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*''Chinese'': 四庫全書 ''(Sìkù Quánshū)''
*''Chinese'': 四庫全書 ''(Sìkù Quánshū)''
The ''Sìkù quánshū'' is a collection of Chinese texts compiled by some 4000 scholars at the order of the [[Qianlong Emperor]] in [[1772]] to [[1781]]. It is the largest collection of Chinese texts ever assembled historically.
The ''Sìkù quánshū'' is a collection of Chinese texts compiled by some 4000 scholars at the order of the [[Qianlong Emperor]] in [[1772]] to [[1781]]. It is the largest collection of Chinese texts ever assembled historically, containing some 3400 texts in 80,000 volumes, collected into 36,000 fascicles.
The collection is organized into four categories: [[Confucianism]], history, philosophy and natural philosophy, and literature.
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