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 Story of Mathematics
Hainan Publishing House · 2024
The Story of Mathematics is a deft blend of history, biography, and popular science, offering a wholly new account of how mathematics has evolved in r…
Critical Evaluations of Chinese Classical Literature
Hainan Publishing House · 2024
This book is a collection of essays and reading notes on ancient Chinese literature by the distinguished historian and literary scholar Yang Tianshi. …
1916: A Global History
Hainan Publishing House · 2024
Since we cannot pass over the centenary of the First World War in silence, the final theme of this book is the "memory" of the war. From time to time …
The Soft Universe: An Unofficial Biography of Relativity
Hainan Publishing House · 2024
This is a two-hundred-year history of scientific exploration, stretching from the Napoleonic era to the twenty-first century, telling the story of how…
Elegance: The Details and Warmth of History (World Book Day Exclusive Premiere)
Hainan Publishing House · 2024
In this book, Ma Yong uses more than a dozen major figures as threads to narrate modern Chinese history and offers many new interpretations. For examp…
The Psychology of Sex (Expert Companion Edition)
Hainan Publishing House · 2024
This volume is the complete Chinese translation of Psychology of Sex, the representative work of Havelock Ellis (1859–1939), the British founder of se…
Chinese Thought: Zhu Xi and Wang Yangming
Hainan Publishing House · 2024
Mr. Yang Tianshi studied Chinese philosophy in his early years and has done deep research on the Taizhou School, Wang Yangming, Zhu Xi, and others. Th…
Becoming a More Rational Person: Court and Jianghu in Chinese History
Hainan Publishing House · 2024
Power struggles are only the surface; institutional change is the key to deciphering the course of history. Beneath the stories of emperors, generals,…
Becoming a More Rational Person: Seeing Modern Society Through Sociology
Hainan Publishing House · 2024
A guide to the underlying logic behind involution, social anxiety, and consumerism. "Involution," "social anxiety," "consumerism"—these buzzwords fill…
A Brief History of Meat: 2.5 Million Years of Humanity's Obsession with Meat
Hainan Publishing House · 2024
This book tells the 2.5-million-year history of humanity's obsession with meat. Beginning with Earth's ancient bacteria encountering other meats 1.5 b…
Imagination Is More Important Than Knowledge
Hainan Publishing House · 2024
This book presents 50 moments of brilliant insight from great scientific minds over the course of their lives. It reproduces their views as they stand…
The Age of Disorder
Hainan Publishing House · 2024
Two Jin Dynasties and Sixteen Kingdoms: a dazzling era, a blood-and-iron age of heroes, and a period with a profound impact on the Chinese nation. Tho…
On Art
Hainan Publishing House · 2024
This book collects Mr. Gong's recent essays on art and the social sciences. It explores the development and characteristics of literati calligraphy, t…
The Everyday
Hainan Publishing House · 2024
The everyday life of Liang Yong'an, a celebrated Bilibili educator. A professor of literature, Liang is known not only for his literary research but a…
The Chinaberry Tree
Hainan Publishing House · 2024
This book depicts the life of educated urban youth sent to the countryside in the 1960s and 1970s. The protagonist, Liu Ming, is sent to Luowei Villag…
The Story of Time
Hainan Publishing House · 2024
We live in a world made of time. Time is deeply embedded in our consciousness, yet we cannot see it, hear it, smell it, or touch it—we know almost not…
Analyzing Principles: Montesquieu Confused China
Hainan Publishing House · 2024
This book collects Mr. Gong's essays from recent years on early modern Chinese and Western cultures. It introduces modern intellectual currents and fi…
The Runaway Silver Asteroid
Hainan Publishing House · 2024
Never has love felt this warm and touching. A "budding romance" primer between childhood sweethearts. The gentle younger brother × the scheming older …
On Texts: An Attempt to Discuss What Lacks Foundation
Hainan Publishing House · 2024
This book is a collection of Mr. Gong's recent essays on Chinese literature. It discusses the characteristics of Chinese literature in different histo…
Confidant
Hainan Publishing House · 2024
People today are paying closer attention to their health than ever. Wellness is no longer the preserve of the middle-aged and elderly; many members of…
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)