Founded in 1978, Shanghai Century Publishing (Group) Co., Ltd. is a large-scale comprehensive translation publishing house in China, which translates/compiles/publishes foreign literary works and academic works in social sciences

Founded in January 1978, Shanghai Translation Publishing House is the largest comprehensive translation publishing house in China and is a member of the Century Publishing Group.

Shanghai Translation Publishing House takes the translation and dissemination of the excellent cultures of various ethnic groups in the world as its main task, and has many senior editors who are proficient in English, French, Russian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Arabic and other major languages and have subject expertise. Most of its strong team of translators are experts and scholars with expertise in foreign languages and Chinese. The society has extensive and long-lasting contacts with major publishing houses and copyright agencies in various countries, and has a good reputation in the field of international book copyright trade.

For more than 30 years, Shanghai Translation Publishing House has been translating, compiling and publishing foreign literary works, social science academic works, as well as various bilingual dictionaries and reference books for foreign language teaching.

A number of translation series of classic classics represented by the "Foreign Literature Masterpieces Series" and the "Twentieth Century Foreign Literature Series" enjoy a high reputation in China. Brand series such as "Modern and Contemporary World Literature Series" and "Popular Editions of World Literature Classics", which are beautifully selected and translated, are still constantly innovating. With its strong publishing strength and good reputation, in recent years, the society has successively purchased the copyright to translate and publish the anthologies of foreign modern and contemporary masters, including Faulkner, Hemingway, Maugham, Remarque, Burr, Golding, Glass, Haruki Murakami, Kundera, Kelsis and other writers' masterpieces, and the Chinese translations of these works are outstanding in China in terms of quantity and quality.

A number of classic academic translations, represented by the "Twentieth Century Western Philosophy Translation Series" and the "Contemporary Academic Trends Translation Series", are well-known in the Chinese academic circles, and new varieties are launched every year. Many of the books published by the society in the fields of political science, economics, law, aesthetics, psychology, and biography are overseas award-winning works, which have high academic value and are in line with the trend of the times, such as "The Creator", "The Discoverer", "The Explorer", "Guns, Germs and Steel", "Fermat's Great Theorem", "Stephen Hawking's Biography", "Green Frontier Translation Series", etc. In recent years, more attention has been paid to environmental protection and life inspirational topics, and popular books such as "Dream of Enron Empire" have been launched to the market at a speed that is simultaneously published with the world.

With its strong compilation and translation power, the agency has continuously launched excellent products that are unique in the field of domestic reference book publishing. The English-Chinese Dictionary, which won the first National Book Award, is the first large-scale English-Chinese bilingual reference book independently researched and edited in China, and is known as the "flagship work" among similar dictionaries. With a cumulative sales volume of more than 10 million copies, the New English-Chinese Dictionary has become a national brand, driving the best-selling series of "New English-Chinese" products. In recent years, the "Japanese-Chinese Dictionary", "French-Chinese Dictionary", "New French-Chinese Dictionary", "New German-Chinese Dictionary", and "COBUILD English-Chinese Dictionary" have all been heavyweight products of similar books in China. The supplementary reading materials include English, French, German, Russian, Japanese and other languages and related audio-visual products.

In addition to the well-established periodicals "Foreign Literature and Art" and "Window of the World", "World Fashion Garden-ELLE", published in cooperation with the French Birch Filip Bach publishing house, is China's first foreign cooperation magazine, and it is also one of the top fashion monthly magazines in China. Another Sino-foreign cooperation magazine, "Famous Car Journal", introduces and leads the fashionable car life. In recent years, Foreign Literature and Art has been expanded to include Foreign Literature and Translation, which is published every month, introducing various cultural phenomena such as foreign literature from a unique perspective.