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Following the founding of the People's Republic, government and education leaders strove to develop library services and make them available throughout the country.The National Book Coordination Act of 1957 authorized the establishment of two national library centers, one in Beijing (the National Library of China) and the other in Shanghai (the Shanghai Library), and nine regional library ...
These libraries, the civil service tests, and objective evaluations were part of the meritocracy, or merit-based system of promotion in ancient China for civil service. [23] Mogao Grottoes or Cave of "The Thousand Buddhas" The Library Cave contained 15,000 paper books and 1,100 paper bundles of scrolls.
The Siku Quanshu, literally the Complete Library of the Four Treasuries, [1] is a Chinese encyclopedia commissioned during the Qing dynasty by the Qianlong Emperor. Commissioned in 1772 and completed in 1782, the Siku quanshu is the largest collection of books in imperial Chinese history, comprising 36,381 volumes, 79,337 manuscript rolls, 2.3 ...
Excavation year (begins) Name Location / Period Materiality of Written Artifacts # Content Report Year of publication Notes 1992 老河口安崗竹簡M1, M2
The Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China is known as the Gujin Tushu Jicheng (traditional Chinese: 古今圖書集成; simplified Chinese: 古今图书集成; pinyin: Gǔjīn Túshū Jíchéng; Wade–Giles: Ku-chin t'u-shu chi-ch'eng; lit. 'complete collection of illustrations and books from the earliest period to the present') or Qinding Gujin Tushu Jicheng (Chinese ...
Chinese-language Vietnamese encyclopedia, Lê Quý Đôn, 4 fascicles 1782: Qing dynasty: Complete Library of the Four Treasuries: Largest collection of Chinese history, philosophy, and literature, Ji Yun, 79,000 fascicles 1917: Republic of China: The Encyclopaedia Sinica: First English-language encyclopedia on China, 1 volume 1938: Republic of ...
The National Library of China (NLC) is the national library of China, located in Haidian, Beijing, and is one of the largest libraries in the world. It contains over 41 million items as of December 2020. [1] [2] It holds the largest collection of Chinese literature and historical documents in the world [3] and covers an area of 280,000 square ...
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