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)
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… Rating 4.4★ The Four Great Classics of Chinese Studies (4 Volumes) Confucius / Mencius (Mengzi) / Laozi / Zhuangzi (Zhuang Zhou) Flower City Publishing House · 2024 This set consists of 4 volumes, including The Analects and Mencius. The Analects is a collection of sayings recording the thoughts and deeds of Confuc… Rating 4.3★ Three Hundred Song Ci Poems 上彊村民 / 杨光治 Flower City Publishing House · 2024 The Three Hundred Song Ci Poems is an anthology of Song dynasty ci poetry compiled by the Qing dynasty literary figure Shangjiang Cunmin. As one of th… Rating 4.3★ Lady Chatterley's Lover D. H. Lawrence / Yang Hengda Flower City Publishing House · 2024 Lady Chatterley's Lover tells the love story between Connie, wife of the British aristocrat Clifford, and Mellors, a gamekeeper, in the years after th… Rating 4.3★ Thousand Cranes Kawabata Yasunari / 朱娅姣 Flower City Publishing House · 2024 Thousand Cranes is a representative work of Yasunari Kawabata. Kikuji Mitani's father had illicit relations with Chikako Kurimoto and Mrs. Ota during … Rating 4.3★ The Gift of the Magi O. Henry / 李彦 Flower City Publishing House · 2024 Maggie's Gift is a collection of O. Henry's short stories, featuring twenty-one representative works including The Cop and the Anthem, Maggie's Gift, … Rating 4.3★ The Flowers Have Not Slept Kawabata Yasunari / 陈德文 / 马钰涵 Flower City Publishing House · 2024 Flowers at Midnight is a classic work brimming with aesthetic sensibility and philosophical reflection. Waking at four in the morning, Yasunari Kawaba… Rating 4.3★ The Little Prince Quintet (5 Volumes) Antoine de Saint-Exupéry / Li Yumin Flower City Publishing House · 2024 The Little Prince Quintet comprises five works: The Little Prince, Southern Mail, Night Flight, Wind, Sand and Stars, and Flight to Arras. Through the… Rating 4.3★ The Izu Dancer Kawabata Yasunari / 朱娅姣 Flower City Publishing House · 2024 The Izu Dancer is a representative work by Yasunari Kawabata. The novella depicts a nineteen-year-old high school student who, to dispel an inexpressi… Rating 4.2★ Conversations with Gide André Gide / Li Yumin Flower City Publishing House · 2024 Gide Interviews records conversations with André Gide, winner of the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature. The talks range over philosophy, aesthetics, lite… Rating 4.2★ When One Reaches Middle Age 谌容 / 姜玉琴 Flower City Publishing House · 2024 Written in 1979, *Middle Age* is a realist work that hit a nerve and stirred enormous public reaction. Through the story of Lu Wenting, a middle-aged … Rating 4.2★ Dream of the Red Chamber (Youth Edition) Cao Xueqin / Mao Dun (Shen Dehong) / 戴敦邦 Flower City Publishing House · 2024 This book is an adaptation of the Chinese classical masterpiece Dream of the Red Chamber. The adapter is the renowned writer Mao Dun. Out of his love … Rating 4.1★ Laozi Laozi / 孙雍长 Flower City Publishing House · 2024 Laozi, also known as the Daodejing, the Five Thousand Words of Laozi, and the True Scripture of the Way and Its Virtue, runs to just over five thousan… Rating 4.0★ City of Memory 袁凌 Flower City Publishing House · 2024 A work of narrative nonfiction by acclaimed writer Yuan Ling, written in the form of an autobiographical novel. It recounts the years the protagonist … Rating 4.0★ A Sky Full of Rosy Clouds Wang Meng Flower City Publishing House · 2024 A collection of fiction by Wang Meng, comprising two recent works, Rosy Clouds Fill the Sky and Life and Death Love. The novella Rosy Clouds Fill the … Rating 4.0★ Hurry Up, Train Li Juan Flower City Publishing House · 2024 A poetry collection by the renowned essayist Li Juan. A train that departs and a train that arrives, a marmot in a forest burrow, an apple before the … Rating 4.0★ Self-Analysis Karen Horney / 孙洁 Flower City Publishing House · 2024 Self-Analysis is one of the representative works of the female psychologist Karen Horney. It discusses the feasibility and desirability of self-analys… Rating 4.0★ Like Wind, Like Jade Zhang Xin Flower City Publishing House · 2024 "如封似闭" is the ninth form of Wu-style tai chi, and it captures well the low-key, forbearing, forceful yet unshowy character of Guangzhou people. The fi… Rating 3.8★ The Wolf to Be Avoided 2: Incompatible Dream Demons Natsuhiko Kyogoku Flower City Publishing House · 2024 The Wolf to Be Avoided 2: Incompatible Dream Demons is the second full-length novel in Natsuhiko Kyogoku's The Wolf to Be Avoided series; its original… Rating 3.8★ Your Gaze 王威廉 Flower City Publishing House · 2024 He Zhiliang, a young optometrist, runs "Alloy Vision," a family-inherited eyewear shop in the Henggang International Eyewear City in Shenzhen. His ord…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)