Chapter and verse

Chinese publishing has come a long way in the past 70 years, Mei Jia reports.

Hu Kaimin, chief editor of the Foreign Languages Press, uses a "seven books" theory to summarize the publisher's achievements in presenting Chinese titles to global readers over the past 70 years.

The seven titles, each representing a decade, range from multilingual versions of late chairman Mao Zedong's collections in the 1960s to Chinese classics such as A Dream of Red Mansions in the 1970s, the Culture and Civilization of China series in the 1990s and the two-volume book, Xi Jinping: The Governance of China, sold in 32 editions in 28 languages so far.