Zhonghua Book Company

The company was founded in Shanghai on 1 January 1912 as the Chung Hwa Book Co., Ltd. (上海中華書局有限公司) by Lufei Kui, a former manager of the Commercial Press, another Shanghai-based publisher that had been established in 1897.

From the year of its foundation to the birth of the People's Republic of China in 1949, it published about 5,700 titles, excluding reprints.

[1] The Chung Hwa Book Co., Ltd. was one of the companies that printed banknotes for the Central Bank of China from 1931 to 1949.

The publishing project, which started in 1959 on a suggestion by Mao Zedong, was completed in 1977.

A revised edition of the entire set integrating the most recent scholarship on the Histories is being prepared.

Headquarters in Beijing in 2023
The headquarters of Zhonghua Book Company in Fuzhou Road , Shanghai, China in 1916
Chung Hwa store in Kwun Tong District , Hong Kong (closed)
Chung Hwa Book store in Hong Kong International Airport
Central Bank of China 100,000 Gold Yuan 1949 printed by Chung Hwa Book Co., Ltd.
Reverse with Chung Hwa Book Co., Ltd. at bottom centre
Central Bank of China 1931 (no date) 10 cents
Reverse with Chung Hwa Book Co., Ltd.