SDX Joint Publishing Company
Also known as: 生活・讀書・新知三联书店, 生活·讀書·新知三联书店, 生活·讀書·新知三联書店, 生活·讀書·新知三聯書店, 生活.读书.新知三联书店, 生活﹒读书﹒新知三联书店, 生活．读书．新知三联书店, 生活·读书·新知三联书店有限公司, 生活·读书·新三联书店, 生活·读书·新知三联书店 / 生活书店出版有限公司
- Founded
- 1932
- Country / Region
- China
- Notable books
- A Study of the Nine-Rank System: Prehistory of the Imperial ExaminationThe ScholarsSelected Short Stories of Chekhov
About the publisher
SDX Joint Publishing Company is a publisher known for its humanities and social science titles, covering classics, culture, history, social fiction and politics. Its catalogue of 826 books includes Chinese and foreign literary classics such as The Scholars, Camel Xiangzi and Selected Short Stories of Chekhov, scholarly works such as Studies of Chinese Cave Temples, A Study of the Tuoba History (Revised Edition) and The Nine-Rank System: A Prehistory of the Imperial Examination, and translations such as Red Star Over China and Notes from the House of the Dead. Its authors include renowned Chinese and foreign writers such as Wu Jingzi, Lao She, Su Bai and Chekhov, as well as scholars and translators such as Chen Xiaoming, Wang Benhua, Guo Changbao and Zhu Xiansheng. Its publishing character lies in balancing the popularisation of classics with academic depth, with attention to textual quality and the transmission of knowledge.
Red Star Over China
SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2026
Red Star Over China is not only a work of documentary literature chronicling the course of the Chinese revolution, but also a mirror held up to the in…
Culture and Anarchy: Political and Social Criticism (Revised Translation)
SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2026
A leading figure of the Victorian era, Matthew Arnold abhorred the machine worship and utilitarianism that pervaded British society in his day, and he…
Springs Surge from the Earth: "Going to the People" and China's Cultural Re-creation in the 1920s
SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2026
Unlike previous approaches that confined the "Go to the People" movement within the disciplines of folklore and folk literature, or treated it as a mi…
Winter Is Coming: Notes on Television Dramas (Expanded Edition)
SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2026
This book collects Mao Jian's essays from the past two decades on Chinese and foreign TV dramas, expressing her hope for better works, directors, and …
Tracing the Origins of the Heavenly Calendar
SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2026
The book is titled Tianli Tanyuan, meaning an inquiry into the original form of ancient Chinese astronomy and calendrics. Drawing on archaeological fi…
This Man, This Land: The Life of Fei Xiaotong
SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2026
Fei Xiaotong was a founder and pioneer of sociology, anthropology, and ethnology in China. His works, including From the Soil, Peasant Life in China, …
Taking the Pulse: Global Upheaval and China's Economy
SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2026
The culmination of Professor Gao Bai's thinking and writing over the past decade. Using a highly interdisciplinary analytical framework, it dissects t…
The Unfinished Germ Warfare
SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2026
This work of narrative nonfiction, in five parts and 22 chapters totaling more than 600,000 Chinese characters, presents the unhealed historical wound…
Between Virtue and Rites: An Intellectual History of the Period Before the Hundred Schools of Thought
SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2026
The study of Chinese philosophy has traditionally begun with the flowering of the Hundred Schools in the late Spring and Autumn period, for Laozi and …
From Manet to Manhattan: The Rise of the Modern Art Market
SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2026
Drawing on a wealth of detailed material, this book offers a meticulous and vivid account of the art market's evolution from 1882 to the 1990s, provid…
The Abyss of Human Nature: The Wu Xieyu Case
SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2026
This book is not only a detailed, in-depth, full-course account of the Wu Xieyu case, but also an attempt to trace, along the dimension of time, the g…
On 'Overcoming Modernity'
SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2026
"Overcoming Modernity" is a famous controversy in the history of Japanese thought. It arose as a problem from the 1942 symposium of the same name conv…
Weighing the "Self": The Novel in Eighteenth-Century England (Revised Edition)
SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2026
The eighteenth century was a critical period in Britain's transformation from a traditional to a modern society. The growth of economic privatization …
Musicals You Understand at First Hearing
SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2026
A quick guide to the world's classic musicals, covering representative works from Britain, the United States, France, Germany and Austria, Russia, and…
The System of Territorial Jurisdiction: A Study of the Management System of Regional Military Commissions, Guards, and Battalions in the Ming Dynasty
SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2026
This book focuses on the management system of the Ming dynasty's regional military commissions (du si) and guard battalions (wei suo), a topic that ha…
Upstream Boat: Wang Xun and the Artistic Ideals of Modern China
SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2026
This is an academic biography of Wang Xun, a founding figure of the discipline of Chinese art history. Amid profound social change, Wang Xun studied u…
The Advent of the Planned Society: Rereading The Book of Great Unity
SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2026
Why is The Great Unity (Datong Shu) considered modern? What is its relationship to social change in twentieth-century China? As the first systematic u…
Understanding Politics: 27 Core Texts from Homer to Schmitt
SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2026
In an era of “grand politics,” where East and West collide and past and present illuminate each other, political scientists feel keenly the urgency of…
Understanding China: The Future of the Countryside and China's Modernization
SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2026
In this new book, He Xuefeng examines six aspects—peasants and China's modernization, the dramatic changes in rural society, the logic of rural govern…
A Century of Family Affairs: Four Generations of the Li Family in Linshui
SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2026
A Century of Family Life is not intended to erect monuments to the family's forebears or to sing their praises, but rather, through character sketches…
Frequent authors
Jin Yong (19)《三联生活周刊》编辑部 (18)Wang Dingjun (18)Lin Da (17)上海图书馆 (14)Qian Liqun (14)Chen Pingyuan (13)Yang Jiang (12)Yuan Yue (12)Ray Huang (12)Mao Haijian (11)Xin Deyong (11)