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USA between 1949 and 1979, and most of this generation were from Chinese Taiwan Region or
Hong Kong Region. The second generation was good at English while the study of Sinology was
weaker than the first generation. And the third generation is the people who went to the United
States after the Reform and Opening-up, this generation is not only fluent in English, but also has a
high level of information technology, but the foundation of Sinology is also as weak as that of the
second generation.
Director CHENG loved books and reading while he was a child, and he wished he could become
a librarian and the career as a librarian made him feel very proud. When he studied and worked in
the University of Chicago, he was greatly influenced by his tutor Professor Tsuen-hsuin TSIEN.
Since becoming the director of Harvard-Yenching Library, Mr. CHENG has been devoting himself
to: 1) Organizing the literatures collected by the former directors Alfred Kaiming CHIU and
Eugene W. WU; 2) Making the collections of Harvard-Yenching Library open to all; 3) Promoting
the library cooperation between China and America.

No.5

Constructing the institutional system of public library governance with
Chinese characteristics

XIAO Ximing & SHI Qinggong〇
〇a*
The governance of public library is an important part of national governance system. The key
to governance lies in the construction of a well-established governance system, which is the
basis and guarantee for the modernization of public library governance capacity. Guided by the
major strategy of advancing the modernization of China’s system and capacity for governance
proposed by the Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the CPC and
based on the reality of China’s national conditions, this paper discusses some theoretical and
practical problems in the construction of the governance system of public library with Chinese
characteristics.
This paper summarizes the achievements and problems in the construction of public library
governance system in China while reviewing the whole process. Since the founding of The
People’s Republic of China, the construction of governance system of public library has gone
through three stages: 1949-1978, 1979 to the 18th CPC National Congress (2012), and the 18th
CPC National Congress up to now. The government has constantly improved the governance
system of public libraries concerning the themes of public library management, professional

* Correspondence should be addressed to SHI Qinggong, Email: freesqg@163.com, ORCID: 0000-0002-8113-016X.