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The Connotation, Historical Evolution and Basic Characteristics of Chinese-Style Publishing Modernization

  

  1. (School of Literature and Journalism and Communication, Xihua University, Chengdu, 610039)
  • Received:2025-06-16 Revised:2026-02-22 Online:2026-05-08 Published:2026-05-08

Abstract:

Chinese-style publishing modernization is a dialectical unity of the modernization of subjects,elements and their relationships at all levels of the publishing administrative system and the publishing industry system. It resonates in frequency and mutually shapes and constructs with the process of Chinese-style modernization led by the Communist Party of China since the founding of the People’ s Republic of China. During the preparatory phase(1949—1978),it served national industrialization and the “Four Modernizations”;during the reform and exploration period(1979—1992),it supported the coordinated development of material civilization and spiritual civilization ;amid the economic transition(1993—2002),it adapted to the goals and requirements of the socialist market economic system ;in the deepening-reform era(2003—2012),it led the overall advancement of cultural modernization ;and throughout the current connotative-development stage(2013—),it responded to the national strategy of building a cultural power. It presents the basic characteristics as follows :at the macro level,the publishing administrative system transformed from a traditional management-oriented model to a modern governance-oriented model ;at the meso level,the publishing industry system transformed from a traditional public institution-oriented model to a modern market-oriented model ;at the micro level,publishing workers transformed from “unit personnel” to “social personnel”.

Key words: Modernization of Chinese-style publishing Modernization of publishing Chinese-style modernization Modernization of publishing governance Modernization of publishing subjects

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