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.
Table of Contents
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 China's Publishing Events Appendix Ih Chronological Table of the ChineseDynasties
