An Annotated Bibliography of Chinese Rare Books in the Chinese

EAN/UPC/ISBN Code 9789622019133


The Chinese University of Hong Kong is the proud owner of a very special collection of rare and antiquarian Chinese books of Chinese, Japanese and Korean origins. Some of these are original manuscripts and some are limited editions of block prints dating back to centuries ago. This collection of rare books has now been painstakingly analyzed, verified, and authenticated by specialists from the Shanghai Library, China. In this bibliography, a total of 848 titles amounting to 14,018 volumes, which are the most valuable and rare works in the collection, are selected and annotated in Chinese. The books are classified by the traditional Chinese classification system: "Jing", "Shi", "Zi", "Ji" and "Cong". Listed under each title are its author, edition, number of volumes, physical format and original publications details.