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Podcast | The Collecting Story of Pan Zuyin, a Member of the Wu Family of Guan Clan
The "Artistic Exuberance" podcast invited Liang Ying, curator of the "Suzhou Pan Family Classics and Documents Exhibition" at Shanghai Libra...

What was Tang Bohu thinking about while reading? Visiting his treasured Song Dynasty woodblock prints at the Shanghai Library.
The Paper learned that a Song Dynasty woodblock print edition of *Tongjian Jishi Benmo*, treasured by Tang Bohu, is on display at the Shanghai Library's ann...

The Song Dynasty woodblock prints featured in the Shanghai Library's annual major exhibition all come from the Pan family of Suzhou.
From the Qing Dynasty to modern times, the Pan family of Suzhou was renowned as the "Distinguished Family of Wu," becoming a prominent clan. Their col...

The above exhibition showcases the treasures of Jiangnan gentry: Song Dynasty engravings and rubbings, and elegant letters.
The elegant letter paper, the weighty Song Dynasty rubbings and inscriptions, the natural flow of handwritten notes and colophons, all discuss the collection of...

The Shanghai Museum exhibits "Beauty Like Jade" and looks at beautiful women in historical documents in the museum's collection
"Beauty Like Jade - Beautiful Images of Women in Historical Documents in the Shanghai Library" was recently exhibited at the Art and Literature Museum...

See the rare treasures among the Han Dynasty monuments, Shanghai Library exhibits "The Magnificence of the Han Dynasty"
The Shanghai Library's major annual exhibition that has attracted much attention - "The Heroes of the Han Dynasty - Exhibition of Rare Books on Han Ste...

The highest-level exhibition of rare Han steles to date: the picture above will display "The Magnificence of the Han Dynasty"
The Shanghai Library is one of the most important public collections of tablets and inscriptions at home and abroad, with a collection of 250,000 epigraphic rub...

Integrating poems, books and seals into one, "Wen Sanqiao Poetry Manuscript" was published for the first time in the Ming Dynasty
The Shanghai Library has a collection of rare manuscripts by literati from past dynasties, including the poetry manuscripts of Wen Peng (alias Shoucheng, alias ...

Tibetan World|A Gang, a collector of Western rare editions: Maugham who is "at your fingertips"
In China, the circle of collecting ancient Western books has always been relatively small. A Gang is one of the first people in China to play with rare Western ...

Seventy years ago, the Shanghai Expo and the picture above all started from this landmark building
The exhibition site of “Starting from Here—Shanghai Museum and Shanghai Library 70th Anniversary Joint Exhibition”. (01:22) In the past 2022, the Shanghai Libra...