Donation to the Lu Xun Library

At the end of the month of March the Lu Xun library of the Oriental Institute (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic) received a consignment of 150 books and sixty periodicals titles donated to it by the Chinese library of the East Asia Seminar of the Zürich University. The book titles cover the fields of both classic and modern literature (including, among other items, thirteen volumes of anthology of modern Chinese literature), history, law and linguistics. Most of these books were published in the 1970s and 1980s. As far as the periodicals we have obtained are concerned, the Taiwan production of the 1980s and 1990s, up to now fairly rare in the Czech Republic, is especially worth mentioning. Their themes range through the spheres of art and cultural life and they include several annual volumes of the Palace Museum Quarterly.
This generous gift is the direct result of the 14th conference of the European Association of Sinological Librarians (EASL), held at Prague in September of 1994 and hosted by the Lu Xun library of the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences. At the same time, this gift bears witness to a highly laudable willingness towards informal and collegial help for which we wish to acknowledge our debt of gratitude.

Dr Jana Srajerová is the librarian of the Lu Xun Library at the Oriental Institute in Prague.