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China International Publishing Group
The China International Publishing Group (CIPG), also known as the China Foreign Languages Publishing Administration, is a foreign-language publishing organization in China owned and controlled by the Central Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party. Established in October 1949, it has developed into a global media corporation. Organization CIPG owns seven subordinate publishing houses, i.e. Foreign Languages Press, New World Press, Morning Glory Publishers, Sinolingua, China Pictorial Publishing House, Dolphin Books and New Star Publishers. The organisation annually publishes over 3,000 titles of books and around 50 journals in more than 10 languages. Notable periodicals include ''Beijing Review'', '' China Today'', ''China Pictorial'', '' People’s China'' and ''China Report''. Its subsidiary, the China International Book Trading Corporation is in charge of the distribution. It also runs 20 overseas branches in countries and regions, including the United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
China International Publishing Group
The China International Publishing Group (CIPG), also known as the China Foreign Languages Publishing Administration, is a foreign-language publishing organization in China owned and controlled by the Central Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party. Established in October 1949, it has developed into a global media corporation. Organization CIPG owns seven subordinate publishing houses, i.e. Foreign Languages Press, New World Press, Morning Glory Publishers, Sinolingua, China Pictorial Publishing House, Dolphin Books and New Star Publishers. The organisation annually publishes over 3,000 titles of books and around 50 journals in more than 10 languages. Notable periodicals include ''Beijing Review'', '' China Today'', ''China Pictorial'', '' People’s China'' and ''China Report''. Its subsidiary, the China International Book Trading Corporation is in charge of the distribution. It also runs 20 overseas branches in countries and regions, including the United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
China Today
''China Today'' (), until 1990 titled ''China Reconstructs'' (), is a monthly magazine founded in 1952 by Soong Ching-ling in association with Israel Epstein. It is published in Chinese language, English, Spanish, French, Arabic, German and Turkish, and is an official outlet of the Chinese Communist Party, intended to promote knowledge of China's culture, geography, economy and social affairs as well as positive view of the People's Republic of China and its government to people outside of China. Background and role in China Foreign advisor and naturalized Chinese citizen Israel Epstein was editor-in-chief of ''China Today'' from 1948, and later returned to China at the request of Soong Ching-ling. The magazine was renamed ''China Today'' in 1990.Jiang ZeminTo China Today, ''China Today'', 20 November 2001. ''China Today'' is usually published the first week of the month. The editors usually showcase what they characterize as the growing modernization and development whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qiao Guanhua
Qiao Guanhua (; March 28, 1913 – September 22, 1983 ." ''''. January 28, 2008. Retrieved on October 22, 2010.) was a politician and diplomat in the People's Republic of China and played an important role in the talks with United States on the opening of China and the drafting of the . Early life and revolution Qiao Guanhua was born in in 1913; his father was a local land-o ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xiao Qian
Xiao Qian (27 January 1910 – 11 February 1999), alias Ruoping (), was a famous essayist, editor, journalist and translator from China. His life spanned the country's history before and after the establishment of the People's Republic of China. Biography Early years Xiao was born on 27 January 1910 in Beijing. His name at birth was Xiao Bingqian (). He was born into a sinicized Mongol family. His father died before his birth, leaving only his mother to raise him. His mother died when he was seven, and he was sent to live with his cousins. School days In 1917, at the age of 7, Xiao entered the Chongshi School (). It was a church school run by European missionaries. He took up part-time jobs to pay the tuition fees (e.g. weaving Turkish rugs, delivering milk and mimeographing lecture notes in the school administration office). He worked in the morning and studied in the afternoon. In summer 1924, about half a year before completing junior middle school, he worked as a tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yang Xianyi
Yang Xianyi (; January 10, 1915 – November 23, 2009) was a Chinese literary translator, known for rendering many ancient and a few modern Chinese classics into English, including '' Dream of the Red Mansions''. Life and career Born into a wealthy banking family in Tianjin, he was sent to Merton College, Oxford to study Classics in 1936. There he married Gladys Tayler. They had two daughters and a son, who committed suicide in 1979. Yang and his wife returned to China in 1940, and began their decades long co-operation of introducing Chinese classics to the English-speaking world. Working for the Foreign Languages Press in Beijing, a government-funded publisher, the husband and wife team produced a number of quality translations. The works translated include classical Chinese poetry; such classic works as ''A Dream of the Red Mansions'', '' The Scholars'', Liu E's ''Mr. Decadent: Notes Taken in an Outing'' (), also known as ''The Travels of Lao Can'', and some of Lu Xun's stor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Last Emperor
''The Last Emperor'' ( it, L'ultimo imperatore) is a 1987 epic biographical drama film about the life of Puyi, the final Emperor of China. It is directed by Bernardo Bertolucci from a screenplay he co-wrote with Mark Peploe, which was adapted from Puyi's 1964 autobiography, and independently produced by Jeremy Thomas. The film depicts Puyi's life from his ascent to the throne as a small boy to his imprisonment and “political rehabilitation” by the Chinese Communist Party. It stars John Lone in the eponymous role, with Peter O'Toole, Joan Chen, Ruocheng Ying, Victor Wong, Dennis Dun, Vivian Wu, Lisa Lu, and Ryuichi Sakamoto; who also composed the film score with David Byrne and Cong Su. It was the first Western feature film authorized by the People's Republic of China to film in the Forbidden City in Beijing. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ying Ruocheng
