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Leishu
The ''leishu'' () is a genre of Reference work, reference books historically compiled in China and other East Asian countries. The term is generally translated as "encyclopedia", although the ''leishu'' are quite different from the modern notion of encyclopedia. The ''leishu'' are composed of sometimes lengthy citations from other works, and often contain copies of entire works, not just excerpts. The works are classified by a systematic set of categories, which are further divided into subcategories. ''Leishu'' may be considered anthologies, but are encyclopedic in the sense that they may comprise the entire realm of knowledge at the time of compilation. Approximately 600 ''leishu'' were compiled from the early third century until the eighteenth century, of which 200 have survived. The largest ''leishu'' ever compiled was the 1408 ''Yongle Encyclopedia'', containing 370 million Chinese characters, and the largest ever printed was the ''Complete Classics Collection of Ancient Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sancai Tuhui
''Sancai Tuhui'' (, ), compiled by Wang Qi () and his son Wang Siyi (), is a Chinese '' leishu'' encyclopedia, completed in 1607 and published in 1609 during the late Ming dynasty, featuring illustrations of subjects in the three worlds of heaven, earth, and humanity. The work contains a large number of posthumous and contemporary depictions of Chinese emperors. Title The title of this encyclopedia has been variously translated into English as "Illustrations of the Three Powers",http://ibs001.colo.firstnet.net.uk/britishlibrary/controller/subjectidsearch?id=8190&idx=1&start=4 "Collected Illustrations of the Three Realms", "Pictorial Compendium of the Three Powers", and others; in the original title, "Sancai" () refers to the three realms of "heaven, earth, and man", and "Tuhui" () means "collection of illustrations". Description This encyclopedia is organized into 106 chapters in 14 categories (astronomy, geography, biographies, history, biology, and such), with text and illust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taiping Yulan
The ''Taiping Yulan'', translated as the ''Imperial Reader'' or ''Readings of the Taiping Era'', is a massive Chinese '' leishu'' encyclopedia compiled by a team of scholars from 977 to 983. It was commissioned by the imperial court of the Song dynasty during the first era of the reign of Emperor Taizong. It is divided into 1,000 volumes and 55 sections, which consisted of about 4.7 million Chinese characters. It included citations from about 2,579 different kinds of documents spanning from books, poetry, odes, proverbs, steles to miscellaneous works. After its completion, the Emperor Taizong is said to have finished reading it within a year, going through 3 volumes per day. It is considered one of the '' Four Great Books of Song''. The team who compiled the Taiping Yulan includes: Tang Yue (湯悅), Zhang Wei (張洎), Xu Xuan (徐鉉), Song Bai (宋白), Xu Yongbin (徐用賓), Chen E (陳鄂), Wu Shu (吳淑), Shu Ya (舒雅), Lü Wenzhong (吕文仲), Ruan Sidao ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huanglan
The ''Huanglan'' or ''Imperial Mirror'' was one of the oldest Chinese encyclopedias or ''leishu'' "classified dictionary". Cao Pi, the first emperor of the Wei, ordered its compilation upon his accession to the throne in 220 and it was completed in 222. The purpose of the ''Huanglan'' was to provide the emperor and ministers of state with conveniently arranged summaries of all that was known at the time. Complete versions of the ''Huanglan'' existed until the Song dynasty (960-1279), when it became a mostly lost work, although some fragments did survive in other encyclopedias and anthologies. The ''Huanglan'' was the prototype of the classified encyclopedia and served as a model for later ones such as the (624) Tang '' Yiwen Leiju'' and the (1408) Ming '' Yongle dadian''. Title The title combines ''huáng'' 皇 "emperor; imperial" and ''lǎn'' 覽 "see; look at; watch; inspect; display" (compare the ''Taiping Yulan'' encyclopedia). This character 覽 redundantly combines ''ji ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yiwen Leiju
The ''Yiwen Leiju'', or translated as ''Encyclopedia of Literary Collections'', is a Chinese '' leishu'' encyclopedia completed by Ouyang Xun in 624 under the Tang dynasty The Tang dynasty (, ; zh, c=唐朝), or the Tang Empire, was an Dynasties of China, imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907, with an Wu Zhou, interregnum between 690 and 705. It was preceded by the Sui dynasty and followed .... Other contributors include Linghu Defen and Chen Shuda. ''Yiwen Leiju'' is divided into 47 sections and many subsections, covering a vast number of subjects and including many quotations from older works, which are well cited. Wilkinson, '' Chinese history: a manual'', p. 603. File:ZHSY000250 藝文類聚一百卷 (唐)歐陽詢 輯 宋刻本.pdf, page=301, Pages from a Southern Song dynasty Shaoxing period edition of the ''Yiwen Leiju'', from the Shanghai Library File:Harvard drs 54163990 藝文類聚 v.20.pdf, page=51, Pages from a Ming dynasty Jiajing pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wakan Sansai Zue
The is an illustrated Japanese ''leishu'' encyclopedia published in 1712 in the Edo period. It consists of 105 volumes in 81 books. Its compiler was Terashima or Terajima Ryōan, Terajima (), a doctor from Osaka. It describes and illustrates various activities of daily life, such as carpentry and fishing, as well as plants and animals, and constellations. It depicts the people of "different/strange lands" (''ikoku'') and "outer barbarian peoples". Sources used As seen from the title of the book (Wa (Japan), wa , which means Japan, and Han dynasty, kan , which means China), Terajima's idea was based on a Chinese encyclopedia, specifically the Ming dynasty, Ming work ''Sancai Tuhui'' ("Pictorial..." or "Illustrated Compendium of the Three Powers") by Wang Qi (encyclopedist), Wang Qi (1607), known in Japan as the . Reproductions of the ''Wakan Sansai Zue'' are still in print in Japan. References External links Scansof the pages are available in thof the National Diet Libra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yongle Dadian
