Yongle Encyclopedia
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The Yongle Encyclopedia is a vast 15th-century Chinese imperial compendium that sought to collect and preserve the entirety of known knowledge, literature, and scholarship of its time.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yongle Encyclopedia canonical | 1 |
| 永樂大典 | 1 |
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese encyclopedia
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imperial encyclopedia ⓘ reference work ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Yongle Dadian ⓘ |
| arrangementPrinciple | radical-and-rhyme order ⓘ |
| chiefCompiler | Yao Guangxiao ⓘ |
| commissionedBy | Yongle Emperor ⓘ |
| compiledInPeriod | Ming dynasty ⓘ |
| compiler |
Liu Jichi
ⓘ
Xie Jin ⓘ |
| contains |
excerpts from classical texts
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full texts of earlier works ⓘ illustrations ⓘ |
| copiedInReign | Jiajing Emperor ⓘ |
| copyProduced | Jiajing-era manuscript copy ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | China ⓘ |
| dateOfCompilationEnd | 1408 ⓘ |
| dateOfCompilationStart | 1403 ⓘ |
| editorInChief | Yao Guangxiao ⓘ |
| estimatedTotalCharacters | over 370 million ⓘ |
| extantVolumesApproximate |
about 400 volumes
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less than 10 percent of original ⓘ |
| format | manuscript ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
major source for otherwise lost Chinese texts
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one of the largest encyclopedias ever compiled by hand ⓘ |
| influenced | later Chinese encyclopedic compilations ⓘ |
| keptAt |
Forbidden City
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Hanlin Academy ⓘ |
| lostDueTo |
fires
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looting ⓘ wars ⓘ |
| notableEvent | volumes destroyed in the 1900 Boxer Rebellion ⓘ |
| numberOfBoundVolumes | 11,095 ⓘ |
| numberOfChapters | 22,877 ⓘ |
| numberOfContributors | over 2,000 scholars ⓘ |
| numberOfVolumesOriginal | 22,877 juan ⓘ |
| originalEditionStatus | lost ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Classical Chinese ⓘ |
| patron | Yongle Emperor ⓘ |
| placeOfCompilation | Nanjing ⓘ |
| purpose | to collect and preserve all known knowledge and literature of its time ⓘ |
| script | regular script ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
Chinese history
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Chinese literature ⓘ arts ⓘ medicine ⓘ philosophy ⓘ religion ⓘ science ⓘ technology ⓘ |
| survivalStatus | partially extant ⓘ |
| titleInChinese |
Yongle Encyclopedia
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
永樂大典
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| writingMaterial | paper ⓘ |
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this entity surface form:
永樂大典