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)

Last Night cover
Rating 4.3
Last Night 詹姆斯·索特 / 张慧雯 Hainan Publishing House · 2022 Last Night is short-story master James Salter's "erotic album," illuminating the passionate moments of human life like a comet: now burning, now repre…
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Rating 4.3
Someone Will Surely Rewrite Love Bei Dao / 林道群 Hainan Publishing House · 2022 Selected Poems and Prose is a curated collection of 46 classic poems and prose pieces by the renowned poet Bei Dao, presenting the full range of his c…
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Rating 4.3
A History of Japan (1600-2000) 詹姆斯·L.麦克莱恩 / 王翔 Hainan Publishing House · 2022 What draws readers to A History of Japan (1600–2000) is its narrative method, combining "major events" with "small stories," and the book's "teahouse"…
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Rating 4.3
Wonderful Life 斯蒂芬·杰·古尔德 / 郑浩 Hainan Publishing House · 2022 The title Wonderful Life expresses the author's twofold wonder—at the beauty of living things themselves and at the new view of life that they inspire…
Half-Hour Comics: The Complete History of China (Volumes 0–5 Plus Bonus Volume) cover
Rating 4.2
Half-Hour Comics: The Complete History of China (Volumes 0–5 Plus Bonus Volume) 陈磊·半小时漫画团队 Hainan Publishing House · 2022 Half-Hour Comics: The Complete History of China (Volumes 0–5 Plus Bonus Volume) is a comics-style popular history set created by the Half-Hour Comics …
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Rating 4.2
Dusk 詹姆斯·索特 / 雷韵 Hainan Publishing House · 2022 First published in 1986, Dusk is one of the few short-story collections to win the PEN/Faulkner Award, and every story it contains is a masterpiece of…
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Rating 4.2
A Casual History of Chinese Art 意公子 Hainan Publishing House · 2022 A Casual History of Chinese Art is a general introduction to Chinese art by Yi Gongzi, founder of the media brand "Unexpected Art," following her A Ca…
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Rating 4.1
Hypocritical Medicine: The Limits of Medicine and a Better Farewell 凯蒂·巴特勒 / 王以勤 Hainan Publishing House · 2022 In 2001, my 79-year-old father suffered a sudden stroke. During his recovery, tests revealed bradycardia, and his doctors recommended implanting a pac…
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Rating 4.0
Girls' Underground War 蕾切尔·西蒙斯 / 徐阳 Hainan Publishing House · 2022 Why does a friend who was so close yesterday suddenly stop talking to you today? Why do some people whisper behind others' backs, form cliques to excl…
Half-Hour Comic History of China 0 cover
Rating 4.0
Half-Hour Comic History of China 0 陈磊·半小时漫画团队 Hainan Publishing House · 2022 Read half an hour of comics and grasp five thousand years of history—comics that decode the past and launch a new trend in reading history. Through ha…
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Rating 4.0
All This 詹姆斯·索特 / 刘伟 Hainan Publishing House · 2022 The story begins at the end of World War II aboard a ship bound for Okinawa, where the protagonist, Philip Bowman, is a young naval officer. In the de…
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Rating 3.9
Rethinking the Entrepreneurial Spirit Zhang Weiying Hainan Publishing House · 2022 "Entrepreneurship" has been the core of Professor Zhang Weiying's economic research since 1984. Unlike the market equilibrium assumption in mainstream…
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Rating 3.9
Four Hundred Years of America: A History of Adventure, Innovation, and the Shaping of Wealth 布·斯里尼瓦桑 / 扈喜林 Hainan Publishing House · 2022 American history is not only political but also economic. Americans exercise their political rights as citizens and their economic rights as consumers…
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Rating 3.8
A Casual History of Art (2-Volume Set) 意公子 Hainan Publishing House · 2022 This set includes two volumes: A Casual History of Western Art and A Casual History of Western Art. A Casual History of Chinese Art: Starting with pot…
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Rating 3.8
The Story Convenience Store 骆以军 Hainan Publishing House · 2022 This is a convenience store that sells only stories, and its manager is Luo Yijun, the novelist most renowned for storytelling in the Chinese-language…
Talking Big About the History of Chinese Art cover
Rating 3.8
Talking Big About the History of Chinese Art 意公子 Hainan Publishing House · 2022 This book begins with pottery from primitive society and covers a wide range of art forms unique to China, including pottery, jade, bronzeware, cursiv…
Half-Hour Comics: A History of China 0 cover
Rating 3.8
Half-Hour Comics: A History of China 0 陈磊·半小时漫画团队 Hainan Publishing House · 2022 Half-Hour Comics: A History of China 0 is a prequel to the "Half-Hour Comics: A History of China" series by Chen Lei (pen name Hunzi Ge) and his Half-…
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Rating 3.7
Someone Writes Poetry 华楠 Hainan Publishing House · 2022 Someone Writes Poetry is Hua Nan's first poetry collection, gathering 179 poems and 20 essays on poetry from nearly three decades of writing. The so-c…
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Rating 2.8
The Courage to Avoid 尹乙 / 章科佳 / 张蕊 Hainan Publishing House · 2022 People set goals for themselves in life and tell themselves that if they persevere, they will surely succeed. But not all persistence is worth persist…
Anna Karenina (Complete Two Volumes, Dook Classics Library) cover
Rating 4.9
Anna Karenina (Complete Two Volumes, Dook Classics Library) Leo Tolstoy Hainan Publishing House · 2021 Anna Karenina was born into a cold, selfish world of the old aristocracy, yet she longed for passionate love and spiritual freedom. The immense, irrec…

Frequent authors

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