1899年,南洋公学译书院院长张远济与严复就出版严译《原富》达成协议,以2000元买下译稿,书出版后再按两成付版税。这是今天有据可查的我国最早的现代意义的版权贸易合同。1924年经辜鸿铭同意,欧根·狄特利希斯(Eugen Diederichs)出版社出版了施密茨(Schmitz)翻译的德文版《中国人的精神》(辜鸿铭《春秋大义》的一种译本)。这是中国著作人授权外国翻译出版的第一部作品。1923年9月12日,中国代表在《国际禁止淫刊公约》上签字,这是中国加入的第一个国际出版公约。 In 1899, Zhang Yuanji, president of Nanyang Public-School Translation College, and Yan Fu reached an agreement on publishing and interpreting “Forbidden Wealth” severely and bought the translation at 2,000 yuan. This is the earliest modern and meaningful copyright trade contract in our country today. In 1924, Ku Hung-ming agreed that Eugen Diederichs published the German version of “Chinese Spirit” translated by Schmitz (a translated version of Gu Hongming’s “Spring and Autumn Annals”), . This is the first work of a Chinese author authorized by a foreign translator and publisher. On September 12, 1923, the Chinese delegate signed the “Convention Concerning the Suppression of the Unexic.” This is the first international publication convention to which China is a party.