Signs of the Times Publishing Association

Signs of the Times Publishing Association
Industry	Publishing Field
Founded	1905
Founder	Dr. Harry Willis Miller
Headquarters	2f, No.1, Alley 5, Lane 410, Sec. 2, Ba-De Rd., Taipei, 105, 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 publishing house 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 the language of Chinese. STPA was first established by an American pastor named Dr. Harry Willis Miller in Henan province, China in 1905. After 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, healthy centers, clinics, hospitals and 62 publishing houses over 200 countries.

History

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 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-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

Chief Editors

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

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

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