The Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China 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 i
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The eleventh edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is a 29-volume reference work. It was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its article
Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China
…the huge size of the Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China, it is estimated to have contained 3 to 4 times the amount of material in the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition. In 1908, the Guangxu Emperor of China presented a set of the encyclopaedia in 5,000 fascicles to the China Society of London, which has deposited it…
Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition
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