Overview
- Pioneering studies on Chinese encyclopedias of modern knowledge
- Investigates hardly known encyclopedias
- Showcases that the encyclopedias open a unique window onto the migration and ordering systems of knowledge across cultural and linguistic borders
Part of the book series: Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context (TRANSCULT)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This is a set of pioneering studies on Chinese encyclopaedias of modern knowledge (1870-1930). At a transitional time when modern knowledge was sought after yet few modern schools were available, these works were crucial sources of information for an entire generation.
This volume investigates many of these encyclopaedias, which were never reprinted and are hardly known even to specialists, for the first time. The contributors to this collection all specialize in the period in question and have worked together for a number of years. The resulting studies show that these encyclopaedias open a unique window onto the migration and ordering systems of knowledge across cultural and linguistic borders.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Chinese Encyclopaedias of New Global Knowledge (1870-1930)
Book Subtitle: Changing Ways of Thought
Editors: Milena Doleželová-Velingerová, Rudolf G Wagner
Series Title: Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35916-3
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-35915-6Published: 16 August 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-35916-3Published: 04 August 2013
Series ISSN: 2191-656X
Series E-ISSN: 2191-6578
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 472
Number of Illustrations: 43 b/w illustrations
Topics: Regional and Cultural Studies, Cultural Heritage, Asian Languages