Photo Gallery

YUAN BINGLING AND KRISTOFER SCHIPPER, FOUNDERS OF THE LIBRARY OF THE WESTERN BELVEDERE (September 2004)

FESTIVE INAUGURATION OF THE LIBRARY OF THE WESTERN BELVEDERE ON OCTOBER 24, 2003

Festive Arch at the Entrance of Fuzhou University, announcing the  inauguration of the Library of the Western Belvedere, in conjunction with the establishment of a Faculty of Letters

Professor Wang Yifu, Vice Governor of Fujian Province, and Professor Wu Minsheng, President of Fuzhou University, unveiling the name tablet of the Library of the Western Belvedere at the inauguration ceremony on 24 October 2003

Professor Kristofer Schipper, Director of the Library of the Western Belvedere, giving a speech at the inauguration  ceremony 

Mr. Robert van Kan of the Dutch Embassy in China, giving a speech at the inauguration ceremony

Mrs. Ye Huiling, Vice Secretary of Fuzhou University, congratulating Professor Yuan Bingling,Vice Dean of the Faculty of Letters and Vice Director of the Library, at the reception following the inauguration ceremony

Vice Governor Professor Wang Yifu, Vice Secretary Mrs. Ye Huiling inspecting the new reading room of the library (in the middle: Professor Kristofer Schipper). 

Professor Tang Yijie of Peking University and Professor Kristofer Schipper at a panel session of the Seminar on Fujian History and its Overseas Expansion, organized in celebration of the inauguration of the Library of the Western Belvedere.

Professor Zheng Xuemeng of Xiamen University and Professor Yuan Bingling at a panel session of the Seminar on Fujian History and its Overseas Expansion, held in celebration of the inauguration of the Library of the Western Belvedere.