Tong Li Publishing

Tongli Publishing Co, Ltd. ; 東立出版社有限公司
legal form	Limited Liability Company, LLC
founding	1977
Seat	10F, No.81, Sec. 2, Cheng Teh Rd ; Taipei , Taiwan
management	Publisher , Chairman (COB) : ; FANG, Wan-nan ( 范萬楠 ) Managing Director : ; HUANG, Mei-yue ( 黃美月 )
Number of employees	110
Branch	publishing company
Website	www.tongli.com.tw

10th floor - Headquarters of Tong Li Publishing - State Capital Economic and Trade Building - 首府經貿大廈 , Taipei 2013

Tong Li Publishing ( Chinese 東立出版社 / 东立出版社 , Pinyin Dōng Lì Chūbǎnshè , Tong Li 東立 / 东立 for short ) is a comic book publisher in Taiwan . The company sells domestic comics - Manhuas - as well as mangas from Japan and Korean Manhwa under license under the imprint of Tong Li Comics, or TLC for short . In addition to the publication of comics, the publisher also sells light novels, among other things . In Taiwan , the publisher is one of the largest licensee for manga. Tong Li has a subsidiary in Hong Kong called Tong Li Publishing Group Limited ( 東立出版集團有限公司 / 东立出版集团有限公司 ), or Tong Li Hong Kong ( 東立香港 / 东立香港 ) for short . The "Tong-Li tiger " - 東立虎 / 东立虎 - forms the company's well-known mascot and logo .

history

The company was founded in 1977 with nine employees. It initially only brought out illegal copies of Japanese comics. This has long been the practice in Taiwan because licensing was costly and strictly regulated by the government. Unlicensed publications, however, were tolerated by the government. The originals obtained from Japan were copied, translated, censored according to moral or state guidelines and then printed in large numbers. The publisher's output grew to 50 manga titles per month at the end of the 1980s; some of these titles have sold over 100,000 copies. 20 to 30 titles were also sold to other Southeast Asian countries each month, including Singapore and Malaysia . Publishing director and founder Fang Wan-nan ( 范萬楠 / 范万楠 , Fàn Wànnán ) called himself “King of the Pirates” because of his success with illegal copies.

In 1988, Tong Li and the other major Taiwanese publishers reached an agreement with Japanese publishers, according to which the unlicensed publications were not stopped, but there were flat payments to Japan and in return support for the publication of current titles. Tong Li subsequently secured 44% of the manga market in Taiwan. In 1992, the government introduced strict copyright laws that ended the pirate publishers' business practices in Taiwan. Like others, Tong Li converted his business and from then on obtained licenses from Japanese publishers. Previously, individual works had been published under license, such as Minako Naritas Cipher in 1989 from publisher Hakusensha and Katsuhiro Otomos Akira in 1991 from Kodansha . In the following years, the publisher brought out the first magazines with manga in Taiwan. Today Tong Li publishes over 100 manga titles a year. The most famous titles include mangas such as One Piece , Bleach , Gintama , Hunter x Hunter , Naruto , Shijō Saikyō no Deshi Ken'ichi , Skip Beat and others. v. a.

Magazines

Surname	Chinese	First edition	Setting	Appearance	medium	place	genre	comment
Formosa Youth	寶島少年	19 Sep 1992	-	weekly	Print	Taiwan	Shonen	Chinese edition of the Shūkan Shōnen Jump
Dragon Youth	龍少年	Jul 7, 1992	-	monthly	Print, e-book	network	Shonen	e-book edition since April 2016 ...
New Youth Express	新少年快報	17 Sep 1992	-	weekly	Print	Taiwan	Shonen	Chinese edition of the Weekly Shōnen
New Youth Express Monthly	月刊新少年快報別冊	Oct. 1, 2009	-	monthly	Print	Taiwan	Shonen	Chinese edition of the Monthly Shōnen
New Youth Weekly ¹	新少年週刊¹	27 Mar 1993	-	weekly	Print	Hong Kong	Shonen	Chinese edition of the Weekly Shōnen
Star ★ Girls	星少女	Jul 7, 1992	-	monthly	Print, e-book	network	Shōjo	e-book edition since April 2016 ...
Young Flower	花漾	17 Sep 1992	March 2016	monthly	Print	Taiwan	Shōjo	bi-monthly edition, from 2009 monthly
Darling +	Darling +	Jan. 28, 2015	-	monthly	e-book	network	Yaoi	Chinese edition of Shinshokan magazine
Touch +	Touch +	Jan. 12, 2015	-	quarterly	e-book	network	Yaoi	first Taiwan Yaoi magazine

annotation

¹ Published by Tong Li Hong Kong

Manhua competition

The publisher has been organizing various Manhua competitions for young talents in the comics scene since the 1990s, in order to offer them an entry-level and public platform in the comic industry. Since 2017, for example, the "Tong Li Creative Competition" - 東立原創大賽 - which had existed since 2013-2016, was discontinued in its former form due to major changes in the comic and manga industry (see Webcomic , Webtoon ) and will be changed to others in the future Manner continued.

literature

John A. Lent: Asian Comics. University Press of Mississippi, Jackson 2015, ISBN 978-1-62846-158-9 (English, full text in Google Book Search - in WorldCat ).

