Abstract:During the period of the Republic of China (1912-1949), having on the one hand inherited form requirements from the Chinese traditional painting and on the other hand absorbed the designing forms of the world designing fashions the illustration in literature books is of historical and cultural values as it has the advantages of both the east and the west and is full of brilliant era spirit. The characteristics of the illustration in those literature books in the period of the Republic of China are its illustration methods which combine scatter and focus perspectives, pure, new, and simple color applications, and multiple artistic expressions.