Zhongguo renming da cidian

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The Zhongguo renming da cidian ( Chinese  中国 人名 大 词典  - "Great Chinese dictionary of persons") is a Chinese biographical dictionary.

There is a volume with historical personalities up to 1949 with 14,000 entries and a volume with contemporary personalities with approx. 18,000 entries. A third volume contains 2,185 leaders from the party, government and military.

The work must not be confused with the older work with 40,000 entries from the time of the Republic (Shanghai 1921), which is transcribed the same way but is spelled differently in Chinese (see web links).

Bibliographical information

  • Zhongguo renming da cidian (Lishi renwu juan) [Great Chinese dictionary of persons. Volume: Historical Personalities]; Shanghai: Shanghai cishu chubanshe, 1990; ISBN 7532600335
  • Zhongguo renming da cidian (Dangdai renwu juan) [Great Chinese dictionary of persons. Volume: Contemporary Personalities]; Shanghai: Shanghai cishu chubanshe, 1992; ISBN 7532602079
  • Zhongguo renming da cidian (Xianren dang-zheng-jun lingdao renwu juan) [Great Chinese dictionary of persons. Volume: Leaders from party, government and military]; Shanghai: Shanghai cishu chubanshe, 1989; ISBN 7532601080