About the publisher
People's Education Press focuses on educational publishing, with its titles spanning textbooks, educational study, foreign languages, parenting, and psychology. Representative publications include textbooks in the Compulsory Education Textbook series, such as World History, Geography, and Chinese History, as well as multiple volumes of the New Standard Japanese for Sino-Japanese Communication at the elementary and intermediate levels. The list also includes parenting and psychology titles such as The Secret of Childhood and Developmental Psychology (Third Edition). Its author resources are led by the Ministry of Education, the Curriculum and Textbook Research Institute of People's Education Press, and various subject-specific curriculum and textbook research and development centers, with scholars such as Qi Shirong, Hou Jianxin, and Xu Bin contributing to textbook compilation and the Japanese publisher Mitsumura Tosho Publishing Co., Ltd. participating in foreign-language titles. Public information on the press's founding background and scale is limited; this introduction summarizes its publishing directions based on the books held in the collection.
Frequent authors
People's Education Press Curriculum and Textbook Research Institute (85)教育部 (46)English Curriculum and Textbook Research and Development Center of People's Education Press Curriculum and Textbook Research Institute (24)People's Education Press (23)Music Curriculum and Textbook Research and Development Center, Curriculum and Textbook Research Institute, People's Education Press (21)Wen Rumin (21)Wu Xin (19)Ministry of Education (15)Beth Levy (14)Larry Swartz (14)Du Yongshou (13)Fine Arts Curriculum and Textbook Research and Development Center of People's Education Press Curriculum and Textbook Research Institute (12)