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The Yongle Encyclopedia or Yongle Dadian is a Chinese leishu encyclopedia commissioned by the Yongle Emperor of the Ming dynasty in 1403 and completed by 1408. It comprised 22,937 manuscript rolls in
The Yongle Encyclopedia (volume 2539), in 2014, on display at the National Library of China
The Yongle Encyclopedia volume 2262
A page from the manuscript of 'Yongle Encyclopedia'. Chester Beatty Library
The Yongle Encyclopedia volume 808 on display at the Bodleian Library in Oxford University
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…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. Although known for his military achievements, the Yongle Emperor (r. 1402–1424) was an intellectual who enjoyed…
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American journalist John Seigenthaler (1927–2014), subject of the Seigenthaler biography incident
Sue Gardner, first executive director, in 2013 at Wikimania
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