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Table 1. A selected list of articles about the losses of books published in the Bulletin of the Library Association of China
Time Vol(No.): page Title
Jul. 1938 13(1):18 700 000 valuable books were taken away by Japanese in Nanjing

Jul. 1938 13(1):18-19 Books of Hunan University were bombed
Jul. 1938 13(1):19 Enemies took possession of all important relics of Shandong Provincial Library

Sept. 1938 13(2):19 Precious antiques and books of Peking were secretly transported to northeast China
Hundreds of thousands of books of private libraries around south Yangtze River
Sept. 1938 13(2):20
area were burnt or looted
Nov. 1938 13(3):21-22 The losses of Chinese libraries from 1937 to 1938 / Xia Songming
Nov. 1938 13(3):22 Private collection of books encountered a big disaster in Jiangsu and Zhejiang

May. 1939 13(6):19 Shanghai Library lost 400 000 volumes of books since August 13 of 1937
Nov. 1939 14(2/3):19 All books of Guangya Academy in Guangdong were robbed by Japanese

An example of libraries of government agencies during Anti-Japanese War—A brief
Jan. 1940 14(4):8-10
introduction of the Library of Ministry of Transport
Jun. 1940 14(6):13-14 An overview of the event about library being robbed in Tsinghua University

Oct. 1940 15(1/2):10 The Library of Chongqing University was bombed
Dec. 1945 19(4/5/6):8 Zhejiang Provincial Library suffered huge losses
Dec. 1945 19(4/5/6):8-9 Books of Jinling Women’s College were stolen and sold by Japanese soldiers

Dec. 1945 19(4/5/6):9-10 The damage situation of Peking No. 1 Municipal Library
Dec. 1946 20(4/5/6):9 A review of damage situation of Jiangsu Provincial Sinology Library /Liu Yizheng
Note: We found 62 relevant articles in all, however we only list important ones.

The activities of the Library Association of China (LAC) to protect and rebuild Chinese
libraries can be divided into two kinds. On the one hand, LAC compiled data on book destruction
by delegating both Chinese and foreigners to investigate the situation of attacked libraries
throughout the country since October 1937. In order to collect as much information as possible,
LAC set up many sites around China to gather photographs and reports in 1938. After orderly
arrangement and editorial work, these accumulated materials were summarized into a report
written in English, which was distributed to other countries to reveal Japan’s perpetration of the
crimes (P. Y. Li, 2011). On the other hand, LAC kept in frequent contact with libraries of western
countries by official letters. In this manner, LAC successfully publicized Japan’s destruction
imposed on China’s libraries and made an appeal for book donations. The correspondence between
LAC and libraries of America, Germany, New Zealand, Britain, France and the International