Chinese Encyclopaedias of New Global Knowledge (1870-1930) Changing Ways of Thought /
This is a set of pioneering studies on Chinese encyclopaedias of modern knowledge (1870-1930). At a transitional time when modern knowledge was sought after yet few modern schools were available, these works were crucial sources of information for an entire generation. This volume investigates many...
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| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,
2014.
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| Series: | Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context,
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| Online Access: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Late Qing Encyclopaedias: Establishing a New Enterprise
- From News to New Knowledge : Newspapers as Sources for Early Modern Chinese Encyclopaedias
- The Complete Compilation of New Knowledge (1902): Its Classification Scheme and its Sources
- The Formation of Encyclopaedic Commonplaces during the Late Qing: Entries on the Newspaper
- Japanese Encyclopaedias. A Hidden Impact on Late Qing Chinese Encyclopaedias?
- From The Register of Ancients to Befriend to Brief Biographies of Notables Worldwide—A Study of Late Qing Biographical Dictionaries
- “Wenxue” in the Purview of late Qing Encyclopaedias and Textbooks—With a Focus on Huang Ren's Activities as Compiler
- Modern Chinese Encyclopaedic Dictionaries: Novel Concepts and New Terminology (1903–1911)
- “New Methods to Nourish the People”: Late Qing. Encyclopaedic Writings on Political Economy
- Helping Our People “to Jointly Hurry Along the Path to Civilization”: The Everyday Cyclopaedia, Riyong baike quanshu
- China’s New Encyclopaedia and Their Readers
- Studies on the Characteristics of Late Qing Encyclopaedia Entries
- List of encyclopaedic works studied in this volume.
