Cefu Yuangui
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Prime Tortoise of the Record Bureau
)Editor | Wang Qinruo, Yang Yi et al. |
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Country | Song dynasty |
Language | Classical Chinese |
Subject | mainly politics and history |
Publication date | 1013 |
Cefu Yuangui | |
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Hanyu Pinyin | Cèfǔ Yuánguī |
Wade–Giles | tsʻê4-fu3 yüan2-kuei1 |
Middle Chinese | |
Middle Chinese | /t͡ʃʰˠɛk̚ pɨoX ŋʉɐn kˠiuɪ/ |
Cefu Yuangui (冊府元龜) is the largest Song Dynasty (AD 960–1279). It was the last of the Four Great Books of Song, the previous three having been published in the 10th century.
History
The encyclopedia was commissioned by
Imperial Reader of the Taiping Era and was ranked second in the Siku Quanshu collections.[citation needed
]
Name
English titles for this encyclopedia are:
- Prime Tortoise of the Record Bureau,[2]
- The Magic Mirror in the Palace of Books,[3]
- Archival Palace as the Great Oracle,[4]
- General Preface on Outer Ministers,[5]
- Outstanding Models from the Storehouse of Literature,[6] and
- Models from the Archives.[7]
See also
- Chinese literature
- Chinese classic texts
- Culture of the Song Dynasty
References
Citations
- .
- ISBN 978-0812206289. Retrieved August 9, 2014. This Wikipedia article was created in 2006 and renamed in 2006 as Prime Tortoise of the Record Bureau.
- ISBN 978-9971-69-367-1. Retrieved August 9, 2014.
- ISBN 9780824829131. Retrieved August 9, 2014.
- ISBN 978-0-465-08412-8. Retrieved August 9, 2014.
- ISBN 9781442234840. Retrieved August 9, 2014.
- ISBN 9781107470897. Retrieved August 9, 2014.
Bibliography
- Hu, Wenjie, Cefu Yuangui ("Prime Tortoise of the Record Bureau"). Encyclopedia of China, 1st ed.
- Kurz, Johannes. "The Compilation and Publication of the Taiping Yulan and the Cefu Yuangui", in Florence Bretelle-Establet and Karine Chemla (eds.), Qu'est-ce qu'écrire une encyclopédie en Chine?. Extreme Orient-Extreme Occident Hors série (2007), 39–76.
External links
- Cefu yuangui "The Prime Tortoise of the Record Bureau" — Chinaknowledge.de.