People's Publishing House

For the Indian publisher, see People's Publishing House (India). For other uses, see People's Publishing House (disambiguation).

People's Publishing House
Headquarters
StatusActive
Founded1 September 1921[1]
Country of originChina
Headquarters locationBeijing, China[2]
Publication typesBooks, periodicals
OwnerCentral Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party
Official websitewww.pph166.com Edit this at Wikidata

People's Publishing House[3][4] (Chinese: 人民出版社; pinyin: Rénmín Chūbǎnshè), abbreviated as PPH,[5][3] also known as People's Press,[6] is a China's state-run publishing house based in Beijing,[7] 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.[8]

It is run by the Central Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party.[9] Its important publications include classic works of Marxism,[10] and works by "Leaders of the Party and State" of the People's Republic of China.[11]

History

People's Publishing House was originally established 1 September 1921.[12] It was established for the purpose of publishing communist texts.[13]: 103  Its founder was Li Da.[13]: 252 

In 1923, People's Publishing House merged with other Communist Party printing organizations.[13]: 255 

People's Publishing House was re-established on 1 December 1950.[14] It was the first official publishing house of the People's Republic of China government.[13]: 255 

In August 1966, People's Publishing House took over the work of printing Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong,[15]: 34  which had originally been published by the People's Liberation Army.[16]: xiii  Quotations was made available to the public through Xinhua Bookstores.[15]: 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.[13]: 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,[17] which was the first doctoral thesis of history published in the People's Republic of China.[18]

Publications

Works of Leaders of the Party and the State

These texts include:

References

  1. ^ China Publishing Yearbook. Commercial Press. 2006. pp. 480–.
  2. ^ Benjamin Yang (8 April 2016). Deng: A Political Biography. Routledge. pp. 321–. ISBN 978-1-134-96483-3.
  3. ^ a b "人民出版社". www.pph166.com. Archived from the original on 24 February 2020. Retrieved 18 October 2025.
  4. ^ Zongchao Peng; Ben Ma; Taoxiong Liu (1 December 2016). Chinese Cooperative-Harmonious Democracy: Research on Chinese Cooperative-Harmonious Democracy. Taylor & Francis. pp. 61–. ISBN 978-1-317-47984-0.
  5. ^ Chuanqi He; Alberto Martinelli (11 February 2015). Global Modernization Review: New Discoveries And Theories Revisited. World Scientific. pp. 162–. ISBN 978-981-4616-08-9.
  6. ^ Rainer Arnold (21 August 2012). The Universalism of Human Rights. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 141–. ISBN 978-94-007-4510-0.
  7. ^ Zhao Jiaxiang (9 June 2020). Leaping Over the Caudine Forks of Capitalism. Taylor & Francis. pp. 57–. ISBN 978-1-00-005670-9.
  8. ^ ""Whistleblower" sparks anti-censorship war Chinese fight back with creative continuity". BBC.com. 11 March 2020.
  9. ^ "Authorities again exposed to special treatment". Duowei News. 11 January 2016.
  10. ^ Xinhua Monthly Post. Xinhua Monthly Post Agency. 2009.
  11. ^ Editor's Friends. Shanxi People's Publishing House. 2005.
  12. ^ Yearbook of the People's Republic of China. China Yearbook Agency. 2007. pp. 610–.
  13. ^ a b c d e Li, Ying (2024). Red Ink: A History of Printing and Politics in China. Royal Collins Press. ISBN 9781487812737.
  14. ^ China Book Yearbook: 2002. Hubei People's Publishing House. 2004. ISBN 9787216039826.
  15. ^ a b Leese, Daniel (2013). "A Single Spark: Origins and Spread of the Little Red Book in China". In Cook, Alexander C. (ed.). Mao's Little Red Book: A Global History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-05722-7.
  16. ^ Cook, Alexander C., ed. (2013). "Preface". Mao's Little Red Book: A Global History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-05722-7.
  17. ^ Chinese Environment & Development. M.E. Sharpe. 1994.
  18. ^ Ancient books collated and published briefly. Zhonghua Book Company. 1987. pp. 5–.
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