Overview of Shanghai Guangyi Bookstore ~

Guangyi Bookstore was founded by Wei Tiansheng, Du, Xiao Borun and Li Dongsheng in 1900. Formerly known as Guangyi Bookstore, it published imperial examination books and children's books. Due to poor management, it is on the verge of bankruptcy. 1904 was renamed Guangyi Bookstore. Wei is the manager, Zhou Juting is the assistant, and Hu () and Lu Bao are hired. As editor-in-chief, he published ancient books, medical books and village books. 19 17 was appointed to the library. 1925 Guang Zhi Bookstore, just like the World Bookstore. Among the early published works, the most influential ones are Tian Ze Bai Hua (written by Japanese Hiroyuki Kato, translated by Wu Jianchang), The Romance of Recovering China (written by An Xue) and The Book of Proverbs (edited by Hu Pu 'an and Hu Chenhuai). At that time, the head office was located at No.0/37, Henan Middle Road, and the branch office was located at No.338, Fuzhou Road. After Yadong Library published punctuated old novels, Guangyi Bookstore printed and published a large number of punctuated popular novels in the name of Dada Bookstore at 1934, competing with New Culture Bookstore. Although the binding of the book is simple, with kraft paper as the cover, dense fonts, no illustrations and many typos, the book sells well because of its low price, ranging from 30% to 20%, 1/2%. 1937 Zhou juting is the manager. As a result of the war, the turnover dropped sharply. 1943 was restructured into a company limited by shares with a total capital of 6 million yuan. Wei is the chairman and general manager of Wei Liu. There are 25 employees, 7 apprentices and 5 handymen. Or mainly publish popular novels. /kloc-in 0/947, he participated in the "Small Five Alliances" (Guangyi Bookstore, Beixin Bookstore, Popular Library Bookstore, Xinya Bookstore and Zhonglian Bookstore) and participated in the printing and distribution of some "national textbooks". Bookstore has lithograph printing factory and lead printing factory, with branches in Beijing, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Hankou, Kaifeng, Changsha, Shenyang, Nanjing, Nanchang and Chongqing. After liberation, it was merged into Silian Publishing House and other units.