Tianyi Chamber
Time: 1561
Place: Ming Dynasty (Present Day Ningbo, Zhejiang, China)
Details: Tianyi Chamber, founded in 1561 by Fan Qin during the Ming Dynasty, is the oldest existing library in China. In its heyday it boasted a collection of 70,000 volumes of antique books.
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