Except New Women's Monthly and Literature Weekly, other publications published in the early days, as well as General, a fan publication of Rieter Society, all stopped publishing around 1930. Middle School Students is the most influential and longest-running publication. There is also the monthly report, which was founded at 1937.
Selected Works of Living Leaves is another innovation of Ming Kai Bookstore. It selects famous articles from past dynasties, punctuates them in sections, folds them into posts, numbers them and sells them separately for schools to choose as handouts or teaching materials, which is very convenient.
Ming Kai Bookstore has published dozens of science and education books for primary and secondary schools, and The Enlightened English Reader edited by Lin Yutang is a best seller in early textbooks. Later, the World Bookstore published the Standard English Reader written by Lin Handa. Lin Yutang believed that the Enlightened English Reader was plagiarized, so two bookstores also filed lawsuits. During War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's time, he participated in the National Textbook Joint Distribution Office in Chongqing, and the number of textbooks contributed accounted for 7%.
Enlightenment youth books include: Enlightenment youth series, including Talking about Beauty by Zhu Guangqian, Twelve Letters to Youth by Xia Yingzun and Ye Shengtao, Wen Xin and Reading and Writing.
The world juvenile literature series includes the fairy tale The Scarecrow created by Ye Shengtao, the stone statue of an ancient hero, the Adventures of Pinocchio translated by Xu Tiaofu and the Education of Love translated by Xia Yingzun. The New Enlightenment Literature Magazine contains novels, essays and drama collections of famous writers such as Mao Dun, Lao She, Ye Shengtao, Ba Jin and Xia Yingzun, such as Zhu Ziqing's Back, Ye Shengtao's Ni Huanzhi and so on.
In literature, Mao Dun's Eclipse, Rainbow, Three Sides and Midnight were also published, Ba Jin's Home, Spring, Autumn, Death and New Life, and Gorky's Mother translated by Shen Duanxian.
Ming Kai Bookstore has published several influential ancient books and reference books. Erythrina is a masterpiece written by Zhu Qifeng with his whole life. It was originally named Li Biao Bian, later named Du Shu Tong and Xin Du Tong, and finally changed to Ci Tong. The Encyclopedia of * * * has 24 volumes and 3 million words. It is very convenient to look up the different writing methods of the same word and the words that can be left with each other. However, due to many rare words, typesetting is difficult, the cost is high and the sales volume is uncertain. Ming Kai Bookstore resolutely decided to publish Ci Tong, which was a great event in the publishing industry at that time. Photocopying Twenty-five History is to combine the Twenty-four History of Temple Edition and the New Yuan History of Ke Shaowen into one, and make nine pages into a reduced version. The book has more than 700 pages and is divided into 9 volumes in the format of 16. Then he published Supplement to Twenty-Five History, 16 pages, nearly 9000 pages, divided into six thick volumes. It collected the textual research and revision (* * * more than 240 kinds) of the twenty-five histories by scholars of past dynasties, and compiled them. Combined with Twenty-five History, it is very convenient to study history, which is called "lifting the tripod" by the world.
At the end of Ming Dynasty, sixty kinds of songs were published in Chicken Bone Pavilion, and the versions were verified. The authors, content characteristics and previous evaluations of each song were introduced, which is of great value to the study of Quyi and literature and art. In addition, the Index of Thirteen Classics compiled by Ye and the Index of Names of Twenty-five Historians compiled by Lu Zhifen and Zhou are also extremely practical reference books.
1927 12 Feng Zikai's Introduction to Music was published by Ming Kai Bookstore. This music enlightenment book has a great influence, and many schools use it as a teaching material. Since then, Ming Kai Bookstore has published Eighteen Lectures on Music Knowledge, Children's Music and Western Music Knowledge by Feng Zikai.