In a historic bank building, 120 kilometres north-west of Melbourne, 16 rooms filled with shelves now hold the largest collection of Chinese language books in the Southern Hemisphere.
Among the Xin Jin Shan library's 140,000 Chinese books are some of the rarest in the world — in fact, some are the only known copies in existence.
A Chinese bible from 1857 used by Chinese goldminers, donated by the National Trust of South Australia, is the only copy in Australia.
