Late Qing Encyclopaedias: Establishing a New Enterprise / Li Hsiao-t'i 李孝悌 -- From News 新聞 to New Knowledge 新學: Newspapers as Sources for Early Modern Chinese Encyclopaedias / Natascha Gentz -- The Complete Compilation of New Knowledge 新學備纂 (1902): Its Classification Scheme and its Sources / Iwo Amelung -- The Formation of Encyclopaedic Commonplaces during the Late Qing: Entries on the Newspaper / Rudolf G. Wagner -- Japanese Encyclopaedias. A Hidden Impact on Late Qing Chinese Encyclopaedias? / Douglas R. Reynolds -- From The Register of Ancients to Befriend to Brief Biographies of Notables Worldwide A Study of Late Qing Biographical Dictionaries / Xia Xiaohong 夏曉虹 -- Wenxue in the Purview of late Qing Encyclopaedias and Textbooks With a Focus on Huang Ren's Activities as Compiler / Chen Pingyuan 陳平原 -- Modern Chinese Encyclopaedic Dictionaries: Novel Concepts and New Terminology (1903 1911) / Milena Doleželová-Velingerová -- New Methods to Nourish the People : Late Qing. Encyclopaedic Writings on Political Economy / Andrea Janku -- Helping Our People to Jointly Hurry Along the Path to Civilization : The Everyday Cyclopaedia, Riyong baike quanshu 日用百科全書 / Catherine Vance Yeh -- China's New Encyclopaedia and Their Readers / Barbara Mittler -- Studies on the Characteristics of Late Qing Encyclopaedia Entries / Zhong Shaohua 鍾少華 -- List of encyclopaedic works studied in this volume.

"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 of these encyclopaedias, which were never reprinted and are hardly known even to specialists, for the first time. The contributors to this collection all specialize in the period in question and have worked together for a number of years. The resulting studies show that these encyclopaedias open a unique window onto the migration and ordering systems of knowledge across cultural and linguistic borders."--OCLC record.

Local accesss dig.pdf. [Chinese Encyclopaedias New Knowledge.pdf]

The mushrooming of reference (leishu) and daily-use encyclopedias (riyong leishu) in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries drew on earlier book collections, which Chinese literati previously had valued as texts while preparing for civil examinations or for collecting source materials needed by officials to carry out their activities. Since 1000, these traditional collections transmitted a specific epistemological approach for investigating things, events, and phenomena. Beginning in the mid-thirteenth century under Mongol rule, new types of leishu developed, some of which, owing to the steady expansion of printing as well as literacy and the corresponding proliferation of a bookish print culture, reached a much wider readership than ever before. On the one hand, these new types of leishu covered a wider range of knowledge. On the other hand, they represented a form of classicism that approached things/events/phenomena textually, i.e., in a lexicographic and etymological way. Using the encyclopedic form, compilers increasingly applied the ideals for " investigating things and extending knowledge " (gewu zhizhi) beyond the classical corpus. This textual approach to natural studies and practical knowledge culminated in the creation of textual repositories simulating " textual museums. "

doi:10.3406/oroc.2007.1073
Local access dig.pdf. [Elman-Ming Compendia Leishu.pdf]