Beijing Review

Beijing Review is China's only national weekly news magazine encompassing websites in five languages--English, Japanese, French, German and Chinese.Founded in March 1958 as the weekly Peking Review, it was an important tool for the People's Republic of China government to communicate to the rest of world. The first issue included an editor's note explaining that the magazine was meant to "provide timely, accurate, first-hand information on economic, political and cultural developments in China, and her relations with the rest of the world.