Early History
The first library in Shanghai was built in 1847. The name of the library was the Library of the Xu Jiahui Jesuit mission. In 1925, Shanghai East Library, the first library run by Chinese, was opened.
In 1950, the Shanghai Cultural Heritage Managing Committee launched a campaign to collect books and after about a year, the collection grew to more than 200,000 volumes. Many scholars and celebrities contributed and some of them made large donations. The committee also started to buy books from abroad.
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