Our Story
Fudan University Press(FUP), under the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China and Shanghai Press and Publication Bureau, was established by Fudan University in 1980. FUP is now a comprehensive academic publishing house guided by the Ministry of Education and hosted by Fudan University. It encompasses subjects, such as Humanities, Journalism, Law and Politics, Sciences, Economics and Management, Medicine, Foreign Languages and Preschool Education. It also includes the following independent accounting companies: Electronic Audio-visual Publishing House of Fudan University and Shanghai Fudan Jingshi Book Store.
As one of the Top 100 Presses in China, and one of the National First-class Presses, FUP has significant influence in both domestic publishing circle and university press community. FUP has been focused on publishing original academic monographs and high-quality university textbooks; emphasizing the publishing houses, especially university presses, should carry great responsibilities in publishing and support teaching and research work for colleges and universities; strengthening the function of academic publishing; contributing to the academic prosperity and cultural inheritance. By insisting on these principles, over the past thirty years, FUP has strived hard and worked conscientiously, centered its activity at Fudan University and extended its operations to the whole nation, actively provided services for the development of education, economy and society.
The publications of FUP include 70% high-quality college textbooks, 20% original academic monographs, and 10% popular books for the general readers, resulting in providing a strong support for teaching and scientific research of Fudan University and other universities. It has also contributed a lot of excellent books to the society.
FUP has hitherto won almost a thousand different awards, including 500 awards of national level as China Book Award, National Book Award, Chinese Best Publications Award, the Chinese Government Award, and Best Projects of Humanities and Social Sciences Research Award of Chinese Universities Sponsored by Ministry of Education. The level, number and proportion of awards are all at the top rank of university presses.
FUP has unfolded the distinctive features of “academic publishing” and “in-depth publishing”. It is recognized by the publishing industry as a stronghold of publishing original academic works. While achieving great social benefit, FUP’s business scale and economic benefit are also expanding and growing. The economic scale overall ranking shows FUP is not only at the top of the list among publishers in Shanghai, but also among the university presses in China.
Our Community
Fudan University Press Co., Ltd. now has Humanities Editorial Department, Social Science Editorial Department, Science Editorial Department, Economic Management Branch, Medical Branch, Foreign Language Branch, Preschool Education Branch, Nanhuaijin Project Team, Social Reading Project Team, Modern Apprenticeship Textbook Project Team, Dictionary Project Team, Quality Inspection Center, Proofreading Room, Copyright Department, Legal Department, Binding Design Department, Publishing Department, Publicity Planning Department, Marketing Department, College Cooperation Department, Storage and Transportation Department, Administrative Office of the Press, Editor-in-Chief Office, Finance Department and other institutions. It has two independent accounting institutions, Shanghai Fudan University Electronic Audio-Visual Publishing House Co., Ltd. and Shanghai Fudan Jingshi Bookstore Co., Ltd.