Red Collections Published as Another Cultural Project in Hunan

The scene of symposium on publishing Red Collections

A symposium on publishing Red Collections: Progressive Periodicals from 1915-1949 was held in Changsha on January 20. The collections comprising of 428 volumes with over 300 million Chinese characters were revealed to the public, as another major cultural project of Hunan after Huxiang Library.

Published by Xiangtan University, Red Collections won national publishing fund of 11.46 million yuan in 2010, a record high in this sector. The collections systematically collected and printed 151 progressive periodicals founded by the Central Committee of Communist Party of China (CPC) as well as its agencies, organizations and societies at all levels from 1915 to 1949. It is the first time for such periodicals to be published since 1949. The contents of about ten periodicals are released for the first time after the foundation of the People's Republic of China.

Translator: Zhang Minsi

Chinese source: hn.chinanews.com