Description of the collection The Chinese collection of the
National Library is a rich source of information on the history,
culture and current affairs of China, The collection is the
largest in Australia and focuses primarily on modern and
contemporary China. The major strengths are in the subject
fields of the social sciences, especially economics, statistics,
politics and government, foreign relations and law; Chinese
modern history (after 1911) and biography. The Library actively
purchases new materials from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan and has
been steadily building its digital collections on China. These
include the Chinese e-book service Apabi数字资源平台, a full set of
the China Academic Journals database, the China Core Newspapers
database, and Duxiu. A further strength of the Chinese
collections are a number of scholarly research collections
within the Chinese collection. They include the libraries of
Walter Percival Yetts on Chinese archaeology and fine arts, of
Fang Zhaoying on modern Chinese history, o