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.
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 …
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…
From Nietzsche to Zhuangzi: New Discourses on Nietzsche
Hainan Publishing House · 2025
This book gathers several important essays on Nietzsche by the renowned scholar Chen Guying, written after his The Tragic Philosopher Nietzsche, and s…
Half-Hour Comic: A History of China: Ming and Qing
Hainan Publishing House · 2025
Half-Hour Comic: A History of China: Ming and Qing is a popular history comic book created by Chen Lei (pen name Hunzi Ge) and the Half-Hour Comic tea…
The Mathematical Traveler
Hainan Publishing House · 2025
An epic journey: how do mathematical minds, as captivating as any story, count? Can animals learn to count? What does number truly mean? This is an ex…
A General Interpretation of Chinese Culture
Hainan Publishing House · 2025
This book is one of the classic works of Li Zhonghua, director of the Institute of Chinese Philosophy and Culture at Peking University. In accessible …
Chinese Family Traditions
Hainan Publishing House · 2025
A renowned scholar Yu Shicun's guide to personal growth and family education for contemporary readers, Chinese Family Traditions tells the multi-gener…
Essays from Dongchang Tower
Hainan Publishing House · 2025
This book is an essay collection by Yang Tianshi, a master of literature and history. It gathers his short yet polished essays written alongside his l…
The Cult of the Fox: Popular Religion and Popular Mentality in Late Imperial China
Hainan Publishing House · 2025
This book is a monographic study of the Chinese fox cult by the Chinese American scholar Kang Xiaofei. Originally published in English as The Cult of …
A World Out of Nothing
Hainan Publishing House · 2025
Blackbody radiation, the photoelectric effect, atomic spectra, de Broglie waves, quantum entanglement, the strong and weak interactions, a theory of e…
Commemorative Volume for Mr. Yang Tianshi's Ninetieth Birthday
Hainan Publishing House · 2025
Mr. Yang Tianshi is a renowned contemporary Chinese historian. He graduated from the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Peking Universit…
The Battles of Plants
Hainan Publishing House · 2025
Spanning 3.8 billion years of plant survival history, this book distills the evolutionary strategies of 29 plant types through six survival laws—from …
The Book of Festivals
Hainan Publishing House · 2025
The Book of Festivals is an informative and classic guide to traditional Chinese festivals and culture, a "brief history of everyday life" for the Chi…
The Harder You Try, the More Anxious You Become
Hainan Publishing House · 2025
Known worldwide as a Buddhist spiritual teacher, Thich Nhat Hanh has poured his heart into The More You Try, the More Anxious You Feel—a work written …
Turbulence at Crouching Dragon Gorge
Hainan Publishing House · 2025
At the border of Sichuan and Shu lies Wolong Gorge, where cliff faces are sheer as cut stone and miasmic fog hangs thick, hiding the lost martial arts…
The Astray Firmament: A Guide to Roaming the Science Fiction World
Hainan Publishing House · 2025
The War of the Worlds, Foundation, The Three-Body Problem, Legend of the Galactic Heroes… What scientific knowledge lies behind these classic science …
I Know the Coming and Going of the Soul
Hainan Publishing House · 2025
This is a poetry collection that offers profound insight into the inner world of contemporary people. It contains 114 poems brimming with imagination …
A Brief History of Human Thought
Hainan Publishing House · 2025
Humanity has entered the 21st century. Looking back on the storms and hardships of the past, we have begun to realize something astonishing: we are no…
A Book Full of the Sea
Hainan Publishing House · 2025
Open this poetry collection and embark on a dreamlike voyage of exploration. In the vastness of the ocean we feel our own smallness; in the single-cel…
Everyone's Family Therapist
Hainan Publishing House · 2025
The Satir family therapy model is a growth-oriented approach to psychotherapy that tends to focus on an individual's inner emotions while also paying …
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)