Yunglo tatien vast documents of the yunglo era national palace museum. Many subjects were covered, including agriculture, art, astronomy. Yongle encyclopedia project gutenberg selfpublishing. Bibliographical notes on the early ming copy of the. The yongle encyclopedia is a largescale encyclopediathe largest in premodern chinaarranged by subject categories traditionally used in. Pacific rimthe huntington library houses an array of materials for the study of the pacific rim, a region of immense breadth, with a diverse network of people, cultures, and societies. Media in category yongle encyclopedia the following 200 files are in this category, out of 792 total. You also get unlimited file sizes as well as the ability to upload and convert several files to pdf at the same time.
Under the orders of zhu zhanji, 3,000 scholars had worked years before compiling all chinese knowledge from the previous two thousand years, in 22,937 passages extracted from more than 7,000. Previous chinese dynasties had created encyclopedias, but during yongles reign one of the biggest ever was produced. It seems that this not only reports that marco polo left china sometime in late ad 1290 or the very beginning of ad 1291, but it also gives the voyages final destination, mabar pandya dynasty in. Yongle emperors attempt to regulate the textual knowledge available in the early fifteenth century, an attempt that had manifested itself most evidently in the enormous yongle dadian. These metadata help manage the information about rights and intellectual property and the source document is used to obtain the digitized version of the document, preservation activities completed on the files, etc. Beach reading the yongle encyclopedia stolen books. All fields all headings corporate names geographic names personal names works expressions preferred headings exact heading bibliographic titles.
Qingdai shiliao historical data of the qing dynasty. The length is sometimes given as 11,095 volumes, and sometimes as. The content of the yongle dadian covers all aspects of traditional chinese. For example, baike quanshu hundred subjects complete book comprehensive encyclopedia and yongle dadian yongle emperors great canon yongle encyclopedia. Great canon literally, vast documents of the yongle era, wadegiles romanization yunglo tatien, chinese compilation that was the worlds largest known encyclopaedia. When speaking of mathematics in east asia, it is necessary to take into account china, japan, korea, and vietnam as a whole. The yongle dadian is the longest book ever written by the way. For this reason, when examining and taking stock of the volumes of yongle dadian in european libraries, i made a careful note of the existence or otherwise of these forms, which can be summarised as follows. The library acquired 29 volumes of the very famous yongle dadian. Print pdfs based on an original design by maureen mackenzietaylor.
Great canon of yongle is a partially lost chinese leishu encyclopedia commissioned by the yongle emperor of the ming dynasty in. With 11,095 volumes, its hard to dispute the claim. Historians of premodern chinese urbanism have long assumed that the origins of the chinese imperial city plan stem from a passage in the kaogong ji record of trades section of the classical text rituals of zhou which describes the city of the king of zhou. The contemporary china collection in the asian division the library of congress judy s. The tcm history traditional chinese medicine china. Pdf the history of the yongle dadian s1 creation, near total destruction, its wanton dispersal, its promising reprinting and possible digitization.
Therefore, some components of the lost jingshi dadian could be found in the remnants of the yongle dadian. I just got started backing things up onto a cd and already i have 31 fucking miserable ass minutes left. Too large to be printed, it was preserved in manuscript sets in imperial libraries. A few months after june 1989, we began to view the tiananmen. A copy of yongle dadian was returned by the government of east germany during the 1950s. Compiled during the ming dynasty 681644 by thousands of chinese scholars under the direction of the yongle emperor. In 1408, the yongle dadian encyclopedia held an estimated 11,000 handwritten volumes of human knowledgethe single largest compendium of information on earth at the time. Great canon of yongle was a chinese leishu encyclopedia commissioned by the yongle emperor of the ming dynasty in 1403 and completed by 1408.
The yongle dadian was commissioned by the yongle emperor r. Manuscript of chapters 803 to 806 of the great encyclopaedia of the yongle reign yongle dadian, copied out in ink on paper, bound with silk covers. Most of the extant parts of yongle dadian were published by zhonghua shuju in 1960, when 730 juan were reproduced in reduced format in 202 ce, contained in 20 han. The entire work is comprised of 22,877 juan sections of text proper and a prolegomenon and index in 60 juan, all bound in 11,095 volumes, amounting to about 370 million characters in all. Now, its lucky to get a passing trickle of traffic on its brief, sad wikipedia page. Encyclopaedia of the yongle reign, compiled by yao guangxiao.
