Encyclopaedia Sinica
Encyclopaedia Sinica is a comprehensive English-language reference work on China , written by the British missionary Samuel Couling , which was published in 1917. It is still valuable today due to the view of China shown there at the beginning of the 20th century. The name is an analogy to the Encyclopaedia Britannica .
In international parlance, the “Encyclopaedia Sinica” is also the name of the “ Great Chinese Encyclopedia ” ( Zhongguo da baike quanshu ), which appeared between 1980 and 1993 in 73 volumes in Chinese .
literature
- Samuel Couling: The Encyclopaedia Sinica , London, Oxford University Press / Shanghai, Kelly and Walsh 1917. VIII + 633 pp. (Reprints: New York, Literatur House 1964 / Hong Kong [inter alia]: Oxford University Press 1983, ISBN 0-19 -581595-5 )
- Reviews:
- Arthur Waley , ZL Yih, Edward Denison Ross , in: Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies 1, 1918, pp. 142–146
- BL, in: American Anthropologist, New Series 21, 1919, p. 89