Beijing Normal University Press

Beijing Normal University Press has a distinct focus on educational publishing, with basic education textbooks and teacher education materials forming a major part of its list, extending to preschool, children's, and vocational education. In the humanities and social sciences, the press has released the ten-volume General History of Foreign Educational Thought and other series on the history of education, as well as translations in Marxist philosophy such as Marx's Theory of Alienation and The New Dialectic and Marx's Capital. It has also published The Interpretation of Dreams, the ten-volume Collected Works of Kunio Yanagita, and studies on Ming-Qing society and ritual. Its authors include Bertell Ollman, Christopher J. Arthur, Shan Zhonghui, Zhang Binxian, Wu Shiying, and Zhu Xudong. Its common categories cover Marxist philosophy, social culture, foreign literature, education, and philosophy, balancing academic depth with general reading.