1632, the Duke of Buckingham presented a batch of books to our library, including the first Chinese book "Danxi Heart Method" collected for our library, and then received some scattered Chinese books. The first batch of Chinese books was donated by Sir Wade, with 4304 volumes. Wexler lived in China for 40 years, of which 10 was the British special envoy to Beijing, and when he retired, he was the first professor of sinology at Cambridge University. He not only collected a large number of reference books, but also collected a large number of information about the etiquette, politics, law and diplomacy of the Qing court, among which there are many rare books, such as Shi Minglu, Zheng Yang Picture Book in Manchu in the early Qing Dynasty, Foreign Picture Book published in the Ming Dynasty and very precious publications of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Since then, more than 1300 volumes have been added, some of which originally belonged to Sir Barkis.

After World War II, the number of Chinese books in our library increased rapidly. Among them are books originally belonging to Sir Roland Ting, Mr Allabad, Professor Muadh and Professor Harlan. The library also has a full set of 3,000 rare films produced by the Library of Congress in Beijing Library, and a full set of microfilms of Dunhuang Chinese documents collected by the British Library, the French National Library in Paris and the Beijing Library respectively. 1952, Mr. Zhang Jin left more than 800 pieces of Oracle Bone Inscriptions to our museum, which is the oldest cultural relic in our museum so far. This collection has a large set of books, The Collection of Ancient and Modern Books by King James, with 5000 volumes. It was originally a gift from Emperor Dezong of the Qing Dynasty to the China Association in London on 1908, and the association is kept in this library. The museum also has two manuscripts of the famous Yongle Grand Ceremony.

1949, Professor Harlan made a special trip to China and purchased more than 1 10,000 Chinese books with special funds from the British government. The library also received a large number of gifts from China through Dr. Needham. The special classification of Chinese books in Cambridge University Library was formulated by two professors, Harlan and Lang Peter. According to their policies, our library has been systematically purchasing new books from China, Hongkong and Taiwan Province Province. Among the Chinese books in our library, the books about China's traditional culture, history, literature and art are the most numerous, distinctive and excellent. Pay more attention to collecting information about the modern history and politics of China. There are about 1000 Chinese periodicals in our library.

The library of Cambridge University has been receiving generous gifts or bequests from all sides. For example, in 1986, the people of China and the government of China presented 4,468 books to our library. Another example is 1988. The Palace Museum in Taiwan Province Province presented our library with a set of * * * 500 volumes of Silent Li Zao Tang Si Ku Quan Shu Hui Yao.

The Chinese catalogue of Cambridge University Library is divided into book titles and author's business cards, which are arranged in alphabetical order according to the romanization method of Wade and Zhaili, and used in the library alone. The names of Chinese books and periodicals transcribed according to the Chinese Pinyin scheme have been entered into the computer catalogue of our library. Cambridge University also has a computerized catalogue of Chinese periodicals, and plans to computerize all Chinese bibliographies including Chinese character data.