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In general, the following characteristics are clearly shown in the process of American library
service to older adults: the service concept transformed from the passive to the active, the service
measures constantly updated, the service content continuously enriched, and the service support
system improved all the time. Through the analysis, insights for libraries in China were concluded:
clarifying the understanding of specialty of older adults’ service, actively participating in the affairs
of the elderly, seeking supports, building an effective system, establishing service on the basis of
empirical investigation, and fully playing the leading role of a professional organization.

The birth of Written on Bamboo and Silk: The interaction between the China
studies and the library science in the perspective of academic publishing

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XIAO Peng & CHEN Runhao
The research not only tries to explore the new value of the book, Written on Bamboo and Silk, as a
carrier of an academic history, but also intends to bring in a new perspective for the history-writing
of books and libraries. Based on the archive of the University of Chicago Press, for the first time,
the article presents the details of publishing Written on Bamboo and Silk, including the process
of recommendation, review, design, printing, publishing and sales. In showing the above details,
the paper discusses different questions: How was the book accepted by the University of Chicago
Press? How does the doctoral dissertation of Tsuen-Hsuin Tsien become the known piece of
Written on Bamboo and Silk? How to print a book with Chinese characters in Western countries?
How to promote and sell an academic work? etc. The birth of this book no doubt should give the
credit to the library circle and Chinese studies circle in North America. Important figures from both
circles are involved and play different roles in the publishing process, such as Howard W. Winger
and Herrlee G. Creel as the referees, Carroll G. Bowen as the editor, Lester Asheim’s financial
assistance and especially, Lien-sheng Yang as the significant peer reviewer. However, the success
of the book has closer relationship with the academic group of Chinese studies. The birth of
Written on Bamboo and Silk and relevant monographs, such as Kung-chuan Hsiao’s Rural China:
Imperial Control in the Nineteenth Century, reflect the influence of China studies’ development
and transition at the time. Behind Written on Bamboo and Silk, we could see the revival of China
studies and its expending network around the 1960s. In order to support the rise of Chinese studies,
there comes the needs for books or monographs, which could be used as textbooks for the growing
student group of China studies, pushes western publishing system to accept the Chinese characters
and builds a communication and exchange circles of China studies.

* Correspondence should be addressed to XIAO Peng, Email: xiaop25@mail.sysu.edu.cn, ORCID: 0000-0002-6668-8122