China News Service, Beijing, June 10 (Reporter Ying Ni) The special database of "Chinese Books Donated by Japan's Yongqing Library" was officially launched on the "Chinese Ancient Books Resource Library" of the National Library of China on the 10th.
The database contains more than 4,000 volumes of 793 kinds of 36 Chinese sources, with a total of more than 370,000 leaves.
In June 2018, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the signing of the Sino-Japanese Treaty of Peace and Friendship, the former Prime Minister of Japan and the chairman of Eisei Bunko Hosokawa, the former Prime Minister of Japan, donated 36 books and more than 4,000 volumes of Chinese books collected by his family for three generations for free. National Library of China.
This donation is also the largest free donation of Chinese books by Japanese friends to China since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949. It not only continued the friendly exchange tradition of "relying on books to meet friends" in the history of the two countries, but also opened the return of overseas Chinese entities. This new chapter has played a positive role in Sino-Japanese folk cultural exchanges and cooperation in the new era.
In order to protect and utilize the Chinese books donated by the Yongqing Library, the National Library of China keeps the batch of Chinese books in the constant temperature and humidity of the rare book library, and provides readers with the original reading service. - Japan's Yongqing Bunko donated Chinese books to the National Library of China Special Exhibition Catalogue, and photocopied and published 4 ancient books including "Shangshu Zhengyi", "Eighteen Histories Brief", "Group Books Governing Essentials" and "Yuanmingyuan Poems of the Imperial Palace".
At the same time, in order to better meet the reading and research needs of readers and researchers, and to promote the dissemination and utilization of this batch of Chinese books in a wider range, the National Library of China has digitized them, and dismantled five of the series according to their subheadings. It is sub-indexed and classified into four parts: classics, history, sub-sections, and collections, which is convenient for readers to search and read.
On the whole, this batch of Chinese books is well-preserved and rich in content, including not only Chinese engraved editions passed on to Japan, but also a considerable number of Chinese engraved editions and Japanese scholars' works, which can comprehensively demonstrate the exchanges and culture of Chinese and Japanese classics. The development track and origin of communication.
It is reported that the "Chinese Ancient Books Resource Library" currently publishes more than 100,000 ancient book resources online, and has become a comprehensive resource sharing and publishing platform with the largest number and variety of ancient book resources in the country.
Readers can access these valuable resources online without logging in.
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