Ying Ruocheng (; June 21, 1929 - December 27, 2003) was a Chinese actor, director, playwright and vice Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China, minister of culture from 1986 to 1990. He first came to the attention of Western audiences for his portrayal of Kublai Khan in the 1982 miniseries ''Marco Polo (miniseries), Marco Polo''. He is best known for playing the part of the governor of the detention camp in the Bernardo Bertolucci's film ''The Last Emperor'', and the role of the Tibetan Buddhist Lama Norbu in ''Little Buddha''. He also worked as a theater translator, director, and actor for the Beijing People's Art Theatre, particularly for his role as Pockmark Liu in Lao She's ''Teahouse'' and as Willy Loman in ''Death of a Salesman'' in 1983, directed by Arthur Miller (Ying also translated the script). Biography Ying was born in Beijing into a Manchu people, Manchu family. He studied in a church school in Tianjin in his early years, and later graduated from the Depa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bei Dao
Bei Dao (, born August 2, 1949) is the pen name of the Chinese-American writer Zhao Zhenkai (S: 赵振开, T: 趙振開, P: ''Zhào Zhènkāi''). Among the most acclaimed Chinese-language poets of his generation, he is often regarded as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature. In addition to poetry, he is the author of short fiction, essays, and a memoir. Known as a dissident, he is a prominent representative of a school of poetry known variously in the West as "Misty" or "Obscure" Poetry. Born in Beijing before the establishment of the People's Republic of China, Bei Dao served as a member of the Red Guards in his youth. However, disillusioned by the Cultural Revolution, he participated in the 1976 Tiananmen Incident and co-founded an influential literary journal, called ''Jintian'' (''Today''), that came to be officially banned in China. After his poetry and activism were an inspiration to the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, Bei Dao was banned from China and entered a pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gao Xingjian
Gao Xingjian (高行健 in Chinese - born January 4, 1940) is a Chinese émigré and later French naturalized novelist, playwright, critic, painter, photographer, film director, and translator who in 2000 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for an oeuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity." He is also a noted translator (particularly of Samuel Beckett and Eugène Ionesco), screenwriter, stage director, and a celebrated painter. Gao's drama is considered to be fundamentally absurdist in nature and avant-garde in his native China. ''Absolute Signal'' (1982) was a breakthrough in Chinese experimental theatre. '' The Bus Stop'' (1983) and ''The Other Shore'' (1986) had their productions halted by the Chinese government, with the acclaimed ''Wild Man'' (1985) the last work of his to be publicly performed in China. He left the country in 1987 and his plays from ''The Other Shore'' onward increasingly centered on universal (rather than Chinese) concerns ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Human Resources And Social Security
The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security of People's Republic of China is a ministry under the State Council of China which is responsible for national labor policies, standards, regulations and managing the national social security. This includes labor force management, labor relationship readjustment, social insurance management and legal construction of labor. The State Bureau of Civil Servants reports to the new ministry. History The ministry was created from the merger of the former Ministry of Personnel and Ministry of Labor and Social Security, announced at the 2008 National People's Congress. Since March 17, 2008, the ministry is headed by Yin Weimin. Responsibilities The MOHRSS has responsibility for managing the employment market in mainland China. The ministry also oversees the China Overseas Talent Network, part of the Thousand Talents Plan, and has internal bureaus focused on technology transfer. Due to the financial crisis of 2008 and late 2000s recess ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
China Internet Information Center
China Internet Information Center (; or 中国网/网上中国) is a state-run web portal of the People's Republic of China and published under the auspices of the State Council Information Office and the China International Publishing Group. Its editor-in-chief is Wang Xiaohui, who also serves as a vice minister of the Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party. Localization The site is available in Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), English, Esperanto, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Spanish. See also * Xinhua News Agency Xinhua News Agency (English pronunciation: )J. C. Wells: Longman Pronunciation Dictionary, 3rd ed., for both British and American English, or New China News Agency, is the official state news agency of the People's Republic of China. Xinhua ... * China News Service References External links Official site Chinese news websites Web portals Chinese-language websites Chinese propaganda organis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
China International Book Trading Corporation
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and borders fourteen countries by land, the most of any country in the world, tied with Russia. Covering an area of approximately , it is the world's third largest country by total land area. The country consists of 22 provinces, five autonomous regions, four municipalities, and two Special Administrative Regions (Hong Kong and Macau). The national capital is Beijing, and the most populous city and financial center is Shanghai. Modern Chinese trace their origins to a cradle of civilization in the fertile basin of the Yellow River in the North China Plain. The semi-legendary Xia dynasty in the 21st century BCE and the well-attested Shang and Zhou dynasties developed a bureaucratic political system to serve hereditary monarchies, or dynas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
