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=== East Asia === [[Image:Tian Yi Chamber book case.JPG|thumb|Bookcase in the [[Tianyi Chamber]], the oldest extant library in China]] [[File:Buddhist ark used by Chinese Jews.jpg|thumb|A 12th-century illustration of a revolving bookcase for Buddhist scriptures as depicted in Li Jie's architectural treatise the ''[[Yingzao Fashi]]'']] Revolving bookcases, known as ''zhuanlunzang'' ({{zh|t=轉輪藏|p=zhuàn lún zàng}}), have been documented in [[History of China#Ancient China|imperial China]], and its invention is credited to Fu Xi in 544.<ref name="Chinese Classical Furniture"/> Descriptions of revolving bookcases have been found in 8th- and 9th-century Chinese texts. Revolving bookcases were popularized in Buddhist monasteries during the [[Song dynasty]] under the reign of [[Emperor Taizu of Song|Emperor Taizu]], who ordered the mass printing of the Buddhist [[Tripiṭaka]] scriptures.<ref name="Chinese Classical Furniture"/> An illustration of a revolving bookcase is depicted in Li Jie's architectural treatise the ''[[Yingzao Fashi]]''.<ref name="Chinese Classical Furniture">{{cite book|title=Austere Luminosity of Chinese Classical Furniture.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-EKkblrm6sUC&pg=PA247|year=2001|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-21484-2|pages=246–247}}</ref>
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