Chinese publishing : homeland of printing / Hu Yang; Yang Xiao; translated by Zha Xiaoyun & Lei Jing.

The time-honored Chinese civilization has nurtured the distinctive Chinesepublishing industry. To some extent, its formulation and development mimics that of Chinese civilization. Chinese civilization is unique in the world in itscontinuity. As a significant activity of knowledge accumulation and culturalinheritance, publishing has contributed greatly to the spread and inheritance of Chinese civilization. In the past thousands of years, Chinese civilizationhas spread all over the world with books as carriers and has taken asignificant part in the development of world culture by constructing the Asian Confucianism civilization circle.