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Foreign Languages Press

Also known as: 外文出版社有限责任公司

Founded
1952
Country / Region
China
Notable books
Xi Jinping: The Governance of China (Volume I)Stray Birds · The Crescent MoonSelected Works of Lu Xun: Volume Two (French)

303 books 200 authors

About the publisher

Foreign Languages Press, founded in 1952, focuses on publishing works by Chinese leaders, Party and government documents, and government white papers in multiple languages, while also covering literature, social culture, and finance. Representative titles include Stray Birds and The Crescent Moon, Xi Jinping's speeches at the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation and at the BRICS Xiamen Summit, Understanding China's Poverty Alleviation, Open China: New Patterns in the New Era, and Factory Girls. Its author resources include Rabindranath Tagore, Zheng Zhenduo, Xi Jinping, Ding Yan, and Zheng Yongnian. The press is characterized by translating Chinese political documents and cultural classics for overseas readers in multiple languages, alongside introducing and exporting literary and academic works. Its catalog centers on inspirational growth, politics, social culture, finance, and literature. Public information is limited; this profile emphasizes the publishing directions reflected in the available catalog.

Published (303)

Selected Works of Lu Xun: Volume Two (French) cover
Rating 4.5
Selected Works of Lu Xun: Volume Two (French) Lu Xun / 外文出版社法文编译部 Foreign Languages Press · 2024 The Selected Works of Lu Xun (French edition) comprises four volumes that present, in chronological order, representative essays, prose, prose poems (…
Selected Works of Lu Xun: Volume One (French) cover
Rating 4.5
Selected Works of Lu Xun: Volume One (French) Lu Xun / 外文出版社法文编译部 Foreign Languages Press · 2024 The Selected Works of Lu Xun (French edition) comprises four volumes that present, in chronological order, representative selections of Lu Xun's ficti…
Cotton Illustrations: Chinese-English Bilingual cover
Rating 4.1
Cotton Illustrations: Chinese-English Bilingual 爱新觉罗·玄烨 / 方观承 / 外文出版社英文编译部 Foreign Languages Press · 2024 During the reigns of Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong in the Qing dynasty, agriculture was emphasized and farming promoted, with the richest body of pl…
Pictures of Farming and Weaving: Chinese-English Bilingual cover
Rating 4.1
Pictures of Farming and Weaving: Chinese-English Bilingual 爱新觉罗·玄烨 / 焦秉贞 / 外文出版社英文编译部 Foreign Languages Press · 2024 Commissioned by the Kangxi Emperor of the Qing dynasty, who composed the poems himself, and illustrated by the court painter Jiao Bingzhen, Gengzhi Tu…
Factory Girls cover
Rating 4.1
Factory Girls 丁燕 Foreign Languages Press · 2024 In Dongguan, China's foremost manufacturing base, millions of girls travel from the countryside to be fixed beside assembly lines, repeating mechanica…
The Sacred Traces of Confucius: Chinese-English Bilingual cover
Rating 4.0
The Sacred Traces of Confucius: Chinese-English Bilingual 仇十洲 / 文徵明 Foreign Languages Press · 2024 The Confucius Pictorial Album: A Life in Pictures is a sequential-art collection based on the life of Confucius, drawing mainly on classical sources s…
Illustrated Mirror for Emperors: Chinese-English Bilingual cover
Rating 4.0
Illustrated Mirror for Emperors: Chinese-English Bilingual Zhang Juzheng / Anonymous / 外文出版社英文编译部 Foreign Languages Press · 2024 Dijian Tushuo is an ancient Chinese primer for the moral and political education of emperors. This volume is based on an early Qing court painter's il…
Understanding China's Agriculture, Rural Areas and Farmers (English) cover
Rating 3.8
Understanding China's Agriculture, Rural Areas and Farmers (English) 陈锡文 / 李曼 Foreign Languages Press · 2024 Understanding China's agriculture, rural areas and farmers is the starting point for understanding Chinese history and culture, and the logical origin…
I Have Seen the Yellow Crane: Chinese and English cover
