Events(Vol.42 No.2)

At the beginning of this year, China’s Ministry of Culture announced 12 national restoration centers for ancient books. Among these is the Zhejiang Library, due to its experience in preservation and restoration. The four buildings that comprise the Zhejiang Library house some 3.9 million volumes. Their ancient book collection features a copy of the Wenlange version of Qing imperial library, as well as many block prints, hand-written books, and manuscripts from the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties. Of the 835,000 thread-bound volumes in its collection, 141,000 are rare.