Foreign Languages Press is a

publishing house Publishing is the activity of making information, literature, music, software and other content available to the public for sale or for free. Traditionally, the term refers to the creation and distribution of printed works, such as books, newsp ...

located in

China 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 ...

. Based in

Beijing } Beijing ( ; ; ), alternatively romanized as Peking ( ), is the capital of the People's Republic of China. It is the center of power and development of the country. Beijing is the world's most populous national capital city, with over 21 ...

, it was founded in 1952 and currently forms part of the

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 Chine ...

, which is owned and controlled by the Publicity Department of the

Chinese Communist Party The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), officially the Communist Party of China (CPC), is the founding and One-party state, sole ruling party of the China, People's Republic of China (PRC). Under the leadership of Mao Zedong, the CCP emerged victoriou ...

. The press publishes books on a wide range of topics in eighteen languages spoken primarily outside China. Much of its output is aimed at the international community – its 1960s editions of works by

Marx Karl Heinrich Marx (; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist, critic of political economy, and socialist revolutionary. His best-known titles are the 1848 p ...

and

Lenin Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov. ( 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin,. was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 19 ...

are still widely circulated – but it also publishes some material aimed at

foreign language A foreign language is a language that is not an official language of, nor typically spoken in, a given country, and that native speakers from that country must usually acquire through conscious learning - be this through language lessons at schoo ...

students within China. Beginning in the 1950s many works of classical and modern Chinese literature were translated into English by translators such as

Gladys Yang Gladys Yang (; 19 January 1919 – 18 November 1999) was a British translator of Chinese literature and the wife of another noted literary translator, Yang Xianyi. Biography She was born Gladys Margaret Tayler at the Peking Union Medical Col ...

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 wea ...

and

Sidney Shapiro Sidney Shapiro () (December 23, 1915 – October 18, 2014) was an American-born Chinese lawyer, translator, actor and writer who lived in China from 1947 to 2014. He lived in Beijing for more than 50 years and eventually became a member of the ...

. As of 2008, the house had published over 30,000 titles in a total of 43 languages.

Book series

English language titles

* Ancient Towns Around Shanghai * China Handbook Series * China Knowledge Series * China Society for People's Friendship Studies * China Sports Series * China Travel Kit Series * China's Nationalities Series * Chinese Health Qigong Series * Chinese Language Library * Chinese Wushu Series * The Culture & Civilization of China * Echos from the Classics * History of Modern China Series * How To Series * Library of Chinese Classics * Light on China SeriesLight on China (Foreign Languages Press) – Book Series List
publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 22 July 2019. * Modern Chinese Literature Library * Monkey Series * Panda Series * Picture Story Series * Studies on the Chinese Market Economy Series * Ten Minutes Series * Traditional Chinese Therapeutic Exercises and Techniques

French language titles

* Contes populaires chinois * Connaissance de la Chine * Histoire moderne de Chine * Le roi des singes

References

External links

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Archival links of Foreign Languages Press at The Internet Archive in the US

– company description, history and contact details

at

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Foreign Languages Press
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Book series

English language titles

French language titles

See also

References

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