Business Culture: A Special Study on Wang Yunwu

Author: Wang Jianhui
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Publishing Date: 2000-01-01
Features: The term "Business of Culture" implies that the publishing activities of the Commercial Press were largely a cultural undertaking, and it also implies that the Commercial Press under Wang Yunwu's management was operating culture as a business. Against the backdrop of the transformation and change of Chinese society and culture in the modern era, and based on the history of modern publishing, this book combines the history of the Commercial Press and cultural history, as well as intellectual history and publishing history, to objectively narrate, analyze, and comment on the historical fact of Wang Yunwu as an important entrepreneur and publisher in modern China. It explores Wang Yunwu's publishing activities and publishing ideas over the past twenty years, evaluating his successes and failures. Wang Yunwu, with all his complexities, has been "hidden away" in mainland research fields for understandable reasons. The author of this book, with a unique perspective as a publisher, has rediscovered him. The term "Business of Culture" implies that the publishing activities of the Commercial Press were largely a cultural undertaking, and it also implies that the Commercial Press under Wang Yunwu's management was operating culture as a business. Against the backdrop of the transformation and change of Chinese society and culture in the modern era, and based on the history of modern publishing, this book combines the history of the Commercial Press and cultural history, as well as intellectual history and publishing history, to objectively narrate, analyze, and comment on the historical fact of Wang Yunwu as an important entrepreneur and publisher in modern China. It explores Wang Yunwu's publishing activities and publishing ideas over the past twenty years, evaluating his successes and failures. Wang Yunwu, with all his complexities, has been "hidden away" in mainland research fields for understandable reasons. The author of this book, with a unique perspective as a publisher, has rediscovered him.