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- All Chinese encyclopaedias are anthologies, upon which were grafted greatly varying forms of dictionary arrangement. They consist of (generally quite long) quotations arranged in one order or another and, although they may include an opinion on the subject, they rarely contain an original opinion.
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Chinese encyclopedia. A page from a Qing edition of the 983 CE Taiping Yulan concerning the seasons. Chinese encyclopedias comprise both Chinese language encyclopedias and foreign language ones about China or Chinese topics.
The Encyclopedia of China (simplified Chinese: 中国大百科全书; traditional Chinese: 中國大百科全書; pinyin: Zhōngguó Dà Bǎikēquánshū; lit. 'Great Encyclopedia of China') is the first large-entry modern encyclopedia in the Chinese language .
- 1978–present
- Encyclopedia of China Publishing House
List of Chinese encyclopedias. Note: Within this list, Chinese encyclopedia translates leishu, a traditional Chinese reference work that, unlike a modern encyclopedia with expressly written articles, consists of excerpts from primary texts arranged by categories.
DatePeriodTitleNotesc. 4th cent. BCEFirst Chinese dictionary/encyclopediac. 2nd cent. BCEFirst Chinese encyclopedia of origins, ...c. 222 CEFirst Chinese leishu encyclopedia, for ...624Encyclopedia of literature, Ouyang Xun, ...17 hours ago · It is the largest of all Asian countries and has one of the largest populations of any country in the world. Occupying nearly the entire East Asian landmass, it covers approximately one-fourteenth of the land area of Earth. Learn more about China, including its history and culture.
Jan 1, 2013 · The footprints of these articulations are best visible in Chinese encyclopaedic works of what was called “new” or “Western” knowledge. They were published between the 1880s and the 1930s and were produced against the background of and in a critical debate with a well-established, traditional encyclopaedia culture.
- Rudolf G. Wagner
- wagner@asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de
- 2014
The encyclopaedia includes. detailed information on all periods of Chinese history, key events, important persons (over 1,000), and technical terms or catchphrases until the present day; more than 2,000 articles on traditional Chinese literature, with bibliographical descriptions of individual texts and treatises on literary genres
Jan 1, 2013 · During the first decade of the twentieth century the Chinese encyclopaedias of new knowledge, which had developed since the 1880s, were joined by a new genre—the encyclopaedic dictionary. 1 It addressed the problem that many of the new ideas coming from abroad—particularly from Japan, the main transmitter of Western modern culture—were expressed...
