國光印書局
From Chinese Religious Text Authority
The Guoguang Printing Company 國光印書局 was founded in around 1914 in Shanghai, and printed a large number of works over the next few decades, including dozens of religious books. They printed the Shenghuo 生活 weekly newspaper. In the early 1930s they were also cited as simply 國光書局 (eg. in 佛門之孝經 - DCCB0747, 1930). Little firm information about this company is available.
- Posted an ad in 佛教月報 - CBP2 in June 1913? MFQ 5:410
- Founded in 1914 by Tang Pinmei 唐品梅 (字雲圃), had experience working at 文明書局, with help from elder brother Tang Pinzhang 唐品章（字文圃）, Xu Xusheng 徐叙生, and Qiao Yuting 喬雨亭
- Academia Historica has a series of 印刷業工廠調查表 compiled in 1947, one volume mentions 喬雨亭
- Elder brother Tang Pinzhang takes over direction of the company from 1925
- In 1934, reported to have a capitalization of 20,000 yuan; see 中國經濟年鑑, (K)813
- A catalogue of religious works appears in 人生指津 - DCCB0741, published June 1934, with prices per 1,000 copies:
- In 1935 Tang Pinzhang dies, direction of the company is taken over by his son Tang Jianyu 唐鑒虞 (字書麟，學名彦宾)
- 三大士實錄 - DCCB1596 has an address: corner of 南成都路 and 新大沽路; also 新大沽路 no. 671, eg. in 西方啓信錄 - DCCB0398
- Still active in 1951? Mentioned in 傅雷家書 (陝西師範大學出版總社有限公司, 2024) in letter dated September 23, 1951
- Mentioned in 中国印刷近代史(初稿), p. 388
