About the publisher
Founded in 1987, Qingdao Publishing House has long focused on education, science and technology, children's books, and lifestyle titles, while steadily publishing classical and foreign literature. Its 827 titles in the catalog reflect a balance between making classics widely accessible and serving young readers. They include the four great classics of Chinese literature—Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Water Margin, Dream of the Red Chamber, and Journey to the West—as well as foreign literary translations such as Sei Shōnagon's The Pillow Book, works associated with Zhou Zuoren, and Victor Hugo's Les Misérables. The press also offers a color-illustrated series of recommended classics for primary and secondary school Chinese curriculum reading, using pictures and text to support student readers. Its common categories cover classical literature, essays and miscellaneous writings, folk literature, and foreign literature, with authors including Luo Guanzhong, Shi Nai'an, Cao Xueqin, Gao E, Wu Cheng'en, Sei Shōnagon, Zhou Zuoren, and Victor Hugo. Public information is limited, so this profile emphasizes the publishing directions shown by the catalog.
Published (971)
Rating 4.6★ Kokoro Natsume Sōseki / Lin Shaohua Qingdao Publishing House · 2026 "I" came to know a "Sensei," and later received a long letter from him (by which time Sensei was no longer alive). In the letter he told of how, durin… Rating 4.4★ The Five-Story Pagoda 幸田露伴 Qingdao Publishing House · 2026 In the Edo period, two master carpenters vie to build the five-story pagoda of the Kangyō-ji in a contest that grips the heart. Genta, skilled and ren… Rating 4.4★ Grass Pillow Natsume Sōseki / Lin Shaohua Qingdao Publishing House · 2026 A young painter, seeking the pure essence of art, deliberately turns his back on the mundane world and sets out on a journey through the mountains to … Rating 4.4★ Sanshiro Natsume Sōseki / Lin Shaohua Qingdao Publishing House · 2026 After Sanshiro Ogawa leaves his hometown of Kumamoto to study at university in Tokyo, three worlds open up before him. One is the hometown where his m… Rating 4.4★ Botchan Natsume Sōseki / Lin Shaohua Qingdao Publishing House · 2026 Botchan follows an ingenuous, bluntly honest, and impetuous young man as he enters society and clashes dramatically with the vulgar types around him, … Rating 4.2★ Meeting in the Rainy Season 市川拓司 / Lin Shaohua Qingdao Publishing House · 2026 During the rainy season, Ling, the wife who passed away a year ago, appears once more before her husband Qiao and their son Yousi—but her memory is co… Rating 4.0★ Night Flight Mitsuyo Kakuta / 孙淑华 / 郑爱军 Qingdao Publishing House · 2026 Night Flight is a full-length novel by the renowned Japanese woman writer Kakuta Mitsuyo, telling the story of a family of six who run the Tanijima li… Rating 3.9★ The Young Girl Hua Buqi (3 Volumes) 桩桩 Qingdao Publishing House · 2026 A pair of fake-marriage swindlers eat, drink, and bluff their way along—until someone sees through them. Now what? One, two, three—run! Wait—after all… Rating 3.9★ My Archaeological Notes · Erlitou Xu Hong Qingdao Publishing House · 2026 This is the first volume of the "Young Explorers · Archaeology" series, which aims to create "a paper archaeology documentary for children in China." … Rating 3.8★ Hearsay Junichi Watanabe / 时卫国 Qingdao Publishing House · 2026 A collection of Watanabe-style stories centered on sexuality. Composed of nine short stories with fresh imagery and refined charm. They portray a rich… Rating 3.8★ A Great Nation Tackles Desertification 刘东生 / 中国治沙暨沙业学会 / 孙国吉 / 卢琦 Qingdao Publishing House · 2026 Organized and compiled by the China Sand-control and Sand Industry Society, Great Nation, Sand Governance offers a comprehensive review of China's pra… Rating 3.8★ The Source of Chinese Cuisine 邱庞同 Qingdao Publishing House · 2026 This book systematically introduces the important inventions of Chinese cuisine that have influenced the world. It carefully sorts out Chinese cooking… Rating 3.8★ The Dragon God's Rain 道尾秀介 / 马亦飞 Qingdao Publishing House · 2026 This book is a representative work by Japanese mystery writer Shusuke Michio and won the twelfth Osamu Hayakawa Award. Two summers earlier, Tatsumi an… Rating 3.8★ Father's Warhorse Bao'erji Yuanye / 牛春光 Qingdao Publishing House · 2026 Father's Warhorse draws on the author's true memories of his father's military career. The Mongolian people have a special bond with horses. As a memb… Rating 3.7★ White Night · Hesitation Junichi Watanabe / 王超伟 Qingdao Publishing House · 2026 Takamura Nobuo, a sophomore at a university in Sapporo, is undecided about his major and dreams of escaping the gloomy city locked in heavy snow, so h… Rating 3.6★ Moon Lovers 道尾秀介 / Wang Bo Qingdao Publishing House · 2026 Renosuke, president of a well-known Japanese furniture company, meets Yayoi, a woman traveling alone in Shanghai, while preparing to open a branch the… Rating 3.6★ Building Blocks That Don't Go Home (Gao Hongbo's Nature Prose Series) Gao Hongbo Qingdao Publishing House · 2026 The hazy mountain mist, the call of the desert, the echo in the canyon, the pact with the black-headed gulls—ever-changing natural scenes take on soul… Rating 3.6★ Crying 100 Times 中村航 / 魏丽华 Qingdao Publishing House · 2026 A signature work of pure love by Japanese author Ko Nakamura. The novel centers on the narrator, who has proposed to his girlfriend of three years; th… Rating 3.5★ The Call of Tengger (Gao Hongbo's Nature Prose Series) Gao Hongbo Qingdao Publishing House · 2026 The hazy mountain mist, the call of the desert, the echoes in the canyon, the pact with the black-headed gulls... The ever-changing natural scenery tu… Rating 3.5★ Peerless Beauty, a Love That Topples a City 王思渔 Qingdao Publishing House · 2026 They were the other women in love and marriage, struggling and turning in circles within love. Lin Huiyin, Wang Yingxia, Sun Duoci, Gao Junman, Lan Ni…Frequent authors
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