Chongqing Publishing House

Also known as: 重庆出版集团/重庆出版社, 重庆出版集团(重庆出, 重庆, 重庆出版, 重庆出版社; 第1版

Founded
1950
Country / Region
China
Notable books
A History of Sino-Western CommunicationsThe Dark ForestDeath's End

1182 books 940 authors

About the publisher

Chongqing Publishing House is a comprehensive publisher known for its titles in the humanities, social sciences, literature and arts, with about 940 books in its catalogue. Its publishing areas cover world history, science fiction, foreign literature, architecture and philosophy. Representative titles include Xiang Da's A History of Communications Between China and the West, Liang Sicheng's Rules of Qing-Style Construction, Liu Cixin's The Three-Body Problem II: The Dark Forest and III: Death's End, Ann Rand's The Fountainhead (25th Anniversary Edition), and Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Archive series. Its authors include Xiang Da, Liu Cixin, Liang Sicheng and Ann Rand. The press has developed distinctive strengths in historical source editing, the introduction and creation of science fiction, the translation of foreign literature, and architecture and philosophy titles, balancing scholarly value with general readership. As public information is limited, this profile outlines its publishing directions based only on the books in the catalogue.

Published (1182)

A History of Sino-Western Communications cover
Rating 4.9
A History of Sino-Western Communications 向达 Chongqing Publishing House · 2026 In 1930 and 1934, Mr. Xiang Da published A Brief History of Sino-Foreign Communication and A History of Sino-Western Communication, the first works to…
The Fountainhead (25th Anniversary Edition) cover
Rating 4.8
The Fountainhead (25th Anniversary Edition) Ayn Rand / 高晓晴 / 赵雅蔷 / 杨玉 Chongqing Publishing House · 2026 This is a philosophical novel. It tells the story of Roark, an honest and strong-willed architect whose unconventional ideas get him expelled from uni…
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms cover
Rating 4.5
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms George R. R. Martin / 屈畅 / 赵琳 Chongqing Publishing House · 2026 In this joint appearance of George R. R. Martin's The Hedge Knight, The Sworn Sword, and The Mystery Knight, the grand master of Western fantasy revea…
The Toyotomi Family cover
Rating 4.4
The Toyotomi Family Ryōtarō Shiba / 陈生保 / 张青平 Chongqing Publishing House · 2026 One of the finest works by Ryōtarō Shiba, Japan's most beloved master of popular literature. In the Warring States period, an era of victors and vanqu…
The Painted Veil (New Edition) cover
Rating 4.3
The Painted Veil (New Edition) W.毛姆·萨默塞特 / 阮景林 Chongqing Publishing House · 2026 The Painted Veil is a novel. Kitty, a beautiful but vain Englishwoman, marries Walter, a reclusive bacteriologist. After Walter discovers his wife's i…
Two Military Advisors cover
Rating 4.3
Two Military Advisors Ryōtarō Shiba / 卢俊伟 Chongqing Publishing House · 2026 A historical short story by Ryotaro Shiba set during the Siege of Osaka, depicting the tragic fates of two military strategists, Sanada Yukimura and G…
Needs and Growth: An Exploration of Existential Psychology (3rd Edition) cover
Rating 4.3
Needs and Growth: An Exploration of Existential Psychology (3rd Edition) Abraham Harold Maslow / 张晓玲 / 刘勇军 Chongqing Publishing House · 2026 This classic psychology book collects fourteen papers and lectures Maslow wrote between 1955 and 1960. Building on the theory in Motivation and Person…
The Last Ninja cover
Rating 4.3
The Last Ninja Ryōtarō Shiba / 郭娜 Chongqing Publishing House · 2026 A collection of short stories by Ryōtarō Shiba portraying a group of Iga ninja in the late Warring States period, stripping away the legendary aura to…
Family, Land and Ancestors cover
Rating 4.3
Family, Land and Ancestors 易劳逸 / 苑杰 Chongqing Publishing House · 2026 Since the Ming and Qing dynasties, Chinese society and economy have undergone tremendous changes, which in turn have shaped China's modern and contemp…
Ideals cover
Rating 4.3
Ideals Ayn Rand / 郑齐 Chongqing Publishing House · 2026 Ideal is a short story about ideals and reality. The film star Kay Gonda, an embodiment of perfection revered by many as a unique faith, becomes the s…
No Longer Human cover
Rating 4.3
No Longer Human Osamu Dazai / 文洁若 Chongqing Publishing House · 2026 No Longer Human is Osamu Dazai's final work, telling the story of Ōba Yōzō, whose wounded spirit in childhood turns him into a sensitive, suspicious m…
Biography of Sheng Xuanhuai cover
Rating 4.2
Biography of Sheng Xuanhuai 夏东元 Chongqing Publishing House · 2026 This book is a biography of Sheng Xuanhuai, a core practical force and key driver of the Self-Strengthening Movement. It systematically and comprehens…
Lost Horizon cover
Rating 4.2
Lost Horizon 詹姆斯·希尔顿 / 张涛 Chongqing Publishing House · 2026 Lost Horizon is a novel about the exploration of Shangri-La, a hidden natural paradise. Four Western travelers survive a plane crash, and the British …
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions cover
Rating 4.2
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions Edwin A. Abbott / 王梓涵 Chongqing Publishing House · 2026 Flatland is inhabited by geometric figures: women are dangerous line segments, soldiers and laborers are sharp triangles, the middle class are equilat…
The Garden of the Departed Cat cover
Rating 4.2
The Garden of the Departed Cat 比尔盖·卡拉素 / 沈志兴 Chongqing Publishing House · 2026 Through the prismatic ripples of fairy tales, we often glimpse a wavering, elusive life; what shakes down the stars and scatters them across shimmerin…
Otogizoshi cover
Rating 4.2
Otogizoshi Osamu Dazai / 汤加宁 Chongqing Publishing House · 2026 Written during World War II, while Osamu Dazai was sheltering in an air-raid shelter, this is a collection of stories adapted from traditional Japanes…
One Person cover
Rating 4.2
One Person Ayn Rand / 张林 Chongqing Publishing House · 2026 In this novel, Ayn Rand imagines a society where people have no names of their own, distinguished only by a slogan and a string of digits. People do n…
Biography of Zhu Kezhen cover
Rating 4.1
Biography of Zhu Kezhen 谢世俊 Chongqing Publishing House · 2026 This book gives a detailed account of the extraordinary life of Zhu Kezhen, founder of meteorology in China and former president of Zhejiang Universit…
Lonely Angel cover
Rating 4.1
Lonely Angel Jack Kerouac / 娅子 Chongqing Publishing House · 2026 Desolation Angels is a novel that records Kerouac pausing in various places, setting out again, and always writing solitude. In the isolated world of …
Coming Up for Air cover
Rating 4.1
Coming Up for Air George Orwell / 王梓涵 Chongqing Publishing House · 2026 Coming Up for Air is a novel by the literary master George Orwell about gasping for breath amid the powerful currents of a great era and the mire of p…

Frequent authors

Editorial Board of Guoyi Juexue Jiankang Guan (39)George R. R. Martin (31)屈畅 (29)Philippa Gregory (21)Ayn Rand (18)朱世巍 (16)《家常百味》编委会 (15)Liu Cixin (15)Osamu Dazai (15)Brandon Winn Sanderson (14)胡绍晏 (14)王梓涵 (13)