- 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...
-
Chinese topics.
There is a type of
native Chinese reference work
called leishu (lit. "categorized writings") that is
sometimes translated as "encyclopedia"...
- 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...
- lit. "Illustrated Sino-****anese Encyclopedia") is an
illustrated ****anese
leishu encyclopedia published in 1712 in the Edo period. It
consists of 105 volumes...
- 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...
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compilations during the
beginning of Song dynasty: The
Taiping Yulan, a
leishu encyclopedia. The
Taiping Guangji, a
collection of folk
tales and theology...
- and from the time of the Song dynasty, were
included in most
military leishu. For
imperial officers,
either some or all of the
works were
required reading...
-
Dieya (疊雅, A Book of Double-Syllable Words) by Shi
Menglan (史夢蘭).
Chinese leishu encyclopedias, such as the (1408)
Yongle Encyclopedia, were also semantically...
