Currently stored in Japan: Research and Notes on the Rare Collected Works of the Yuan and Ming Dynasties

Author: Huang Rensheng
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Publishing Date: 2004-08-01
Features: This book is for researchers of Yuan and Ming history and literature. It records over 340 collections of works by more than 200 authors from mainland China that are now lost but preserved in Japan. The main content includes: first, describing the version characteristics, era, bookplate formats, publication records, compilers, and engravers' names of each collection; second, listing the current locations, collectors' seals and annotations over the centuries, and related issues; third, summarizing the basic content such as prefaces, postfaces, tables of contents, main body, and appendices; fourth, investigating many issues related to version and edition. For the convenience of readers, an index of author names and an index of recorded book titles are appended at the end.