The Tianjin Library () is a provincial-level

public library A public library is a library that is accessible by the general public and is usually funded from public sources, such as taxes. It is operated by librarians and library paraprofessionals, who are also Civil service, civil servants. There are ...

located in the Hexi District of

Tianjin City Tianjin (; ; Mandarin: ), alternately romanized as Tientsin (), is a municipality and a coastal metropolis in Northern China on the shore of the Bohai Sea. It is one of the nine national central cities in Mainland China, with a total popula ...

. Established in 1908, it is one of the first provincial public libraries in

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

. Tianjin Library is one of the largest public libraries and a national first-level library in China.

History

The predecessors of Tianjin Library were Zhili Library (founded in the 34th year of

Guangxu The Guangxu Emperor (14 August 1871 – 14 November 1908), personal name Zaitian, was the tenth Emperor of the Qing dynasty, and the ninth Qing emperor to rule over China proper. His reign lasted from 1875 to 1908, but in practice he ruled, wi ...

of the

Qing Dynasty The Qing dynasty ( ), officially the Great Qing,, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last orthodox dynasty in Chinese history. It emerged from the Later Jin dynasty founded by the Jianzhou Jurchens, a Tungusic-speak ...

), Tianjin Municipal Library and the Former Tianjin Library, among which Zhili Library was the main one. The library was renamed several times, and in 1982, it was renamed to its current name.

References

National first-grade libraries of China Public libraries in China Buildings and structures in Tianjin Libraries established in 1908 1908 in Tianjin {{Library-struct-stub