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The leishu is a genre of 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 Yongle Dadian, the largest leishu ever compiled
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
Leishu
…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 China, containing 100 million characters and 852,408 pages. The genre first appeared in the early third century. The earliest known was the Huanglan ("Emperor's…
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