Study On The Book Printing Of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom

The book printing of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom refers to the appellation of massive books that are organized, compiled, printed and released by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in order to propagandize and to satisfy its political and military needs. Although its extant quantity is limited, and the edition is not only, but it's actually a complete record of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, such as politics, military, culture, education, and so on. These have provided an important reference for the posterity history research thoroughly of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Furthermore, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom book printing is also an immortal chapter in modern Chinese history of books publication enterprise.In order to study carefully again the publication characteristics of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom book printing, according to existing materials, this article researches thoroughly several aspects of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom book printing with publication study angle, as follow: firstly, with the historical angle, this article inspects formation background of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom book printing from the society and individual aspects; secondly, it analyzes and summarizes the basic content and characteristics of the books; thirdly, it elaborates characteristics of the type, the edition, the engraving, the paper, the typeface, the format, the binding, the language, and so on; fourthly, it introduces the responsibility, site, official, and management of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom printing organizations, such as the compiling department, the editing department, the engraving department, the printing department, the announcing department, and the book deleting department; fifthly, this article also carries on the system analysis to three systems of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom printing, including"the system of appointing the issue edict to table of contents","the system of countermarking warrant stamp","the system of tagging the engrave time on the publication title page"; sixthly, it summarizes the releasing channel of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom books; finally, this article carries on the objective appraisal to the historical significance and the realistic value of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom book printing.With the publication study angle, this article analyzes thoroughly the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom book printing. It could be useful for us to understand the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom book printing, the inspiration of Chinese history of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the development of modern publication history.