The ''Yongle Encyclopedia'' () or ''Yongle Dadian'' () is a Chinese ''leishu'' encyclopedia commissioned by the Yongle Emperor (1402–1424) of the Ming dynasty in 1403 and completed by 1408. It comprised 22,937 manuscript rolls in 11,095 volumes. Fewer than 400 volumes survive today, comprising about 800 rolls, or 3.5% of the original work. Most of the text was lost during the latter half of the 19th century, in the midst of events including the Second Opium War and the Boxer Rebellion. Its sheer scope and size made it the world's largest general encyclopedia, until it was surpassed by Wikipedia in late 2007, nearly six centuries later. Background Although known for his military achievements, the Yongle Emperor (1402–1424) was an intellectual who enjoyed reading. His love for research led him to develop the idea of categorizing literary works into a reference encyclopedia to preserve rare books and simplify research.Jianying, Huo. "Emperor Yongle." ''China Today'', April ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Complete Classics Collection Of Ancient China
The ''Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China'' (or the ''Gujin Tushu Jicheng'') is a vast encyclopedic work written in China during the reigns of the Qing dynasty emperors Kangxi and Yongzheng. It was begun in 1700 and completed in 1725. The work was headed and compiled mainly by scholar Chen Menglei (). Later on the Chinese painter Jiang Tingxi helped work on it as well. The encyclopaedia contained 10,000 volumes. Sixty-four imprints were made of the first edition, known as the Wu-ying Hall edition. The encyclopaedia consisted of 6 series, 32 divisions, and 6,117 sections. It contained 800,000 pages and over 100 million Chinese characters, making it the largest leishu ever printed. Topics covered included natural phenomena, geography, history, literature and government. The work was printed in 1726 using copper movable type printing. It spanned around 10 thousand rolls (). To illustrate the huge size of the ''Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China'', it is esti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yongle Encyclopedia
The ''Yongle Encyclopedia'' () or ''Yongle Dadian'' () is a Chinese ''leishu'' encyclopedia commissioned by the Yongle Emperor (1402–1424) of the Ming dynasty in 1403 and completed by 1408. It comprised 22,937 manuscript rolls in 11,095 volumes. Fewer than 400 volumes survive today, comprising about 800 rolls, or 3.5% of the original work. Most of the text was lost during the latter half of the 19th century, in the midst of events including the Second Opium War and the Boxer Rebellion. Its sheer scope and size made it the world's largest general encyclopedia, until it was surpassed by Wikipedia in late 2007, nearly six centuries later. Background Although known for his military achievements, the Yongle Emperor (1402–1424) was an intellectual who enjoyed reading. His love for research led him to develop the idea of categorizing literary works into a reference encyclopedia to preserve rare books and simplify research.Jianying, Huo. "Emperor Yongle." ''China Today'', April ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Pierre Diény
Jean-Pierre Diény (14 August 1927 - 3 May 2014) was a French sinologist. He was born in Colmar, and first trained as a classicist, but, having received a grant from the , switched to the study of Chinese literature at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales in 1955. Having spent time working in Japan, Paris, Beijing and Hong Kong between 1959 and 1967, Diény returned to Paris for good in 1967 as a research fellow, first at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), and subsequently, in 1969, at the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE). He was promoted to full researcher () at the EPHE in 1970, where he taught until 1997. The book collections of Diény and his wife Colette - herself a sinologist with particular focus on Chinese science - were left to the National Academic Library in Strasbourg Strasbourg ( , ; ; ) is the Prefectures in France, prefecture and largest city of the Grand Est Regions of France, region of Geography of Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yu Shinan
Yu Shinan (558 – 11 July 638), courtesy name Boshi, posthumously known as Duke Wenyi of Yongxing, was a Chinese calligrapher and politician who lived in the early Tang dynasty and rose to prominence during the reign of Emperor Taizong. His uncle, Yu Ji (虞寄), also served in the Tang imperial court as an Imperial Secretary. He is regarded as one of the four greatest calligraphers in the early Tang dynasty along with Ouyang Xun, Chu Suiliang and Xue Ji, and one of the more famous ones in the history of Chinese calligraphy. Emperor Taizong once mentioned that Yu Shinan was "a man of five absolute merits", referring to his virtuous behavior, loyalty, erudition, writings and calligraphy.(太宗以是益亲礼之。尝称世南有五绝：一曰德行，二曰忠直，三曰博学，四曰文辞，五曰书翰。) ''Jiu Tang Shu'', vol.72 References * Qin, Gong"Yu Shinan" ''Encyclopedia of China The ''Encyclopedia of China'' () is the first large-entry modern encycloped ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beitang Shuchao
Beitang may refer to the following locations in China: *Beitang District (北塘区), Wuxi, Jiangsu *Beitang Subdistrict Beitang (, meaning "North Pond"), alternately known as Pei-t'ang and Pehtang (amongst other variants), is a subdistrict of the Binhai New Area, Tianjin, People's Republic of China, near the mouth of the Hai River The Hai River (海河, lit. ... (北塘街道), Binhai, Tianjin * Beitang Church, or Xishiku Cathedral, in Xicheng District, Beijing {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
