英文摘要 |
The National Palace Museum houses the distinguished Chinese imperial collection. To provide research references for the Museum curators and to promote academic research atmosphere, the reading room was established in the Painting and Calligraphy Department in 1965. The Department of Rare Books and Document s was established in 1968 with an affiliated modern library open to the public. The library under its administration has been open officially renamed as "National Palace Museum Library" (圖書文獻館) to the public since April 1996, offering a brand new atmosphere of service. The establishment of the library is now near 50 years. During this period the library has provided specialized academic books and reference resources in Chinese art and crafts, Qing history, rare book editions and ancient Chinese bibliography, epigraphy and archaeology, artifacts conservation and preservation, etc. This article introduces modern books in the collection of the National Palace Museum Library and according to its core, characteristic and specialized collection of books, generalizes and discusses as follows: (1) The wonders of the studies of Chinese art and artifacts, (2) A probe into Chinese Qing dynasty history and court culture, (3) The hall of the studies of Chinese rare books editions and ancient Chinese bibliography, (4) The sanctuary of Si-ku chuan-shu (Imperial edition of Complete Collection of the Four Categories, 四庫全書) studies, (5) An overview of the master works in the National Palace Museum collection, (6) The trace of Chinese genealogy documents, (7)The treasure of the studies of Asian art and culture, (8) The features of museum studies and arts management , (9) The connoisseurship of Chinese Art auction catalogues. The author's intent of writing this article is to provide the most updated research and to help familiarizing Chinese and Western bibliographies of Chinese art and the humanities, and academic content, then hope that readers can utilize the library's collection more effectively, to induce the library to develop its collections in specialized academic fields, and to deepen the characteristic and content of the "National Palace Museum Library." |