In the 1920s when Wang Yun-wu was the editor in chief at
The Commercial Press, one of the oldest book enterprises in China, he invented the
Four Corner Method. During his tenure, he edited the 4,000-volume collectanea
Wanyou Wenku (萬有文庫), the Oriental Magazine (東方雜誌社), and co-curated the Oriental Library (東方圖書館), one of the largest private libraries in the country prior to its destruction by Japanese bombing in 1932. On May 31, 1948, during the Chinese Civil War, he was appointed by
Chiang Kai-shek to lead the
Ministry of Finance. After the Chinese Civil War he moved to
Taipei with his family. In 1972 Wang Yun-wu presided over the opening of the
Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Taipei on behalf of the government. On August 14, 1987, to commemorate his historical achievement his picture (as above) was placed on the NT$2 Stamp of which 4 million units were printed in Taiwan. == References ==