Chapter 39 The New Face of Book Styles in Our Country

The New Face of Book Styles in Our Country There are no more than three forms of Chinese publications today, namely thread-bound, paper-covered and western-styled. The thread-bound book is the original wood-block book binding style in our country, which is inherited from the ancient butterfly binding.paperback and The hardcover form was influenced by Japanese new publications in the late Qing Dynasty.Originally, Japan's original The book binding style also adopts the style of our country's thread-bound book. Later, in the Restoration period, the new publication Things gradually adopted the binding style of European books on paper or hard cloth. At this time, our country is also launching a clearing

All new publications were influenced in style by the new Japanese publications. ring. Now, after half a century of digestion and reform, the style of books in our country has formed its own style. new look.In addition to the classical thread-bound form, the paperback method on soft paper is generally used.to What used to be called "western suit" is now improved and is generally called hardcover. The New Culture Movement after the May Fourth Movement had a great effect on the innovation of the style of books in our country. At that time, all new publications, from publications to booklets, were no longer thread-bound (in our country

Some pictorial periodicals published in the late Qing Dynasty, although printed with lead or lithography, many of them still use the same style of binding. Those bound with thread, such as Dianshizhai Pictorial, etc.), should be changed to paperback on soft paper, and on the cover On the typography of paintings, inside covers, copyright pages, and internal texts, we began to break the rules and try various new arrangements. This laid the foundation for the new book binding style in our country. In the past ten years, on the basis of this, the newly published books in China, on the one hand, in order to adapt to the wider

The demands of large readers have expanded on an unprecedented scale in terms of printing speed and number of publications, often at the same time. The printing is hundreds of thousands of copies.At the same time, in terms of typesetting and binding, in order to meet different needs, some strive to Simple and frugal, some do not hesitate to manage deliberately, so as to make the printing perfect.Literary books such as new hardcover "The Complete Works of Lu Xun", theoretical books such as "Selected Works of Mao Zedong", art albums such as "Sukarno Collection of Paintings",

"Song People's Picture Album", "Shanghai Museum Collection of Paintings", and the huge "China" picture album, in the typography, All aspects of plate making, printing, and binding have reached the highest international standards, and at the same time, they have also shown due folk culture. ethnic style.