FRANKFURT, Germany, Oct. 15,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- At this year's Frankfurt Book
Fair, the "Library of Chinese Classics" series translated into
languages of Belt and Road partner countries feature prominently at
the booth of China International Communications Group
(CICG). Bilingual edition of books on exhibition published by
CICG's Foreign Languages Press (FLP) include Journey to the
West (Chinese-Hindi), Laozi (Chinese-Hindi), Selected
Stories of the Tang Dynasty (Chinese-Hindi), Selected
Stories of the Song and Ming Dynasties (Chinese-Spanish),
Buddhist Records of the Western World (Chinese-Hindi),
Ancient Chinese Fables (Chinese-Burmese, Chinese-Bengali,
Chinese-Hindi, and Chinese-Swahili), and Selected Strange Tales
from the Liaozhai Studio (Chinese-Swahili and
Chinese-Hindi).
The "Library of Chinese Classics" is dedicated to sharing the
riches of traditional Chinese culture with the world. With its rich
cultural significance and exceptional quality of publication, this
series has emerged as a national cultural emblem. Aimed at
fostering cultural and people-to-people exchanges, the "Library of
Chinese Classics" in languages of Belt and Road partner countries
project has carefully chosen 25 quintessential Chinese works, such
as The Book of Poetry, The Analects,
Laozi, Sun Zi: The Art of
War, The Book of History, The Great Learning and
The Doctrine of the Mean, Zhuangzi, Han Fei Zi, The Classic of Mountains and
Seas, The Sutra of Huineng, Buddhist Records of the
Western World, Wonders of the Present and the Past,
Selected Stories of the Song and Ming Dynasties, Journey
to the West, The Scholars, Selected Strange Tales
from the Liaozhai Studio, and Ancient Chinese Fables. In
2019, 84 titles of the project received support from the National
Publication Foundation, and to date, 75 volumes spanning 55 titles
have been published in 24 languages such as French, Russian,
Arabic, Spanish, Swahili, Urdu, Turkish, Burmese, Vietnamese, Thai,
Portuguese, Ukrainian, Romanian, and Bulgarian. The Foreign
Languages Press, together with 20 other publishers such as the
Commercial Press, Zhonghua Book Company, People's Education Press,
People's Literature Publishing House, and the Intercontinental
Communication Center, has taken part in this great endeavor.
To share Chinese cultural products embodying Chinese
characteristics, ethos and wisdom with readers in more countries,
the "Library of Chinese Classics" working committee has launched a
second batch with 20 titles in 16 languages spoken in the Belt and
Road partner countries, including Albanian, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian,
Persian, and Sinhala, 10 of which were not included in the first
batch. The expansion brings the total to 34 languages. The second
batch has secured funding from the National Publication Foundation
in 2023.
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