Great Dictionary (Philosophy Volume)

Author: Xia Zhengnong et al
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Publishing Date: 2003-08-01
Features: "The Great Dictionary" is a large-scale comprehensive dictionary. Its publication fills a gap in Chinese lexicography. To date, "The Ci Hai" is the only large-scale comprehensive dictionary in China, encompassing both single characters and general terms, as well as specialized terms across various fields, serving the functions of both a general and a specialized dictionary. It boasts a rich vocabulary, convenient retrieval, strong practicality, and has been widely favored by readers. With the accelerated pace of human knowledge accumulation and innovation, and the improvement of China's cultural literacy, many readers with higher educational backgrounds have raised higher demands for the of "The Ci Hai." Therefore, while continuing to compile new editions of "The Ci Hai" to meet the needs of the times, it is necessary to compile a larger-scale, more comprehensive, and richer dictionary than "The Ci Hai." The compilation of "The Great Dictionary" is based on "The Ci Hai," inheriting its strengths and expanding upon them, with a focus on adding new fields and terms/meanings in various disciplines that were not covered in "The Ci Hai," while appropriately addressing gaps and omissions. The entire dictionary contains approximately 250,000 entries, totaling about 50 million words, which is more than twice the size of "The Ci Hai." It is compiled and published in volumes according to academic categories. Volume 1 includes over 6,272 entries related to the philosophy discipline. The selection scope includes nouns and terms, schools of thought and schools, figures, organizations and events, works and publications, etc. Volume 2 is organized into major categories such as the biographies and works of Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin, the biographies and works of the main leaders of the Communist Party of China, Marxist philosophy, the history of Chinese philosophy, the history of Confucian studies, the history of foreign philosophy, logic, aesthetics, ethics, and the philosophy of science and technology. Each major category is further subdivided into several smaller categories. The classification is solely for the convenience of retrieval and does not represent any specific academic system. Volume 3 includes interdisciplinary entries related to relevant disciplines, where each entry is selected by one discipline based on its primary aspect, and other disciplines only include terms related to it.