Hsueh Ssu Press

Hsueh Ssu Press (臺灣學生書局) is a Taiwanese academic publishing house and bookstore founded in Taipei in 1960. According to its own company introduction, it was established with the aim of publishing books on Chinese literature, history and philosophy, and over roughly five decades it has issued more than two thousand titles in about five thousand volumes. Its catalogue is built around large scholarly series rather than trade fiction, including the Chinese Historiography Series (中國史學叢書), the Newly Revised Local Gazetteers Series (新修方志叢刊) and the Compendium of Chinese Folk Belief Materials (中國民間信仰資料彙編). In philosophy the house is particularly associated with the modern New Confucian intellectual tradition, publishing collected works and studies of figures such as Tang Junyi (唐君毅全集), Xu Fuguan (徐復觀作品集) and Mou Zongsan (牟宗三作品). It also maintains lists in library and information science and in linguistics, alongside series on Chinese fiction studies, Chinese literary criticism, classical studies, Daoist and religious studies, drama, art and Taiwanese studies. The firm operates both as a publisher and as a bookseller. Its website functions as an online shop with a shopping-cart enquiry system, a new-titles section distinguishing its own editions from agency titles, and a discounted-books area. It also acts as a distributor for other publishers, listing a category for presses whose books it sells. Contact details published on the site place the business in Da'an District, Taipei, with telephone and email ordering channels. As a privately held Taiwanese company, Hsueh Ssu Press does not appear on any stock exchange and its ownership is not publicly disclosed in the available sources. Its importance lies less in scale than in continuity: it is one of the long-standing Taipei houses that kept serious Sinological scholarship in print through the second half of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, serving university libraries, researchers and students across the Chinese-speaking world.

Hsueh Ssu Press was founded in Taipei in 1960. Its stated purpose from the outset was the publication of books in Chinese literature, history and philosophy, a focus it has retained throughout its existence. The company's own account records that in the five decades following its founding it published more than two thousand titles amounting to roughly five thousand volumes. Its growth was built on long-running scholarly series. The Chinese Historiography Series (中國史學叢書) and the Newly Revised Local Gazetteers Series (新修方志叢刊) became staples for historians and genealogists, while the Compendium of Chinese Folk Belief Materials (中國民間信仰資料彙編) addressed the study of popular religion. In philosophy the press concentrated on the modern New Confucian intellectual tradition, issuing collected works and studies associated with Tang Junyi, Xu Fuguan and Mou Zongsan, and maintaining series such as the Contemporary New Confucianism Series (當代新儒學叢書) and the New Confucianism Series (新儒學叢刊). Beyond those core areas the catalogue expanded into Chinese fiction studies, Chinese literary criticism, classical studies, Chinese philosophy, cultural philosophy, Japanese Sinology, drama, art, Taiwanese studies and bibliography. The press also developed lists in library and information science and in linguistics, which its introduction names as part of its publishing direction. Alongside publishing, Hsueh Ssu Press has operated as a bookseller and distributor. Its Taipei premises in Da'an District serve as a retail and ordering point, and its website offers an online catalogue with an enquiry cart, a new-titles section split between the press's own editions and agency titles, and a discounted-books area. The site also lists a category for other publishers whose books it distributes, indicating a role as a channel for third-party academic titles. The company remains privately held and family- or management-owned rather than listed; no stock exchange listing is recorded. Its website copyright notice runs from 2005 to 2022, reflecting a long-standing web presence. In the twenty-first century it continues to release new titles, including reprints and new compilations in its established series, and to sell both its own and other publishers' books to libraries, scholars and general readers interested in traditional Chinese learning.

• 2005

  Website copyright period begins, marking an established online catalogue and ordering presence.

• 1960

  Hsueh Ssu Press founded in Taipei with the aim of publishing Chinese literature, history and philosophy.

• Publication of major scholarly series including the Chinese Historiography Series and the Newly Revised Local Gazetteers Series.

• Development of a New Confucian philosophy list featuring Tang Junyi, Xu Fuguan and Mou Zongsan.

• Cumulative output reaches more than two thousand titles in about five thousand volumes.

Scholarly, series-driven publisher and bookseller serving Sinological research, university libraries and students in the Chinese-speaking world.

• 中國史學叢書 (Chinese Historiography Series)

• 新修方志叢刊 (Newly Revised Local Gazetteers Series)

• 中國民間信仰資料彙編 (Compendium of Chinese Folk Belief Materials)

• 唐君毅全集 (Collected Works of Tang Junyi)

• 徐復觀作品集 (Works of Xu Fuguan)

• 牟宗三作品 (Works of Mou Zongsan)

• 當代新儒學叢書 (Contemporary New Confucianism Series)

• 中國文學研究叢刊 (Chinese Literature Research Series)

• 圖書館學與資訊科學 (Library and Information Science series)

• 現代語言學論叢 (Modern Linguistics Series)

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