| Titre | The Compilation and Publication of the Taiping yulan and the Cefu yuangui | |
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| Auteur | Johannes L. Kurz | |
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Revue | Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Occident |
| Numéro | Hors serie no 1, 2007 Qu'était-ce qu'écrire une encyclopédie en Chine ? | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | II. Des encyclopédies impériales aux ~~Notes au fil du pinceau~~ |
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| Page | 39-76 | |
| Résumé anglais |
The essay deals with two imperially sponsored encyclopedias of the early Northern Song. On the one hand, written under different premises, they show how flexible compilers were in creating new encyclopedias. On the other hand they also display the rather different understanding that emperors had of the function of these works. The first one, the Imperial Digest of the Reign of Great Tranquility (Taiping yulan), was a more general work, dealing with all natural and supernatural phenomena in the known world, whereas the Models from the Archives (Cefu yuangui), compiled just three decades later, was a handbook for government, and thus limited to administrative matters. Both encyclopedias reflect nevertheless the control the two emperors personally involved in the compilation of the two works had over their scholar-officials and the interest they had in recreating literary and scholarly traditions that had suffered in the chaotic period prior to the founding of the Song in 960. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/oroc_0754-5010_2007_hos_1_1_1069 |
