Shanghai Huiwentang Book Company

Shanghai Huiwentang Book Company was a private lithographic publishing house in Shanghai during the late Qing and early Republican periods. It originated from the Shaoxing Huiwentang Bookstore founded in 1897; in 1902 Tang Shouqian and Shen Yulin established the Huiwen Society in Shanghai, later renamed Huiwentang Book Company, located on Henan Middle Road and managed by Shao Botang. Its publishing covered textbooks, the Four Books and Five Classics, legal works, and popular historical reading, and it was especially known for issuing Cai Dongfan's Popular Romances of Successive Dynasties, giving it considerable influence in the spread of popular history. The library holds one title, The Strange Case of the Hongxian Palace Harem by Wang Yi, classified under Otherworld Continent, reflecting the house's popular narrative direction; owing to limited holdings, further information on its authors and titles is not publicly available. It ceased operations in 1926 and was reorganized as Huiwentang Xinji Book Company.