- Sancai Tuhui
The "Sancai Tuhui" (三才圖會), compiled by
Shanghai natives Wang Qi (王圻) and Wang Siyi (王思義), is aChinese encyclopedia (known at that time as "leishu") completed in1607 and published in1609 during theMing dynasty , featuring illustrations of subjects in the three worlds of heaven, earth, and humanity. The title of this encyclopedia has been variously translated into English as “Illustrations of the Three Powers” [http://ibs001.colo.firstnet.net.uk/britishlibrary/controller/subjectidsearch?id=8190&idx=1&start=4] , “Collected Illustrations of the Three Realms”, “Pictorial Compendium of the Three Powers”, and others; in the original title, “Sancai” refers to the three realms of “heaven, earth, and man”, and “Tuhui” literally means “collection of illustrations”.This encyclopedia is organized into 106 chapters in 14 categories (
astronomy ,geography , biographies,history ,biology , and such), with text and illustrations for the articles. Reproductions of this encyclopedia are still in print inChina .While it contains some inaccurate or mythological articles (for example, the articles on the
horseshoe crab and the crane), it also distinguished itself from the common “everyday encyclopedias” ("riyong leishu") at that time by being accurate in some other articles (for example, accurate depictions of the Japanese and Korean people’s clothing, and a very accurateworld map (theShanhai Yudi Quantu ) probably copied from Western sources: for example the American continent is labelled phonetically亞墨利加 , "A-Me-Ri-Ca").ee also
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Song Yingxing References
*zh icon http://www.ncl.edu.tw/rarebook/oldcol.htm
*zh icon http://www.lib.ntu.edu.tw/dbs/dbs/ref/BOOKchin.htm
*zh icon http://www.xhlib.net/xinshu02.htm (World Maps in the Ming Dynasty from the Shanghai Xuhui District Library (This page is a “what’s new” page and can expire any time)
*en icon http://www.ihp.sinica.edu.tw/~ihpcamp/pdf/92year/wang-cheng-hua-2.pdf - Wang, Cheng-hua. PDFlink| [http://www.ihp.sinica.edu.tw/~ihpcamp/pdf/92year/wang-cheng-hua-2.pdf “Art and Daily Life: Knowledge and Social Space in Late-Ming "Riyong Leishu"”] |207 KiB , pp. 8–9.
*zh icon http://horseshoecrab.sinica.edu.tw/15th.htm
*zh icon http://www.fhk.gov.tw/fhkbook/hist/hist.asp-sq_no=45.htm
*en icon http://www.rice.edu//fondren/erc/projects/jingban/ (A map from the Chinese encyclopedia)ee also
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Wakan Sansai Zue - The Japanese version of the Encyclopedia
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