Abstract:

Yang Weili has several foreign languages at his fingertips. He studied medicine in Japan in his
early years, and later in 1946 he entered Beijing University as a Taiwanese student on public scholarship.
During this period he renounced the pen for the sword, influenced by progressive ideas. Followed his father’s
instructions he aspired to be a great statesman and diplomat in childhood. Nevertheless, he established
Asia’s largest library with a collection of nearly one million in socialist history documents and became the
dean of the library of the CPC Central Compilation and Translation Bureau. He made great progress in the
bibilography of Marxism-Leninism classical works and the history of Western library.

Key words: Yang Weili, Taiwanese student on public scholarship, A library scientist, The bibilography of Marxism-Leninism classical works, The history of Western library