Calligraphy art without boundaries: Reviving historical East Asian texts in the library

Run Shaw Library of City University Hong Kong (CityU) is the first university library in to acquire Collection Korean Anthologies (CKA) (Hanja: 《韓國歷代文集叢書》; Hangul: 한국역대문집총서), a massive collection more than 3,000 classic anthologies written by writers from 7th century early 20th Chinese characters. In 2012, CityU, collaboration with Jeju National (Korea) and California, Berkeley (USA), launched major digital index database that transcribed essay-level titles CKA into Chinese, Hangul, Hangul Romanization. CityU has also shelved China’s largest historical encyclopedic texts Siku Quanshu (SKQS) (Chinese: 《四庫全書》) together database.