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''Beijing Review'' (), previously ''Peking Review'', is
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's only national
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in English, published by the
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-owned
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. Beijing Review has two overseas branches: the North America Bureau in New York, U.S.A., and the CHINAFRICA Media and Publishing (Pty) Ltd in Johannesburg, South Africa. In addition to the English print edition, ''Beijing Review'' also publishes online editions in Chinese, English, French, German and Japanese.


Overview

Founded in March 1958 as the weekly ''Peking Review'', it was an important tool for the
Chinese government The government of the People's Republic of China is based on a system of people's congress within the parameters of a Unitary state, unitary communist state, in which the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) enacts its policies through people's ...
to communicate to the rest of world. It was published via
Foreign Languages Press Foreign Languages Press is a government 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 Departmen ...
. The first issue included an editor's note explaining that the magazine was meant to "provide timely, accurate, first-hand information on economic, political and cultural developments in China, and her relations with the rest of the world." The U.S. Postal Service initially restricted distribution of the magazine but the U.S. Supreme Court overturned this policy in '' Lamont v. Postmaster General''. In 1967 the Chinese authorities sent several issues of the magazine, then titled ''Peking Review'', to
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. In October 2020, the
United States Department of State The United States Department of State (DOS), or simply the State Department, is an United States federal executive departments, executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the country's foreign policy of the United State ...
designated ''Beijing Review'' as a "foreign mission" of China.


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Collection of historical issues of ''Peking Review''
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