Little Encyclopedia of China

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Publish Date: 1999-01-01
Features: China's first practical concise comprehensive encyclopedia. It features comprehensive content, innovative form, exquisite printing, and exceptional value. An encyclopedia is a type of tool book that systematically introduces scientific and cultural knowledge. China has had encyclopedias for over 2,000 years, with the Four Treasuries being the largest and most complete ancient encyclopedia in China, still renowned today. A great encyclopedia reflects the spirit of its time and holds significance in inspiring, guiding, and directing human social activities and production. It gathers and disseminates human-created scientific and cultural knowledge to advance historical progress. Famous for its reputation is the Encyclopédie compiled by the French philosopher Denis Diderot in collaboration with influential thinkers such as Rousseau, Voltaire, and Holbach. It holds epoch-making significance and was a pioneer of Enlightenment thought, laying the intellectual foundation for the stormy French Revolution. After the Cultural Revolution, the Great Encyclopedia of China was jointly compiled by 20,000 renowned experts and scholars in 74 volumes, spanning 15 years. It reflects the achievements of world science and technology and the development of social thought and culture, as well as the research results of Chinese academia, making significant contributions to the accumulation and dissemination of knowledge and culture in China. Covering fields such as philosophy, history, sociology, cultural education, natural sciences, engineering technology, and military science, it is divided into 20 volumes and 10 sections, with over 10 million words in total.