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'''The Oriental Library''' (Chinese:東方圖書館) was a pioneering library in [[Shanghai]], China. Established in 1925, it was the first publicly accessible private library in China. Located on Baoshan Road in [[Zhabei]], it was owned and run by the [[The Commercial Press]].
 
At its peak, the library was by far the largest private library in the country, holding a total of 463,083 volumes, even surpassing the [[National Library of China|National Peking Library]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=曾经的“亚洲第一图书馆”,经历了怎样的浩劫? |url=https://news.sina.cn/gn/2021-12-10/detail-ikyakumx3199486.d.html}}</ref>. In contrast, the Commercial Press’ main competitor, the Zhonghua Book Company’s library, held only about 90,000 volumes by 1934.
 
The library and its collection, except for 5,000 rare [[Song dynasty|Song]] and [[Yuan dynasty|Yuan]] dynasty books that were stored off-site in a bank vault, as well as many other neighbouring buildings, were entirely destroyed overnight by Japanese aerial bombing during the [[January 28 incident|January 28 Incident]] in 1932. <ref>{{Cite web |title=Bombed-out library with revolutionary past |url=https://www.shine.cn/news/metro/1803151678/}}</ref>
 
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