Commercial Press And The Modern Secondary School History Textbooks Compiled (1904-1937)

The"new policy"was implemented in the later period of Qing Dynasty, then, large quantities of schools were developed. With the impression of the"neo-history"and the new theory, all kinds of older historical textbooks used by the middle school was not suitable, so the newer historical textbooks were greatly in need. Promoted and organized by Xia ruifang, Cai yuanpei, Zhang yuanji, Gao mengdan, etc, the Commercial Press was the first to publish Newest Historical Textbook with the idea of promoting education before the imperial civil service examination system was abolished. After the Republic of China founded, the Commercial Press published many historical textbooks such as"Republic Historical Textbooks","Vernacular Prose Historical Textbooks","New Educational System Historical Textbooks","New Eve Historical Textbooks","Reviving Historical Textbooks", etc, which profited the edition of modern historical textbooks and made prominent contribution to our middle school's historical education.The evolution course of the historical textbooks published by the Commercial Press is just a macrocosm of modern china's publishing historical textbooks."The Newest Historical Textbook Of Middle School"which written by Xia zengyou is the first historical textbook in china, its style and guiding ideology had modeled the other historical textbooks'compilation, and made a magnificent page in the history. There is a lot of pictures in the"Republic Historical Textbooks", then the students'interest were stimulated; The"Vernacular Prose Historical Textbooks"had supported the"New Culture Movement", and its language expression just suit the study psychology of middle school's students; The"New Educational Historical Textbooks"and the"New Eve Historical Textbooks"promoted the level of edition; The"Reviving Historical Textbooks"is full of the patriotic emotion.In the progress process of the historical textbooks written by Commercial Press, its style consummated unceasingly, the Commercial Press provided lots of historical textbooks for modern middle school, and provided many precious experiences for other publishing house, the historical textbooks published by the Commercial Press had promoted the modern middle school's historical education at the same time.