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BOOK CULTURE FROM CHINA - TRACES IN LEIPZIG KAR...

Book Culture from China - Traces in Lepzig. The title of this catalogue is a bold promise.
Viewing one of the world's major cultures from the vantage point of a single city is clearly an
audacious undertaking. But the traces are there  and Leipzig's interest in China does indeed go
back a long way. A look into the cultural archives in this city  famous as a hub of
international trade and higher education  reveals many interesting examples of Chinese culture.
The largest collection of Chinese artifacts is held by Leipzig University Library  one of the
oldest and largest libraries of its kind in Germany. Its Sinica collection comprises tens of
thousands of books from and about China  the oldest of which date back to the sixteenth
century. Manuscripts and printed works reveal much about Chinese calligraphy  typesetting  and
literature  subjects in which scholars in Leipzig specialized very early on. Back in 1878  a
professorship for Far Eastern Languages was set up at Leipzig University  which was held by
Hans Georg Conon von der Gabelentz. His current successors  Philip Clart and Elisabeth Kaske 
are responsible for the first part of this catalogue.Yet this publication is not confined to an
individual collection. Instead  it documents a joint project by Leipzig University Library with
the German Museum of Books and Writing at the German National Library  the GRASSI Museum of
Ethnography  Leipzig  and Leipzig Museum of the Printing Arts. All these institutions have
contributed to the project's success with their holdings  exhibitions as well as various other
forms of support  generating visibility for China in Leipzig.

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