Foreign Languages Press

This article is about the Chinese publisher. For similarly-named publishers, see Foreign Languages Publishing House (disambiguation).
Foreign Languages Press
Parent companyChina Foreign Languages Publication and Distribution Administration
Founded1952; 72 years ago (1952)
Country of originChina
Official websitewww.flp.com.cn

Foreign Languages Press is a publishing house located in China.

Based in Beijing, 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 Chinese Communist Party.

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 Marx and Lenin are still widely circulated – but it also publishes some material aimed at foreign language students within China.

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.[1][2]

As of 2008, the house had published over 30,000 titles in a total of 43 languages.

  1. ^ Delia Davin, "Gladys Yang", The Guardian, 24 November 1999. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
  2. ^ Michael Donohue, "The expatriate", The National (Abu Dhabi), 14 August 2008. Retrieved 27 March 2022.