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Early history of Chinese fountain pen makers, Venus, Kin Sin, Golden Star, Jinxing (1) before 1936.

Updated 20210218. I got some of the achieves about Venus and Kin Sin It is a series about famous fountain pen makers in China. I choose Venus as the first one. Because I need to translate the reference to English, It will be slow. The Chinese characters here: Traditional: historical brand/ factories'  historical name/ historical magazine or book or newspapers' name Simplified: people's name/ organization's name Venus founded by Korean brothers(Kim Sung Kŏn金星建 (Kim U San金右山 1893-?)/ Kim Sung Moon金星文/ Kim Sung Bin金星斌) in Shanghai French Concession about 1931-1932 Mr. Kim Sung Kŏn From Modern Enterpriser 現代實業家  in 1935 Some documents after 1970s said that it founded in 1932 while some earlier said in 1931.  In fact, Kim's brothers assembled fountain pens at home. Before Kim Sung Kŏn came to Shanghai, he studied in Japan for 14 years. He graduated from Tokyo Koutou Kougei Gakkou, which is Faculty of Engineering of Chiba University now. Zhou Zibai周子柏 met Venus ...

20221013 Socialist Countries' fountain pen makers supported by China or Communication between Socialist Countries about fountain pen with China

This article is corrected basing on the one I published on FPN ( http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/356354-socialist-countries-fountain-pen-makers-supported-by-china-or-communication-between-socialist-countries-about-fountain-pen-with-china/ ) and my another blog ( http://debbni.diary.to/archives/33574654.html ) updated 20201104: Chullima/Chollima belongs to Chongjin. updated 20201105: Adding something about Mangyongdae, Haeju and Sinuiju. If I could buy the Seungri and Chullima I mentioned here, I will post the picture. updated 20201106: Pyongsong, Pyongsam and Wonsam are added. Now, we found that there were 8 fountain pen manufacturers (including Sinuiju) in DPRK at least. Something about Hongha in 1967 were added. updated 20201107: corrected something. updated 20201108: something may relate to DPRK's were added. My friend, Yao, provided a photo. updated 20201111: My friend, Yao, provided photos about Jinxing for exporting to Japan in the Great Proletarian Culture Revo...