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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)

Stories of Your Life cover
Rating 4.3
Stories of Your Life Ted Chiang Yilin Press · 2019 Stories of Your Life is a short-story collection by the Chinese American science fiction writer Ted Chiang, gathering eight of his early stories and s…
Isaiah Berlin: A Life cover
Rating 4.3
Isaiah Berlin: A Life Michael Ignatieff Yilin Press · 2019 Isaiah Berlin: A Life is a biography of the twentieth-century British philosopher and historian of ideas Isaiah Berlin by the Canadian political think…
The Ballad of the Sad Café cover
Rating 4.3
The Ballad of the Sad Café Carson McCullers Yilin Press · 2019 The Ballad of the Sad Café is a collection of short fiction by American writer Carson McCullers, published in a bilingual English-Chinese edition. It …
Robinson Crusoe (Yilin Classics Audio Edition) cover
Rating 4.3
Robinson Crusoe (Yilin Classics Audio Edition) Daniel Defoe Yilin Press · 2019 This series selects classics of foreign children's literature and Chinese classics, inviting a well-known domestic team of supplementary-textbook writ…
Clever Pastimes: Maugham on English Literature (Bilingual Yilin · Yili Library) cover
Rating 4.3
Clever Pastimes: Maugham on English Literature (Bilingual Yilin · Yili Library) W. Somerset Maugham / Li Boting Yilin Press · 2019 Smart Diversions: Maugham on English Literature is drawn mainly from three important prose works by W. Somerset Maugham—Books and You, Ten Novels and …
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Rating 4.3
Hamlet (Bilingual Chinese-English Collector's Edition) William Shakespeare / Zhu Shenghao Yilin Press · 2019 Hamlet is the pinnacle of Shakespeare's tragedies and one of his four great tragedies. In intellectual content it reaches unprecedented depth and brea…
The Lottery: Selected Short Stories by Shirley Jackson (Bilingual Yilin · Yili Library) cover
Rating 4.2
The Lottery: Selected Short Stories by Shirley Jackson (Bilingual Yilin · Yili Library) 雪莉·杰克逊 / 刘永权 Yilin Press · 2019 "The Lottery" is Shirley Jackson's signature work, revealing a hidden and perilous side of an idyllic American small town—one of the most terrifying s…
Romeo and Juliet (Bilingual Chinese-English Collector's Edition) cover
Rating 4.2
Romeo and Juliet (Bilingual Chinese-English Collector's Edition) William Shakespeare / Zhu Shenghao Yilin Press · 2019 Romeo and Juliet is a play by the English playwright William Shakespeare. It tells of the love at first sight between Romeo, son of Montague, and Juli…
The Blue Bird (Yilin Classics Audio Edition) cover
Rating 4.2
The Blue Bird (Yilin Classics Audio Edition) Maurice Maeterlinck Yilin Press · 2019 This series selects classics of foreign children's literature and Chinese classics, and invites well-known domestic supplementary-teaching writers to …
An Elephant Sitting Still cover
Rating 4.2
An Elephant Sitting Still Hu Qian Yilin Press · 2019 When making films he was called Hu Bo; when writing fiction he was called Hu Qian. These two identities ran through his creative career and finally ov…
The Blue Bird cover
Rating 4.2
The Blue Bird Maurice Maeterlinck / 若尔热特·勒布朗 Yilin Press · 2019 The Blue Bird is a philosophical fairy tale about seeking happiness with the soul, presented in a Chinese-English bilingual edition. The story is set …
The Story of Reynard the Fox (Yilin Classics Audio Edition) cover
Rating 4.2
The Story of Reynard the Fox (Yilin Classics Audio Edition) 玛特·艾·吉罗夫人 Yilin Press · 2019 This series selects classics of foreign children's literature and Chinese classics, inviting renowned domestic educational writers to adapt and interp…
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Rating 4.2
The Field of Life and Death Xiao Hong Yilin Press · 2019 The Field of Life and Death is a classic novel by Xiao Hong that endures through the ages. It offers a thorough and profound interpretation of the age…
Home-Style Dishes (Chef He's Private Kitchen) cover
Rating 4.2
Home-Style Dishes (Chef He's Private Kitchen) 贺鹏飞 Yilin Press · 2019 "Home-Style Dishes," part of "Chef He's Private Kitchen," brings everyone a rich and unique array of dishes. With one book, eat your way across the le…
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Yilin Classics Audio Edition) cover
Rating 4.2
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Yilin Classics Audio Edition) 埃·拉斯伯戈·毕尔格 Yilin Press · 2019 This series selects classics of foreign children's literature and Chinese classics, inviting renowned domestic educational publishing teams to adapt a…
The Merchant of Venice (Bilingual Chinese-English Collector's Edition) cover
Rating 4.1
The Merchant of Venice (Bilingual Chinese-English Collector's Edition) William Shakespeare / Zhu Shenghao Yilin Press · 2019 The Merchant of Venice is an important early work by Shakespeare, a comedy of great satirical force written around 1596–1597. Its themes celebrate ben…
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Rating 4.1
Around the World in Eighty Days Jules Verne Yilin Press · 2019 The English gentleman Phileas Fogg lives as precisely as a clock: he leaves and returns at the same hour each day, and even which hand he eats with ne…
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Bilingual Chinese-English Collector's Edition) cover
Rating 4.1
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Bilingual Chinese-English Collector's Edition) William Shakespeare / Zhu Shenghao Yilin Press · 2019 A Midsummer Night's Dream is the most mature comedy of William Shakespeare's youth and one of his most famous, telling a love story that ends in union…
Love of Life: Selected Short Stories of Jack London cover
Rating 4.1
Love of Life: Selected Short Stories of Jack London Jack London / 方华文 Yilin Press · 2019 Love of Life is a short story collection by the American realist writer Jack London, featuring seven representative works: "A Cup of Tea for the Men W…
The Water-Babies (Yilin Classics Audio Edition) cover
Rating 4.1
The Water-Babies (Yilin Classics Audio Edition) 查尔斯·金斯利 Yilin Press · 2019 With a warm, witty touch and graceful, concise prose, the author vividly tells the beautiful story of Tom, a chimney sweep, who becomes a water-baby a…

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)