Modern Media Studies

MMS, Vol. 1, No. 2, 2025, pp.314-322.

Print ISSN: 3078-3151; Online ISSN: 3104-5049

Journal homepage: https://www.mmsjournal.com

DOI: Https://doi.org/10.64058/MMS.25.2.15

A Clear and Thoughtful Portrait of Publisher Zhao Nangong: A Review of Xian Liqiang's Chinese Publisher: Zhao Nangong

Duan Yu（段    煜）

Abstract: The biography “Chinese Publishers: Zhao Nangong” by Xian Liqiang is the first systematic study of Zhao Nangong. Based on the collation, verification, and hierarchical application of historical materials, the author presents a comprehensive account of Zhao Nangong's life and publishing career despite the scarcity of historic materials. The book offers an impartial and objective portrayal of Zhao Nangong as a publisher, highlighting his characteristics and providing an appropriate evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of Zhao Nangong's publishing activities while strictly adhering to historical facts. Furthermore, the book offers methodological significance for writing biographies of publishers similar to Zhao Nangong in terms of historical material collection and utilization, grasping the publishing characteristics of the biographical subject, and exercising the author's subjectivity.

Keywords: Zhao Nangong; Tai Dong Book Publishing Company; publisher biography

Author Biography: Duan Yu, a lecturer at the College of Culture and Health Communication of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Research directions: Modern Chinese

literature and communication, modern Chinese Publishing history. E-mail: duanyu@tjutcm.edu.cn.

标题：对出版家赵南公形象的清晰勾勒与深入思考——评咸立强的《中国出版家•赵南公》

摘要：咸立强著《中国出版家·赵南公》是第一部系统研究赵南公的传记。作者基于史料的梳理、考证和有层次的运用，在史料缺乏的情况下完整展现了赵南公的生平和出版经历，公允且持正地呈现了赵南公作为出版家的形象与特点，并在充分尊重史实的基础上对赵南公出版活动的优劣长短进行了恰切的评价。本书也对写作与赵南公类似出版家的传记时，在史料搜集与使用、把握传主出版特质和发挥了作者的主体性等方面提供了方法论层面的意义。

关键词：赵南公；泰东图书局；出版家传记

作者简介：段煜，天津中医药大学文化与健康传播学院讲师。研究方向：中国现代文学与传播、中国现代出版史。电子邮箱：duanyu@tjutcm.edu.cn。

Received: 24 Jun 2025 / Revised: 01 Nov 2025 / Accepted: 10 Nov 2025 / Published online: 30 Nov 2025 / Print published: 30 Dec 2025