Established in 1989, Yilin Press is a subsidiary company of Phoenix Publishing and Media Group,the largest and most powerful publishing group in China. An award-winning translation publisher in China, Yilin Press publishes over 800 titles every year, with the annual sales over 400 million RMB. Yilin Press has established an international reputation for its commitment to serving the general public, its editorial expertise, and dedication to the translation and publishing of world culture and literature.

As the leading press of translation in China, Yilin has close cooperation with major publishers overseas. Among others, our partners include Random House, Simon & Schuster, McGraw-Hill, HarperCollins in the U.S., Hachette, Gallimard, Minuit in France, Penguin Group, Oxford University Press, Pearson Education in Britain, Bertelsmann, Springer in Germany, and Shogakuakan, Kodansha, Shueisha, Poplar in Japan.

Keeping an eye on the world trend of publishing and introducing world best-sellers to Chinese readers, Yilin Press has already established its unshakable brand name in China. It lays stress on culture accumulation and publishing fine quality books, Yilin Press is among the first publishers in China to buy translation rights from overseas publishers. During these years, Yilin Press takes the lead in rights trade and published many big name authors' titles in Chinese.

For fictions,we are the Chinese publisher of many renowned books including works of Nobel Prize winners, Man Booker Prize winners, Gongour Prize winners, American National Book Award winners, and National Book Critics Circle Award winners.

For non-fictions, we developed the Humanities and Social Science Series. The series aims to stimulate thoughts and showcase scholarship, and the series collected the works of the most influential thinkers and writers abroad, such as Geertz、Rawls、Jürgen Habermas、Parsons、Isaiah Berlin、Brook Taylor、Hayek、Leo Strauss and Voegelin.

 　    Our popular titles include:

 　　Ulysses by James Joyce　

　　The Godfather

　　The Lord of the Rings

　　The Band of Brothers

　　The Golden Notebook

　　YOU:the Owner's Manual and other books of this series

　　Barack Obama's memoir, Dreams from my Father.

　　Bill Clinton's memoir, My Life

Yilin Press has especially developed some books about China for foreign readers. These books have been well received overseas. The themes of these books cover Chinese Culture, gardens, people and civilization. The content and quality are good, and most of their English rights have been sold.

Yilin Press enjoys a strong author team; all of them are prestigious scholars from first-class Chinese universities and research institutes such as Chinese Academy of Social Science as well as overseas expert like Isabelle Vinson, editor-in-chief of MUSEUM International, UNESCO. Many American publishers, such as Lindsay Waters, Executive Editor for the Humanities of Harvard University Press, are the official publishing consultants of Yilin Press.