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Most of the libraries in China are free libraries built by various levels of government and libraries in universities. Nowadays, there are also free libraries established by village committees in most rural areas of China. The number of libraries in China is very large, and basically every place has them
Since the ancient days, China has placed the importance on books and reading. This tradition can never and will never die. In ancient China, all imperial officials had to pass certain examination to be eligible to work as officials in the magistrate courts.
They developed paper tech and printing tech, paper tech is still using today. before that, they used bamboo sheets or cloth as books, which is very heavy or expensive. Actually, normally they could be the leader of the county and the courts at the same time in the ancient China.
The architecture of this library is breathtaking, modern, spacious, serving its purposes by providing an oasis in a crowded city where people can go to read, study, browse, meeting friends and relax. For the majority of library users, this is good enough.
Libraries (and also book stores) are always mesmerizing in China and also full on people visiting them. Confucian culture and heritage and a people being eager to learn.
thank you for sharing this. this is one of best library i ever seen, people live in China is so fortune to have a nice library like this. it will be in my travel plan to visit.
I love this public library. You are putting out incredible short China videos focused on a small area and I am so glad to find to channel. You should have a million subscribers in no time. Keep up the good work.
You are very kind thank you very much 🙏🏻 I plan to continue to try to improve my content over the next few months. Maybe one million will be possible in the very distant future but 100k would be very nice. Lots of work and improvements and a bit of luck to be able to reach even that many I think. For now it’s just nice to be able to visit and share these amazing and interesting places in a peaceful and relaxing way.
The place is as peaceful, calm and beautiful as a mind full of knowledge and knowledgeable, but still eager to broaden their minds with more information.
A good reminder at 6:27 “If you learned but not think, you are lost. If you think but do not learn, you are in great danger.” Do not learn blindly, do not think blindly.
lovely! that they have all works in chinese. that they have put in so much loving care in the architecture....we used to read too, in india, when we were children, we used to be so eager to get our hands on books...sadly, it does not happen now
I just returned from Chengdu last month, where I visited a recently opened library and art gallery complex. That was exceptionally beautiful and user friendly too. China also has marvellous bookstores everywhere.
Awesome! I hope to visit Chengdu in the future. China sure does have many interesting libraries and book stores. I filmed a beautiful book store in a recent video and filmed a few last year too. I'll be visiting more libraries in the near future. Where do you come from?
@@applebee9060 Yeah, he's very laid back, I like it. I see it quite often here, sometimes couples will head out in their slippers and pjs for a relaxed walk. I much prefer to see this than people spending hours worrying what they look like every time they go out.
This video appears to be about the Nanjing Library (simplified Chinese: 南京图书馆; traditional Chinese: 南京圖書館; pinyin: Nánjīng Túshūguǎn) located in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. It is the third-largest library in China with over 10 million items. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing_Library Please correct me if I'm wrong about the name of the library in this above video.
What western cultural practices might you not want to see in a library? I spotted many shared cultural practices in this library, shared by many nations, west and east :)
The City of Nanjing used to be the imperial capital of China at one time. So the Nanjing Library keeps and preserves the detailed records and archives of that imperial era.
Did you check how many books have been taken off the shelves? Did you find Orwell's book and < animal Farm> ? How good is a library that does not made accessible these books?
@@middlekingdomproductions Was "born to run" the auto-translate lol? There's a typo on a book, should be "жизнеописание" and considering that И and H can be easily confused by software if they're scanned from a low res source it means that whoever made that book did not know russian well enough to fix the mistake.
@@reignbird Was this the wrong video? 😂 I did film a Russian book in my Shanghai library video. They had quite a large Russian language collection. Yeah some translation can be a little strange or completely wrong lol
@@middlekingdomproductions Nope, from 2:49 to 2:53 of this exact video, two white books on the right say "Жизнеопнсание Михаила Булгакова" (Life-description of Mihail Bulgakov) with an aliexpress-style mistake. Like, if you ever browsed any english versions of chinese sites such mistakes are the norm on the internet. It's just weird to see it printed on a book.
@@reignbird ah, I hadn’t noticed those books. That is unusual, it’s certainly common on signs and company names but I suppose whichever translation method they use with signs the published used for these books 😂 I guess it’s the downside of not employing somebody who knows both languages to translate
And you think books are not censored by libraries in the west? For example, do you even have a complete set of the English language translation of the Babylonian Talmud that is accessible to all library users? Have you even heard of this set of books?
The value of a library is not in how impressive the library is but in the library's collection. What use of a library is if books that do not conform to the narrative of the CCP are banned? There are a lot of books I can think of that are banned because they rub the CCP the wrong way for one reason or another.
@@colonylaser4860 I do not live in China. Yes, I have been there. I read Chinese with native fluency. I don't know the number of books banned by America, but I do know several books that are banned in the PRC.
Here are three examples: 1. The Private Life of Chairman Mao: This book talks about Mao's sordid life by Mao's personal physician. 2. Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng. This book talks about the events in the cultural revolution. 3. Books published by the Japanese detailing how Mao colluded with Japan during World War II.
@@colonylaser4860 'Red Roulette' is another one that was published a couple of years ago. It is an autobiography of the author, who acted as Wen Jiabao's wife's 'white gloves'. This book revealed corruption at the highest level, siphoning billions of dollars from the common people. Like the other ones I mentioned, this one has a Chinese version. Good luck if you can find this in the Nanjing library.
@@PomegranateChocolate Libraries are not landfills collecting trash. If you think the books you've listed can help build a harmonious society, please make some serious suggestions to the Nanjing Public Library and also ask the U.S. Congress to stop banning Confucius books in schools.
