China Today

China Today , formerly entitled China Reconstructs , is a magazine founded in 1949 by Soong Ching-ling in association with Israel Epstein. It is published in , , , , , and , and is intended to promote a positive view of the People's Republic of China and its government to people outside of China. Foreign advisor and naturalized Chinese citizen Israel Epstein was editor-in-chief of ''China Today'' from 1951, when he returned to China at the request of Soong Ching-ling, to his retirement at age 70 ; he remained editor emeritus until his death in 2005. The magazine was renamed ''China Today'' in 1990.