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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)

Civilization and Its Discontents: Chinese-English Bilingual Edition cover
Rating 4.4
Civilization and Its Discontents: Chinese-English Bilingual Edition Sigmund Freud / 周利云 Yilin Press · 2023 Civilization and Its Discontents is a bilingual Chinese-English edition. It is a representative work in which Sigmund Freud, the renowned Austrian psy…
Lord Jim cover
Rating 4.4
Lord Jim Joseph Conrad / An Ning (Wang Ping) Yilin Press · 2023 A classic by the renowned British author Joseph Conrad, this novel blends profound allegory, delicate psychological portrayal, and a distinctive narra…
Far from the Madding Crowd: Chinese-English Bilingual Edition cover
Rating 4.4
Far from the Madding Crowd: Chinese-English Bilingual Edition Thomas Hardy / Zhang Chong Yilin Press · 2023 Far from the Madding Crowd is a literary work in the Bilingual Classics series, presented in a Chinese-English bilingual edition. This novel is Thomas…
The Call of the Wild: Chinese-English Bilingual Edition cover
Rating 4.3
The Call of the Wild: Chinese-English Bilingual Edition Jack London / 贾文浩 Yilin Press · 2023 The novella The Call of the Wild is part of the "Bilingual Classics" series, presented in a Chinese-English bilingual edition. This book is the repres…
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction cover
Rating 4.3
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction Jonathan Culler Yilin Press · 2023 This book is an introductory work written by the American literary theorist Jonathan Culler for Oxford University Press's "Very Short Introductions" s…
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Rating 4.3
Ninety-Three Victor Marie Hugo / 罗国林 Yilin Press · 2023 Quatrevingt-treize is the last novel Victor Hugo wrote. In 1862, while still in exile, he began gathering material in preparation for the book; a deca…
If I Had Three Days to See: Chinese-English Bilingual Edition cover
Rating 4.2
If I Had Three Days to See: Chinese-English Bilingual Edition Helen Keller / 唐湘 Yilin Press · 2023 The Story of My Life; Three Days to See is the representative autobiographical prose work of the renowned American author Helen Keller. It consists of…
The Seven Ages of Death: A Forensic Pathologist's Journey Through Life cover
Rating 4.1
The Seven Ages of Death: A Forensic Pathologist's Journey Through Life Richard Shepherd Yilin Press · 2023 This is the second work of nonfiction by the British forensic pathologist Richard Shepherd, following Unnatural Causes (original title: The Seven Ages…
Shakespeare in the Courtroom cover
Rating 4.1
Shakespeare in the Courtroom Quentin Skinner Yilin Press · 2023 Quentin Skinner is a leading figure of the Cambridge School and a historian of ideas. Shakespeare in the Courtroom is the third work in his study of t…
The Constant Nymph (Bilingual Classic) cover
Rating 4.0
The Constant Nymph (Bilingual Classic) 玛格丽特·肯尼迪 / 王金娥 Yilin Press · 2023 The Constant Nymph tells the story of Teresa, daughter of the brilliant composer Albert Sanger, who lives with her sisters in a small villa high in th…
Almayer's Folly cover
Rating 3.9
Almayer's Folly Joseph Conrad / An Ning (Wang Ping) Yilin Press · 2023 Conrad's first novel, published to immediate acclaim, established his place in English literature. Set in 19th-century Southeast Asia, it follows the …
Heidegger: A Very Short Introduction cover
Rating 3.8
Heidegger: A Very Short Introduction Michael Inwood Yilin Press · 2023 Martin Heidegger is one of the most important and most controversial philosophers of the twentieth century: some regard him as a leading figure of con…
Night Walk in the Spring Mountains cover
Rating 3.8
Night Walk in the Spring Mountains 韩松落 Yilin Press · 2023 Han Songluo has written columns and essays for over twenty years; readers know the sharpness and tenderness with which he discusses film, music, and h…
Catalina cover
Rating 3.8
Catalina W. Somerset Maugham / 俞亢咏 Yilin Press · 2023 Catalina is a beautiful, simple-hearted girl whose legs are left crippled in an accident. One day, while the whole city eagerly welcomes the two Baler…
Psychology in Everyday Life cover
Rating 3.6
Psychology in Everyday Life 吉莉恩·巴特勒 / Freda McManus Yilin Press · 2023 Psychology in Everyday Life is a volume in the Oxford Very Short Introductions series published by Yilin Press. The original English edition, Psycholo…
War and Technology cover
Rating 3.5
War and Technology Alex Roland Yilin Press · 2023 War and Technology is a volume in the Oxford Very Short Introductions series published by Yilin Press, written by Alex Roland, professor emeritus of h…
Besties cover
Rating 3.5
Besties 艾明雅 Yilin Press · 2023 Douban personality Ai Mingya draws on her own and her girlfriends' experiences to explore the intricate emotional entanglements between men and women …
Besties 2 cover
Rating 3.3
Besties 2 艾明雅 Yilin Press · 2023 Following Besties, Ai Mingya returns in Besties 2 to talk about her life experience and emotions with her best friend. From dressing and making a livi…
A Brief History of Astronomy cover
Rating 3.2
A Brief History of Astronomy Michael Hoskin Yilin Press · 2023 A Brief History of Astronomy is the representative work of Michael Hoskin, a scholar of the history of science at the University of Cambridge. The ori…
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils cover
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf Yilin Press · 2023 A fairy tale written for the geography lesson that became a world classic. In 1902, the Swedish Association of Elementary School Teachers asked Lagerl…

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)