民国时期的装帧,我把她不合时宜地称作“东方的西装”。从1919年至1949年这一时间的界定可能有一点模糊,因为在1919年之前的一部分设计家已与西方接轨,特别是20世纪前十年西式装帧的书籍作品大量存在。我所界定的这个起始时间当以普遍性为主,也是当时西学东渐的迅猛时期,又恰逢“五四运动”如火如荼。这一时期的留洋学者、画家,大都受到过优良的传统国学教育,所 In the period of the Republic of China, I referred to her in an improbable manner as “an oriental suit.” The definition of the time from 1919 to 1949 may be a bit vague because some of the designers before 1919 were already in line with the West, especially the large number of books in Western-style framing of the first decade of the 20th century. The start time, as defined by me, is dominated by universality and also the swift and violent period when the Western studies started to move eastward, just in time for the May Fourth Movement. The foreign scholars and painters in this period were mostly educated in fine traditional Chinese culture