Chinese Encyclopaedias of New Global Knowledge (1870-1930)

<p>Introduction.- Late Qing Encyclopaedias: Establishing a New Enterprise.- From News to New Knowledge : Newspapers as Sources for Early Modern Chinese Encyclopaedias.- The Complete Compilation of New Knowledge (1902): Its Classification Scheme and its Sources.- The Formation of Encyclopaedic Commonplaces during the Late Qing: Entries on the Newspaper.- Japanese Encyclopaedias. A Hidden Impact on Late Qing Chinese Encyclopaedias?.- From The Register of Ancients to Befriend to Brief Biographies of Notables Worldwide—A Study of Late Qing Biographical Dictionaries.- “Wenxue” in the Purview of late Qing Encyclopaedias and Textbooks—With a Focus on Huang Ren's Activities as Compiler.- Modern Chinese Encyclopaedic Dictionaries: Novel Concepts and New Terminology (1903–1911).- “New Methods to Nourish the People”: Late Qing. Encyclopaedic Writings on Political Economy.- Helping  Our People “to Jointly Hurry Along the Path to Civilization”: The Everyday Cyclopaedia, Riyong baike quanshu.- China’s New Encyclopaedia and Their Readers.- Studies on the Characteristics of Late Qing Encyclopaedia Entries.- List of encyclopaedic works studied in this volume.</p>