These holdings, along with the fruits of intense research in the subject since World War Ⅱ, have made Kyoto University one of the top universities in the world in the study of classical Chinese literature and history.
這些文獻加上「人文所」自二次戰後大力推動的共同研究成果，使京大在中國古典文學及史學方面，如對唐詩、元曲、尚書正義及漢書律歷志、天工開物、雍正硃批等研究，在世界各大學中算是佼佼者。