Publishing is an important part of cultural undertakings, and a number of outstanding publishers have emerged in The history of our country, who have made significant contributions to the development and prosperity of China's publishing industry. Since 2016, the People's Publishing House has successively begun to publish the "Chinese Publishers Series" biographical series. "Chinese Publishers Zhou Zhenfu" is one of the "Chinese Publishers" series of books, published by the People's Publishing House in August 2021.
"Chinese Publisher Zhou Zhenfu" is the first biography of Zhou Zhenfu in China, the whole book is divided into six parts, the first five chapters are mainly in chronological order, focusing on the identity of "editor", discussing Zhou Zhenfu's life as an editor, respectively, with the five important stages of the master's life as the symbol of division, namely "adolescence", "enlightened twenty years", "Years of China Youth Publishing House", "in the Zhonghua Bookstore" and "retiring in his old age", clearly and in detail to clarify Zhou Zhenfu's ordinary and brilliant life trajectory from a career to a career. The last chapter, "Zhou's Style and Enlightenment of Posterity", excavates Zhou Zhenfu's long publishing career of more than sixty years shown in the first five chapters, summarizes Zhou Zhenfu's editorial thoughts, and after the main content, the author also sorts out Zhou Zhenfu's editing and publishing activities through the combing of documents and historical materials, and compiles the "Zhou Zhenfu Editing and Publishing Timeline", which is arranged in the order of years, providing a true, reliable and credible reading book for the majority of readers to understand, understand and learn Mr. Zhou Zhenfu.
1. Focusing on the publication of the Master, we regard editing as a lifelong cause
The book "Chinese Publisher Zhou Zhenfu" highlights the identity of Zhou Zhenfu as a publisher, focusing on editing and publishing activities, and examines the whole process of Zhou Zhenfu from the relationship with publishing to entering the editing and publishing industry, and changing the editor from a career to a career. In the first chapter of the book, "Adolescence", he particularly described in detail zhou Zhenfu's hometown to study and meet good teachers: Tang Jianhua and Ge Sihuan, who were the initiators of classical culture in Zhou Zhenfu's youth, which made him feel the unique charm of the profound and profound ancient culture from an early age, triggered his strong interest in learning classical literature, and made him love books, obsessively read, and began to associate with the publishing industry from the soul. The second chapter, "Twenty Years of Enlightenment", describes in detail the encounters of Zhou Zhenfu with teachers and friends during the enlightened bookstore period: Ye Shengtao, Xu Tiaofu, Wang Boxiang, Lu Zhifen, Zhang Xichen, Xia Qizun, Fu Binran, Gu Junzheng, Song Yunbin, Wang Tongzhao, etc., who profoundly influenced Zhou Zhenfu in terms of governing his studies, being a person, working style, and way of thinking, so that he learned many good experiences in compiling books and doing studies. This chapter also details that Zhou Zhenfu began as a proofreader for the publication of ancient books of literature and history in the Enlightened Bookstore, and it was also during this period that Zhou Zhenfu realized that the work of editing and proofreading was both "similar and similar" and "school right and wrong", which was not only technical work, but also academic work. In the Enlightened Bookstore, because he personally participated in the editing and publishing of the two great works of "Ci Tong" and "Twenty-Five Histories", he also experienced the bitterness and difficulty of proofreading work, had a deep understanding of the book editing work, and understood that the publishing work should be for the sake of readers everywhere. In enlightened bookstores, editors often combine editors and authors, and bookstores encourage editors to write and translate books. Such policies and environments have also laid a solid foundation for young Zhou Zhenfu, who loves to study, study and write. During this period, Zhou Zhenfu not only annotated Wang Guowei's "Human Words and Sayings", edited and proofread Lü Simian's "General History of China", "Pre-Qin History", "Qin and Han History", "Sui and Tang History" and other works, but also combined the results of editing with his own research experience in the process of editing and proofreading, and did academic popularization work, such as the public publication of "Analysis of the Transformation of Yan Fu Thought". In the twenty years of enlightened bookstores, Zhou Zhenfu achieved "editing and learning", which was an important period for his editing career