CHINA AT GENEVA

Taranaki Daily News, 23 March 1935, Page 22 (Supplement)

CHINA AT GENEVA

A REMARKABLE LIBRARY. TYPEWRITER WITH 5000 LETTERS. China has sent thousands of its precious books to a library at Geneva. Just outside the city, on the lake side, a chateau bears a ’ magic inscription, easily seen from a boat on the lake and admired as beautiful Picture but most people have no idea what.it means.- The few who can raad it see the words: International Chinese L ' Already 200,000 Chinese and 10,000 European volumes fill the shelves, but many more are to come. There is to be a complete collection of modern Chinese books and a copy of each one published will find its way to Geneva, and there .is already talk of making room for them in new buildings built in time Chinese style. Some very choice volumes are to be seen in this unique library. Perhaps the most extraordinary, and. surely the biggest book in the world, is an encyclopedia of 6000 volumes edited in 1725. Among other interesting articles from the Far East is a modem typewriter, which types Chinese characters to the number of five thousand. This centre of Eastern culture set down in the West is to provide a home for more than books. Lectures and musical evenings are to be held here; art exhibitions will be arranged and anniversaries celebrated.