The Inner Mongolia People's Publishing House (IMPPH) is a publishing

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based in

Hohhot Hohhot,; abbreviated zh, c=呼市, p=Hūshì, labels=no formerly known as Kweisui, is the Capital (political), capital of Inner Mongolia in the North China, north of the China, People's Republic of China, serving as the region's administrativ ...

, the capital of the

Inner Mongolia Inner Mongolia, officially the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is an Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of China. Its border includes two-thirds of the length of China's China–Mongolia border, border with the country of Mongolia. ...

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of the People's Republic of China. It was established in 1951. Their president is Wang Dongsheng ().

Publications

IMPPH publish original works in Chinese and Mongolian, as well as translations of English works.

Incidents

IMPPH have been accused of violations of intellectual property rights on various occasions. In 2001, there appeared a book with the imprint of IMPPH, whose author's pseudonym, title, cover art, and content bore a close resemblance to

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's ''Triple Doors''; however, a spokesperson for IMPPH denied that the company had actually printed those books, instead claiming that another party was misusing their name. A 2004 article by the ''

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'' also claimed that the IMPPH's 2001 book about ''

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'' plagiarised roughly 500,000 words from a similar book published four years earlier by the China Youth Press. In 2004, the IMPPH were also fined by the

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for trading in book registration numbers. They sold the book registration numbers to a publishing company in

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, enabling the latter to carry out illegal publication activities.

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External links

Official website
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Publications

Incidents

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