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)

Jean-Christophe (4 Volumes) (Dooku Classics Library) cover
Rating 4.7
Jean-Christophe (4 Volumes) (Dooku Classics Library) Romain Rolland / Fu Lei Hainan Publishing House · 2021 The life of John Christopher is a journey from a brook to the sea. He leaves his small town for Paris, where his work goes unappreciated, his romances…
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion cover
Rating 4.6
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion Yukio Mishima / 汪洋 Hainan Publishing House · 2021 The Temple of the Golden Pavilion is Yukio Mishima's masterpiece, written in 1956 and based on a real event. It tells the story of Mizoguchi, a stutte…
The Art of Screenwriting cover
Rating 4.5
The Art of Screenwriting 拉约什·埃格里 Hainan Publishing House · 2021 The Art of Dramatic Writing is a classic work on dramaturgy. First published in the 1940s, Lajos Egri's book challenged Aristotle's principle that plo…
Harvard's Minimalist Economics cover
Rating 4.4
Harvard's Minimalist Economics 罗伯特·L.海尔布隆纳 / 唐欣伟 Hainan Publishing House · 2021 Harvard Economics in Brief is an introductory guide to economics that sets out important economic theories for a general audience in plain, accessible…
The Long Goodbye (Dook Classic Library) cover
Rating 4.4
The Long Goodbye (Dook Classic Library) Raymond Chandler / 姚向辉 Hainan Publishing House · 2021 A Long Goodbye is a story of genuine soul-to-soul connection, of people coming to understand one another spontaneously, and of the beautiful illusions…
The Red and the Black (Dook Classic Library) cover
Rating 4.4
The Red and the Black (Dook Classic Library) Stendhal / 罗新璋 Hainan Publishing House · 2021 In the history of world literature, The Red and the Black portrays the inner conflict of every young person in society pursuing personal ideals and so…
Oxford General Education Course: From Kant to Heidegger cover
Rating 4.3
Oxford General Education Course: From Kant to Heidegger Andrew Bowie / 秦沛 Hainan Publishing House · 2021 Do humans possess reason? Can reason be used to understand the world? In answering these two questions, German philosophers built their own philosophi…
Biographies of Famous People (Slow Reading Series) cover
Rating 4.3
Biographies of Famous People (Slow Reading Series) Romain Rolland Hainan Publishing House · 2021 The three figures in this biography are Beethoven, a German musician; Michelangelo, an Italian sculptor, painter, and poet; and Leo Tolstoy, a Russian…
Oxford General Education Course: Introduction to Linguistics cover
Rating 4.2
Oxford General Education Course: Introduction to Linguistics 斯蒂芬·罗伯特·安德森 / 高淑贤 Hainan Publishing House · 2021 Why can't everyone speak the same language? Imagine that, by some linguistic magic, people around the world suddenly began speaking the same language—…
The Pillow Book (Dook Classic Library) cover
Rating 4.2
The Pillow Book (Dook Classic Library) Sei Shōnagon / Zhou Zuoren Hainan Publishing House · 2021 The Pillow Book is the founding work of Japanese essay literature. Alongside The Tale of Genji it is counted among the twin peaks of classical Japanes…
A General Course in Economics cover
Rating 4.2
A General Course in Economics 冯兴元 / 朱海就 / 黄春兴 Hainan Publishing House · 2021 In 1871, the Austrian scholar Carl Menger published Principles of Economics, marking the birth of the Austrian School of economics. Menger, together w…
Half-Hour Comic Economics Series (4 Volumes) cover
Rating 4.2
Half-Hour Comic Economics Series (4 Volumes) 陈磊·半小时漫画团队 Hainan Publishing House · 2021 Half-Hour Comic Economics 4: Personal Finance explains the principles, advantages and risks of nine major money-management approaches from zero, so yo…
The First Crusade cover
Rating 4.2
The First Crusade 彼得·弗兰科潘 / 欧阳敏 Hainan Publishing House · 2021 In the late 11th century, tens of thousands of Crusaders set out without hesitation on a brutal expedition to the East. They naively believed that wre…
Notre-Dame de Paris (Dooker Classics Library) cover
Rating 4.2
Notre-Dame de Paris (Dooker Classics Library) Victor Marie Hugo / Li Yumin Hainan Publishing House · 2021 The story tells of a girl endowed with every virtue and an ugly, deaf bell-ringer who were swapped as infants, yet cannot escape the entanglement of f…
The Dark One Tetralogy (Complete 4 Volumes) cover
Rating 4.1
The Dark One Tetralogy (Complete 4 Volumes) Zhou Haohui Hainan Publishing House · 2021 Eighteen years ago, a bizarre explosion killed detective Luo Fei's girlfriend and his friend Yuan Zhibang at the same time. Eighteen years later, the …
Big Talk on Western Art History cover
Rating 4.0
Big Talk on Western Art History 意公子 Hainan Publishing House · 2021 With plain, witty language and a clear logical thread, this book distills over 30,000 years of Western art history to help you quickly build a complet…
Zhou Haohui's Classic Collection of Mystery and Suspense (Complete 10 Volumes) cover
Rating 4.0
Zhou Haohui's Classic Collection of Mystery and Suspense (Complete 10 Volumes) Zhou Haohui Hainan Publishing House · 2021 A definitive collection of representative works by Zhou Haohui, "China's Keigo Higashino" and master of mystery and suspense, including the Darker Qua…
The Dark One cover
Rating 4.0
The Dark One Zhou Haohui Hainan Publishing House · 2021 To defeat a flawless, high-IQ killer, you have to be even more insane than he is! Anyone who receives a "Death Notice" will be brutally murdered by a …
Half-Hour Comics Economics 3: Financial Crisis (Final Volume) cover
Rating 4.0
Half-Hour Comics Economics 3: Financial Crisis (Final Volume) 陈磊·半小时漫画团队 Hainan Publishing House · 2021 In the minds of most readers, economics is synonymous with jargon and obscurity. But Chen Lei (pen name: Er Hunzi) and his Half-Hour Comics team use h…
The Dark One 2: Fate cover
Rating 4.0
The Dark One 2: Fate Zhou Haohui Hainan Publishing House · 2021 Anyone who receives a “Death Notice” will, on the date foretold, be brutally killed by a mysterious assassin. Even if the victim calls the police, eve…

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)