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| Parent company | China International Communications Group |
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| Founded | 1952; 73 years ago (1952) |
| Country of origin | China |
| Official website | www |
Foreign Languages Press is a governmentpublishing house located inChina.
Based inBeijing, it was founded in 1952 and currently forms part of theChina International Communications Group, which is owned and controlled by thePublicity Department of theChinese Communist Party.
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 byMarx andLenin are still widely circulated – but it also publishes some material aimed atforeign language students within China.[citation needed]
At its founding, Foreign Languages Press was part of China's International News Bureau.[1]: 77 The purpose of establishing Foreign Languages Press was to increase international distribution of material for foreign readers, particularly to the non-socialist countries.[1]: 77 In 1952, it was re-organized under the Publicity Department.[1]: 77–78
Foreign Languages Press started publications includingChina Pictorial,People's China,China Reconstructs, andPeking Review.[1]: 79 It also published the journalChinese Literature, which focused on translations of classics byMay Fourth authors,socialist realists, andStalin Prize winners.[1]: 80
Beginning in the 1950s many works of classical and modern Chinese literature were translated into English by translators such asGladys Yang,Yang Xianyi andSidney Shapiro.[2][3] Among the May Fourth authors whose works Foreign Language Press translated were:Lu Xun,Guo Moruo,Mao Dun, andDing Ling.[1]: 81
In 1967, Foreign Languages Press began publishingQuotations from Chairman Mao Zedong inAlbanian.[4]: 167
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