Siku Tiyao Dingwu (Increased Edition)

Author: Li Yumin
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: The Compendium of the Siku Quanshu is a renowned work that, in just over three million words, compiles the outlines of over ten thousand ancient texts for readers. To study ancient social sciences and natural sciences, we cannot do without ancient books. In China, ancient books are as vast as the sea, and to find the necessary materials in the vast ocean of books in a short time, we need a guide. The Compendium of the Siku Quanshu is a particularly ideal guide. From it, we can learn which books contain the materials we need, which materials are more reliable, which are less reliable, who the authors are, and how the authors relate to the materials. The Compendium of the Siku Quanshu helps us avoid detours and save time. Over a thousand years, various compendiums have been published successively, each with its own strengths, but overall, no single book can replace The Compendium of the Siku Quanshu, nor has any other compendium had the same grand scope, clear thought, and lasting influence. No excellent work can be perfect. In the two hundred years since The Compendium of the Siku Quanshu was published, many ancient books have been discovered from the (folk), from underground, and from abroad. Naturally, judgments made based on incomplete copies in the past are now outdated.