Abstract:

Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China, various collection and publishinginstitutions have actively carried out the collation and publication of the documents during the Republicof China by photocopying, editing and proofreading. Through the collection of this project, more than220000 kinds of original documents during the Republic of China have been obtained. From 1949 to2017, there were more than 2600 kinds of documents during the Republic of China have been publishedby photocopying and editing and most of them are the work from 2000 onwards. The type of these worksmainly include books, newspapers, periodicals, archives, personal data, reference books, compilation ofhistorical materials, as well as calligraphy and painting work, compositions, scripts, selected essays, photocollections, travel guides, preface and postscript, trademarks, school songs and school mottos. Amongthem, more than 2400 kinds of publications during the Republic of China that have been entered thesubitem including about 32000 kinds of original documents during the Republic of China and approximate3000 kinds of original documents during the Republic of China have been repeatedly published. Basedon the time sequence, this paper expounds the publishing status of the documents during the Republicof China, the main trends and problems: The number of the publications is increasing but the type isincomplete. The selected topics are becoming more and more extensive. The content has its own emphasisand the publishing institutions are centralized. The problem of publishing repeated because the focus istoo focused is serious. The large-scale trend is obvious, and the collection is extremely inconvenient.Paying attention to connotation mining and the index needs to be improved.