East Asia The collection of Chinese Books at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin has a long history. As early as 1683, the first catalogue of Chinese titles, containing 25 entries, was printed for the Elector [...] collection had already been pointed out by Julius Klaproth (1783-1835). Klaproth was the author of the Berlin China-Catalogue, published in print in 1822. Today, out of the nearly 70,000 Chinese and Manchurian [...] which had been relocated due to the war, only about one third is still in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. A new and renewed inventory has been built up since 1951 with the support of the German Research