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China’s Great Library of Alexandria
- tokenadult 18y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_books_and_burying_of_scholars http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_books_and_burying_of...
- pg 18y agoIt's misleading to end by saying we can only speculate about what has been lost. In both cases scholars have some definite ideas about what has been lost.
- eugenejen 18y agoAn unofficial estimation is that all books that were cited in the Siku_Quanshu in 1773, only 5% were preserved.