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.

Published (1136)

Rating 4.2★ Examples of Chinese Literary Appreciation 傅庚生 SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2025 This book is one volume in the "Everyone's Little Book" series: rigorous and substantial, with nothing flashy about it. Its author is a true "master" … Rating 4.2★ Mao Zedong's Reading History Chen Jin SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2025 Mao Zedong's reading history reflects, from one angle, the history of his spiritual growth, intellectual development, ideological elevation, and the j… Rating 4.1★ 唯有书香留岁痕 侯仁之 SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2025 This collection brings together selected writings and representative translations by Hou Renzhi, from his middle-school years to his nineties, grouped… Rating 4.1★ The Way of Qiaocun: Moral Authority and Social Structure in a Transforming Countryside 谭同学 SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2025 Based on rich fieldwork materials, this book provides a detailed narrative and analysis of the history of a Han village in Hunan Province and the life… Rating 4.1★ Manufacturing Intangible Cultural Heritage: The Song of the Mountain Eagle and Other Stories from the United Nations 瓦尔迪马·哈夫斯泰因 / 闾人 / 马莲 SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2025 The folk song "El Cóndor Pasa," originating in the Quechua region of South America, was once covered by Paul Simon and included on his album Bridge ov… Rating 4.1★ Trans-Subjectivity Zhao Tingyang SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2025 Subjectivity is one of the most modern of concepts—almost modernity itself. It begins with Descartes and is completed by Kant. Its ontological unit is… Rating 4.1★ Volunteer Culture Series: Tao Xingzhi Volume Qian Liqun SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2025 Before this, China had been imitating foreign models somewhat blindly. At first, in order to learn the new, it discarded everything old. By now, it ha… Rating 4.1★ Republican Beijing: History and Nostalgia 董玥 SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2025 The three parts of this book examine the spatial transformation of Republican Beijing, the material life of the city, and the representation of Republ… Rating 4.1★ Good Family Instructions Passed Down 韩昇 SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2025 This book breaks away from the didactic or text-exegetical approach that focuses on individual ancient family instructions. Instead, it distills the e… Rating 4.1★ The Golden Age of Russian Literature: From Pushkin to Chekhov 张建华 SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2025 A "latecomer" lagging at least 100 years behind Western European literature—how did it achieve its reversal? Why does Russian literature have such sou… Rating 4.1★ A Lover's Eye Wang Dingjun SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2025 Frankly, this book—a wintry river scene rendered in words—belongs in a gallery labeled "Not for Sale." A spring issuing from the hills runs on in a th… Rating 4.1★ Barbarian Skies and Han Moons Shine on the West: Three Thousand Years of the Silk Road's Vicissitudes Zhang Guogang SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2025 The Silk Road is a broad concept: the greatest thoroughfare of the premodern Eurasian continent, it linked the major centers of civilization throughou… Rating 4.1★ The Correspondence of Chen Yuan (Expanded Edition) 陈智超 SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2025 Originally published in 1990, this collection was highly valued by scholars of Mr. Yuan'an (Chen Yuan) and by all those concerned with related histori… Rating 4.1★ The Fall of Chu: From Xiang Yu to Han Xin 李开元 SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2025 In his Records of the Grand Historian, Sima Qian composed the timeless epic of the struggle between Chu and Han. In that age of heroes, from the upris… Rating 4.1★ Silk Road Studies (Volume 2) 中国人民大学国学院 / 中国人民大学国家发展与战略研究院 SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2025 The Silk Road was a route of transport and trade, closely tied to China and also connected to other countries across Eurasia; the flourishing of Silk … Rating 4.1★ A Historical Study of the Formation of the East Asian World (New Edition) 韩昇 SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2025 This book will undoubtedly play a very important role in helping Chinese readers understand the history of the formation of the East Asian world. It n… Rating 4.1★ Tolerance Hendrik Willem van Loon / 胡允桓 SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2025 In the quiet Valley of Ignorance, people lived a happy life. The eternal mountains stretched away in every direction—east, west, north, and south. The… Rating 4.1★ Tu Moto Looks at the World Yuan Yue SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2025 Travel to the roof of the world and experience the lonely beauty of the far north; venture to Antarctica and explore humanity's last frontier. Visit C… Rating 4.1★ The 1980s: Six Notes on Fiction Cai Xiang SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2025 Through literature, this book redraws the social turning points and intellectual landscape of the 1980s and proposes the idea of “two 1980s.” The firs… Rating 4.1★ Stories and Books, by Sun Li Sun Li SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2025 In his later years, Sun Li took exceptional care with the structure of his writing, attending to its opening, development, turn, and conclusion, and e…

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