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A Shelf List of Chinese Holdings from the Royal Asiatic Society

Archive Collection: Chinese Holdings from RAS Contains digital media

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Type of record: Archive

Title: A Shelf List of Chinese Holdings from the Royal Asiatic Society

Level: Collection

Classmark: Chinese Holdings from RAS

Date(s): 18th - 19th century

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/465323

Description

The Brotherton Library has acquired donations from the Library of the Royal Asiatic Society numbering 700 titles with 5500 traditional thread bound volumes. These are mainly works purchased by British travelers in China during the 19th century. The collection is noteworthy for traditional fiction of the 18th and 19th centuries; however there are interesting works on Chinesemedicine, Qing law and local histories as well as early edition of the Chinese classics, folding books of Buddhist sutras etc. The collection is housed in Special Collection department in the Brotherton Library. The shelf list of these collection (the list was compiled by Piet Van Der Loon) is shown below. Please use Chinese software such as Njstar to read Chinese scripts.


General / Periodicals / Collections and Encyclopaedias / History / Geography / Biography / Law and Administration / Language / Collections of short stories / Confucian scriptures / Philosophy and Religion / Buddhism / Christianity / Art and Archaeology / Science / Anthropology and Economics / Popular handbooks and primers / Other books

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