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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.
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 [1] [2] It holds the largest collection of Chinese literature and historical documents in the world [3] and covers an area of 280,000 square ...
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 ...
Digitization of a Dunhuang manuscript. Dunhuang manuscripts refer to a wide variety of religious and secular documents (mostly manuscripts, including hemp, silk, paper and woodblock-printed texts) in Tibetan, Chinese, and other languages that were discovered by Frenchman Paul Pelliot and British man Aurel Stein at the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, Gansu, China, from 1906 to 1909.
Imported Chinese books were copied at Japanese libraries, but unlike sutra copying little is known about the actual copying process of Chinese secular works in Japan. [50] The Japanese aristocracy and clergy sponsored the transcription of religious and government texts on a large scale by the Nara period .