Chiu Yih Books of Shanghai

Posted: March 5th, 2021 | No Comments »

Chiu Yih Books of Shanghai were publishers, printers, distributors and retailers of books in Chinese, English and other foreign languages before 1949. They specialised in business texts, particularly those that helped the Shanghai businessman exporting. For instance, their Samples of English Letters for Chinese Letter Writers, by Chen Kwan Yi and Whang Shuh, published by Chiu Yih Book Company, of Shanghai, was a bestseller. They also published a lot of specialist books such as the scintillating sounding A Comprehensive Treatise on Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry.

They were also based on Foochow Road and, of course, today’s renamed Fuzhou Lu is still a major book street. There was also another branch of Chiu Yih at 176 Chengdu Road.

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