Significant Special Collections Acquisition

Confucius Sinarum Philosophus is a magnificently printed folio, published from the manuscript in the Royal Library by orders of Louis XIV of France, (1638–1715).

New Electronic Resources

The library have purchased or subscribed number of new electronic resources as below since last November, covering different subjects and languages.

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Significant Special Collections Acquisition

Confucius Sinarum Philosophus (Confucius, the Chinese philosopher) 1687
Confucius Sinarum Philosophus is a magnificently printed folio, published from the manuscript in the Royal Library by orders of Louis XIV of France, (1638–1715). It includes translations of three Confucian canons: Great Learning（大學）, Doctrine of the Mean （中庸）, Analects（論語） and a life of Confucius with a full-page, icon-like portrait of the sage. Since Ricci rejected Mencian interpretations of Confucian classics, the Mencius （孟子） was not included. It was only with the publication of Confucius Sinarum Philosophus in 1687 that European scholars began noticing these great works in China. This valuable title is now in UL Special Collections (Call No. PL2489.6.L3 C6 1687). 

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New Electronic Resources

 DataCamp
DataCamp offers 330+ interactive courses combining short videos with hands-on exercises on data science, statistics and machine learning, e.g. R, Python, Sheets and SQL.


 Hong Kong Housing Database
The Hong Kong Housing Database contains two datasets of Hong Kong property transactions from 2010-2020 from EPRC Limited. 


 Hong Kong TV and Film Publication Database
The Hong Kong TV and Film Publication Database mainly collects TV and film publications published in Hong Kong during the British colonial period.  The collection will continue to grow. The website currently contains 1,800+ publications. 


 每日新聞社のデータベース, 每索 (Japanese name only)
The Mainichi Newspaper’s database contains Mainichi Shimbun (1872-current), Weekly Economist (1989-1999) and The Mainichi (in English) (2008-current).