Rating 3.8
I Have Seen the Yellow Crane: Chinese and English 张执浩 / 何跃敏 Foreign Languages Press · 2024 I Saw the Yellow Crane: Chinese–English is the first volume in the forthcoming bilingual Chinese–English series Wuhan Writers in Translation. The seri…
Witnessing Forty Years of China's Reform and Opening Up: Foreigners Tell "China Stories" cover
Rating 3.7
Witnessing Forty Years of China's Reform and Opening Up: Foreigners Tell "China Stories" 肖连兵 Foreign Languages Press · 2024 2018 marks the 40th anniversary of China's reform and opening up. As a reporter for Guangming Daily, over the past nearly 30 years I have covered many…
The Castro Era: A Chinese Ambassador's Firsthand Account (Spanish) cover
Rating 3.5
The Castro Era: A Chinese Ambassador's Firsthand Account (Spanish) 赵荣宪 / 杨锡军 / 欧阳媛 Foreign Languages Press · 2024 Fidel Castro was the founder of the Cuban socialist revolution and a leader who shaped world politics in the twentieth century. Because Cuba belonged …
The Castro Era: A Chinese Ambassador's Firsthand Account cover
Rating 3.5
The Castro Era: A Chinese Ambassador's Firsthand Account 赵荣宪 / 杨锡军 Foreign Languages Press · 2024 Fidel Castro founded socialist Cuba and was a leader who shaped twentieth-century world politics. Because Cuba belonged, like China, to the small soci…
We Are Building a Railway in Tibet: English cover
Rating 3.4
We Are Building a Railway in Tibet: English 王荃荃 Foreign Languages Press · 2024 We Built a Railway in Tibet is a photo-documentary book about Chinese railway workers building a railway on the roof of the world—Tibet. The photograp…
We Are Building a Railway in Tibet (Chinese) cover
Rating 3.4
We Are Building a Railway in Tibet (Chinese) 王荃荃 Foreign Languages Press · 2024 We're Building a Railway in Tibet is a photo-documentary book about Chinese railway workers building a railway on the roof of the world—Tibet. The pho…
Bright Stars: Narrators of the Human Soul (English) cover
Rating 3.2
Bright Stars: Narrators of the Human Soul (English) 旺忘望 Foreign Languages Press · 2024 Star Shine: Narrators of the Human Soul presents 300 works from the series, including modern portraits of world luminaries in the humanities, arts, sc…
Azerbaijani Crash Course (Azerbaijani) cover
Rating 3.1
Azerbaijani Crash Course (Azerbaijani) 伊拉纳·阿利耶娃 Foreign Languages Press · 2024 Azerbaijani in a Hurry and its workbook are more than an official set of materials for learning Azerbaijani—they are a bridge connecting the cultures …
Azerbaijani Crash Course: Workbook (Azerbaijani) cover
Rating 3.0
Azerbaijani Crash Course: Workbook (Azerbaijani) 伊拉纳·阿利耶娃 Foreign Languages Press · 2024 Azerbaijani Crash Course: Workbook (in Azerbaijani) is more than official study material for learning Azerbaijani—it is a bridge connecting the cultur…
Walking Together: 100 Stories of the Communist Party of China's Foreign Exchanges: Spanish cover
Rating 3.0
Walking Together: 100 Stories of the Communist Party of China's Foreign Exchanges: Spanish “一路同行——中国共产党对外交往100个故事”编写组 Foreign Languages Press · 2024 This book tells the story of the Communist Party of China and the world—at home and abroad, especially since the beginning of the new era. Through sma…
Walking Together: 100 Stories of the Communist Party of China's Foreign Exchanges: German cover
Rating 3.0
Walking Together: 100 Stories of the Communist Party of China's Foreign Exchanges: German “一路同行——中国共产党对外交往100个故事”编写组 Foreign Languages Press · 2024 This book tells the story of the Communist Party of China and the world—to readers at home and abroad—beginning with the founding of the Party and foc…
Qianlong's Art of Health Preservation: French cover
Rating 3.0
Qianlong's Art of Health Preservation: French 胡晓飞 Foreign Languages Press · 2024 Emperor Qianlong's Health Preservation Techniques is a French edition compiled by Hu Xiaofei, professor at Beijing Sport University, based on Qing dyn…

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