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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)

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man cover
Rating 4.4
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce Yilin Press · 2025 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a semi-autobiographical novel by the Irish writer James Joyce, and a transitional work bridging the realism…
Cakes and Ale: Chinese-English Bilingual Edition cover
Rating 4.4
Cakes and Ale: Chinese-English Bilingual Edition William Somerset Maugham / 方华文 Yilin Press · 2025 Cakes and Ale is a bilingual Chinese-English edition of a novel by the renowned British novelist William Somerset Maugham. In 1930, the book was seria…
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Rating 4.3
Return from the Stars 斯坦尼斯瓦夫·莱姆 Yilin Press · 2025 Return from the Stars (Polish original Powrót z gwiazd) is a science fiction novel by the Polish writer Stanisław Lem, translated into Chinese by Agu …
Theory and Practice of Analytical Psychology cover
Rating 4.3
Theory and Practice of Analytical Psychology Carl Gustav Jung / 成穷 / 王作虹 Yilin Press · 2025 Composed mainly of two parts, this book opens with Analytical Psychology: Its Theory and Practice, a compilation of the series of lectures Jung delive…
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Rating 4.3
Immensee 特奥多尔·施托姆 / 方华文 Yilin Press · 2025 This volume comprises two novellas, Immensee and The Rider on the White Horse. Immensee, consisting of ten vignettes, unfolds through the recollection…
Darwin's Autobiography: Chinese-English Bilingual Edition cover
Rating 4.3
Darwin's Autobiography: Chinese-English Bilingual Edition Charles Robert Darwin / 方华文 Yilin Press · 2025 The Autobiography of Charles Darwin is an autobiography written by Darwin himself, mainly telling the legendary life of the founding father of evoluti…
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Rating 4.3
The Field of Life and Death Xiao Hong Yilin Press · 2025 The Field of Life and Death focuses on life and hardship in the countryside of Northeast China, telling of a group of peasants' cycle of life and deat…
Feminism Is Not What You Think cover
Rating 4.2
Feminism Is Not What You Think Carol Hay Yilin Press · 2025 This book is a popular introduction to feminist philosophy by Canadian philosopher Carol Hay, originally titled Think Like a Feminist: The Philosophy …
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich cover
Rating 4.2
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Yilin Press · 2025 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is the first novel Nobel laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn published openly. Approved by Khrushchev and printed i…
Mu Dan: The Wild Force of Renewal cover
Rating 4.2
Mu Dan: The Wild Force of Renewal Zou Hanming Yilin Press · 2025 Mu Dan: The Wild Force of Renewal is a biography of Mu Dan written by Zou Hanming over more than a decade, and the first fairly systematic biography a…
The Reconstruction of Civilization: Fifty Years of Postwar Germany cover
Rating 4.2
The Reconstruction of Civilization: Fifty Years of Postwar Germany 康拉德·H. 雅劳施 Yilin Press · 2025 In the spring of 1945, the German army was defeated and the atrocities of the Nazi regime were exposed to the world. At such a moment, few could have …
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Rating 4.2
Animal Architecture Paul Dobraszczyk Yilin Press · 2025 Whether it is the swallows that nest under the eaves or the spiders that spin webs in the dark, the traces of animals can be found in almost every cor…
The Affirming Flame cover
Rating 4.2
The Affirming Flame 郭爽 Yilin Press · 2025 Three novellas, three stages of women's lives, one shared question: how to live yourself into an affirming flame amid daily negation and erosion. Guo …
Psychoanalysis and Soul Healing (Jung's Collected Works) cover
Rating 4.2
Psychoanalysis and Soul Healing (Jung's Collected Works) Carl Gustav Jung / 冯川 Yilin Press · 2025 This volume collects eleven essays by Carl Jung on philosophy, psychology, and Eastern and Western religion—representative works on these themes. Jung…
Beautiful Building cover
Rating 4.2
Beautiful Building 西西 Yilin Press · 2025 Beautiful Building is a novel by the Hong Kong writer Xi Xi. Its title comes from a happy mistake: when a friend wrote to "me," she miswrote the name …
The Deed of the Rose: Selected Poems of Akhmadulina cover
Rating 4.2
The Deed of the Rose: Selected Poems of Akhmadulina Bella Akhmadulina Yilin Press · 2025 The Act of the Rose: Selected Poems of Akhmadulina is a Chinese anthology of representative poems by the Russian poet Bella Akhmadulina (1937–2010), t…
Mothercare: Eleven Years Caring for My Mother—On Obligation, Love, Death, and Ambivalence cover
Rating 4.0
Mothercare: Eleven Years Caring for My Mother—On Obligation, Love, Death, and Ambivalence Lynne Tillman Yilin Press · 2025 Mothercare is a caregiving memoir by the American novelist and critic Lynne Tillman, originally titled Mothercare: On Obligation, Love, Death, and Amb…
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Rating 4.0
Mercury Retrograde Diptera Yilin Press · 2025 Mercury Retrograde is a collection of novellas and short stories by the young science fiction writer Shuangchimu, published in January 2025. It gather…
Bilingual Classics: Gods, Heroes and Men of Ancient Greece (2 Volumes) cover
Rating 4.0
Bilingual Classics: Gods, Heroes and Men of Ancient Greece (2 Volumes) W. H. D. 劳斯 / Zhou Zuoren Yilin Press · 2025 This bilingual Chinese-English edition of The Gods, Heroes and Men of Ancient Greece is a children's book written by the renowned British classicist W…
Pear Field cover
Rating 4.0
Pear Field Nana Ekvtimishvili Yilin Press · 2025 The story takes place on the outskirts of Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Beside a muddy pear field stands 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)