About the publisher
Strait Book Company is a publisher distinguished by its focus on nature, ecology, history and the humanities; public information about it is limited, and its seventeen in-stock titles suggest a fairly diverse publishing direction. The company has invested notably in language and culture, releasing Zheng Zining's East Words, West Languages and Southern Accents, Northern Tones, which rediscover China through the lens of language. In traditional culture it offers Wang Li's Essays from the Long and Worm Carving Studio, Shirakawa Shizuka's Ancient Chinese Folklore, as well as The Ten Names of China and Models and Inheritance, balancing scholarship with readability. In history and social science it includes Tang Haoming's and Du Yinshan's business and political readings on Zeng Guofan and Wang Yangming, along with Nigel Barley's The Innocent Anthropologist. Overall, the publisher emphasizes the union of literary-historical cultivation and cross-cultural vision.
Published (22)
Rating 3.9★ The Little Lamb Ate Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday 艾丽莎·弗里克 / 内奥米·弗希尔 / 王逸菲 海峡书局 · 2026 Eliza was a somewhat "difficult" girl. At a young age, she had already collected plenty of "impressive" labels: odd, picky, fickle, anxious, hypochond… Rating 3.6★ Wei-Jin Sketches 2: The Sixteen Kingdoms in the Gaps 张岩 海峡书局 · 2026 The second volume in the "Easy Reads of Niche History" series—a concise and accessible history of the Sixteen Kingdoms. What exactly happened on the n… Rating 3.5★ The Two Jin Dynasties: Division and Integration 朱良 海峡书局 · 2026 This book systematically traces the development of the Western and Eastern Jin dynasties, vividly recreating the grand historical process of more than… Rating 4.2★ Ten Names of China 郑子宁 海峡书局 · 2025 As Chinese, we are all too familiar with the name "China." Passed down over thousands of years, it reflects our ancestors' cultural confidence in seei… Rating 3.8★ Ten Names for China 郑子宁 海峡书局 · 2025 As Chinese, we are utterly familiar with the name "China"—a name inherited over millennia and carrying the cultural confidence of our ancestors, who r… Rating 4.3★ Miscellaneous Notes from the Studio of Carving Both Dragons and Insects Wang Li 海峡书局 · 2024 This book is an essay collection by Mr. Wang Li, chiefly comprising short pieces he wrote in Kunming during the War of Resistance, along with some inf… Rating 4.2★ Ancient Chinese Folk Customs 白川静 / 何乃英 海峡书局 · 2024 Through methods such as the study of ancient script, analysis of ancient literary materials including ballads, and comparison between Chinese and Japa… Rating 4.0★ Exemplars and Inheritance: The Art History Behind China's National Treasure-Level Cultural Relics 邱建一 海峡书局 · 2024 Written in a relaxed, conversational tone, this book groups more than a dozen popular objects in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, by category—calli… Rating 3.5★ Understanding Esports 威廉·科利斯 / 徐斌 海峡书局 · 2024 Almost overnight, esports grew into the largest entertainment phenomenon and sporting movement in human history. This book answers the questions that … Rating 4.2★ The Unlucky Anthropologist 奈吉尔·巴利 / 向世怡 海峡书局 · 2023 Dr. Nigel Barley, an anthropologist, ventures into the unfamiliar island of Sulawesi, trekking through humid, sweltering, and perilous mountain forest… Rating 4.1★ Eastern Words, Western Languages: Rediscovering China in Language 郑子宁 海峡书局 · 2023 Everyday language shapes how individuals think; dialects preserve a nation's historical memory; political language defines a country's sense of realit… Rating 3.8★ Three Kingdoms: Heroes, Territory and Power Strategy 朱良 海峡书局 · 2023 In the final years of the Eastern Han dynasty, the court was corrupt, natural disasters struck repeatedly, and the common people could barely survive.… Rating 3.7★ A Minimalist History of China Ma Yong 海峡书局 · 2023 China's history stretches back over millennia. In traditional historiography we have been accustomed to a China-centered approach, placing "Central Pl… Rating 4.0★ A Cultural History of China Through Its Dialects 郑子宁 海峡书局 · 2022 A Cultural History of China Through Its Dialects is a boxed set of Zheng Zining's trilogy exploring the Chinese language, comprising South and North T… Rating 4.0★ Southern Accents and Northern Tones: China in Dialects 郑子宁 海峡书局 · 2022 Three li, a different tune; ten li, a different accent. The regional dialects of "southern tunes and northern airs" are carriers of local culture and … Rating 3.9★ Qin and Han: The Rise and Fall of Empires (2 Volumes) 朱良 海峡书局 · 2022 Qin and Han were the beginning of China's great unified dynasties and laid the foundation for more than two thousand years of feudal rule. Grounded in… Rating 3.6★ The Masters Speak: Peking University Discourses Since 1898 杨虎 / 严敏杰 / 周婧 海峡书局 · 2022 “A university is not defined by its grand buildings but by its great scholars.” The soul of Peking University lives in the words and deeds of its mast… Rating 4.2★ Must-Read Series on Politics and Business: Zeng Guofan and Wang Yangming Tang Haoming / Yinshan Du 海峡书局 · 2021 Zeng Guofan: Tang Haoming Authorized Edition, Vols. 1–3. “If one does not become a sage, one becomes a beast.” Zeng Guofan’s life reached the utter pi… Rating 3.5★ Assassination 1905: Volume 2 巫童 海峡书局 · 2021 In 1905, the curtain slowly rose on the bloodiest 'age of assassination' in modern Chinese history: Sun Yat-sen founded the Assassination Bureau of th… The X Code He Ma 海峡书局 · 2015 The X Code is a suspense novel by He Ma following his Tibet Code, published by Haixia Publishing House in January 2015, about 330,000 characters long …Frequent authors
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