中国近代図書館の開拓者

一杜定友の人となりと，その活動一

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　Having completed a course of study in science at Shanghai Technical College, Din U Doo, a very luminous man since childhood, went on to Philippine University to study library science. His interest in a field so uncommon in those times might be attributed to the fact that he had been raised in Shanghai, where it is said that the first modern library system originated.
　After earning his degree, he returned to China where at the young age of 25 he set off on his career at the library of Canton in the post of chief librarian. Thereafter he distinguished himself by his leading role in the modernization of the library system of China.
　His contributions to library science were made during a series of stormy periods in Chinese history, from the republican revolution in 1911 to the Chinese Communist Revolution and through a war with Japan and the foundation of the People's Republic of China.
　In this paper I, as one of his admirers, would like to honor the memory of Din U Doo and his great achievements including an overwhelming number of books, papers and translations both in Chinese and English, largely through the recollections, tributes and letters concerning Din U Doo left by his followers.