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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)

The White Crane Spreads Its Wings cover
Rating 3.9
The White Crane Spreads Its Wings Yoko Tawada Yilin Press · 2025 Misa follows her husband to Germany, then finds an excuse to stay in the country alone. From her first call to a plumber to moving by herself into a n…
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Rating 3.9
Goodbye, Jupiter Sakyo Komatsu Yilin Press · 2025 In 2125, Earth's population has swelled to over ten billion, and humanity is frantically exploiting resources in space to survive. Near Jupiter's orbi…
All Souls' Day cover
Rating 3.9
All Souls' Day Cees Nooteboom Yilin Press · 2025 Arthur, a Dutch documentary filmmaker, loses his wife and child in a plane crash; thereafter he has no fixed home and treats his lodgings in various p…
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Rating 3.8
The Good Bookstore Jeff Deutsch Yilin Press · 2025 This is not a how-to manual for opening a bookstore but a gentle defense of them. Jeff Deutsch, who spent a decade at the helm of the Seminary Co-op B…
Life-Saving Animals: What Nature Teaches Us About Health cover
Rating 3.8
Life-Saving Animals: What Nature Teaches Us About Health Matt Morgan Yilin Press · 2025 This book is another popular-science and humanities work by British intensive care physician Matt Morgan, following The Story of the Intensive Care Un…
Elizabeth Finch cover
Rating 3.8
Elizabeth Finch Julian Barnes Yilin Press · 2025 When Neil was about thirty-five, he walked into a classroom at an adult evening school and first heard Elizabeth Finch lecture on "Culture and Civiliz…
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Rating 3.6
Morning and Evening 约恩·福瑟 Yilin Press · 2025 Nobel laureate Jon Fosse is the first winner in the history of the Nobel Prize in Literature to write in New Norwegian, hailed as "the new Ibsen" and …
Clarkson's Farm 4: Diddly Squat: Home to Roost cover
Rating 3.5
Clarkson's Farm 4: Diddly Squat: Home to Roost 杰里米·克拉克森 Yilin Press · 2025 This is the fourth volume of essays in the Clarkson's Farm series, originally titled Diddly Squat: Home to Roost, continuing Jeremy Clarkson's chronic…
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Rating 3.5
The Listener Robert McCammon Yilin Press · 2025 In 1934, America is still mired in the Great Depression, and in New Orleans the gaps between rich and poor and the barriers between races are as perva…
Compulsory Education Textbook · English, Grade 8, Volume 1 (Yilin Edition) cover
Compulsory Education Textbook · English, Grade 8, Volume 1 (Yilin Edition) Wang Shouren / He Feng Yilin Press · 2025 This book is the Yilin edition of the junior high school English textbook for Grade 8, Volume 1, revised and compiled in accordance with the English C…
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Tales of Pirx the Pilot 斯坦尼斯瓦夫·莱姆 Yilin Press · 2025 Tales of Pirx the Pilot is a short-story collection by the Polish science fiction writer Stanisław Lem, author of Solaris. The original title is Opowi…
From Freud to Prozac: A History of Psychiatry cover
From Freud to Prozac: A History of Psychiatry Jeffrey A. Lieberman / Ogi Ogas Yilin Press · 2025 What exactly is mental illness? How close is it to us? Where is the line between normal and mentally ill? Is it the brain or the mind that causes ment…
The Tale of Two Drugs cover
The Tale of Two Drugs Liang Guibai Yilin Press · 2025 Malaria is an ancient disease that has killed nearly half of all humans who ever lived and has rewritten the fate of many empires. Centered on two ant…
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Song on the River 郭爽 Yilin Press · 2025 Song on the River is the novelist Guo Shuang's first full-length novel. The story begins in 1998 in a river valley in southern China. Lian Siqi and Xi…
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The Colors of Farewell 伯恩哈德·施林克 Yilin Press · 2025 The Colors of Farewell is a short-story collection by the German writer Bernhard Schlink, author of The Reader. Published in German as Abschiedsfarben…
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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 an important step in his move from the r…
Walkscapes: Walking as an Aesthetic Practice cover
Walkscapes: Walking as an Aesthetic Practice Francesco Careri Yilin Press · 2025 This book is the representative work of Francesco Careri, an Italian architectural scholar and professor at Roma Tre University. It treats "walking" a…
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The Magic Mountain Thomas Mann Yilin Press · 2025 Young Hans Castorp has just qualified as an engineer and is about to begin his life when, at his family's request, he travels to a sanatorium in the S…
The Second Ring cover
The Second Ring Harlan Coben Yilin Press · 2025 Harlan Coben is the first American author to win all three major international mystery awards—the Edgar, the Shamus, and the Anthony. His works have b…
The Story of Culture: From Cave Art to K-Pop cover
The Story of Culture: From Cave Art to K-Pop Martin Puchner Yilin Press · 2025 Martin Puchner, Harvard professor of English and comparative literature and of drama, follows The Written World by turning from writing to the wider r…

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)