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Volume 50, Issue 3
1 April 2001
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Research Article| April 01 2001

The effect of the Cold War on librarianship in China

Huanwen Cheng
Huanwen Cheng is Professor and Associate Dean in the Department of Library and Information Science at Zhongshan University, and also Director of Zhongshan University Library, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-793X
Print ISSN: 0024-2535
© MCB UP Limited
2001
Library Review (2001) 50 (3): 132–137.
https://doi.org/10.1108/00242530110386843

The development of library science is discussed within four main phases: US influence before 1949; Soviet Union influence 1949‐1965; diplomatic segregation from the West 1966‐1976; and the influence of the developed countries 1977‐1991. The effects of the Cold War on Chinese politics and so on librarianship are indicated and discussed and the influence of the Cultural Revolution, and recovery after it, analysed.

Keywords: China, Librarians, Libraries, History, Politics
© MCB UP Limited
2001
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