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of visual and participatory methods. These also give children power to evaluate their libraries.
After justifying the feasibility, we emphasize the importance of letting children be their libraries’
evaluation subjects. Theoretical values include: guaranteeing children’s right of making sound,
constructing discourses of centering children’s perspective in practice and academic, realizing the
library profession’s missions of education, community improvement and social harmony. Practical
values includes: first, improving children’s enrollment of library affaires, i.e. “Every child should
be familiar and comfortable with the local library and possess the skills to seek their way around
libraries in general.” Second, advancing and practicing Law of the People’s Republic of China on
the protection of public cultural services.

The turning of the research on ZHENG Qiao’s bibliography thought in the
Republic of China
〇a*
XIE Huan〇
Bibliography practice has a long history in China while the systematic theoretical summarization
on that hadn’t been produced until South Song Dynasty. ZHENG Qiao, a famous scholar of South
Song Dynasty, wrote a book titled Tong Zhi Jiao Chou Lue and systematically summarized the
theory of Chinese bibliography practice. Therefore Tong Zhi Jiao Chou Lue is considered the first
theoretical monograph on bibliography in China. Chinese traditional bibliography and modern
Library Science have a close relationship. Studying ZHENG Qiao, the representative scholar in
Chinese bibliography history, contributes to the indigenization of librarianship. In this article, the
main research methods are comparing relative texts on bibliography.
ZHENG Qiao is a controversial figure. Although his works have a great influence, his status
and reputation were bad during his life and a long period after his death. This situation began to
change in the era of Republic of China. Owing to the efforts of GU Jiegang, the academics started
to evaluate ZHENG Qiao and his thoughts with a positive attitude. There were two turnings of
the research on ZHENG Qiao’s bibliography thought in the era of Republic of China. Firstly,
according to the incomplete statistics, before the Republic of China, there were only two scholars
HU Yinglin and ZHANG Xuecheng studied ZHENG Qiao’s bibliography thought. But since the
Republic of China, there had been more and more scholars studying ZHENG Qiao’s bibliography
thought and treating it as a special discipline. Secondly, the research attitudes about ZHENG
Qiao’s bibliography thought gradually changed. During the era of Republic of China, the scholars
who were interested in ZHENG Qiao’s bibliography thought could be divided into two groups.
The first one, could be called the conservative, such as YU Jiaxi, XIANG Zonglu, LIU Xianxin
etc. who took China’s traditional academic training. The conservative evaluated ZHENG Qiao’s

* Correspondence should be addressed to XIE Huan, Email: weizhaizhuren@163.com, ORCID: 0000-0003-3883-2382