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Podcast with curator Liang Ying on Suzhou Pan family classics—and how one collector shaped a lineage.

Visiting Tang Yin’s Song woodblock Zizhi Tongjian—what a Ming genius kept close while reading.

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 elegant letter paper, the weighty Song Dynasty rubbings and inscriptions, the natural flow of handwritten notes and colophons, all discuss the collection of...

Shanghai Library’s “Beauty Like Jade”—women’s faces and manners in historical documents on view.

Shanghai Library exhibits rare Han monuments—stones that still teach script and empire.

A dense public hang of rare Han steles—“Magnificence of the Han Dynasty” in carved stone.

The Shanghai Library has a collection of rare manuscripts by literati from past dynasties, including the poetry manuscripts of Wen Peng (alias Shoucheng, alias ...

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 ...

The exhibition site of “Starting from Here—Shanghai Museum and Shanghai Library 70th Anniversary Joint Exhibition”. In the past 2022, the Shanghai Libra...

Song Tuo inscriptions open a door onto Qing New Year pictures in the “Shibuyu” special exhibition.

With the opening of the East Branch of Shanghai Library in Pudong, there is more space for display and display of the archives that were originally stored in th...