Foreign Languages Press

Much of its output is aimed at the international community – its 1960s editions of works by Marx and Lenin are still widely circulated – but it also publishes some material aimed at foreign language students within China.

• Name — Foreign Languages Press • Parent — China International Communications Group • Country — China

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, 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. Among the May Fourth authors whose works Foreign Language Press translated were: Lu Xun, Guo Moruo, Mao Dun, and Ding Ling. In 1967, Foreign Languages Press began publishing Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong in Albanian.