Founded in 1979, Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press (SFLEP hereafter) is a national top-tier publishing house based at Shanghai International Studies University under the auspices of the Ministry of Education. It is one of China's Top 100 Publishers and one of the nation's largest, most authoritative and world-renowned powerhouses. Among the accolades it has garnered are the National Outstanding Group Award of Textbook Management, the National Outstanding University Press Award, the Shanghai Model Collective Award, the Government of China Outstanding Publishing House Award, and the National Outstanding Collective Award of Textbook Compilation. SFLEP is dedicated to the publication of foreign language textbooks, monographs, dictionaries, references, readers, books on Chinese as a foreign language, Chinese culture and applied foreign languages, as well as scholarly journals in both print and digital media. 

Ever since the founding of SFLEP, we have been attaching great importance to cooperating with overseas publishers. In the spirit of mutual respect, mutual trust and mutual benefit, we have worked with around 100 publishing companies in the USA, UK, Canada, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Austria, the Netherlands, Russia, Japan, Korea and Lebanon, to name just a few, either in the form of copyright license or through joint title development.