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Libraries

Tianyi Chamber

1561
Ming Dynasty (Present Day Ningbo, Zhejiang, China)

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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