Chinese Encyclopaedias of New Global Knowledge (1870-1930) [electronic resource] : Changing Ways of Thought / edited by Milena Doleželová-Velingerová, Rudolf G Wagner.

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.