The Beibei Library () is a

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, located at No. 26 Park Village, Beibei, Chongqing. It was originally named the Gorge District Library, founded by Lu Zuofu on May 27, 1928. At its inception, it had an area of and a collection of more than four hundred books. It is the most complete collection of

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s and

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s published during the Republic of China period in the whole of China. Beibei Library is a national first-level library and a national key unit for the protection of ancient books in China.

History

After the end of the

Second Sino-Japanese War The Second Sino-Japanese War was fought between the Republic of China (1912–1949), Republic of China and the Empire of Japan between 1937 and 1945, following a period of war localized to Manchuria that started in 1931. It is considered part ...

, Beibei Library received a gift of nearly 10,000 volumes of news weeklies from the

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. In November 1945, Lu Zuofu merged Minsheng Company Library, Public Library of Beibei Administration, and Library of the West China Academy of Sciences to form the "Beibei Library".

References

National first-grade libraries of China Libraries in Chongqing Libraries established in 1928 {{China-struct-stub