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China’s Great Library of Alexandria
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MikeCapone
on Jan 30, 2009
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It's misleading to end by saying we can only speculate about what has been lost. In both cases scholars have some definite ideas about what has been lost.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_books_and_burying_of...
eugenejen
on Jan 31, 2009
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An unofficial estimation is that all books that were cited in the Siku_Quanshu in 1773, only 5% were preserved.
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