Hunan People's Publishing House
Also known as: 湖南人民
- Founded
- 1951
- Country / Region
- China
- Notable books
- The Classic Works of Fei XiaotongWhen the Stars of Humanity ShineA Dusty Dream of the Wilds
About the publisher
Hunan People's Publishing House is a publisher known for its strengths in the humanities and social sciences and in translated classic works. Its catalog covers biography, Eastern philosophy, philosophical reading, social fiction, classics, and essays, with a particular focus on introducing major foreign works of thought and literary classics. Representative titles include Stefan Zweig's Decisive Moments in History and The Struggle with the Daemon: Hölderlin, Kleist, Nietzsche, Albert Camus's The Myth of Sisyphus, Bertrand Russell's The Conquest of Happiness, and Seneca's On the Shortness of Life, alongside multiple volumes of selected fiction by Shen Congwen. Among the translators and authors represented are Liang Xijiang, Yuan Xiaoyi, Yi Siting, Pan Lu, and Ren Guoqiang. Beyond the 142 titles in this catalog, public information is limited, so no further publishing details are given here.
The Road to Happiness
Hunan People's Publishing House · 2026
The Conquest of Happiness is a classic work by the British philosopher Bertrand Russell. In this book, Russell discusses in accessible language his vi…
The Myth of Sisyphus
Hunan People's Publishing House · 2026
The Myth of Sisyphus is a philosophical treatise by the French author Albert Camus, and the central expression of his idea of the absurd. Across all o…
Selected Novels of Shen Congwen (Volume 2)
Hunan People's Publishing House · 2026
This volume collects Shen Congwen's classic novella Border Town, the short story Mountain Ghost, and the novella Long River. These works depict a colo…
Selected Novels of Shen Congwen (Volume 3)
Hunan People's Publishing House · 2026
This volume collects Shen Congwen's Jia Collection and 'A Mother'. These works depict a colorful world of western Hunan that no one had portrayed befo…
On the Shortness of Life
Hunan People's Publishing House · 2026
We truly live only a small portion of our lives. On the Shortness of Life collects five short essays by Seneca, the renowned thinker of ancient Rome's…
Selected Novels of Shen Congwen (Volume 1)
Hunan People's Publishing House · 2026
This volume collects Shen Congwen's novels Alice's Adventures in China and Alice's Adventures in China, Part II. The first is the literary master's ea…
Where Am I in History
Hunan People's Publishing House · 2026
Two-time Palme d'Or winner, former Yugoslav film director, actor and musician Emir Kusturica—born in Sarajevo in 1954 and one of the world's great fil…
Notes on Rebirth
Hunan People's Publishing House · 2026
The first-hand account of a cancer patient's journey from the depths of despair to gradual recovery. It is also a famous reporter's observation and an…
Twelve Lectures on Philosophy for Young People
Hunan People's Publishing House · 2026
This book is a philosophical primer written for young people by the German philosopher Karl Jaspers. It was originally a series of radio lectures in w…
A Grand Biography of Zhang Juzheng
Hunan People's Publishing House · 2026
Zhang Juzheng was an outstanding statesman of the Ming dynasty and one of the famous reformers in Chinese history. Starting from an ordinary family in…
Biography of Zhu Yuanzhang
Hunan People's Publishing House · 2026
This is the edition Wu Han completed in 1948, when his mind was free, his ideas lively, and his language vivid, and he was in his prime. In his hands,…
Roaming the World and Living Naturally: A Critical Biography of Zhuangzi
Hunan People's Publishing House · 2026
Zhuangzi was a great thinker of the mid-Warring States period. Many of the questions he cared about still exist in the contemporary era, and his think…
Biography of Zhu Yuanzhang
Hunan People's Publishing House · 2026
A masterpiece by the great Ming historian Wu Han, thirty years in the making, recreating the turbulent legend of the Ming dynasty at a time of great e…
Essays on Happiness
Hunan People's Publishing House · 2026
Propos sur le bonheur is the representative work of Alain, the renowned French philosopher and aesthetician. It comprises ninety-three short, finely h…
Selected Essays of Shen Congwen (Volume 1)
Hunan People's Publishing House · 2026
This volume collects Shen Congwen's essays, including 'New Clearings,' 'Miscellaneous Talks on Creation,' 'Miscellaneous Talks on the Literary Movemen…
Selected Essays of Shen Congwen (Volume 2)
Hunan People's Publishing House · 2026
This volume collects Shen Congwen's essays 'Clouds and Water' and 'Foam,' among others. It is the most authoritative edition currently on the market, …
Making Clothes (New Edition)
Hunan People's Publishing House · 2026
Yohji Yamamoto is a unique presence in the world of fashion. Yet in interpretations of Yamamoto, his avant-garde ideas are often magnified while the c…
A General Course on Ancient Greek Thought: Thucydides
Hunan People's Publishing House · 2026
In 431 BC, the two great camps within the Greek world plunged into the Peloponnesian War, which would last twenty-seven years. In this far-reaching co…
Selected Essays of Shen Congwen (Volume 3)
Hunan People's Publishing House · 2026
This volume collects Shen Congwen's works including 'The Autobiography of Congwen,' 'Western Hunan,' and 'New Scenes and Old Friends.' It is the most …
Biography of Su Dongpo
Hunan People's Publishing House · 2026
Su Dongpo was renowned throughout the world for his prose, yet his official career was fraught with hardship and repeated persecution; through it all,…
Frequent authors
Chen Pingyuan (18)Yuan Tengfei (8)杨昊鸥 (6)Shen Congwen (6)He Huaihong (5)Stefan Zweig (5)Yataro Matsuura (5)钟连城 (5)Qian Liqun (5)Wu Han (4)Tiancan Tudou (4)蒂莫西·泰勒 (4)