Oriental Library
Shanghai, Republic of China
The Oriental Library was a pioneering library in Shanghai, China. Established in 1925, it was the first publicly accessible private library in China. Located on Baoshan Road in Zhabei, it was owned and run by The Commercial Press. At its peak, the library was by far the largest private library in the country, holding a total of 463,083 volumes, even surpassing the National Peking Library. In contrast, the Commercial Press' main competitor, the Zhonghua Book Company's library, held only about 90,000 volumes by 1934.
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