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Meihua Bookstore [ edit ]
Meihua Library ( English: at The American Presbyterian Mission Press ), the early name The Chinese and Bible study , an American Christian Protestant groups Presbyterian Church in the United States of America missionary agency - Presbyterian World Mission in China a set up of publishing , printing mechanism.
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[ hide ]- 1History
- 2Significance and Influence
- 3Publications
- 4References
History [ edit ]
In 1844, Presbyterian Church in the United States of America after China missionary, first in Macau temporarily settled in this opened flower Chinese Bible study ( at The Chinese and American Holy Classic Book Establishment ). The first head of the United States and China is a library of Valley Li ( Richard Cole ). There are two printing workers and one typewriter in the library. In 1845, Hua Hua's Bible study moved to Ningbo, Zhejiang .
In 1858, the United States had earlier dispatched Presbyterian missionaries to learn the printing Jiangbie Li ( William Gamble ) China hosted Chinese and American Holy study, library and renamed the US and China. 1860 (Qing Xianfeng years) in December, the US and China from Ningbo to Shanghai Library Xiaodongmen outside.
In 1874, the Meihua Library moved from Xiaodongmen to Beijing Road, but there are still controversies regarding the specific address. One is Beijing East Road No. 288 (Jingyuanli), and the other is Beijing East Road No. 18 (Jiangxi Road junction) [1] [2 ].
Under the auspices of Jiang Beli, by 1895, the Meihua Bookstore replaced the position of the Mohai Library and rapidly developed into the largest modern printing factory in Shanghai at that time. It had 4 cylinder presses, 1 platform press, and 4 large manual presses. One steam turbine, typesetting and printing of the broad-learning books and publications became the main publishing and printing institution of Christianity in China [3] . There were five printing presses when the library was moved from Ningbo to Shanghai.
In 1902, the Meihua Bookstore was relocated to the new site of No. 135 North Sichuan Road (now North Sichuan Road) north of the Suzhou River. (now in Lane 1802, North Sichuan Road), once again expanded a printing plant with workshops such as typesetting, printing, binding, casting, and photolithography. At the same time, it still set up an issuing office at No. 18, Beijing Road.
After Gingerli left China in 1869, he was successively led by J. Wherry , JL Martin, WS Holt , JMW Farnham , Fei Qihong ( GF Fitch , 1845-1923), etc. Be responsible for.
Jiang Baili has two important inventions for the development of Chinese printing technology. The first was in 1859 when he created a Chinese character pattern using electroplating in Ningbo. The second invention was to design a type of ingot-type typeface, which saved man-hours and improved printing efficiency and quality compared to traditional hand-carved typefaces. , is a revolution in the history of Chinese printing. The library is made of seven different types of Song fonts (namely, 1 to 7 characters: No. 1 "Hyun"), No. 2 "Ming", No. 3 "Medium", No. 4 "Line", No. 5 "Solution" "Words," "Notes" on the 6th, and "Zhen" on the 7th) were mass-produced and sold. They became popular "American-Chinese characters" for decades, and laid the foundation for the Chinese type system [4] . Ginger Beli is also known as China's Gutenberg .
Library United States and China in Beijing on the road with a period interior of the church, church name suggests Lou Hall, Memorial Presbyterian Church in the United States of America is the first missionary to China's Lou Li-hua . In the early 20th century, after the library moved northwards to the Yokohama Bridge, in 1925, Sisi Temple was also relocated to Doulian Road (now Duolun Road ) in Hongkou . It was renamed Hongdetang to commemorate George F. Fitch , the person in charge of the Meihua Library who passed away in 1923 . In October 1928, the new church was completed.
In 1915, the Meihua Library and the Huamei Library merged. From 1927 to 1928, the Meihua Library was declared clean-up and equipment and equipment were given to the Commercial Press.
Significance and impact [ edit ]
The US China Library has cultivated early talents for the Chinese publishing industry. For example, the Shanghai Commercial Press was established in February 1897. Its four founders, Xia Ruifang, Bao Xian'en, Bao Xianchang, and Gao Fengchi were originally English typewriters of the Meihua Bookstore. The Chinese character typewriter and old workers all worked for many years in the Meihua Bookstore and were members of the Presbyterian Church. During the establishment of the Commercial Press, Fei Qihong also helped.
Publications [ edit ]
The Meihua Bookstore mainly publishes Bibles and religious books, and textbooks for church schools, such as the English-language Guide, the Mental-Enlightenment Primer, the Map of the Five Continents, and the “Symposium on Geography,” and dozens of them are about nature. Scientific books, such as "Municipal prescriptions," "Materials for physics," "Generation and Co-foundation," and "Eight-line preparations." In addition, the first Japanese-English dictionary, " Integration with English Language, " which was issued in Japan by James Curtis Hepburn (signed as "Mr. Pingwen of the United States") was commissioned by the Meihua Bookstore. [5]
References [ edit ]
- ^ " The bridge between Chinese and Western cultural exchanges - Meihua Bookstore," Archives and History, No. 3, 2003
- ^ Xue Yong: <Meihua test library location>, "Archives and History" in 2003 04
- ^ Shanghai Publishing History >> Events
- ^ China General History of Printing
- ^ Meiji Gakuin University Chart Library - English and Lin Jicheng video game ji Tatari Hikaru gradesイアーbu su - "and English Lin Jicheng" Commentary: "Lin Jicheng and English" version of each commentary . [ 2018-02-16 ] .
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