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)

Be Your Own Lighthouse cover
Rating 3.5
Be Your Own Lighthouse Yu Shicun Hainan Publishing House · 2024 Be Your Own Lighthouse is scholar Yu Shicun's book of personal coordinates and life navigation for contemporary individuals, composed of thirteen shor…
Meditation Diary: How to Master One's Own Mind, How to Attain the Truth of a Peaceful Heart, and Methods Shared for Seeking Answers at Different Stages of Life Within cover
Rating 3.5
Meditation Diary: How to Master One's Own Mind, How to Attain the Truth of a Peaceful Heart, and Methods Shared for Seeking Answers at Different Stages of Life Within James Allen / Hu Yu Hainan Publishing House · 2024 The Meditations Diary is an inspirational work by James Allen, "father of the philosophy of life," offered to all readers who possess a beautiful soul…
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Rating 3.5
A Brief History of Human Thought 赵哲先 Hainan Publishing House · 2024 Human history is also a history of thought. Roughly 70,000 years ago, the "Cognitive Revolution" broke out and set history formally in motion. Beneath…
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Rating 3.4
The Next Species 迈克尔·坦尼森 / 黄乘明 / 周岐海 Hainan Publishing House · 2024 Drawing on field research around the world, the author explores the future of nature and the coming sixth mass extinction, and whether humanity can su…
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Rating 3.3
In the Darkness, We Are Fortunate to Walk with the Light 许伊妃 Hainan Publishing House · 2024 The 20 stories in this book draw on the author's own life experiences as well as those of families she served whose loved ones had died. Each story la…
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Rating 3.2
A Faint Candle 朱湘山 Hainan Publishing House · 2024 This book is both a collection of essays with the texture of poetry and fiction and a "meditation" steeped in nostalgia. It is divided into five parts…
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Rating 3.0
This Road Once Traveled 李建华 Hainan Publishing House · 2024 The author of this book is a renowned ethicist with years of distinguished achievement in the field. A literature enthusiast since his university days…
Mo Xiaoqi: Chasing the Sun Within cover
Rating 2.8
Mo Xiaoqi: Chasing the Sun Within 莫小奇 / 田青青 Hainan Publishing House · 2024 Through Mo Xiaoqi's experiences in education, acting, relationships and entrepreneurship, this book reveals the path every woman must take toward emot…
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Rating 2.8
Forget, Forget, Forget Is Little Dog Neva's Happy Spell 奈娃家族 Hainan Publishing House · 2024 On a tiny island lies a small town called Sunny Town. Here, Nawa, Meimei, Didi, Peppa and Little Piggy run a little café called the Nawa Family Café. …
Benefiting the World with Penetrating Insight: Traditional Chinese Wisdom under the Principles of Natural Science cover
Rating 2.8
Benefiting the World with Penetrating Insight: Traditional Chinese Wisdom under the Principles of Natural Science 马东林 Hainan Publishing House · 2024 This book seeks to build a framework grounded in modern science and linked by traditional Chinese philosophy, integrating the principles of the natura…
The Social Contract: Expert Guided Reading Edition cover
Rating 4.8
The Social Contract: Expert Guided Reading Edition Jean-Jacques Rousseau / 钟书峰 Hainan Publishing House · 2023 Is individual interest or the public interest more important? Protecting individual interest is part of human nature. Rousseau held that the first hum…
Collected Essays of Lu Xun cover
Rating 4.7
Collected Essays of Lu Xun Lu Xun Hainan Publishing House · 2023 This edition selects 69 representative essays from Lu Xun's miscellaneous writings, based on Xu Guangping's memoir of Lu Xun, Grateful Remembrance: Fa…
Grimm's Fairy Tales: The Complete Original 1857 Edition (2 Volumes) cover
Rating 4.6
Grimm's Fairy Tales: The Complete Original 1857 Edition (2 Volumes) 雅各布·格林 / 威廉·格林 / 杨武能 Hainan Publishing House · 2023 This set consists of two volumes: Grimm's Fairy Tales: The Complete First Edition of 1857 (Volume I) and Grimm's Fairy Tales: The Complete First Editi…
Until the End of Time: Seeking the Ultimate Meaning of the Universe, Life, and Consciousness cover
Rating 4.5
Until the End of Time: Seeking the Ultimate Meaning of the Universe, Life, and Consciousness 布莱恩·格林 / 舍其 / Lijun Gou Hainan Publishing House · 2023 In fact, the reality you, I, and everyone else are experiencing may be happening over and over again in many other universes. Every kind of history ma…
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Rating 4.5
The Return of Martin Guerre 娜塔莉·泽蒙·戴维斯 / 刘永华 Hainan Publishing House · 2023 In 1548, in a small village in the French Pyrenees, a prosperous peasant named Martin Guerre abandoned his wife and child, left his family property be…
Leaders (Revised Edition) 2017 cover
Rating 4.4
Leaders (Revised Edition) 2017 理查德·尼克松 / 施燕华 / 黄钟青 / 洪雪因 Hainan Publishing House · 2023 In Leaders, we meet China's legendary leaders—Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, and Chiang Kai-shek after his retreat to Taiwan; America's adversaries—Khrushche…
Isms and Reality: Imaginist Nonfiction Series Set (14 Volumes) cover
Rating 4.4
Isms and Reality: Imaginist Nonfiction Series Set (14 Volumes) 芭芭拉·艾伦瑞克 / Alissa Quart / Shani Orgad / 槙原久美子 Hainan Publishing House · 2023 This 14-volume set includes: Born Unequal: How Elite Selection Reproduces Itself; From Early "Lost" to Late; To the Future; Changing Everything: The C…
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Rating 4.3
Tales of the Strange Lafcadio Hearn (Koizumi Yakumo) / 王新禧 Hainan Publishing House · 2023 Koizumi Yakumo was born in Greece and raised in Ireland, yet he was captivated by Japanese culture and went on to create a wealth of well-known ghost …
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Rating 4.3
猫的摇篮 Kurt Vonnegut / 姚向辉 Hainan Publishing House · 2023 When the atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima, the "father of the atomic bomb," Dr. Hoenikker, was playing a cat's cradle string game. He was a scientific ge…
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Rating 4.3
History of Western Art 雅克德比奇 / 让弗兰索瓦法弗尔 / 特利奇格鲁纳瓦尔德 / 安东尼奥菲利浦皮芒代尔 / 徐庆平 Hainan Publishing House · 2023 Written by Jacques Debicki, Jean-François Favre, Trich Grunewald, and Antonio Philippe Pimandale, this history of Western art, now in a full-color rev…

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