Five distinguished Chinese publishing houses and their books

Books published by SDX Joint Publishing Company. [Photo/amazon.cn]

SDX Joint Publishing Company

SDX is the abbreviation of the names of three companies established in the 1930s in Shanghai: Shenghuo Book Store, Dushu Press and Xinzhi Book Store. After 1945, the three joined forces and SDX Joint Publishing Company was created in Hong Kong. In March of 1949, the publishing house moved to Beijing. It has published many works by Chinese intellectuals for over half a century.