Zheng Zhenduo (1898.12.19-1958.10.18) is a modern writer, literary historian, bibliophile and bibliographer in China. The pen names are C. T. and Guo Yuanxin. Originally from Changle, Fujian, he was born in Yongjia, Zhejiang on June1898+February 19, and was killed in an air crash on June1958+1October 65438. 19 18 was admitted to Beijing Institute of Railway Management. During the May 4th Movement, Qu Qiubai and others founded the Voice of a New Society to publicize anti-imperialist and anti-feudal ideas. Later, he participated in the establishment of a progressive literature group literature research association. 192 1 After graduating from Railway Institute, I went to Shanghai and worked as an editor in the Commercial Press. 1922, replacing Shen Yanbing (Mao Dun) as editor-in-chief of Novel Monthly. /kloc-traveled to Europe, Britain, France and other countries in 0/927. 193 1 was a professor in yenching university and Peking University. 1935 Dean, College of Literature, Jinan University. During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period and after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he has been engaged in progressive cultural work in Shanghai. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), he served as director of the Cultural Relics Bureau of the Ministry of Culture, director of the Institute of Archaeology of China Academy of Sciences and vice minister of the Ministry of Culture. I am in charge of library work, and I am very concerned about the development of literature collection and library cause, and I have made great achievements. For example, I hosted a symposium on book classification at 1950, and put forward the idea of collective compilation of classification, which pointed out the direction for the development of modern classification in China.

Zheng Zhenduo likes to collect books and spare no effort to collect them. Whether at home or abroad, we try our best to look everywhere. To 1932 ". Before the February 28th Incident, there were more than 0/00 boxes of books/kloc, accounting for more than 20,000 volumes. Most of them were destroyed by the war in Shanghai. On the eve of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, he stayed in Shanghai, organized a literature preservation comrades' meeting, and ran around, saving a large number of precious documents for the country. His book collection pays attention to practicality and hides it for use. The collection of books is mainly literary works, especially the book of songs, Chu ci, books of Ming and Qing dynasties, operas, tanci, baojuan and prints. After decades of efforts, the collection of books has reached 1. More than 70,000 kinds, nearly 654.38+10,000 copies. This can be seen from the Xidi Bibliography compiled by Beijing Library. He attaches great importance to the revision of the edition. Every time he receives a book, he should read it carefully and write a postscript. The six parts of the inscription and postscript have been included in Robbery of the Secretary (1956) and Xidi Shuhua (1983). He also personally compiled bibliographies, including Xidi Rare Opera Catalogue (1937), Xidi Sanqu Catalogue (1937), Xidi Tanci Catalogue and Qing Dynasty Anthology Catalogue (all unpublished). He also has a large collection of bibliographies and bibliographic works, and there are more than 500 kinds of his bibliographies in ordinary thread-bound books in Beijing Library alone. After his death, all his books were donated to Beijing Library by his family.