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
Foreign Languages Press is a publishing house located in China.
Based in Beijing, it was founded in 1952 and currently forms part of the China International Publishing Group, which is owned and controlled by the Publicity Department of the Chi ...
,
New World Press
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New World ...
Beijing Review
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China Pictorial
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China Report
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''. 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 States, Britain, Germany, Japan, Belgium, Egypt, Mexico and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, with about 3,000 staff members including around 100 foreign workers.
In addition to publishing, CIPG operates the China Internet Information Center. It is also responsible for the implementation and management of the national translation test and appraisal for the
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 ...
.
Employees
Prominent people who have worked in the CIPG include Nobel Literature Prize-winning novelist and playwright
Gao Xingjian
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, Nobel Prize-nominated poet Bei Dao, actor and politician
Ying Ruocheng
Ying Ruocheng (; June 21, 1929 - December 27, 2003) was a Chinese actor, director, playwright and vice 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 miniser ...
(known for his role in the Oscar-winning
The Last Emperor
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), translators
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 Ye Junjian, author
Xiao Qian
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, non-fiction novel writer Xu Chi, cartoonist Ding Cong, former Chinese Foreign Minister
Qiao Guanhua
Qiao Guanhua (; March 28, 1913 – September 22, 1983 ." ''
Tang Mingzhao.
Several foreign employees have also gained notoriety, including the pseudonymous author "Alex Hill," whose account of working as a foreign editor for the organization was widely read in 2015. In his account, the author writes of feckless bureaucracy, political correctness, and a general feeling of malaise among the many foreigners working in the compound.