Zhang used to be the editor-in-chief of Women's Magazine of the Commercial Press, but she resigned as editor-in-chief because she did not conform to the purpose of running a magazine by the Commercial Press.
Later, with the support of Hu Yuzhi, Zheng Zhenduo, Wu Juenong and others, the monthly New Woman was edited and published in the name of New Woman magazine. On the basis of "New Woman" magazine, Zhang invited his younger brother Zhang Xishan to run the business in partnership. On August 1926, 1, the bookstore officially opened at No.60 Baoshan Lane, Baoshan Road, Shanghai (that is, Zhangjia), and was soon expanded to No.64. ..
1928, initiated by Liu Shuqin, Du Haisheng, Feng Zikai, Hu Zhongte and Wu Zhongyan, was reorganized into a company limited by shares. The following year, the company was formally established, with Du Haisheng as manager and Zhang as assistant.
After Du Haisheng's death, Zhang was the manager and Fan Xiren was the assistant manager. With the development of business, its distribution office was moved from Baoshan Road to No.65 Wang Ping Street/KLOC-0 (now Shandong Middle Road), and then moved to Fuzhou Road opposite Zhonghua Book Company. The head office (manager's office, compiler's office, general affairs office and warehouse) is located in Baoshan Road, Zhaofeng Road (now Levin Road) and Wuzhou Road.
When the August 13th War broke out, the head office in Wuzhou Road and Meicheng Printing Factory, which specializes in printing books and periodicals for Ming Kai Bookstore, were both destroyed by the war, and Ming Kai Bookstore lost more than 80%. Zhang and others plan to move the bookstore to Hankou. Because books and movable type paper were taken away by the Japanese army, Zhang had to stop publishing and return to Shanghai. Zhang, who stayed in Shanghai, was detained by the Japanese army for more than 10 days.
The related person Fan Ping 194 1 set up the head office in Guilin, Guangxi, reorganized the board of directors, and became the general manager of Jen Fan. The Japanese army invaded Guilin, and the general office moved to Chongqing, presided over by Ye Shengtao. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the general office moved back to Shanghai.
Ming Kai Bookstore owns editors such as Ye Shengtao, Gu, Tang Xiguang, Zhao, Feng Zikai, Wang, Xu Tiaofu, Fu, Song Yunbin, Jin Zhonghua, Jia Zuzhang, Zhou Yutong, Guo Shaoyu, Wang Tongzhao, Chen Naigan and Zhou Zhenfu, forming a well-known editorial team. The textbook written by Ming Kai is very practical and popular. Enlightened publications pay attention to quality, and their content, editing, paper, printing, binding and design are all very particular, which is well received by the reading community. Enlightened bookstore relies on simple and rigorous enlightened people to create an enlightened style of serious and good books.
There were only four or five people when we opened the store. With the development of business, the number of employees has increased. The head office is divided into three departments, 1 room, 18, 32 classes and committees. The initial capital of the bookstore is about 5,000 yuan, and it will be 50,000 yuan after being reorganized into a company limited by shares.
After several capital increases, the capital of 1936 is 300,000 yuan. 1947 increased its capital by 3 billion yuan. Pushe in Beijing, Unnamed Society in Shanghai and Dajiang Bookstore were successively accepted by Ming Kai Bookstore. Bookstore has set up 17 branches in Beijing, Shenyang, Nanjing, Hankou, Wuchang, Changsha, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Fuzhou and Taipei.
1950, Ming Kai Bookstore implemented public-private partnership and merged with Youth Publishing House to become China Youth Publishing House.