Complete Works of the Song Dynasty (25)

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Publish Date: 1994-08-01
Features: The compilation plan for Complete Works of the Song Dynasty began in the summer of 1985, with the goal of "ensuring no repetition, omission, or error in the collected texts, and maintaining strict formatting standards." From 1988 to 1994, 50 volumes were published successively, but the project was halted due to financial reasons. In March 1996, Bashu Book Company transferred the copyright of Complete Works of the Song Dynasty to Chengcheng Group for 3.6 million yuan. In 2003, Shanghai Ci Shu Press took over the publication of Complete Works of the Song Dynasty.
Complete Works of the Song Dynasty extensively collects the works of Song Dynasty literati, including historical records, local gazettes, encyclopedias, notes, inscriptions, calligraphy, Buddhist and Taoist scriptures, etc., all of which should be included, even in the form of "complete collections" or "separate collections." The entire work contains over 170,000 texts by nearly 10,000 authors, most of which were reconstructed from lost sources. For example, the Yuan Xian Collection by Song Xiang is lost, but in the early Qing Dynasty, the Four Treasuries Editorial Team reconstructed the Song Yuan Xian Collection in 40 volumes from the Yongle Dadian. Complete Works of the Song Dynasty further reconstructed 31 additional lost texts by Song Xiang, bringing the total word count to over 110 million. It also includes "Biographies of Authors" and is nearly ten times larger than Complete Works of the Tang Dynasty, which contains 98 million words.