THE INFLUENCE FROM FOREIGN-COUNTRIES TO T HE DEVELOPMENT OF THE LIBRARY-SCIENCE OF CHINA - A STATISTICAL-ANALYSIS ON TRANSLATION LITERATUREOF LIBRARY-SCIENCE
Jh. Chen, THE INFLUENCE FROM FOREIGN-COUNTRIES TO T HE DEVELOPMENT OF THE LIBRARY-SCIENCE OF CHINA - A STATISTICAL-ANALYSIS ON TRANSLATION LITERATUREOF LIBRARY-SCIENCE, Library and Information Science, (33), 1995, pp. 19-38
The purpose of this paper is to present the influence from foreign cou
ntries to the development of the library science of China with a stati
stical method. The characteristics of the development of the library s
cience of China were discussed, and the translation literature on libr
ary science of foreign countries was analyzed chronologically by the c
ontents and the nations of the original literature. Four indexes, whic
h cover the literature on the library science of China from 1901 to 19
92 were used in the study. The conclusion are as flollows: 1) The infl
uence of the foreign library science was affected distinctly by the po
litical and social situation of China. 2) The literature of America, S
oviet, Japan, England, German are most frequently translated into Chin
ese, 3) The influence from the foreign countries varied on characteris
tics in different period. 4) The influence from different countries va
ried in different field. 5) The influence on different field varied in
different period.