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Industry | Publishing |
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Founded | 1905 |
Founder | Dr. Harry Willis Miller |
Headquarters | Taipei, Taiwan |
Key people | President: Jairyong Lee Publisher: Ying-Pi Chou |
Products | Books, magazines and art designs |
Website | http://www.stpa.org/ |
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Signs of the Times Publishing Association (STPA) is one of the 62 Signs of the Times Publishing Houses around the world that belongs to the Seventh-day Adventist Church (SDA) and it is the only official publishing house in Chinese. STPA was first established by an American pastor named Dr. Harry Willis Miller in Henan province, China in 1905. After being relocated several times through years, STPA was finally moved to Taipei, Taiwan (its current position) in 1963. STPA provides not only spiritual publications for SDA members, but also promotes its reading materials door to door through literature evangelists in order to spread God's gospel.
The first Signs of the Times Publishing House was originally established in 1852 by an American pastor named James White (1821–1881), who purchased a small press and started to print pamphlets. Based upon that, it gradually developed and became the first publishing house of SDA Publishing Association. Adventist Church claimed currently she has a worldwide baptized membership of about over 17 million people and she operates numerous institutions, churches, schools, health centers, clinics, hospitals and 62 publishing houses in over 200 countries.
Signs of the Times Publishing House Started from 1905, major historical events are briefly listed as follows:
1905 | Dr. Miller set up "Gospel Journal" at Tsai County, Henan, China. |
1908 | Renamed "Signs of the Times" and moved to Shanghai. |
1915 | 60,000 copies of "Signs of the Times" Monthly are issued for each volume. |
1939 | Moved to Hong Kong. |
1941 | Hong Kong was occupied by Japan and the operation was shut down. |
1942 | Reestablished the newspaper office at Chongqing. |
1943 | Republished "Signs of the Times" Monthly. |
1946 | Returned to Shanghai. |
1947 | Moved to Hong Kong due to the war, the business is transferred to Far East Publishers and South-Eastern Asia Publishing House. |
1956 | Pastor Logway reestablished the publishing business in the union mission in Taiwan. |
1963 | Set up Taipei Signs of the Times Publishing Association formally. |
1969 | South-Eastern Asia Publishing House returned the business of "Signs of the Times" monthly to Taipei STPA. |
1976 | Moved to No.424, 2nd Section, Bade Road, Taipei, Taiwan. |
1981 | Started to use the high-speed paleographic press. |
1985 | The inauguration ceremony of the new office building. |
2005 | The 100th anniversary of Signs of the Times Magazine. |
2010 | Establishment the branch office of the Signs of the Times Publishing House in Wuhan, China. |
(Signs of the Times Publishing House was established in Taiwan in 1963)
Shen Hui-Yi | 1968–1970 |
Chiang Ta-Ting | 1970–1972 |
Tsai Shu-Shen | 1972–1975 |
Chiang Ta-Ting | 1977–1978 |
Liu Hsin-Sheng | 1978–1983 |
Tseng Jun-Sheng | 1983–1984 |
Huang Yu-Cheng | 1984–1986 |
Liu Hsin-Sheng | 1987–1990 |
Cho Fu-Hsiang | 1991–1997 |
Wang Shih-Yang | 1998–1999 |
Cho Fu-Hsiang | 2000–2006 |
Chou Ying-Pi | 2006~Till Now |
Miller, H. W. | 1903–1911 |
Selmon, Arthur Clifford | 1911–1916 |
Shultz, J. E. | 1917 |
Hsia, En-Le | 1918–1919 |
Fu, Li-Wen | 1920–1921 |
Swartout, H. O | 1922–1930 |
Lee, Frederick | 1931–1934 |
Hsu, Hua | 1934–1936 |
Oss, John and Hsu, Hua | 1937–1941 |
Su, Xing Zhi | 1942–1947 |
Hsu Hua | 1948 |
Lin, Yao-His (Hong Kong Chief Editor) | 1949–1950 |
Tsai, Shu-Shen (Singapore Chief Editor) | 1951–1963 |
Li, Bin-Hsiang (Singapore Chief Editor) | 1963–1969 |
Teng, Chi-Yi | 1970–1982 |
Cho, Fu-Hsiang | 1983–2006 |
Huang, Shu-Mei | 2006–2007 |
Chou, Ying-Pi | 2007–2010 |
Chou, Li Chuan | 2010 Till now |
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