Foreign Languages Press is a government

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located in

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. Based in

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, 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

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. 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

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and

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

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students within China.

History

At its founding, Foreign Languages Press was part of China's International News Bureau. The purpose of establishing Foreign Languages Press was to increase international distribution of material for foreign readers, particularly to the non-socialist countries. In 1952, it was re-organized under the Publicity Department. Foreign Languages Press started publications including '' China Pictorial'', ''People's China'', '' China Reconstructs'', and '' Peking Review''. It also published the journal ''

Chinese Literature The history of Chinese literature extends thousands of years, and begins with the earliest recorded inscriptions, court archives, building to the major works of philosophy and history written during the Axial Age. The Han dynasty, Han (202 ...

'', which focused on translations of classics by May Fourth authors, socialist realists, and Stalin Prize winners. Beginning in the 1950s many works of classical and modern Chinese literature were translated into English by translators such as Gladys Yang, Yang Xianyi and Sidney Shapiro.Michael Donohue
"The expatriate"
''The National'' (Abu Dhabi), 14 August 2008. Retrieved 27 March 2022. Among the May Fourth authors whose works Foreign Language Press translated were:

Lu Xun Lu Xun ( zh, c=魯迅, p=Lǔ Xùn, ; 25 September 188119 October 1936), pen name of Zhou Shuren, born Zhou Zhangshou, was a Chinese writer. A leading figure of modern Chinese literature, he wrote in both vernacular and literary Chinese as a no ...

Guo Moruo Guo Moruo (November 16, 1892 – June 12, 1978), courtesy name Dingtang, was a Chinese author, poet, historian, archaeologist, and government official. Biography Family history Guo Moruo, originally named Guo Kaizhen, was born on November 10 or ...

Mao Dun Shen Dehong (Shen Yanbing; 4 July 1896 – 27 March 1981), best known by the pen name of Mao Dun, was a Chinese novelist, essayist, journalist, playwright, literary and cultural critic. He was highly celebrated for his Literary realism, rea ...

, and Ding Ling. In 1967, Foreign Languages Press began publishing '' Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong'' in

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

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