• 2012-01-03

Chinese classics have a long history and are imbued with the timeless wisdom of sages and reflect their refined writing skills. They are beneficial to readers in order to broaden their horizon and improve their reading literacy. For this reason, the National Central Library together with 108 cultural and educational institutions organized a series of activities from September to December 2011 on the theme of “The 100th Year of the Republic, a Classical Time for Reading” to promote the reading of Chinese classics and an appreciation of the aesthetic life style of the ancients. The activity successfully attracted more than sixty thousand persons around the country to participate in more than two hundred multi-field activities. At the same time, educational-oriented Foundations, large number of publishers and Government research publications department also donated more than three thousand books to fifty public libraries and twenty high school libraries. A good number of news media reported the variety of activities. This event is the first ever reading promotion activity in the history of Taiwan that gathered the most number of organizations to cooperate, that took place during the longest times span and that had the most number of participants. It is also the most successful of this year’s reading promotion activities. We are very grateful and full of esteem fort the full support of each participating organization. The fruits of this initiative are placed on the official website of the activity http://100read.ncl.edu.tw/p5.html. Everyone is most welcome to go to the website. We also appreciate comments and suggestions.