Austrian Center Shanghai - Library

The Austrian Library was established in the premises of the Austrian Center Shanghai in 2006 and has gradually been expanded since. The inventory at present consists of more than 4250 books and other media (DVDs, CDs, videos) and is constantly expanded by book donations from the OeAD, the Federal Ministry of Science and Research (BMWF), the Cultural Forum of the Austrian embassy in Beijing, various Austrian libraries, private donors and new purchases. Students, university staff and researchers as well as all people in Shanghai who are interested in Austria have access to the books and media in the library and can also borrow them free of charge.

A major part of the collection of the library consists of primary works of Austrian authors. But topics such as literature theory, linguistics, Austrian and European history, art, politics are also incorporated. And each Austrian federal province is also represented in the libray with a separate category.

Well-known authors such as Stefan Zweig, Arthur Schnitzler, Elfriede Jelinek, Peter Handke, Joseph Roth, Erich Fried, Franz Kafka and numerous other important representatives of Austrian literature can be found here. One of the priorities is also to build a collection of works of Austrian authors who are not so well-known in China yet and budding authors.

To make Austrian culture and literature also known to a non-German-speaking audience works about Austria in Chinese language and translations of literature are purchased in another project. This collection of Austriaca has now reached a respectable size and is continuously expanded.

All works have been catalogued and indexed and can be found via the online catalogue search of the Bibliothek Verband Österreich (BVO).

A list of the total inventory of the Austrian Library in the Austrian Center Shanghai can be found for download here.