Web links

Commons : Tong Li Publishing - Collection of Images

Official Website - Tongli Online (Chinese)
Official Website - Tongli Comics (Chinese)
Entry at Anime News Network (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Department of Commerce, MOEA - Taiwan Trade Register Number - Unified Business No .: 12539552. In: findbiz.nat.gov.tw. Retrieved March 8, 2019 (Chinese, English).
↑ ^a ^b "東立出版年鑑" - "Tong Li Publishing Timeline". In: www.tongli.com.tw. Retrieved May 28, 2018 (Chinese).
^ ^A ^b John A. Lent: Asian Comics. University Press of Mississippi, Jackson 2015, ISBN 978-1-62846-158-9 , pp. 97–116 , East Asia - Chapter 5 - Taiwan - The Rebirth of Comic 1985-1997 (English, full text in Google Book Search).
↑ "東立全台首創日本授權 BL 電子雜誌「 Darling + 」即日起上線" - "Tong Li is the first to receive the rights from Japan for Taiwan's first e-magazine of the" Yaoi "genre -" Darling + "online today". In: gnn.gamer.com.tw. Retrieved March 9, 2019 (Chinese).
↑ “01/12/2015 - 首創國人 BL 漫畫雜誌 1/12 激情呈現！” - 01/12/2015 - “Taiwan's first“ Yaoi ”e-magazine will be published on December 1st!” In: www.tongli.com.tw. Retrieved March 9, 2019 (Chinese).
↑ "2013 東立原創大賽開跑 - 打造全方位漫畫與輕小說創作平台" - "2013 starting shot for the Tong Li creative competition - establishment of a creative platform for Manhua and light novel". In: gnn.gamer.com.tw. Retrieved May 3, 2020 (Chinese).
↑ "東立原創大賽＊ 2013 漫畫 × 輕小說徵稿活動開跑！" - "Starting shot for the Tong Li creative competition 2013 for Manhua x Light Novel!" In: www.tongli.com.tw. Retrieved May 3, 2020 (Chinese).
↑ Akito: "東立出版社宣布「東立原創大賽」2017 年度徵稿將暫停舉辦" - "Tong Li Publishing announces that the" Tong Li creative competition 2017 "will be discontinued." In: gnn.gamer. com.tw. January 9, 2017, accessed May 3, 2020 (Chinese).

[Handelsregister-1] Department of Commerce, MOEA - Taiwan Trade Register Number - Unified Business No .: 12539552. In: findbiz.nat.gov.tw. Retrieved March 8, 2019 (Chinese, English).

[TongLi-2] "東立出版年鑑" - "Tong Li Publishing Timeline". In: www.tongli.com.tw. Retrieved May 28, 2018 (Chinese).

[Lent-3] A ^b John A. Lent: Asian Comics. University Press of Mississippi, Jackson 2015, ISBN 978-1-62846-158-9 , pp. 97–116 , East Asia - Chapter 5 - Taiwan - The Rebirth of Comic 1985-1997 (English, full text in Google Book Search).

[darling_00-4] "東立全台首創日本授權 BL 電子雜誌「 Darling + 」即日起上線" - "Tong Li is the first to receive the rights from Japan for Taiwan's first e-magazine of the" Yaoi "genre -" Darling + "online today". In: gnn.gamer.com.tw. Retrieved March 9, 2019 (Chinese).

[touch_00-5] “01/12/2015 - 首創國人 BL 漫畫雜誌 1/12 激情呈現！” - 01/12/2015 - “Taiwan's first“ Yaoi ”e-magazine will be published on December 1st!” In: www.tongli.com.tw. Retrieved March 9, 2019 (Chinese).

[wettbewerb_00-6] "2013 東立原創大賽開跑 - 打造全方位漫畫與輕小說創作平台" - "2013 starting shot for the Tong Li creative competition - establishment of a creative platform for Manhua and light novel". In: gnn.gamer.com.tw. Retrieved May 3, 2020 (Chinese).

[wettbewerb_01-7] "東立原創大賽＊ 2013 漫畫 × 輕小說徵稿活動開跑！" - "Starting shot for the Tong Li creative competition 2013 for Manhua x Light Novel!" In: www.tongli.com.tw. Retrieved May 3, 2020 (Chinese).

[wettbewerb_02-8] Akito: "東立出版社宣布「東立原創大賽」2017 年度徵稿將暫停舉辦" - "Tong Li Publishing announces that the" Tong Li creative competition 2017 "will be discontinued." In: gnn.gamer. com.tw. January 9, 2017, accessed May 3, 2020 (Chinese).