Preface: Three-thousand-year History of Books in ChinaA Long-standing and Well-established HistoryThe Origin of Chinese CharactersThe Appearance of Books and CompilationsFrom Oracle Bone to Paper: Media of Ancient BooksThe Evolution of PublishingClassical Ancient BooksSelected Content and Editing Format of Ancient BooksPrinting and Transcription: Reproduction of Ancient PublicationsCommon Development and Prosperity����Five Major Publishing SystemsFrom Bamboo Strips to Stitched Binding: The Ancient Art of Bookbinding and LayoutThe Course of InheritanceBibliophiles and Book-collecting HouseEffective Ways to Protect BooksThe Circulation of the Ancient BooksCrystallization of Chinese CultureThe Thirteen Confucian ClassicsThe History of the Twenty-five DynastiesYongle EncyclopediaThe Compendium of Works of the Past and the PresentSiku Quanshu and Revised Continuation of Siku QuanshuPoetry Anthologies of People from the Tang Dynasty:Complete Collection of Tang Poetry and Three Hundred Tang PoemsAnthology of Ci of People from the Song Dynasty: CompleteCollection of SongCollections ofYuan Qu: The Complete Collection of YuanSanqu and The Anthology of Yuan QuNovels in the Ming and Qing Dynasty: "Four Great ClassicalNovels" and "Three Collections and Short Stories"Encyclopedia of ChinaThe Progressive VicissitudeThe Introduction and Application of Mechanical Printing :The Rise of New Publishing HousesThe Emergence of New PublicationsThe Social Transition Promoted by New PublishingCarrying forward the Cause and Forging into the FutureThe Scale of Publication has Enlarged Yearly and Publishing Strength Increased�� QuicklyPublishing Technology Advances and the Rapid Development of Digital Publishing.The Commercialization of Publishing System Speeds up in an Improving Legal�� Environment.Publication Talent Groups have Enlarged with Remarkable Accomplishments in Professional Education andResearchPublishing Industries in Mainland of China, Taiwan, HongKong and Macao have Bloomed, Forming the Pattern ofDiversity in Unity for Chinese-language PublishingRoad of BooksThe Spread of Papermaking TechniqueThe Spread of Printing in Other CountriesExchanges between Domestic and Foreign BooksIntensive Exchange of Publishing between Home and Abroadin Modern TimesCopyright Trade and International Exchange in PublishingIndustry in Contemporary TimesAppendix h A Brief Chronicle of Chinas Publishing EventsAppendix Ih Chronological Table of the ChineseDynasties