from the beginning to maturity. The third chapter, "The Years of China Youth Publishing House", describes in detail Zhou Zhenfu's ten-year editing practice during the period of China Youth Publishing House. Because Zhou Zhenfu possessed an important trait of an excellent editor, a pair of "wise eyes", he discovered the internally published "Selected Writings of Past Dynasties", believing that the book was "exquisitely selected" and "of high quality of annotations", especially "the style is refreshing", "Selected Writings of Past Dynasties" was quickly popular among Chinese youth, and even praised by Chairman Mao. Later, with the changes in the social environment, Zhou Zhenfu's selection of topics in classical literature became more and more narrow, and his free time began to increase, he wrote the book "Poetry examples", which was welcomed by young people after publication, and after several reprints, it became a regular book of China Youth Publishing House, bringing Zhou Zhenfu a huge reputation. During the "Cultural Revolution", Zhou Zhenfu was sent to Huangchuan, and even though he was tired from work, he still did not give up studying and researching. In the fourth chapter, "In the Zhonghua Bookstore", Zhou Zhenfu, because of his solid literary and historical skills and rich editing experience, was responsible for the editing of the Complete Works of Li Taibai, the compilation of Qian Zhongshu's "Pipe Cone Compilation", and the compilation of "Wenxin Carved Dragon", which was the most brilliant period of his editing career. The fifth chapter, "The Old Age of Retirement without Ends", describes that after Zhou Zhenfu officially retired from the editorial position of zhonghua bookstore in his late eighties, he still "grasped the lead and made up the narrative together", enthusiastically supported the study of the future, compiled books to guide the teaching of ancient Chinese, and although retired from work, he still worked hard with the spirit of not waiting for the time to make new contributions and achievements in editorial work and academic research. Therefore, Zhou Zhenfu's life is "a life for books", a lifetime of compiling books, proofreading books, he is always an editor. Therefore, the book "Chinese Publisher Zhou Zhenfu" clearly sorts out the trajectory of Zhou Zhenfu's life and career.
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The second presents a model of the integration of "scholar-type editor" and "editor-type scholar"
The issue of editing scholars was a hot topic in the editorial and publishing circles in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In the book "Chinese Publisher Zhou Zhenfu", it is presented that Zhou Zhenfu's life as an editor has perfectly realized the integration of "scholar-type editor" and "editor-type scholar". For example, when Zhou Zhenfu was annotated by Mr. Zang Kejia in the "Explanation of Chairman Mao's Poetry" edited by Mr. Zang Kejia during the period of China Youth Publishing House, he believed that the "wax" in the "Original Chi La Elephant" in "Qinyuan Spring and Snow" may be a "wax stroke error.". The "酎" in "Pouring out the wine" in the "Bodhisattva Man Yellow Crane Tower" should be a mistake of "酹". Mr. Zhou Zhenfu's spirit and practice of seeking truth and seeking truth have been recognized by Chairman Mao and Zang Kejia. In the social environment at that time, it was not simple to dare to point out Mao Zedong's clerical errors. The author believes that Zhou Zhenfu's rigorous and serious editing style of "not only the top, not only the book, only the truth" is based on his solid literary and historical skills.
In 1948, when he first met Mr. Qian Zhongshu, when Qian Zhongshu submitted his masterpiece "Tan Yi Lu" to the Enlightened Bookstore for publication, Zhou Zhenfu was responsible for proofreading. When Zhou Zhenfu finished reading the manuscript for the first time, with his academic skills, he realized that "Tan Yi Lu" was a rare academic masterpiece, so he proofread it very carefully, found out as many relevant origins as possible, checked the cited words one by one, and corrected the errors. At the same time, with his experience in reading and editing more literary and historical books, he believes that the original book has no table of contents and titles, which is not convenient for readers to read, so he clarifies the context, adjusts the order, and compiles the table of contents when proofreading. After Mr. Qian Zhongshu received it, he adopted it without modification and praised Zhou Zhenfu's rigorous and serious editing style, which also became the beginning of the friendship between the two in the next few decades. It was also the publication and republishment of Tan YiLu that made Zhou Zhenfu a "famous editor of enlightened bookstores".
