Study On The Chinese Teaching Materials Of Kaiming Bookstore During The Republic Of China

Kaiming bookstore was founded in 1926 and merged with the Youth Publishing House in 1953 to become the China Youth Publishing House,which lasted only 28 years but made remarkable contributions in the field of publishing Chinese textbooks for primary and secondary schools,and still has the far-reaching achievement to the present Chinese education.The reason can not be separated from the fact that Kaiming Bookstore has a group of elite talents who are not only literati but also educationists and who have experience in Chinese education in primary and secondary schools.Xia Mianzun and Ye Shengtao are the main forces supporting the prosperity of the Chinese language textbooks of Kaiming Bookstore,their rich teaching experience and advanced educational ideas laid a solid foundation for the emergence of enlightened series of teaching materials in the Republic of China.There is no doubt that the series of primary and secondary school textbooks published by Kaiming Bookstore are exemplary works in response to the needs of the Times.The series of teaching materials from primary school to junior high school to senior high school do not take meeting the requirements of curriculum standards as the basic standpoint,but proceed from the actual needs of students with the goal of raising their actual level of language use,an organic system has been formed in the editing of textbooks,the guidance of educational theories,as well as in the arrangement of selecting texts,the introduction of knowledge points and the setting of after-class topics,so that students in the progressive learning process to obtain a better language literacy.At the primary level,literacy education and interest in reading are emphasized.Therefore,the selection of Chinese textbooks at Kaiming bookstore at the primary level focuses on daily application and spoken language,so as to be as close as possible to the happy life of children and to enhance their interest in learning;At the junior middle school stage,the Chinese textbooks lay stress on both reading and writing while laying stress on the cultivation of students’ listening,speaking,reading and writing ability.Therefore,the compilation of the series of textbooks published by Kaiming Bookstore has gone through three stages: Exploration and innovation,focusing on knowledge introduction and paying more attention to the interpretation of articles.