Ka Yip Tong Books And Everything Examination

As a famous private bibliotheca in the south of China, Liu's Jiaye Chamber started at the early 20th century, peaked at 1930s and then declined gradually. Its majority of books was scattered in libraries and institutes in the Mainland of China, Taiwan, Hongkong, Macao and America. The impact of individual, family and social trend made Jiaye Chamber inevitable to exist only less than 50 years from expansion to collapse. Therefore its close was the sign of the doom of traditional private bibliotheca.Focusing on the expansion and collapse of Jiaye Chamber, the thesis applies bibliographic methods to analyses the achievable materials, such as diaries, letters, monograph, theses, files, journals and documents. Apart from the introduction, the paper is divided into four sections. The first section is a general introduction about Liu chenggan's family and life. The second section is about the bibliotheca from expansion to collapse, including the reasons for its rapid development, measures to collect books, sources and features of the books. The third section is a textual research about the dispersed and present bibliographile in Jiaye Chamber. In the fourth section, the detailed records of distinct large-scale dispersal of Jiaye Chamber in history are to enquire the present bibliophile in and out of China.Based on the achieved materials, the thesis embarks on the detailed research about the growth and close of Jiaye Chamber to illustrate what it had confronted in history, and to perceive the transformation of the cultural stereotypes through the growth and decline of private bibliotheca.