十九世纪末，中国最早的近代大学出版机构——南洋公学译书院载誉出世，其在设立之初便确立了宏伟的目标，即“为成才之助”、“周知四国之为”，出版了严复的《原富》（即国富论）等风行一时的书籍。发轫于此，上海交通大学的出版事业延续不断：1925年成立了专管出版工作的领导机构——出版委员会；1947年组建交通大学出版社；解放后出版社一度停办，直至1983年上海交通大学出版社再筹建。
A Brief Introduction to Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press(SJTU Press)
The Book Translation Institute of Nan Yang Public School(the predecessor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University) — the earliest Chinese university publishing house was formally set up at the end of the 19th century. With its ambitious goal of “providing support to talent cultivation” and “acquiring a profound knowledge of the achievements of other countries around the world” the Institute organized the translation and publication of a number of popular books including Adam Smith’s An Inquiry into the “Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations” which was translated by the renowned translator Yan Fu. To carry on the publishing tradition of the Institute, a committee was formed in 1925 to be in charge of the publishing work of the University. About twenty years later in 1947, Jiao Tong University Press was established. But it was not until 1983 that Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press was officially reestablished after being suspended for about 30 years.
Thanks to the unique and profound academic background of Shanghai Jiao Tong University—the prestigious century-old institution of higher learning, the SJTU Press has been able to draw on the resources of the university and continuously attract a large number of well-known experts and scholars of various fields to be its pool of authors who have complied and written many influential academic books and university text books. It has been enjoying a good reputation in China’s publication circles by successfully accomplishing the task assigned by the Chinese Ministry of Education of publishing a series of national planned textbooks and the national key books. It has been awarded on several occasions the honorary title of “Model University Press” and “Fine Publishing House” by the Ministry of Education and the General Administration of Press and Publication of China respectively.
In recent years, the SJTU Press attached great importance to optimizing the projects and brand building, thus gained its characteristics and advantages in the books on sciences & humanities, science & technology, foreign languages, economic management, higher professional education, and academic research , among which those on sciences & humanities has exhibited distinct characteristics. What is notable is that the series on The History of China Academic Societies have filled in a gap which hither to existed in publishing.
The Chinese publishing industry is now facing an unprecedented golden opportunity of development. The SJTU Press with its mission of “Promoting learning, disseminating science and growing together with young and middle-aged scholars” and its stand of “with the mother University as its support, the teaching materials as the main products, promoting learning as the objective and forming characteristics on the list of top priorities” will continue to improve the quality of its publications, pay more attention to the readers’ feedback and strive to become a leading publishing house in China, strong, influential, distinctive, and in endless cultural and academic pursuit.
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