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 3.7★ Hidden in Painting 王为政 Flower City Publishing House · 2024 More than twelve hundred years ago, Du Fu witnessed Cao Ba painting horses and left behind the line "He washed away all the ordinary horses of all age… Rating 3.7★ When Socrates Meets Confucius: A Dialogue Across Time and Space Between Greek and Chinese Thinkers 赫里斯托斯·卡夫德拉尼斯 / 刘瑞洪 Flower City Publishing House · 2024 In the Axial Age of civilization, Greece and China produced a great many thinkers and philosophers whose ideas shaped more than two thousand years of … Rating 3.6★ The Tang Dynasty in Tang Poetry 章雪峰 Flower City Publishing House · 2024 Read Tang history through Tang poetry, and understand Tang poetry through Tang history. A popular history for general readers by Zhang Xuefeng, a writ… Rating 3.6★ Fish on Land 徐畅 Flower City Publishing House · 2024 A collection of novellas and short stories by post-90s author Xu Chang, one of the fourth series of "Sharp Fiction." Among the nine stories, one stran… Rating 3.5★ Nostalgia of the Greater Bay 盛慧 Flower City Publishing House · 2024 A beautifully written and richly textured collection of humanistic essays. Drawing on field visits and interviews in over fifty representative ancient… Rating 3.4★ Tongle Street 吴君 Flower City Publishing House · 2024 Life accompanying life, life influencing life—this is a story about awakening and guidance. The forty-year transformation of Tongle Street and its com… Rating 3.3★ The Forgotten Soul 吴帆 Flower City Publishing House · 2024 In 1917, Zhang Delun, a well-educated young man from a wealthy family in a small northern town, flees an arranged marriage on his wedding night and jo… Rating 3.3★ The Tide of the Pearl River 陈玺 Flower City Publishing House · 2024 Set against the decades-long social evolution of mainland China and Hong Kong, this novel uses an ensemble cast to portray the tumultuous years of ref… Rating 3.3★ Mao Zedong's Art of War 孔见 Flower City Publishing House · 2024 This is an accessible reader that systematically presents Mao Zedong's military practice and thought. Approaching from the perspective of military cul… Rating 3.3★ Extremely Catchy Northeastern Dialect 马晓晴 Flower City Publishing House · 2024 The Northeast doesn't do introverts—come see how the talkative, quick-witted Northeasterners chat! This is a collection of cultural essays exploring t… Rating 3.1★ Gazing at the Wilderness 张振兴 Flower City Publishing House · 2024 A novel that, through realistic narrative, recreates rural life on the Loess Plateau of eastern Gansu in northwest China over more than three decades,… Rating 3.0★ Trial and Error 枪泥 Flower City Publishing House · 2024 Trial and Error is a work of nonfiction that faithfully captures the reality of internet entrepreneurship. It tells how the author, Qiang Ni, and his … Rating 3.0★ The Courtyard Wall of the Hexagonal Pavilion Has Collapsed 从前 Flower City Publishing House · 2024 Four stories about Wuhan, a fantastical journey of the spirit. This book collects four novellas by the author. "Twelve Young Masters" is a tribute to … Rating 3.0★ I Am Not a Village Official 三生三笑 Flower City Publishing House · 2024 Women hold up half the sky—a saying borne out across China's vast countryside. Gu Xiaonan, a college-graduate village official, comes from a rural fam… Rating 4.8★ The Sheep's Path: Summer Pasture in the Deep Mountains Li Juan Flower City Publishing House · 2023 “They are the world’s last truly nomadic people. They choose to disappear into the remotest corner of the earth, moving with the water and grass. From… Rating 4.8★ The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry / Li Yumin Flower City Publishing House · 2023 The Little Prince is the enduring masterpiece of the legendary French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. A little prince from a distant planet quarrels … Rating 4.7★ Tales of Hulan River Xiao Hong Flower City Publishing House · 2023 A representative work of Xiao Hong's novels, "Tales of Hulan River" recalls the people and scenes of her hometown to express the author's rejection of… Rating 4.7★ The Trial Franz Kafka / 宁瑛 Flower City Publishing House · 2023 The Trial is Kafka's masterpiece in the novel form. K, a bank deputy manager, is suddenly arrested one day, yet no charge is announced and he remains … Rating 4.7★ The Stranger Albert Camus / Li Yumin Flower City Publishing House · 2023 The Stranger is the novel that made Camus's name and a masterpiece of existentialist literature, as well as a defining work of the absurd. It tells of… Rating 4.7★ The Sheep's Path: Summer Pasture in the Front Mountains Li Juan Flower City Publishing House · 2023 "This is the world's last truly nomadic people. Content to lie low in the remotest corner of the world, moving with the water and grass. From the wild…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)