- The
leishu (traditional Chinese: 類書;
simplified Chinese: 类书; lit. 'category books') is a
genre of
reference books historically compiled in
China and other...
-
expansively "encyclopedic", a
leishu is more
accurately described as a "compendium" or "anthology". The long
history of
Chinese leishu encyclopedias began with...
- Wade–Giles: Yung-lo Ta-tien; lit. 'Great
Canon of Yongle') is a
Chinese leishu encyclopedia commissioned by the
Yongle Emperor (r. 1402–1424) of the Ming...
- the new state. The four
books are: The
Taiping Yulan is a general-purpose
leishu encyclopedia. The
Taiping Guangji is a
collection of deities, fairies, ghost...
-
compiled by Wang Qi (Chinese: 王圻) and his son Wang Siyi (王思義), is a
Chinese leishu encyclopedia,
completed in 1607 and
published in 1609
during the late Ming...
- of genealogies,
while the Huanglan,
completed in the 220s, was an
early leishu encyclopedia. The
Yiwen Leiju,
completed in 624, was a
landmark literature...
- Leiju, or
translated as
Encyclopedia of
Literary Collections, is a
Chinese leishu encyclopedia completed by
Ouyang Xun in 624
under the Tang dynasty. Other...
-
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...
- Cefu
Yuangui (冊府元龜) is the
largest leishu (encyclopedia)
compiled during the
Chinese Song
dynasty (AD 960–1279). It was the last of the Four
Great Books...
- 000
pages and over 100
million Chinese characters,
making it the
largest leishu ever printed.
Topics covered included natural phenomena, geography, history...
