Xiandai Hanyu Guifan Cidian - any fourth edition in the works?

[Noel]

Hi.

I was going to get the current edition of this dictionary (for Pleco), but then I was surpised to see that it's been almost 10 years since the publication of the third edition (and previous new editions were published at intervals of 6 and 4 years). Does anyone know if there's a fourth on its way? If so, how long might it be (if ever) before it's available for Pleco? (There's also the question of whether an updated version will be any more useful or even more constrained by party policy.)

 

[mikelove]

There is a 4th edition, but we have no immediate plans to release it - the licensing situation is such that we would have to charge users a significant amount of money for the upgrade, and we're not persuaded that enough people would want to pay for that to make it worthwhile. (perhaps in a year or two when it's no longer quite as new we can offer it more cheaply)

 

[Hailibu]

In accordance with what Mike said about the recent release, here are the past releases I found on Wikipedia.

第1版：2004年1月
第2版：2010年5月
第3版：2014年6月
第4版：2022年6月