The Uique Contriution

The paper argues mainly the contribution of Kaiming Bookstore to modern literature. There are four chapters and four addendums.The first chapter states the development of Kaiming Bookstore and divides it into three parts. Then it discusses the function that Mr Xia Mianzun orientated Kaiming's readers and made decision on Kaiming's culture, and points out he is the keyman of Kaiming's history.The second chapter classifies the magazines and introduces several important magazines. It represents the feature of Juvenile Student and Chinese Monthly , elucidates the same objective of Kaiming's coterie to literature and education by analyzing the content and their writers.The third chapter dissertate that what the books Kaiming Bookstore published contributes to modern literature. Kaiming Bookstore publishes serial modern masterpieces, and the paper focuses on "How does the canon come into being" , which is illustrated by assaying new works in Kaiming's textbooks and new works republished in high frequency, showing the push which Kaiming gives.The forth chapter is about the reason of its success and its statue in modern literature. This paper emphasize that Literature Research Seminar and Li Da Seminar strengthen Kaiming's potence and enable it to outvie the other publishing companies, at the same times, its conservative political orientation also makes it. The pursuit for independence is propitious to inheriting and developing May Forth's tradition of realism accidently.The addendums are settled by the materials which the author collected. The first addendum track the record of Kaiming's history, the second addendum is the bibliotheca from the date of its foundation to the end of 1931, the third addendum is all the bibliotheca about Chinese Literature and Literature Theories before the liberation of China, the forth addendum embodies several important series.