Chinese Publishing: Homeland of Printing

 

The time-honored Chinese civilization has nurtured the distinctive Chinese publishing industry. To some extent, its formulation and development mimics that of Chinese civilization. Chinese civilization is unique in the world in its continuity. As a significant activity of knowledge accumulation and cultural inheritance, publishing has contributed greatly to the spread and inheritance of Chinese civilization. In the past thousands of years, Chinese civilization has spread all over the world with books as carriers and has taken a significant part in the development of world culture by constructing the Asian Confucianism civilization circle.

The time-honored Chinese civilization has nurtured the distinctive Chinesepublishing industry. To some extent, its formulation and development mimics that of Chinese civilization. Chinese civilization is unique in the world in itscontinuity. As a significant activity of knowledge accumulation and culturalinheritance, publishing has contributed greatly to the spread and inheritance of Chinese civilization. In the past thousands of years, Chinese civilizationhas spread all over the world with books as carriers and has taken asignificant part in the development of world culture by constructing the Asian Confucianism civilization circle.

Preface: Three-thousand-year History of Books in China
A Long-standing and Well-established History
The Origin of Chinese Characters
The Appearance of Books and Compilations
From Oracle Bone to Paper: Media of Ancient Books
The Evolution of Publishing
Classical Ancient Books
Selected Content and Editing Format of Ancient Books
Printing and Transcription: Reproduction of Ancient Publications
Common Development and Prosperity——Five Major Publishing Systems
From Bamboo Strips to Stitched Binding: The Ancient Art of Bookbinding and Layout
The Course of Inheritance
Bibliophiles and Book-collecting House
Effective Ways to Protect Books
The Circulation of the Ancient Books
Crystallization of Chinese Culture
The Thirteen Confucian Classics
The History of the Twenty-five Dynasties
Yongle Encyclopedia
The Compendium of Works of the Past and the Present
Siku Quanshu and Revised Continuation of Siku Quanshu
Poetry Anthologies of People from the Tang Dynasty:
Complete Collection of Tang Poetry and Three Hundred Tang Poems
Anthology of Ci of People from the Song Dynasty: Complete
Collection of Song
Collections ofYuan Qu: The Complete Collection of Yuan
Sanqu and The Anthology of Yuan Qu
Novels in the Ming and Qing Dynasty: "Four Great Classical
Novels" and "Three Collections and Short Stories"
Encyclopedia of China
The Progressive Vicissitude
The Introduction and Application of Mechanical Printing :
The Rise of New Publishing Houses
The Emergence of New Publications
The Social Transition Promoted by New Publishing
Carrying forward the Cause and Forging into the Future
The Scale of Publication has Enlarged Yearly and Publishing Strength Increased   Quickly
Publishing Technology Advances and the Rapid Development of Digital Publishing.
The Commercialization of Publishing System Speeds up in an Improving Legal   Environment.
Publication Talent Groups have Enlarged with Remarkable Accomplishments in Professional Education and
Research
Publishing Industries in Mainland of China, Taiwan, Hong
Kong and Macao have Bloomed, Forming the Pattern of
Diversity in Unity for Chinese-language Publishing
Road of Books
The Spread of Papermaking Technique
The Spread of Printing in Other Countries
Exchanges between Domestic and Foreign Books
Intensive Exchange of Publishing between Home and Abroad
in Modern Times
Copyright Trade and International Exchange in Publishing
Industry in Contemporary Times
Appendix h A Brief Chronicle of Chinas Publishing Events
Appendix Ih Chronological Table of the ChineseDynasties