Jiang Fucong, born in a Catholic family in Haining, Zhejiang, China towards the end of the Qing dynasty. He was a maternal cousin of the wuxia novelist Louis Cha. He graduated from Peking University in 1923 with a degree in philosophy, and obtained a government scholarship to study library science at Berlin University and graduated in 1930. In 1951, Jiang became a professor in the National Taiwan University. About three years later, he was appointed as the director of the National Central Library again after the library was rebuilt in Taipei. In 1965, he became the director of the National Palace Museum in Taipei. A year later, he was reassigned to be the director of the National Central Library. In 1974, he was elected to Academia Sinica, the national academy of Taiwan. In 1983, he resigned from the National Palace Museum and was appointed national policy adviser to President Chiang Ching-kuo. He died on 21 September 1990 in Taipei. This book is published and financed under the generous auspices of Ms. Ingher Fang's Sinology Memory Fund. Ingher, graduated from National Taiwan University and obtained a Master Degree of Library Science at Missouri University, has been supporting and in participation of EHanism's Sinology Memory Projects such as in collaboration with the Library of Congress in Digitization of Chinese Rare Books. Ingher's father, Mr. Shi-Chang Fang, was a famous scholar and an capable collector/director at the National Tainan Library in Taiwan. The Fang Family has a good reputation in Chinese academic circles.