Thesis
The streams of knowledge: Organising the Siku Quanshu 四庫全書
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This thesis is about the order of knowledge in the Siku Quanshu, the Complete Writings of the Four Repositories, the largest ‘encyclopaedic’ compilation of texts in pre-modern China. While contemporary scholarship has concentrated on what was included in the compilation, the question of how it was organised remains largely unexplored. Divided in five chapters, this thesis explores the understanding of knowledge and its organisation in the Qianlong era (1736–1796 CE). In the Introduction, I in...
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Bibliographic Details
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
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- Language:
- Chinese and English
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- Deposit date:
- 2020-09-04
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- Copyright holder:
- Gandolfo, S
- Copyright date:
- 2020
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