Yang Hu completed his PhD in the School of Journalism and Communication, Peking University. His research focuses on mass culture and communication, editing and publishing, university management and the history of Peking University. A researcher for the National Key Social Science Fund in China, he has published widely on his research interests. Xiao Yang is a graduate of the Foreign Languages Institute of Peking University, editorial board member and deputy director of the news agency Xinhua Net.

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• Preface: three-thousand years of books in China; 1. A long-standing history; 2. Classical ancient books; 3. The course of inheritance; 4. Crystallisation of Chinese culture; 5. The progressive vicissitude; 6. Carrying forward the cause; 7. Road of books; Appendix I: a brief chronology of China's publishing; Appendix II: chronological table of the Chinese dynasties.