Yuhai

Chinese encyclopaedia

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history of encyclopaedias

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    In encyclopaedia: China

    …of all Chinese encyclopaedias, the Yuhai (“Sea of Jade”), was compiled about 1267 by the renowned Song scholar Wang Yinglin (1223–92) and was reprinted in 240 volumes in 1738.

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