Preface:Three-thousand-year History of Books in China 1
A Long-standing and Well-established History 15
The Origin of Chinese Characters 16
The Appearance of Books and Compilations 20
From Oracle Bone to Paper:Media of Ancient Books 23
The Evolution of Publishing 35
Classical Ancient Books 45
Selected Content and Editing Format of Ancient Books 46
Printing and Transcription:Reproduction of Ancient Publications 51
Common Development and Prosperity—Five Major Publishing Systems 60
From Bamboo Strips to Stitched Binding:The Ancient Art of Bookbinding and Layout 71
The Course of Inheritance 83
Bibliophiles and Book-collecting House 85
Effective Ways to Protect Books 93
The Circulation of the Ancient Books 98
Crystallization of Chinese Culture 105
The Thirteen Confucian Classics 107
The History of the Twenty-five Dynasties 111
Yongle Encyclopedia 113
The Compendium of Works of the Past and the Present 116
Siku Quanshu and Revised Continuation of Siku Quanshu 117
Poetry Anthologies of People from the Tang Dynasty:Complete Collection of Tang Poetry and Three Hundred Tang Poems 121
Anthology of Ci of People from the Song Dynasty:Complete Collection of Song Ci 125
Collections of Yuan Qu:The Complete Collection of Yuan Sanqu and The Anthology of Yuan Qu 127
Novels in the Ming and Qing Dynasty:"Four Great Classical Novels"and"Three Collections and Short Stories" 129
Encyclopedia of China 133
The Progressive Vicissitude 135
The Introduction and Application of Mechanical Printing 137
The Rise of New Publishing Houses 140
The Emergence of New Publications 147
The Social Transition Promoted by New Publishing 149
Carrying forward the Cause and Forging into the Future 155
The Scale of Publication has Enlarged Yearly and Publishing Strength Increased Quickly 156
Publishing Technology Advances and the Rapid Development of Digital Publishing 161
The Commercialization of Publishing System Speeds up in an Improving Legal Environment. 164
Publication Talent Groups have Enlarged with Remarkable Accomplishments in Professional Education and Research 168
Publishing Industries in Mainland of China,Taiwan,Hong Kong and Macao have Bloomed,Forming the Pattern of Diversity in Unity for Chinese-language Publishing 170
Road of Books 173
The Spread of Papermaking Technique 174
The Spread of Printing in Other Countries 179
Exchanges between Domestic and Foreign Books 187
Intensive Exchange of Publishing between Home and Abroad in Modern Times 192
Copyright Trade and International Exchange in Publishing Industry in Contemporary Times 196
Appendix Ⅰ:A Brief Chronicle of China's Publishing Events 203
Appendix Ⅱ:Chronological Table of the Chinese Dynasties 206