing House · 2018 This volume collects the complete texts of Lu Xun's two short-story collections, Call to Arms and Wandering. Lu Xun's output of fiction was small, yet…
The First Book of Economics cover
Rating 4.4
The First Book of Economics 罗伯特·墨菲 / 程晔 Hainan Publishing House · 2018 First Principles of Economics is the first basic economics primer to combine the essentials of the Austrian School with those of classical economics. …
The Story of Hulan River cover
Rating 4.4
The Story of Hulan River Xiao Hong Hainan Publishing House · 2018 Xiao Hong's golden age was one of upheaval and wandering, yet with her delicate sensitivity she captured meanings of life that others overlooked, and …
Forty Self-Accounts: The Autobiography of Hu Shi cover
Rating 4.2
Forty Self-Accounts: The Autobiography of Hu Shi Hu Shi Hainan Publishing House · 2018 Forty Self-Described Years: An Autobiography of Hu Shih is the only autobiography Hu Shih wrote in his own hand during his lifetime and a celebrated w…
Sinking: A Collection of Yu Dafu's Stories cover
Rating 4.2
Sinking: A Collection of Yu Dafu's Stories Yu Dafu Hainan Publishing House · 2018 Yu Dafu wrote fiction, classical-style poetry, essays, and political commentary; his poetry and essays are highly accomplished, but his fiction has ha…
Death Notice: The Complete Collection (The Darker Trilogy) cover
Rating 4.2
Death Notice: The Complete Collection (The Darker Trilogy) Zhou Haohui Hainan Publishing House · 2018 The Complete Death Notice Collection (renamed The Darker Quartet in the 2018 Dook Culture edition) is the core anthology of Zhou Haohui's "Detective L…
Old Friends by the Sea: A Collection of Lu Yin's Stories cover
Rating 4.1
Old Friends by the Sea: A Collection of Lu Yin's Stories Lu Yin Hainan Publishing House · 2018 Lu Yin's writing is steeped in autobiography, drawing largely on her own experiences and those of her friends, and stands comparison with the work of …
Uncovering the Precious Fragments of Life: Wisdom Lamp · Asking the Way (Season One) cover
Rating 4.0
Uncovering the Precious Fragments of Life: Wisdom Lamp · Asking the Way (Season One) 《慧灯·问道》编辑部 Hainan Publishing House · 2018 In this restless age, more and more people are turning their attention to their own spiritual predicaments and beginning the journey of self-explorati…
The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History cover
Rating 4.0
The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History 麦克·哈特 / 赵梅 / 韦伟 / 姬虹 Hainan Publishing House · 2018 This is a history book spanning ancient and modern times. Out of twenty thousand figures in the encyclopedia, only one hundred of the most influential…
Half-Hour Comic History of China 3 cover
Rating 3.9
Half-Hour Comic History of China 3 Chen Lei Hainan Publishing House · 2018 Half-Hour Comic History of China 3 is the third volume in Chen Lei's (pen name "Er Hunzi") Half-Hour Comic History of China series, published by Haina…
The Harvard Bookshelf cover
Rating 3.9
The Harvard Bookshelf 约翰·肯尼思·加尔布鲁思 / 王月瑞 Hainan Publishing House · 2018 Harvard Bookshelf can be roughly divided into four parts: first, a brief introduction to each professor; second, a short statement by the professor ou…
Half-Hour Comics: A History of China 2 cover
Rating 3.8
Half-Hour Comics: A History of China 2 Chen Lei Hainan Publishing House · 2018 Half-Hour Comics: A History of China 2 is the second volume in Chen Lei's (pen name Er Hunzi) "Half-Hour Comics" series, published by Hainan Publishin…
Great Wisdom in Western Classics cover
Rating 3.8
Great Wisdom in Western Classics 莫蒂默·阿德勒 / 王月瑞 Hainan Publishing House · 2018 This book is the author's outline and guide to his Great Books of the Western World series. It is a book of questions and answers. The questions come …

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)