Abstract: Since the 1990’s,the academic circle has been achieving rapid progress in the research on the publication history of Chinese modern times and publishing and bringing out some works and theses one after another.The scholars have carried out discussions and debates from different point of view on modern times publication time category,modern times publication development and advancement,modern times publication historical data value,foreign missionaries and modern times publication and modern times women publication..But the present researching scale and level is very incompatible with its social status and value and should be improved in those aspects such as means of researching,views of researching and range of researching.

Key words: modern times, publication history