Yilin Press

Also known as: 译林出版社 凤凰出版传媒股份有限公司, 译林出版社 凤凰出版传媒集团, 译林出版, 凤凰传媒出版集团 译林出版社

Founded
1988
Country / Region
China
Notable books
Mourning the BreastsThe Interpretation of CulturesUnder the Medieval Starry Sky

936 books 617 authors

About the publisher

Yilin Press focuses mainly on translated foreign literature. Its current catalogue of 318 titles covers common categories such as mystery and detective fiction, foreign literature, world classics, biography, and social novels. Representative books include The Complete Sherlock Holmes 2: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Pride and Prejudice, To the Lighthouse, The Great Gatsby, The Grapes of Wrath, and Lives of the Artists: Michelangelo, often presented in bilingual or English-language editions that serve both original-text reading and language learning. Its author resources include foreign writers such as Arthur Conan Doyle, Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, and Romain Rolland, as well as translators including Li Jiazhen, Gao Fen, and Ma Ye. The catalogue also includes Chinese works such as Li Jieren's Ripples Across Stagnant Water. The press shows a concentrated publishing strength in foreign classics and bilingual readers; given limited public information, this overview is based only on catalogue data.

Published (936)

Faint Ripples in Stagnant Water cover
Rating 4.7
Faint Ripples in Stagnant Water Li Jieren Yilin Press · 2026 Set in western Sichuan during the late Qing, from the aftermath of the First Sino-Japanese War to the signing of the Boxer Protocol, Ripples in Stagna…
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn cover
Rating 4.6
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 贝蒂·史密斯 / 陈海滨 Yilin Press · 2026 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is an autobiographical novel by American author Betty Smith, first published in 1943 and widely regarded as a literary classi…
Jung's Autobiography: Memories, Dreams, Reflections (Jung's Works) cover
Rating 4.5
Jung's Autobiography: Memories, Dreams, Reflections (Jung's Works) Carl Gustav Jung / 刘国彬 / 杨德友 Yilin Press · 2026 This book is the memoir of Carl Jung, master of analytical psychology. From his experiences in adolescence to what he saw and heard in adulthood, from…
Before the Storm cover
Rating 4.5
Before the Storm Li Jieren Yilin Press · 2026 Preceded by Ripples Across Stagnant Water, Before the Storm continues the historical arc with Chengdu from the signing of the Boxer Protocol to the ev…
The Field of Life and Death cover
Rating 4.4
The Field of Life and Death Xiao Hong Yilin Press · 2026 Reading The Field of Life and Death, you can almost smell the blood, earth, and sweat of the black soil. Xiao Hong's prose is like a sharp scalpel, la…
A Mirror of Moral Education cover
Rating 4.3
A Mirror of Moral Education Liang Qichao Yilin Press · 2026 This is a moral-cultivation reader compiled by Liang Qichao in 1905 and first published in The New Citizen. Its contents are divided into six sections…
Psychology and Literature cover
Rating 4.3
Psychology and Literature Carl Gustav Jung / 冯川 / 苏克 Yilin Press · 2026 Psychology and Literature is a work in which Jung discusses problems of art and aesthetics. In it he sets out his analysis of modern art, his psycholo…
A Solo Journey Before Marriage cover
Rating 3.5
A Solo Journey Before Marriage 孙明一 Yilin Press · 2026 This is a contemporary urban love story. The heroine once believed in the man who could bring her happiness, but now he has become a "pie-in-the-sky g…
After Buying a House, Before Getting Married cover
Rating 3.5
After Buying a House, Before Getting Married 孙明一 Yilin Press · 2026 After Buying a Home, Before Getting Married is a contemporary Chinese novel by Sun Mingyi. The apartment is so big—where does love fit? The love story…
A Delicate Heart, Promised to You cover
Rating 3.4
A Delicate Heart, Promised to You 莲沐初光 Yilin Press · 2026 Ning Qingru, a poor young woman, weaves a lie to deceive the young master Meng Jiahe in order to make a living from her illustration fees. When Meng d…
Don't Let AI Eliminate You cover
Rating 3.1
Don't Let AI Eliminate You 孙惠民 Yilin Press · 2026 As the AI wave sweeps across the world, anxiety over whether humans will be replaced has become a collective theme of our time. This book does not set…
While Young, Open a Little Café cover
Rating 2.9
While Young, Open a Little Café 马超 Yilin Press · 2026 Quitting steady jobs to start businesses, the post-80s generation opened the "Post-80s Nostalgia Theme Café" in Changchun and Tangshan, attracting cou…
Mourning the Breasts cover
Rating 4.9
Mourning the Breasts 西西 Yilin Press · 2025 Mourning the Breasts is an autobiographical novel by Hong Kong writer Xi Xi, based on her own experience of being diagnosed with breast cancer, underg…
Demons cover
Rating 4.8
Demons (俄国)费奥多尔·陀斯妥耶夫斯基 Yilin Press · 2025 Demons (Russian: Бекы, also translated as The Devils) is a novel by Dostoevsky published in 1872, one of the "five major novels" alongside Crime and P…
The Interpretation of Cultures cover
Rating 4.8
The Interpretation of Cultures Clifford Geertz Yilin Press · 2025 The Interpretation of Cultures is the magnum opus of the American anthropologist Clifford Geertz (1926–2006), first published in 1973. Regarded as the…
Under the Medieval Starry Sky cover
Rating 4.8
Under the Medieval Starry Sky 包慧怡 Yilin Press · 2025 Under the Medieval Starry Sky is a collection of scholarly essays by the scholar and poet Bao Huiyi, following her earlier book The Scriptorium, publi…
The Sparrows versus the Wolf Pack: The Wargame That Turned the Tide of War cover
Rating 4.7
The Sparrows versus the Wolf Pack: The Wargame That Turned the Tide of War Simon Parkin Yilin Press · 2025 In the darkest years of World War II, German U-boats hunted in packs across the Atlantic under the "wolf pack" tactic, sinking Allied merchant ships i…
Life of Michelangelo: Chinese-English Bilingual Edition cover
Rating 4.7
Life of Michelangelo: Chinese-English Bilingual Edition Romain Rolland / Fu Lei Yilin Press · 2025 Michelangelo is a bilingual Chinese-English edition, a biography of Michelangelo, one of the three great masters of the High Renaissance, and one of t…
Churchill's Memoirs of the Second World War 12: The Iron Curtain cover
Rating 4.6
Churchill's Memoirs of the Second World War 12: The Iron Curtain Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill Yilin Press · 2025 This volume recounts the sweeping history of the final phase of World War II, as the Allied victory drew near: the successful convening of the Yalta C…
The Bear and the Paving Stone cover
Rating 4.6
The Bear and the Paving Stone Yoko Tawada Yilin Press · 2025 The Bear and the Paving Stone is a representative novel by the Japanese writer Yoko Tawada, originally published in Japanese as Yuki no renshūsei; it …

Frequent authors

He Feng (27)Lao She (25)Wang Shouren (20)W. Somerset Maugham (15)Jules Verne (14)Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (13)Zhu Shenghao (12)Jane Austen (12)William Shakespeare (12)Arthur Conan Doyle (12)Rao Xueman (11)方华文 (10)