Textual Research And Supplement To Some Issues Of Revised Edition Of The History Of Chinese Books And Libraries

This paper starts with the comparison of new and old version of the history of Chinese books and libraries, and summarize characteristics of revised edition and give textual research and supplement to some issues of it. Firstly the paper analysis the cause of textual research and supplement to some issues of the History of Chinese Books and Libraries and points out that it is a magnificent article which sweeps into the history of books and of libraries and of library learning simultaneously. It plays effect of the vane on the study on historiography of library and has high position in history. Then it compares the content of 1987 version with that of 2005 version and summarizes characteristics of the content of revised edition, as the separation or composition of the text, or supplement of some new data to old version, or dare to put forward pndg problems in history and give textual research to them. For example, the arguement of new and old views of whirlwind binding, invention time of papermaking technique and engraving typography. It has the conclusions that it affirmation the history position of the new theory of whirlwind binding and proves invention time of papermaking technique is in western Han dynasty furtherly, invention time of engraving typography is initial tang. Lower limit time of the revised edition of the History of Chinese Books and Libraries is 1949 year. From historical angle, we location the time that after 1949 is modern, and in order to make revised edition of the History of Chinese Books and Libraries become real general history, My supplement work is main from some aspects below: the history of books and of libraries and of library learning. It increases mainly some new modern documents in the history of books, as microphotography documents, sound image documents, machine readable documents. Their appearance brings us some new subjects, as the relationship between new types of documents and the paper one, the selection and tissue of the documents resources under the network environment. Regarding ten chaotic years of cultural revolution as book adversity. The history of modern libraries career mainly centers on its historical stage problem after liberation and describes that it obtains some of achievements in recent years. Finally it analyzes present situation of study on learning history of modern libraries and enumerates out three characters who have large effect in learning history of modern libraries, including Zhongzong Huang, Zhuohua Xie and Huanwen Cheng. This paper expresses bigot desire that the author improves integrated system of historiography study on the library and meanwhile hopes that revised edition of the history of Chinese books and libraries can revise once again.