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- 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...
- 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...
- Chinese topics. There is a type of native Chinese reference work called leishu (lit. "categorized writings") that is sometimes translated as "encyclopedia"...
- dàdiǎn; Wade–Giles: Yung-lo Ta-tien; lit. 'Great Canon of Yongle') Chinese leishu encyclopedia commissioned by the Yongle Emperor (r. 1402–1424) of the Ming...
- 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...
- 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...
- lit. "Illustrated Sino-****anese Encyclopedia") is an illustrated ****anese leishu encyclopedia published in 1712 in the Edo period. It consists of 105 volumes...
- Note: Within this list, Chinese encyclopedia translates leishu, a traditional Chinese reference work that, unlike a modern encyclopedia with expressly...
- compilations during the beginning of Song dynasty: The Taiping Yulan, a leishu encyclopedia. The Taiping Guangji, a collection of folk tales and theology...
- 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...