Zhonghua Book Company
Zhonghua Book Company, or Chunghwa Book Company (simplified Chinese: 中华书局; traditional Chinese: 中華書局; pinyin: Zhōnghuá Shūjú) is a Chinese publishing house that focuses on the humanities, and especially on classical Chinese works. Its headquarters are located in Beijing.
The company was founded in Shanghai in 1912 by a former manager of the Commercial Press, another Shanghai-based publisher that had been established in 1897. From the year of its foundation to the birth of the People's Republic of China in 1949, it published about 5,700 titles, excluding reprints.[1]
Chunghwa's punctuated editions of the Twenty-Four Histories have become standard. The publishing project, which started in 1959 on a suggestion by Mao Zedong, was completed in 1977. A revised edition of the entire set integrating the most recent scholarship on the Histories is being prepared.[2]
Representative publications
References
Notes
- ↑ Wilkinson 2012, p. 866.
- ↑ Wilkinson 2012, p. 629.
Works cited
- Wilkinson, Endymion (2012), Chinese History: A New Manual, Cambridge (MA) and London: Harvard University Asia Center, distributed by Harvard University Press, ISBN 978-0-674-06715-8.
Further reading
- Reed, Christopher Alexander (2003). Gutenberg in Shanghai: Chinese Print Capitalism, 1876–1937. University of Hawai'i Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-2833-2.