Wang (1888.7.9 ~ 1979), whose real name is Hongzhen, whose name is Rixiang, whose pen names are Xiurui, Zhirui, Longzhifei and Longyijiang, etc. Modern publisher, general manager of Commercial Press. Born in Shanghai. Guangdong Xiangshan (now Zhongshan) is a native of Wuwang Village, Nanlang. 1907 President of Chunzhen Qunshe. At the end of 1909, he was the dean of Zhabei Preparatory School for Studying in the United States; at the end of 19 12, he was the editor-in-chief of Beijing English Democracy; and he was an English professor at Peking University, Minzu University and Zhonghua College. 192 1 year, recommended by Hu Shi to work in commercial compilation institute. During the 25 years of printing business, we adhered to the publishing policy of "universal education and academic independence"; Wang reformed the management organization, edited the encyclopedia series, published Universal Library, China Cultural History Series, University Series and other world-famous large-scale series, introduced advanced foreign scientific management methods, and led his business to a new publishing glory with a civilian publishing perspective and commercial management mode. [2] Wang Dictionary and Wang Dictionary were compiled separately. Wang founded and revived the Oriental Library, and edited and published a large number of classics, Chinese and foreign classics and textbooks. He has made great contributions to the cause of modern culture and education in China. The Complete Works of Wang was published on 20 13.
Invent a character retrieval method
In the early 1920s after the May 4th Movement, foreign knowledge flooded in, and the situation was explosive, so the compilation of reference books became a top priority. However, from Shuowen Jiezi in the Eastern Han Dynasty to Kangxi Dictionary in the Qing Dynasty, all of them are based on six books, which are very cumbersome and unscientific. At that time, many people of insight tried to reform the Chinese character retrieval method. A researcher invented a text retrieval method based on point, line and surface, and submitted it to the Commercial Press. Wang got inspiration from it. Since then, he has seriously summarized the reform ideas of his predecessors and borrowed some ideas of telegraph cipher. After thinking hard for half a year, he decided to create a digital retrieval method based on the four corners of Chinese characters. The height of the Commercial Press has also contributed many years of research experience and materials to help Wang achieve this great cause. After several years of design, demonstration, experiment and modification, Wang classified Chinese strokes into five categories: horizontal pick, straight hook, skimming, clicking and bending, and coded them with numbers respectively, and invented a simple and practical "four-corner number method". Later, some improvements were made in the classification, and it was finally determined to be "one horizontal, two vertical and three points, the bottom band variable score, five squares and six crosses, and seven angles and eight points and nine points." According to this method, many reference books such as Wang Dictionary were compiled, which were not widely used until 1950s.