Abstract
Zhang Zhiming was a famous merchant as Ningbo Gang and bibliophile in Shanghai during modern times. He liked ancient books and collected them, established successively private library named “Gu Huan Room” in Tokyo and Shanghai. This paper introduces Zhang’s life story and circle of friends, analyses the thoughts, characteristic, usage and dissemination of his collecting books. Collections involve ancient and modern ones within or outside China, among which there are some science and technology books that are not collected by ordinary book collectors. This may be related to his experience in sinification of science. His action of searching and collecting books and other related activities are based not only on a batch of Chinese cultural relics flowing to other countries such as Japan during the Late Qing Dynasty and Early Republic of China, but also because of the Chinese traditional culture and his hometown’s culture of collecting books. It is also related to his nature of loving books and the knowledge he has learned in Japan and Shanghai. His practice of collecting books has contributed to the inheritance and protection of Chinese culture to a certain degree, and leaving an indelible impression in the history of modern Chinese culture.
Highlights
Zhang Zhiming (1872-1947),early steeped in the industrial activities of the sinification of science, has selected and collected the treasures of ancient books, with the help of which he could utilize what he cherished to engage in drawing and compilation of maps and the composition of the chronicles and genealogies and he has been comparatively praised as Fu Sheng, the highly honored founder of literature in Han by the versatile learner Ye Gongchuo [1]
Zhang Zhiming’s friend Yu Heqin, who tried the practice of sinification of science with him together, wrote Gu Huan Room, as he writes: “My friend Zhang Bo’an is addicted to books
Zhang Zhiming was a merchant, but he was a so-called one of thousands of people [19]. His collections involve ancient and modern ones within or outside China, among which there are some science and technology books that are not collected by ordinary book collectors
Summary
Zhang Zhiming (1872-1947),early steeped in the industrial activities of the sinification of science , has selected and collected the treasures of ancient books, with the help of which he could utilize what he cherished to engage in drawing and compilation of maps and the composition of the chronicles and genealogies and he has been comparatively praised as Fu Sheng, the highly honored founder of literature in Han by the versatile learner Ye Gongchuo [1]. This thesis is aimed to form a clear and vivid picture of this bibliophile, wiping out the false rumor about him while probing into Zhang’s life, social activities and the process of his collecting books
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