关于壹嘉出版
壹嘉出版由资深出版人刘雁创办于2015年，总部位于美国加利福尼亚州旧金山湾区。十年来，壹嘉已出版逾百种图书，涵盖回忆录、口述史、文学、历史与社会科学随笔——记录个体经验，保存集体记忆，为全球华语社区的思想与文化生活提供持续的滋养。
壹嘉图书被哈佛燕京图书馆、耶鲁、哥伦比亚、斯坦福、加州大学伯克利分校等知名高校图书馆收藏。出版作品曾获美国华人图书馆员协会（CALA）年度好书荣誉奖及美国童书奖项。2026年，壹嘉出版入选美国独立出版协会（IBPA）"创新之声"项目，成为全美五家入选出版机构之一。
壹嘉出版学者、记者、回忆录作者与文学作家的作品，为优秀的中文写作在海外提供一个严肃的发布平台，读者遍及北美、澳洲、欧洲及全球华人社区。
2024年末，壹嘉发起成立壹嘉人文学社，一家501(c)(3)非营利组织，通过讲座、读书会、论坛等线上线下活动，连接作家、学者与公众，在日益破碎的公共空间中留下一处理性与温暖的思想之所。
壹嘉图书通过各大网络书店及部分实体书店在全球发行。
海外独立中文出版机构
壹嘉创办人刘雁
刘雁在中国出版界拥有逾二十年资深从业经历。
创办壹嘉出版前，她任职商务印书馆教科文出版中心主任。
商务印书馆是中国历史最悠久、最具声望的出版机构之一。
此前，她曾任新星出版社副总编辑，
更早期在百花文艺出版社任副总编辑，
并担任著名文学期刊《散文》主编,
任职期间《散文》三度荣获国家期刊奖。
刘雁曾获鲁迅文学奖优秀外国文学编辑奖（2004年），
所编图书为诺贝尔文学奖得主大江健三郎的《别了，我的书》中文版（百花文艺出版社）。
她还凭借对熊培云《重新发现社会》（新星出版社）的编辑工作，荣获国家图书馆文津图书奖（2010年）。
刘雁毕业于南开大学中文系，文学硕士；
2004年完成哈佛商学院高级管理项目（AMP）课程。
About 1 Plus Books
1 Plus Books is an independent Chinese humanities press founded in 2015 and based in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. Over the past decade, we have published more than 100 titles spanning memoir, oral history, literary fiction, and cultural essay — works that document individual experience, preserve collective memory, and sustain intellectual life within the global Chinese-speaking diaspora.
Our books are held in the collections of Harvard-Yenching Library, Yale, Columbia, Stanford, UC Berkeley, and other major research universities. Selected titles have received the Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA) Honor Book Award and Moonbeam Children's Book awards. In 2026, 1 Plus Books was selected as one of five publishers in the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) Innovative Voices Program — a national recognition of independent presses serving underrepresented communities.
We publish scholars, journalists, memoirists, and literary writers whose work deserves a serious home. 1 Plus Books exists to give exceptional Chinese-language writing a platform beyond borders — reaching readers across North America, Australia, Europe, and wherever the Chinese diaspora has put down roots.
In 2024, we established 1 Plus Institute, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, to extend our work into public programming — lectures, reading groups, and forums that bring writers and readers into conversation across borders and generations.
1 Plus Books distributes globally through major online retail platforms and select independent bookstores.
Yan Liu — Founder & Publisher
Yan Liu is the founder and publisher of 1 Plus Books. She brings over two decades of senior editorial experience in Chinese publishing. Before founding 1 Plus Books in 2015, she served as Director of the Education, Science and Culture Publishing Center at The Commercial Press, one of China's most prestigious publishing institutions. Prior to that, she held the position of Deputy Editor-in-Chief at New Star Press, and earlier in her career served as Deputy Editor-in-Chief at Baihua Literature and Art Publishing House, where she also served as Editor-in-Chief of Sanwen (散文), one of China's leading literary journals — during which the publication received the National Journal Award three times.
Her editorial work has been recognized with the Lu Xun Literature Prize for Outstanding Foreign Literature Editing (2004), awarded for her work on the Chinese edition of Nobel laureate Kenzaburo Oe's Goodbye, My Books (Baihua Literature and Art Publishing House). She also played a pivotal role in bringing Xiong Peiyun's Rediscovering Society (New Star Press, 2010) to publication — a book that sold out immediately upon release, went through seven printings within the year, and received the Wenjin Book Award from the National Library of China, among other major prizes.
Yan holds an MA in Contemporary Chinese Literature from Nankai University and completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School (2004).
Yan Liu, founder and publisher of 1 Plus Books
