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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)

Flaubert's Parrot cover
Rating 4.2
Flaubert's Parrot Julian Barnes Yilin Press · 2024 In two of Flaubert's former homes there stands a stuffed parrot, but which one is the bird that once sat on the writer's desk while he wrote A Simple …
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Rating 4.1
Old Friends by the Sea Lu Yin Yilin Press · 2024 "The Seaside Old Friend" is Lu Yin's breakout work and her signature novel. Its protagonist Lusha and her schoolmates Lingyu, Lianshang, Yunqing, and …
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Rating 4.1
The Wandering Age of Robots 飞氘 Yilin Press · 2024 The Wandering Age of Robots is a collection of novellas and short stories by science fiction writer Fei Dao, published by Yilin Press in November 2024…
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Rating 4.1
The Bell and Drum Tower Liu Xinwu Yilin Press · 2024 Winner of the Mao Dun Literature Prize, this novel dazzles with its teeming characters and intricate plot, its rich human geography and vibrant street…
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Rating 4.0
A General Theory of the Art of Translation Xu Yuanchong Yilin Press · 2024 Translation Art: A Comprehensive Study is arguably Xu Yuanchong's magnum opus, exploring theories of contradiction, practice, the Three Beauties, the …
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Rating 4.0
Rabbit Hill: Chinese-English Bilingual Robert Lawson / 查询 Yilin Press · 2024 The novel tells the story of Rabbit Hill: a new family is moving into the big house on the hill—a house that has stood empty for three years. The anim…
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Rating 4.0
Our Village (Bilingual Classic) (2 Volumes) 玛丽·拉塞尔·米特福德 / 张方方 Yilin Press · 2024 Our Village is a bilingual Chinese-English edition, a collection of essays Mary Russell Mitford wrote around the village where she lived. With a woman…
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Rating 4.0
Black Spring Henry Miller Yilin Press · 2024 Black Spring is the second book in Henry Miller's autobiographical trilogy, written during the same period as Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn…
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Rating 4.0
Peaceful Scenes Li Rui Yilin Press · 2024 Peaceful Scenes: A Farm Implement Fiction Exhibition is a collection of short stories by Li Rui built around farm implements as its central imagery. P…
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Rating 4.0
Tropic of Capricorn Henry Miller Yilin Press · 2024 Tropic of Capricorn is Henry Miller's second autobiographical novel after Tropic of Cancer. It was first published in English in 1939 by the Obelisk P…
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Rating 4.0
The Diaries of Adam and Eve Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) / 徐彬 / 张怡青 Yilin Press · 2024 The Diaries of Adam and Eve is a late work by Mark Twain. Written in diary form and in the author's characteristic style, it tells with a light touch …
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Rating 4.0
We Own This City: A Police Corruption Scandal That Shocked America Justin Fenton Yilin Press · 2024 After the Freddie Gray incident in 2015, Baltimore descended into chaos again and murders surged. The Baltimore Police Department pinned its hopes on …
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Rating 3.9
Hourglass 1 Rao Xueman Yilin Press · 2024 Mo Xingxing, a teenage girl, suffers from alternating binge eating and anorexia; whenever she is emotionally shaken, she falls ill and eats startling …
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Rating 3.9
The Water-Babies 查尔斯·金斯利 / 张炽恒 Yilin Press · 2024 The Water-Babies is a children's fantasy novel and a classic of children's literature by the 19th-century English author Charles Kingsley. It tells th…
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Rating 3.8
Hourglass 3 Rao Xueman Yilin Press · 2024 The Hourglass follows Mo Xingxing, a girl with alternating binge eating and anorexia. When Xingxing was a child, her mother died saving a boy, and the…
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Rating 3.8
Hourglass 2 Rao Xueman Yilin Press · 2024 The Hourglass 2
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Rating 3.7
The Left Half of the Wings Rao Xueman Yilin Press · 2024 The sharpest angles, the most painful youth—this is a girl's coming-of-age diary woven from true stories, an indisputable must-read for youth! Told in…
Wandering on the Earth I Love: Selected Poems of Neruda cover
Rating 3.7
Wandering on the Earth I Love: Selected Poems of Neruda Pablo Neruda Yilin Press · 2024 Wandering on the Earth I Love is a selection of poems by the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, compiled and translated directly from Spanish by Zhao Zhenjian…
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Rating 3.7
Liu Xinwu Reveals the Dream of the Red Chamber (Volume I) Liu Xinwu Yilin Press · 2024 Still creating at seventy, an evergreen of contemporary Chinese literature—this series of collected works by Mr. Liu Xinwu represents the essence of h…
Fighting Fish cover
Rating 3.6
Fighting Fish Rao Xueman Yilin Press · 2024 Rao Xueman, the writer who understands girls best, talks with the most real "problem girls," tells their true stories, recreates the conversations she…

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)