19321On February 28th, the Japanese army invaded Shanghai and bombed Zhabei, and the Commercial Press and Oriental Library on Baoshan Road were the first to be damaged. 65438+1October 301October 29 At 8: 00 am and 3: 00 pm, Japanese planes bombed the Commercial Press three times in a row, and the main library was destroyed. During the bombing of 65438+1October 29th, the fire rushed across the road and spread to the Oriental Library, but the loss was very small. /kloc-on the morning of February 8, 2000, a fire broke out in the Oriental Library, which was caused by arson by Japanese ronin. Until the evening, the model was novel, and the highest five-story building in Zhabei was burned out. A large number of Chinese and foreign books collected over the past 30 years, all Chinese and foreign magazines and newspapers accumulated over the years, extremely precious local chronicles of provinces, prefectures, prefectures and counties, and various reference books and manuscripts collected in compilation have all turned into dust.