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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)

Daddy-Long-Legs (Yilin Classics Audio Edition) cover
Rating 4.4
Daddy-Long-Legs (Yilin Classics Audio Edition) 简·韦伯斯特 Yilin Press · 2020 Promote reading for all and build a reading society. Reading should start with children, so that they love reading from an early age and enjoy it.
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Rating 4.3
The Mysterious Island Jules Verne Yilin Press · 2020 The Mysterious Island is the concluding work of French writer Jules Verne's "Voyages Extraordinaires" trilogy (preceded by The Children of Captain Gra…
Two Hearts cover
Rating 4.3
Two Hearts Lu Xun Yilin Press · 2020 Two Hearts is a collection of essays by Lu Xun, gathering his essays written between 1930 and 1931.
The Death and Life of Great American Cities cover
Rating 4.3
The Death and Life of Great American Cities Jane Jacobs Yilin Press · 2020 The Death and Life of Great American Cities is a classic of urban studies published by Jane Jacobs in 1961. Jacobs was not an academic planner but a j…
Meat Lover (Chef He's Private Kitchen) cover
Rating 4.2
Meat Lover (Chef He's Private Kitchen) 贺鹏飞 Yilin Press · 2020 "Master He's Private Kitchen: Crazy About Meat" brings you a rich and unique array of dishes—one book is all you need to eat your way across the count…
The Story of Weeds (Collector's Edition) cover
Rating 4.2
The Story of Weeds (Collector's Edition) Richard Mabey Yilin Press · 2020 The Story of Weeds is the representative work of the British natural history writer Richard Mabey, a book-length essay exploring the relationship betw…
The Thoreau Collection: Walden & Excursions cover
Rating 4.2
The Thoreau Collection: Walden & Excursions Henry David Thoreau Yilin Press · 2020 This collection brings together two representative works by the American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau, in Chinese translations by Zhong Ze. Z…
Bushido cover
Rating 4.2
Bushido 新渡户稻造 Yilin Press · 2020 *Bushido* was written in English by the author in 1899 while he was recuperating in Pennsylvania, out of a sense that foreigners knew little of Japan'…
Collected Works of Lü Simian: Seven Works on Historiography and Historical Records cover
Rating 4.1
Collected Works of Lü Simian: Seven Works on Historiography and Historical Records Lü Simian Yilin Press · 2020 This volume brings together seven works by Lü Simian: Methods of Historical Research, Historical Records and Historiography, How to Read Chinese Histo…
With the Old Breed: The Battle for Okinawa in the Pacific War cover
Rating 4.1
With the Old Breed: The Battle for Okinawa in the Pacific War E. B. Sledge Yilin Press · 2020 This book is the war memoir of E. B. Sledge (1923–2001), a veteran of the United States Marine Corps, originally published in English as With the Old …
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Rating 4.1
Leaving the Small Town Lu Ming Yilin Press · 2020 In the 1980s and 1990s, a group of Shanghai people swept along by the times arrived in a small Jiangnan town near Shanghai. They came from northern Ji…
Master He's Chinese Cuisine: Home-Style Fujian Dishes cover
Rating 4.1
Master He's Chinese Cuisine: Home-Style Fujian Dishes 贺鹏飞 Yilin Press · 2020 Home-Style Fujian Cuisine is a cookbook of everyday Fujian dishes, covering classics such as beef with sand-ginger sauce and lotus root, shredded chic…
Gravity's Rainbow cover
Rating 3.8
Gravity's Rainbow 托马斯·品钦 Yilin Press · 2020 Gravity's Rainbow is a novel by the American writer Thomas Pynchon, published in 1973. It is widely regarded as a classic of postmodern literature and…
The Country of the Pointed Firs cover
Rating 3.8
The Country of the Pointed Firs Sarah Orne Jewett Yilin Press · 2020 The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896), a representative work by the American woman writer Sarah Orne Jewett, is a classic of American regional litera…
Japan Sinks cover
Rating 3.8
Japan Sinks Sakyo Komatsu Yilin Press · 2020 Japan Sinks is a full-length masterpiece by the Japanese science fiction writer Sakyo Komatsu, published in Japan in 1973. The novel opens with a smal…
Flame (VLAM): In Memory of Hugo Claus cover
Rating 3.6
Flame (VLAM): In Memory of Hugo Claus 儒勒·米什莱 / 徐知免 Yilin Press · 2020 Includes Hugo Claus's life and career, introductions to his poetry, painting, and film, a summary and advance preview of The Sorrow of Belgium, import…
Facing and Growing: A Psychological Guide for Students Fighting the Epidemic cover
Rating 3.6
Facing and Growing: A Psychological Guide for Students Fighting the Epidemic 尹璞 Yilin Press · 2020 This handbook addresses the current stage of the pandemic—as parents gradually return to work and children stay home for online classes—offering pract…
Home-style Shandong Cuisine (Master He's Chinese Cuisine) cover
Rating 3.3
Home-style Shandong Cuisine (Master He's Chinese Cuisine) 加贝 Yilin Press · 2020 This book is a cookbook of home-style Shandong cuisine, presenting classic dishes such as Xiaosu Rou (crispy fried pork), Jiaodong stir-fry, Jinan baz…
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A History of Scotland Neil Oliver Yilin Press · 2020 A History of Scotland is a general history written by the Scottish archaeologist and veteran BBC documentary presenter Neil Oliver. The Chinese editio…
Lark English Classics of World Literature, Series II cover
Lark English Classics of World Literature, Series II Carson McCullers / John Steinbeck / F. Scott Fitzgerald / George Orwell / 詹姆斯·希尔顿 / Lewis Carroll / Daniel Defoe / Robert Louis Stevenson / Oscar Wilde / 詹姆斯·马修·巴里 Yilin Press · 2020 Lark English Classics of World Literature is a series of original English-language classics launched by Yilin Press under the "Yili Library · Lark Eng…

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)