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)

Present Sentiments: Reading Is a Strange Interaction cover
Rating 3.8
Present Sentiments: Reading Is a Strange Interaction Gong Pengcheng Hainan Publishing House · 2023 This book collects Mr. Gong's recent articles and interviews on the transmission of traditional culture, discussing the various problems that arise wh…
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Rating 3.8
The Bright Pearl of the Vast Sky That Lights the Heart's Sea 《慧灯·问道》编辑部 Hainan Publishing House · 2023 Amid widespread anticipation, The Lamp of Wisdom · Q&A returns for its second season. Continuing the first season's down-to-earth focus and light, hum…
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Rating 3.8
A Brief History of Medicine 玛格丽特·维利亚尼 / 盖尔·伊顿 / 孙轶飞 / 沈洲榕 Hainan Publishing House · 2023 The history of medicine is the history of humanity's struggle against death, and every episode may bear on the survival of a people. This book distill…
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Rating 3.8
The Hundred-Year Life 和田秀树 / 陶芸 Hainan Publishing House · 2023 The author of this book is Hideki Wada, a Japanese geriatric psychiatrist with 35 years of clinical experience. He calls people over 80 "lucky agers" …
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Rating 3.8
The Power of Self-Healing 杰瑞米·豪维克 / 杜佳颖 Hainan Publishing House · 2023 Global healthcare costs are soaring, medicines are increasingly unaffordable for many, and modern drugs tend to suppress the body's innate self-healin…
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Rating 3.7
Ancient Sentiment Gong Pengcheng Hainan Publishing House · 2023 A person's or a nation's attitude toward food and daily life reflects, to some extent, the character of that person's or nation's thinking and behavio…
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Rating 3.7
Illuminating the Way Gong Pengcheng Hainan Publishing House · 2023 This book is a collection of cultural essays by Mr. Gong on traditional Chinese learning in recent years. It explores the true thought of masters such…
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Rating 3.7
400 Years of the Industrial Revolution 吴京平 Hainan Publishing House · 2023 From the coal and boilers of the First Industrial Revolution to the arrival of smartphones; from the first slave trading by the Invincible Armada to S…
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Rating 3.6
Upheaval 卡斯滕·林茨 / 金特·米勒·施特文斯 / 亚历山大·齐默尔曼 / 陈怡灵 Hainan Publishing House · 2023 Companies must adapt their business models to the times. Today, firms are under pressure from new trends such as digitalization and servitization. Dra…
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Rating 3.6
Telling History Through Pictures: A Minimalist History of Europe in Palace Architecture 许汝纮 Hainan Publishing House · 2023 In tracing the development and transformation of European history and culture, one essential subject we cannot overlook is European palace architectur…
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Rating 3.5
A Complete History of Homo Sapiens Felipe Fernández-Armesto Hainan Publishing House · 2023 1. Broad and unified: The author has long studied global history and the comparison of civilizations. This book places paleoanthropology, environmenta…
From the Greek Gods to the Last Judgment cover
Rating 3.5
From the Greek Gods to the Last Judgment 许汝纮 Hainan Publishing House · 2023 In surveying the development and transformation of European history and culture, one subject we cannot bypass is European palace architecture. Palaces…
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Rating 3.4
The Designated Witness 午晔 Hainan Publishing House · 2023 Is she dreaming or hallucinating? She can always see scenes from the past—clear, blurred, and fragmented images alike all confirm what actually happen…
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Rating 3.3
5-Minute Creative Simple Drawings (10 Volumes) 李点点 Hainan Publishing House · 2023 Drawing is a form of inner expression and communication. Learning to draw from an early age helps children observe life more closely, connect with nat…
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Rating 3.2
600 Sayings from Confucianism, Buddhism and Daoism 王石 / 中华文化促进会 Hainan Publishing House · 2023 In the spring of 2009, Comrade Xi Jinping, then president of the Central Party School, called on leading officials to read classic works of Chinese cu…
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Rating 3.0
A Glimpse of the Unknown Void 字相 Hainan Publishing House · 2023 This book is a selection of poems by the renowned poet Zixiang, featuring 84 poems of bursting imagination and 30 exquisite paintings, concerned with …
The Demon Boys cover
Rating 4.7
The Demon Boys 药丸岳 Hainan Publishing House · 2022 Four years ago, Takashi's wife was brutally murdered before their infant child. The killers were three boys, shielded from any real punishment by Japa…
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Rating 4.5
Selected Works of Wittgenstein (5 Volumes) 路德维希·维特根斯坦 / 方义 Hainan Publishing House · 2022 Ludwig Wittgenstein is one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. The Selected Works of Wittgenstein is a curated collection o…
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Rating 4.5
Fighting Cells 菲利普·德特玛 / 李超群 Hainan Publishing House · 2022 Accessible and lighthearted yet precise and practical, with a welcome geeky flair—that is how this book presents the science of immunity. Through stor…
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Rating 4.4
Someone Must Rewrite Love Bei Dao Hainan Publishing House · 2022 Someone Must Rewrite Love is a selected collection of works by the poet Bei Dao, edited by Lin Daoqun, produced by Imaginist, and published by Hainan …

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