Signs of the Times Publishing Association
IndustryPublishing
Founded1905
FounderDr. Harry Willis Miller
HeadquartersTaipei, Taiwan
Key people
President: Jairyong Lee
Publisher: Ying-Pi Chou
ProductsBooks, magazines and art designs
Websitehttp://www.stpa.org/

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.

History

Signs of the Times Publishing House Started from 1905, major historical events are briefly listed as follows:

1905Dr. Miller set up "Gospel Journal" at Tsai County, Henan, China.
1908Renamed "Signs of the Times" and moved to Shanghai.
191560,000 copies of "Signs of the Times" Monthly are issued for each volume.
1939Moved to Hong Kong.
1941Hong Kong was occupied by Japan and the operation was shut down.
1942Reestablished the newspaper office at Chongqing.
1943Republished "Signs of the Times" Monthly.
1946Returned to Shanghai.
1947Moved to Hong Kong due to the war, the business is transferred to Far East Publishers and South-Eastern Asia Publishing House.
1956Pastor Logway reestablished the publishing business in the union mission in Taiwan.
1963Set up Taipei Signs of the Times Publishing Association formally.
1969South-Eastern Asia Publishing House returned the business of "Signs of the Times" monthly to Taipei STPA.
1976Moved to No.424, 2nd Section, Bade Road, Taipei, Taiwan.
1981Started to use the high-speed paleographic press.
1985The inauguration ceremony of the new office building.
2005The 100th anniversary of Signs of the Times Magazine.
2010Establishment the branch office of the Signs of the Times Publishing House in Wuhan, China.

Chief Managers

(Signs of the Times Publishing House was established in Taiwan in 1963)

Shen Hui-Yi1968–1970
Chiang Ta-Ting1970–1972
Tsai Shu-Shen1972–1975
Chiang Ta-Ting1977–1978
Liu Hsin-Sheng1978–1983
Tseng Jun-Sheng1983–1984
Huang Yu-Cheng1984–1986
Liu Hsin-Sheng1987–1990
Cho Fu-Hsiang1991–1997
Wang Shih-Yang1998–1999
Cho Fu-Hsiang2000–2006
Chou Ying-Pi2006~Till Now

Chief Editors

Miller, H. W.1903–1911
Selmon, Arthur Clifford1911–1916
Shultz, J. E.1917
Hsia, En-Le1918–1919
Fu, Li-Wen1920–1921
Swartout, H. O1922–1930
Lee, Frederick1931–1934
Hsu, Hua1934–1936
Oss, John and Hsu, Hua1937–1941
Su, Xing Zhi1942–1947
Hsu Hua1948
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-Yi1970–1982
Cho, Fu-Hsiang1983–2006
Huang, Shu-Mei2006–2007
Chou, Ying-Pi2007–2010
Chou, Li Chuan2010 Till now

Sister Organizations

  • Taiwan Adventist Hospital
  • Taiwan Adventist College
  • Seventh-day Adventist Church Taiwan Conference
  • Seventh-day Adventist Church Chinese Union Mission
  • Seventh-day Adventist Church Japan Publishing House
  • Seventh-day Adventist Church Korea Publishing House

References

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