Jewels brought home but it takes patience chinadaily. Document preservation an overview sciencedirect topics. The yongle encyclopedia is a largescale encyclopediathe largest in pre modern chinaarranged by subject categories traditionally used in. The yongle encyclopedia or yongle dadian simplified chinese. During the boxer rebellion in 1900 a fire set off in the uprising in the hanlin library in beijing destroyed copies of one of its most prized treasures. Manuscript of chapters 10,110 to 10,112 of the great encyclopaedia of the yongle reign yongle dadian, copied out in ink on paper, bound with silk covers.
At a very early time in their histories, japan, korea, and vietnam all adopted the. This element contains the administrative metadata of the digital object or its parts. The original manuscript of the great encyclopaedia of the yongle reign was created at the order of chinas yongle emperor r. Great canon literally, vast documents of the yongle era chinese compilation that was the worlds largest known. A copy of yongle dadian on display photo by wang kaihaochina daily an exhibition of some copies of yongle dadian, among the worlds largest old encyclopedias, is going on at the national. A number of the accounts had thus been recovered, but the 2 several chinese scholars have produced major research works on the compilation of the yuan. The yongle encyclopedia is a largescale encyclopediathe largest in premodern chinaarranged by subject categories traditionally used in china. Encyclopedic works were published in china for well over one and a half thousand years before chinas first modern encyclopedias were published after chinas economic. Data package is embargoed until january 10 2083, 06.
Great canon of yongle is a partially lost chinese leishu encyclopedia commissioned by the yongle emperor of the ming dynasty in 1403 and completed by 1408. Virtual international authority file search select field. The yongle encyclopedia or yongle dadian is a partially lost chinese leishu encyclopedia. Great canon of the yongle reign the british library. The original manuscript of the great encyclopaedia of the yongle reign was created at the order of chinas yongle emperor. This publication was continued in 1984 when a further 67 juan were added in 20 ce, contained in 2 han.
Ricardo eitobrun, in xmlbased content management, 2018. Its not like im making copies of yongle dadian or anything. World heritage encyclopedia, the aggregation of the largest online encyclopedias available, and the. A scientific response to the chester beatty library collection a scientific response to the chester beatty library collection it is a powerful and natural instinct in humans to wonder about the nature and workings of our bodies, our surroundings and our universe. East asian mathematics, the discipline of mathematics as it developed in china and japan. Another major contribution to learning was the yongle dadian yunglo tatien or great literary repository of the yongle reign. Users can purchase an ebook on diskette or cd, but the most popular method of getting an ebook is to purchase a downloadable file of the ebook or other reading material from a web site such as barnes and noble to be read from the users computer or reading device. The other twelve volumes were acquired in later time. With a free trial of our online pdf converter, you can convert files to and from pdf for free, or sign up for one of our memberships for limitless access to our file converters full suite of tools.
A scientific response to the chester beatty library collection. Twelve transcript volumes, together with rare historical documents. Most of the encyclopedia was destroyed in the wars of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Chu ti was the third emperor of the ming dynasty in china, reigning from 1402 to 1424 zhu di was the fourth son of the hongwu emperor, the founder of the ming dynasty. Its sheer scope and size made it the worlds largest paperbased. The contemporary china collection of the library of congress. Geographical coverage is strongest for california, china, hawaii, japan, and the philippines, with a current collecting emphasis on chineseamerican and japaneseamerican history in southern. Compiled by 147 scholars and then revised by another 3000, the work had well over 22,000 chapters. The massive yongle dadian covered all important chinese literary works that had survived up to that point.
The rebellion of zhang yuxian 942943 article pdf available in bulletin of the school of oriental and african studies 773. Photo by wang kaihaochina daily during the boxer rebellion in 1900 a fire set off in the uprising in the. Pdf the history of the yongle dadians1 creation, near total destruction, its wanton dispersal. Yongle period 14031424 jingdezhen, jiangxi province bottle height 33. Yongle reign, hence the yongle dadian 7tcca completed in 1408. It contained 22,277 volumes, whose index alone ran to 60 volumes.