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Flower City Publishing House

Also known as: 花城出版社等, 花城出版公司

Founded
1981
Country / Region
China
Notable books
Call to ArmsAnna Karenina (2 Volumes)The Analects

255 books 222 authors

About the publisher

Flower City Publishing House focuses on literary publishing, covering categories such as classic works, foreign literature, folk literature, Eastern philosophy, essays and miscellaneous writings, and social novels. Representative books in the library include Lu Xun's Call to Arms, Lao She's Camel Xiangzi and Four Generations Under One Roof, editions related to Confucius's The Analects, and Chinese translations of foreign classics such as Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities. Its author resources include classic writers such as Lu Xun, Lao She, and Confucius, as well as translators and scholars such as Li Gang, Chen Puqing, and Zhang Ling. The publisher's characteristic approach is to organize editions around literary classics and celebrated Chinese and foreign works, while also including folk literature and Eastern philosophy titles. Public information is limited, so this introduction emphasizes the publishing directions reflected in the books held in the library.

Published (255)

Teahouse cover
Rating 4.8
Teahouse Lao She Flower City Publishing House · 2024 This volume collects the plays Teahouse and Longxu Ditch, along with seventeen classic essays by Lao She. Teahouse is structured in three acts, set ag…
Selected Works of Lu Xun: Fiction cover
Rating 4.7
Selected Works of Lu Xun: Fiction Lu Xun / Lin Xianzhi Flower City Publishing House · 2024 This volume presents Lin Xianzhi's selection of the most representative and crucial pieces from The Complete Works of Lu Xun, including "A Madman's Di…
Zhuangzi cover
Rating 4.7
Zhuangzi Zhuangzi (Zhuang Zhou) / 孙雍长 Flower City Publishing House · 2024 Also known as the Nanhua Zhenjing (True Scripture of Southern Florescence), Zhuangzi was written by Zhuangzi, a leading figure of the Daoist school in…
The Myth of Sisyphus cover
Rating 4.7
The Myth of Sisyphus Albert Camus / Li Yumin Flower City Publishing House · 2024 The Myth of Sisyphus is a philosophical essay by the French writer Albert Camus, an intensive and concentrated examination and a lucid, thorough expos…
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Rating 4.6
The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Miller Hemingway / 李思伊 / 孙春霞 / 王晓伟 / Liu Chang Flower City Publishing House · 2024 On the eighty-fourth consecutive day without a catch, Santiago, an old Cuban fisherman, finally hooks a giant marlin single-handedly. But the fish is …
Selected Works of Lu Xun: Prose, Prose Poems, Poetry, and Letters cover
Rating 4.6
Selected Works of Lu Xun: Prose, Prose Poems, Poetry, and Letters Lu Xun / Lin Xianzhi Flower City Publishing House · 2024 This volume is one of the titles in Lin Xianzhi's annotated edition of Selected Works of Lu Xun, with selections drawn from Dawn Blossoms Plucked at D…
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Rating 4.6
Mencius Mencius (Mengzi) / 陈蒲清 Flower City Publishing House · 2024 Mencius was compiled by Mencius and his disciples, recording his debates with thinkers of other schools and covering politics, economics, philosophy, …
Selected Works of Lu Xun: Random Thoughts I cover
Rating 4.6
Selected Works of Lu Xun: Random Thoughts I Lu Xun / Lin Xianzhi Flower City Publishing House · 2024 This volume is one of the Annotated Selected Works of Lu Xun series, edited and annotated by Lin Xianzhi. It includes such essays as "How We Should Be…
Biography of Beethoven cover
Rating 4.6
Biography of Beethoven Romain Rolland / Fu Lei / 周淑欣 / 杨周原 Flower City Publishing House · 2024 Beethoven is one of the representative works of the renowned French writer Romain Rolland, chronicling the life of the great composer Beethoven. Beeth…
Zuo Zhuan cover
Rating 4.6
Zuo Zhuan Zuo Qiuming / 叶农 Flower City Publishing House · 2024 Zuo Zhuan, originally titled Zuo Shi Chun Qiu and also known as Chun Qiu Zuo Shi Zhuan, is traditionally attributed to Zuo Qiuming, a historiographer …
Snow Country cover
Rating 4.6
Snow Country Kawabata Yasunari / 朱娅姣 Flower City Publishing House · 2024 Snow Country is a representative work by Yasunari Kawabata. Shimamura, a Tokyo researcher of dance art, leaves his wife and children to travel to Snow…
The Great Ming Dynasty 1566 cover
Rating 4.6
The Great Ming Dynasty 1566 Liu Heping Flower City Publishing House · 2024 The crowning work of Liu Heping, screenwriter of Yongzheng Dynasty and author of All Quiet in Peking. Centered on the campaign to topple Yan Song, it …
Selected Works of Lu Xun: Random Thoughts II cover
Rating 4.6
Selected Works of Lu Xun: Random Thoughts II Lu Xun / Lin Xianzhi Flower City Publishing House · 2024 This volume is one of the Annotated Selected Works of Lu Xun series, edited and annotated by Lin Xianzhi. The pieces are drawn from such collections a…
The Republic cover
Rating 4.5
The Republic Plato / 一丁 Flower City Publishing House · 2024 The Republic is a philosophical classic by Plato. Through dialogues between Socrates and interlocutors such as Glaucon, Thrasymachus, and Adeimantus, …
Jung's Autobiography: Memories, Dreams, Reflections cover
Rating 4.5
Jung's Autobiography: Memories, Dreams, Reflections Carl Gustav Jung / 一丁 Flower City Publishing House · 2024 The Jung Autobiography is written by the master of analytical psychology Jung at the age of 83, encompassing his experiences in youth, his observation…
Gone with the Wind (Complete 2 Volumes) cover
Rating 4.5
Gone with the Wind (Complete 2 Volumes) Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell / 刘英凯 / 刘路易 Flower City Publishing House · 2024 This book is an epic work chronicling social life and love during the American Civil War, focusing on the experiences and feelings of the women left b…
Kawabata Yasunari Tetralogy (Chuangmei Library) cover
Rating 4.5
Kawabata Yasunari Tetralogy (Chuangmei Library) Kawabata Yasunari / 朱娅姣 Flower City Publishing House · 2024 The Kawabata Yasunari Quartet comprises four representative works: Snow Country, The Old Capital, Thousand Cranes, and The Izu Dancer. Snow Country, T…
Common Talks on the Classics cover
Rating 4.5
Common Talks on the Classics Zhu Ziqing Flower City Publishing House · 2024 Jingdian Changtan (Common Talks on the Classics) is an important fruit of Zhu Ziqing's research and teaching in Chinese classical studies. It consists…
The Razor's Edge cover
Rating 4.5
The Razor's Edge W. Somerset Maugham / 王纪卿 Flower City Publishing House · 2024 The Razor's Edge is a classic work of philosophical reflection by W. Somerset Maugham, in which he distills his thoughts on the world and on life. Lar…
The Old Capital cover
Rating 4.4
The Old Capital Kawabata Yasunari / 朱娅姣 Flower City Publishing House · 2024 The Old Capital is a representative work of Yasunari Kawabata. Chieko, an abandoned child, was taken in and raised by the merchant Takichiro and his w…

Frequent authors

Lu Xun (15)Li Juan (12)黄治军 (11)Li Yumin (10)Yi Shu (7)老甄 (7)Kawabata Yasunari (6)朱娅姣 (6)Lin Xianzhi (6)André Gide (5)Franz Kafka (4)Zhuangzi (Zhuang Zhou) (4)