Newly compiled Great Encyclopedia of China

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Publisher: Jilin Photo Publishing House
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Features: Compared to other encyclopedias, this book has three distinctive characteristics:
1. Concise and Easy to Understand. The newly compiled Great Encyclopedia of China caters to the needs of most readers, not only introducing general natural and scientific knowledge but also emphasizing social sciences and humanities, highlighting China's politics, economy, culture, and arts.
2. Up-to-Date and Practical. The collected knowledge is largely what readers frequently encounter, with strong practical and reading value. Special attention is given to incorporating newly discovered data and achievements to ensure the encyclopedia remains fresh and relevant.
3. Well-Founded and Illustrations Abundant. The Great Encyclopedia of China records knowledge with universal significance and established facts, offering more detailed explanations on certain topics compared to general reference books. To aid readers in visualizing the textual content, over 700 color and black-and-white illustrative, documentary, and knowledge-based images are appropriately included, aiming to achieve the best reading experience.
An encyclopedia is a comprehensive and systematic tool for introducing knowledge across various fields of science and culture, embodying the crystallization of human science and intellectual culture. A well-crafted encyclopedia reflects the spirit of the times and drives historical progress. The Encyclopédie by French philosophers and thinkers such as Denis Diderot, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Voltaire, and Paul-Henri Thiry Holbach is renowned, serving as a pioneer of Enlightenment thought and laying a solid foundation for the French Revolution. Subsequent works like the Encyclop?dia Britannica and the Encyclopedia Americana stand as monumental compendiums of human science and culture.
The Great Encyclopedia of China is China's first large-scale comprehensive encyclopedia and one of the world's most extensive encyclopedias. From 1978 to 1993, under the leadership of Comrade Hu Qiaoju, over 20,000 individuals worked for 15 years to compile the 74-volume Great Encyclopedia of China, filling the void in this field for China. It is truly a treasure trove of knowledge and an open university without walls.