#OTD in 1897: Xia Ruifang 夏瑞芳 and others found #TheCommercialPress #商務印書館 in #Shanghai #上海, the oldest #publishinghouse in #ModernChina and still one of the main #publishers of scholarly and other #literature (e.g. #dictionaries) in #China, #Taiwan, and #Hongkong today.

#DOTD: Xia Ruifang 夏瑞芳 (1871–1914), co-founder of #TheCommercialPress #商務印書館 in #Shanghai #上海, the oldest #publishinghouse in #ModernChina and still one of the leading #publishers of scholarly #literature (e.g. #dictionaries) in #China, #Taiwan, and #Hongkong today.

#OTD in 1897: Xia Ruifang 夏瑞芳 and others found #TheCommercialPress #商務印書館 in #Shanghai #上海, the oldest #publishinghouse in #ModernChina and still one of the main #publishers of scholarly and other #literature (e.g. #dictionaries) in #China, #Taiwan, and #Hongkong today.

#DOTD: Xia Ruifang 夏瑞芳 (1871–1914), co-founder of #TheCommercialPress #商務印書館 in #Shanghai #上海, the oldest #publishinghouse in #ModernChina and still one of the leading #publishers of scholarly #literature (e.g. #dictionaries) in #China, #Taiwan, and #Hongkong today.

#OTD in 1897: Xia Ruifang 夏瑞芳 and others found #TheCommercialPress #商務印書館 in #Shanghai #上海, the oldest #publishinghouse in #ModernChina and still one of the main #publishers of scholarly and other #literature (e.g. #dictionaries) in #China, #Taiwan, and #Hongkong today.

#DOTD: Xia Ruifang 夏瑞芳 (1871–1914), co-founder of #TheCommercialPress #商務印書館 in #Shanghai #上海, the oldest #publishinghouse in #ModernChina and still one of the leading #publishers of scholarly #literature (e.g. #dictionaries) in #China, #Taiwan, and #Hongkong today.