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)

The Ego and the Id: Expert Guided Reading Edition cover
Rating 4.2
The Ego and the Id: Expert Guided Reading Edition Sigmund Freud / 徐说 Hainan Publishing House · 2023 First published in the 1920s, this book is the founding father of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud's representative work on the structural theory of perso…
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Rating 4.2
House of Darkness 贵志祐介 / 曹逸冰 Hainan Publishing House · 2023 In a crowd, the antisocial personality is like a fox in a henhouse. They walk among people, searching for the weak—prey through whom they can vent the…
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Rating 4.2
The Alchemy of Finance 乔治·索罗斯 / 孙忠 / 侯纯 Hainan Publishing House · 2023 George Soros's theory of reflexivity is a radical breakthrough in and refinement of traditional financial investment theory. In The Alchemy of Finance…
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Rating 4.2
A Grand Biography of Su Dongpo 刘传铭 Hainan Publishing House · 2023 Today, if we were to sum up Su Dongpo in a single word, it would be this: “switchman!” — a man who changed the direction of Chinese history and cultur…
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Rating 4.1
Cat's Cradle Kurt Vonnegut Hainan Publishing House · 2023 Cat's Cradle is a novel by the American writer Kurt Vonnegut, published in 1963; the Chinese edition, translated by Yao Xianghui, was published by Hai…
Half-Hour Comics: The Complete History of China (7 Volumes) cover
Rating 4.1
Half-Hour Comics: The Complete History of China (7 Volumes) 陈磊·半小时漫画团队 Hainan Publishing House · 2023 With nothing but hand-drawn cartoons and jokes, Chen Lei (pen name: Hunzi Ge) lays out the thread of Chinese history clearly, from the origins of the …
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Rating 4.1
100 Lectures on General Economics 冯兴元 / 朱海就 / 黄春兴 Hainan Publishing House · 2023 This book is the second volume in the General Economics Course series published in 2020. It is divided into six parts: theoretical foundations; proper…
The Walker on the Ceiling: Edogawa Rampo, Master Detective cover
Rating 4.1
The Walker on the Ceiling: Edogawa Rampo, Master Detective Edogawa Ranpo / 竺家荣 / 马梦瑶 Hainan Publishing House · 2023 “I believe the best detective method is to see through a person's heart from a psychological perspective.” Akechi Kogoro, who takes pleasure in studyi…
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Rating 4.0
Strings of the Starry Sky 汪诘 Hainan Publishing House · 2023 From Ptolemy to Hubble, from the shape of the Earth to the scale of the universe, it recounts humanity's major discoveries in astronomy in the form of…
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Rating 4.0
Hawking's Universe 戴维·费尔津 / 赵复垣 Hainan Publishing House · 2023 David Filkin's The Universe of Stephen Hawking is a rare popular science book on the history and frontiers of modern physics and astronomy. Written in…
Looking Back: How an Economist Was Made cover
Rating 4.0
Looking Back: How an Economist Was Made Zhang Weiying Hainan Publishing House · 2023 “Writers can come out of the countryside, but economists are unlikely to.” This book is a documentary account of how Professor Zhang Weiying, an econo…
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Rating 4.0
Darkening of the Light Ma Yong Hainan Publishing House · 2023 This book is a collection of essays by Ma Yong on the historical experience of historical research, divided into two main parts: "The Experience of th…
The Magical Number Zero cover
Rating 4.0
The Magical Number Zero 查尔斯·塞弗 / 杨立汝 Hainan Publishing House · 2023 Charles Seife's Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea is a fascinating journey through the number zero, tracing not only the evolution of its symbol…
China in the Classics (Fully Revised Edition) cover
Rating 4.0
China in the Classics (Fully Revised Edition) Yang Zhao Hainan Publishing House · 2023 You can live a good life without reading the classics—but what does "a good life" really mean? The Book of Songs, The Analects, Zhuangzi, Mencius, Lao…
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Rating 4.0
Prosperity Again: A Biography of Suzhou 刘传铭 Hainan Publishing House · 2023 Suzhou is a city of immense historical depth, dramatic destiny, rich culture, and turbulent stories... This book is a textual "archaeology" of the cit…
The Sum of Small Things cover
Rating 4.0
The Sum of Small Things Elizabeth Currid-Halkett / 尹楠 Hainan Publishing House · 2023 In 1899, Veblen coined the term "leisure class" to describe those who displayed their status through conspicuous consumption. In his classic work The …
Why Are Dogs Pets and Pigs Food? cover
Rating 4.0
Why Are Dogs Pets and Pigs Food? 哈尔·赫尔佐格 / 李奥森 Hainan Publishing House · 2023 Have you ever wondered about these questions: Why do pandas receive more attention than giant salamanders even though both are endangered? Do children…
The Distant Empire: A Chronicle of the Two Jin Dynasties and the Sixteen Kingdoms cover
Rating 3.9
The Distant Empire: A Chronicle of the Two Jin Dynasties and the Sixteen Kingdoms 张军 Hainan Publishing House · 2023 After the Three Kingdoms, turn to the Two Jins and the Sixteen Kingdoms—the most chaotic era in Chinese history. The book begins with the founding of …
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Rating 3.9
How to Read Das Kapital Yang Zhao Hainan Publishing House · 2023 Originating from the acclaimed podcast Hello, Mr. Marx and distilling Yang Zhao's four decades of study of Das Kapital, this book opens up a landmark …
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Rating 3.9
Ayurvedic Therapy 米歇尔·S·芳汀 / 邢彬 Hainan Publishing House · 2023 This book presents a truly holistic therapy that considers not only diet, exercise, and genetics but also relationships, life purpose, finances, envir…

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