Philosopher and educator Haoliang Sun donates thousands of books, and a historic building to house them in, turning a regional town into one of the most significant Chinese cultural sites in Australia.
abc.net.au/news/chinese-library-ballarat-xin-jin-shan-opening/101828714In a historic bank building, 120 kilometres north-west of Melbourne, 16 rooms filled with bookshelves now house 140,000 Chinese language books.
He donated 10,000 of his own books to the library after he closed his Chinese book shop in Melbourne's Mount Waverley 20 years ago, and the rest have been donated by people in the Chinese community and Chinese book publishers. The library's name, Xin Jin Shan, means New Gold Mountain, which was the nickname given to Ballarat by the Chinese during the 1850s gold rush.
There have already been many requests by Chinese groups, researchers and professors to search through the library's shelves.
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