Rex How
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March 30, 1956 Pusan, South Korea |
| Residence |
Taipei, Taiwan Manhattan, New York, US |
| Nationality | Taiwanese |
| Education | National Taiwan University |
| Occupation | Founder and Chairman ChineseCUBES (2010 – present) Founder and Chairman Locus Publishing (1996 – present) Founder Net and Books (2001 – present) National Policy Advisor to the President of the Republic of China (2009–2013) |
| Website | rexhow.com |
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| Traditional Chinese | 郝明義 | ||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 郝明义 | ||||||
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Rex How (郝明義, born on March 30, 1956, pen name Ma-Li 馬利) is a Taiwan and Chinese publisher. He is the founder and Chairman of ChineseCUBES, Locus Publishing, and Net and Books.
How was born in Busan Metropolitan City (or Pusan), South Korea in 1956. He attended the Busan Overseas Chinese Elementary, Middle and High School. In 1974, he studied at the National Taiwan University, where he later completed his Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) degree in International Trade in 1978.
After graduation Rex entered the publishing industry. He started working as a freelance editor, editor, and then the editorial director at Long Bridge Publishing. Later, he became the chief editor of 2001 Magazine, as well as the chief editor of “Productivity Magazine”. In 1988, he joined China Times Media Group (now Want Want China Times Group), where he worked as the President of China Times Publishing Company until 1996. During the eight-year tenure, he oversaw the publication of many bestsellers: The Master series was the first to introduce authors Milan Kundera, Haruki Murakami, and Italo Calvino to Taiwan. Emotional Intelligence, part of the Next series, reached a record high of 700,000 copies sold, and the Brain Turner series reached six million copies sold. The company's Red Novels and Blue Novels series also included best sellers.
In 1989, Rex advocated for and organized the first Taiwan Pavilion exhibit and delegation for the Frankfurt Book Fair. In 1996, as the organizer of the 1996 Taipei International Book Fair (TIBE), he increased the exhibition's scale from the previous year, and established the foundation for future development. Also in 1989, he founded the Sunday Comics. Using the pen name of Ma-Li as the comic playwright, he collaborated with comic artist Chen Uen for the comic, Abi Sword. In 2008, he started publishing the serial novel Abi Sword prelude on his personal website. In addition, during his tenure at China Times Publishing Company, Rex introduced many Japanese comic titles, which included the Complete Manga Works of Tezuka Osamu.
How left China Times Publishing Company in 1996 and founded Locus Publishing Company while also taking on the position of President and Editor-in-Chief at The Commercial Press (Taiwan), Ltd. Publications by Locus Publishing Company included Le Scaphandre et le Papillion and Tuesdays With Morrie, which sold 200,000 and 60,000 copies respectively.
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