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Chinese Communist Party magazine
China Today
(
Chinese
:
今日
中?
;
pinyin
:
j?nri Zh?ngguo
), until 1990 titled
China Reconstructs
(
Chinese
:
中?
建?
;
pinyin
:
Zh?ngguo jianshe
), is a monthly
magazine
founded in 1952
[1]
by
Soong Ching-ling
in association with
Israel Epstein
. It is published in
Chinese language
,
English
,
Spanish
,
French
,
Arabic
,
German
and
Turkish
, and is an official outlet of the
Chinese Communist Party
, intended to promote knowledge of China's culture, geography, economy and social affairs as well as positive view of the
People's Republic of China
and its government to people outside of China.
Background and role in China
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Foreign advisor and naturalized Chinese citizen
Israel Epstein
was editor-in-chief of
China Today
from 1948, and later returned to China at the request of Soong Ching-ling. The magazine was renamed
China Today
in 1990.
[2]
China Today
is usually published the first week of the month. The editors usually showcase what they characterize as the growing modernization and development which has happened in China since 1949.
[3]
The novelist, playwright and translator
Gao Xingjian
, who received the
Nobel Prize in Literature
in 2000, worked in the magazine as the chief of its French edition from 1975 to 1977. The actor, translator and politician
Ying Ruocheng
briefly worked for the English edition of the magazine in the 1970s. He went on to serve as China's vice minister of culture in the 1980s and played a supporting role in the 1987 Oscar-winning film
The Last Emperor
.
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