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People's Press (Beijing)
Chinese publishing company From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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People's Press (Chinese: 人民出版社; pinyin: Rénmín Chūbǎnshè),[3] commonly known as People's Publishing House,[4] abbreviated as PPH,[5] is a China's state-run publishing house based in Beijing,[6] which mainly publishes books on philosophy and social sciences, and is the official publisher of political and ideological books for the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese government.[7] It is run by the Central Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party.[8] Its important publications include classic works of Marxism,[9] and works by "Leaders of the Party and State" of the People's Republic of China.[10]
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History
People's Publishing House was originally established 1 September 1921.[11] It was established for the purpose of publishing communist texts.[12]: 103 Its founder was Li Da.[12]: 252
In 1923, People's Publishing House merged with other Communist Party printing organizations.[12]: 255
People's Publishing House was re-established on 1 December 1950.[13] It was the first official publishing house of the People's Republic of China government.[12]: 255
In August 1966, People's Publishing House took over the work of printing Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong,[14]: 34 which had originally been published by the People's Liberation Army.[15]: xiii Quotations was made available to the public through Xinhua Bookstores.[14]: 34
In December 1979, People's Publishing House released a major Chinese translation of Edgar Snow's Red Star over China under the new title Mao Zedong's 1936 Conversations with Edgar Snow.[12]: 125
In 1986, Ge Jianxiong's dissertation, Population Geography of the Western Han Dynasty (西汉人口地理), was published as a monograph by the People's Publishing House,[16] which was the first doctoral thesis of history published in the People's Republic of China.[17]
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Publications
Works of Leaders of the Party and the State
These texts include:
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