In 1973, Qian Zhongshu completed the "Pipe Cone Compilation", originally under the circumstances at that time, it was impossible to publish the book, but when Qian Zhongshu took the initiative to lend the manuscript of the work to Zhou Zhenfu, he read the book from the professional perspective of an editor, while reading it, he put forward supplementary opinions, and recorded the materials that needed to be added, the doubts and the revision opinions, and went to the door to seek Qian Zhongshu's opinions, Qian Zhongshu fully respected and absorbed Zhou Zhenfu's opinions, and looked for various doubtful answers. Later, at the suggestion of Zhou Zhenfu, the Zhonghua Book Company decided to publish it, and Zhou Zhenfu served as the responsible editor, because he was well aware of the value of the "Pipe Cone Compilation", so he invited people to write reviews to publicize and promote it in the intellectual and cultural circles in China. It made the "Pipe Cone Compilation" famous in the academic circles and promoted the birth of "Qian Xue". The publication process of Qian Zhongshu's two books has also set an example of close cooperation between editors and authors, and has become a good story in the publishing industry, which the author believes stems from Zhou Zhenfu's comprehensive knowledge reserves, good academic qualities and valuable editorial professionalism. The talent that integrates "scholar-type editors" and "editor-type scholars" is the primary issue for the cultivation of senior talents in publishing majors in the digital age.
Three, the publisher's biography and the study of the published life history are integrated
"Chinese Publisher Zhou Zhenfu" is a biography of a publisher, but also a research book on the history of life. "Chinese Publisher Zhou Zhenfu" does not simply stay at the level of laying out the publication work of the master, but focuses on presenting the elements of the master as a "person", focusing on the study of micro daily life, digging deep into the side of the master as an ordinary person, overcoming the flattening drawbacks such as seeing things and seeing things in the previous biographies, this book shows a large number of Letters between Zhou Zhenfu and friends, conversations with friends, and the writings of the master to reflect his daily life such as material life, spiritual life and interpersonal communication. For example, zhou Zhenfu's material life, spiritual life, leisure life and social life are all revealed through the details of the content in the book. For example, Zhou Zhenfu is diligent and thrifty, as can be seen from the account of Fang Borong, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Jiaxing Institute of Education, "I know from the letter he gave me that he has been working in the publishing house, the China Youth Publishing House, the Zhonghua Bookstore, and there are letters and letters everywhere, but the dozens of letters he gave me are all envelopes that he learned, and I measured it, his envelope was fifteen centimeters long and nine centimeters wide, it was the smallest envelope, and the words he wrote were also particularly small." In the equality of men and women, advocating mutual respect between husband and wife, he once published the article "Interpretation of the Couple" in the first article of the inaugural issue of the "Couple Monthly" to express his modern "two-man view", he believes that "although the couple is the same as the couple, there is no equal meaning, and the couple is more suitable for the current monogamous marriage system and the society where the status of husband and wife is absolutely equal." After work, "he goes to bed at nine o'clock every day, gets up at two o'clock at night, turns on the lights, either reads or writes, and when it is more than five o'clock in the morning, I get up to cook, he squints a little, and after eating, he goes to work." In terms of interpersonal communication, the author presents many letters between him and his friends to reflect his interactions with publishers and writers. For example, his tribulation with Lu Zhifen; his friendship with Ye Shengtao; and his help to Ba Jin, Shen Congwen, Zhu Ziqing and other writers are recorded in this book. In terms of economic income, when describing Zhou Zhenfu's opening bookstore, he specifically elaborated on Zhou Zhenfu, who originally had a more difficult life, because after participating in the sale of the "Citong" that participated in the editing, his life also began to improve, and his salary increased from "30 yuan per month when he first entered the bookstore to 50 yuan", which was already "a little upper middle income level at that time, able to support a family of five in Shanghai", which was enough to reflect that the publishers with Zhou Zhenfu had a higher status and prestige in society at the same time. This can also inspire a large number of excellent publishers to continue to make higher achievements, and attract more outstanding talents to join the publishing industry. These microscopic and life-like content details and writing methods show the unknown side of Zhou Zhenfu, allow readers to see Zhou Zhenfu's comprehensive and three-dimensional personality and vivid personal image, and also provide a new perspective for domestic publishers' biographical writing and published character history research.
"Chinese Publisher Zhou Zhenfu" is the first biography of Zhou Zhenfu in China, which takes Zhou Zhenfu's editing career as the center, helps us understand that Zhou Zhenfu has an important role as one of the few publishers in China, and integrates the writing of the publisher's biography with the study of publishing life history, which not only allows readers to understand Zhou Zhenfu's life as a publisher, but also allows Zhou Zhenfu's researchers to grasp the latest materials and research trends. This is a published biographical work that can stand the test of history and has reference value.
(Tu Yuqiu, Ph.D., College of Literature, Central China Normal University, Associate Professor, College of Literature and Media, Guizhou Normal University)
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