Yiwen Publishing House

Yiwen Publishing House (藝文印書館) is a Taiwanese publishing company established in 1952 in Taipei by Yan Yiping (嚴一萍). Its founding team included the renowned scholar Dong Zuobin (董作賓) as publisher and Zhang Muzhou (張木舟) as chairman, with Yan Yiping serving as manager and editor. The house is known for publishing classic Chinese texts and scholarly works, particularly its 1954 selection of the Nanchang Prefectural School edition of the Thirteen Classics with Ruan Yuan's collation notes, based on the collection of the Wang family of Gaoyou. Yiwen Publishing House has played a role in preserving and disseminating traditional Chinese literature and historical documents. It remains a private company operating primarily in Taiwan and Chinese-speaking markets.

Yiwen Publishing House was founded in 1952 in Taipei by Yan Yiping. The founding team included Dong Zuobin as publisher and Zhang Muzhou as chairman, with Yan Yiping acting as manager and editor. In 1954, the house selected its first major publication: the Nanchang Prefectural School edition of the Thirteen Classics with Ruan Yuan's collation notes, based on the collection of the Wang family of Gaoyou (Wang Niansun and Wang Yinzhi). This marked the beginning of its focus on scholarly reprints of classic Chinese texts. The company has since been dedicated to publishing traditional Chinese literature and historical documents, serving scholars and readers in Taiwan and beyond.

• 1954

  Selected the Nanchang Prefectural School edition of the Thirteen Classics with Ruan Yuan's collation notes as its first publication.

• 1952

  Founded in Taipei by Yan Yiping, with Dong Zuobin as publisher and Zhang Muzhou as chairman.

Scholarly publisher specializing in traditional Chinese classics and historical documents.

• 1954

  Thirteen Classics with Ruan Yuan's collation notes

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