INTRODUCTORY—THE BIBLIOPHILES AND THEIR LIBRARY ACTIVITY IN THE EARLY HISTORY OF SHANGHAI

The cangshulou and the bibliophiles

Characteristics of the cangshulou

CHAPTER ONE—THE EARLY FOREIGN LIBRARIES

The social situation during the city's formation

Cultural activity and the role of the missionaries

The establishment of foreign libraries

The Public Library,S.M.C.(1849-1912)

Other foreign libraries

Acquisition of Sinological materials

Reading needs of the foreign community

Book organization

Library management

CHAPTER TWO—THE RISE OF MODERN CHINESE

LIBRARIANSHIP

Social background

Moves towards modern libraries

The origin of Chinese libraries in Shanghai

Libraries and publishing

Libraries for preserving the national heritage

Libraries and education

Libraries and society

Yuzhai tushuguan

Foreign libraries

General trends of the library development in this period

CHAPTER THREE—LIBRARY PARTICIPATION IN SOCIAL LIFE

Social background

National situation in librarianship

Popular library movement in Shanghai

Private libraries opening to public

Special libraries

Christian libraries

Other foreign libraries

University and college libraries

School Libraries

Shanghai Library Association and its activity

CHAPTER FOUR—THE PRIME OF CITY LIBRARIANSHIP

Social background

The library situation

The birth of municipal libraries in Shanghai

New restrictions on private libraries

Popular libraries

Educational libraries

Society and institute libraries

Official libraries

Public Library,SMC

CHAPTER FIVE—LIBRARIES DURING THE WAR

Japanese attacks on Shanghai

Destruction of books and libraries

The library scene in the Lonely Island

The newly-founded libraries

The library situation in occupied Shanghai

CHAPTER SIX—LIBRARIES IN THE POST-WAR PERIOD:1946-1949

Social situation

Libraries in crisis

Restoration of the Shanghai Municipal Library

The Zhonghua Sparetime Library

The Oriental Economics Library

The final post-war phase

CONCLUSION

LIST OF SOURCES

GLOSSARY

POSTSCRIPT

1．Early foreign settlements in Shanghai

2．Foreign Population of Shanghai,1843-1936

3．Population of Shanghai,1840-1936

4．The Xujiahui cangshulou

5．Title-page from Catalogue of the NCBRAS Library(1894)

6．Title-page from Catalogue of the Shanghai Library(1872)

7．Preface to the Catalogue of the Shanghai Gezhi shuyuan,commenting on the new library building

8．Preface to a collection of letters relating to the founding of the Jiangsu diyi tushuguan

9．The building of the Oriental Library

10．A cataloguing card accompanying the Wanyou wenku series

11．Petition to the Shanghai Education Bureau from members of the Reader's Society of the Shanghai Communication Library(4 July 1929)

12．The Shanghai Municipal Government's order of 24 September 1929

13．The building of the City Library of Greater Shanghai

14．The Ant Library's ownership stamps and gift-plates

15．La Bibliotheque Sino-internationale at 5 Florissant,Geneva and its branch at 393 Ferguson Avenue,Shanghai

16．The destroyed buildings of the Oriental Library

17．Zhang Yuanji's last letter to Gu Tinglong(18 June 1953)

18．The Shanghai Municipal Library on the 3rd floor of the Fuzhou Road Market

19．The plan of the Shanghai Municipal Library

1．Analysis of stock,1872 and 1894(Shanghai Library)

2．Classification and number of books in 1912(Shanghai Library)

3．Classification of the Xujiahui cangshulou

4．The Hanfenlou classification for new books

5．The Gezhi shuyuan classification for new books

6．Library of Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce:statistics,1923-1929

7．Library holdings of local historical records(the Oriental Library)

8．Statistics of some municipal libraries(1936)

9．Visitors to the Shanghai Children's Library