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17th-century Chinese encyclopedia Tushu Bian documented worldviews

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A monumental 127-volume Chinese encyclopedia, the Tushu Bian or Compendium of Illustrations and Texts, was compiled by scholar Zhang Huang and published in 1613. This vast work aimed to visually summarize Chinese culture and knowledge of heaven, Earth, and humanity, drawing from over 200 printed sources. Due to its immense scale, it was not printed until after Zhang Huang's death, with information designer Paul Kahn analyzing its significance in his book, "Mapping Knowledge Across Time: Seven Books That Visualised the World." AI

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    Ming dynasty work shows how Chinese understood the world in the 1600s

    Long before the digital age, a Ming dynasty scholar made it his mission to map human knowledge from a Chinese perspective. The result was an encyclopaedia spanning 127 volumes known as the Tushu Bian, or Compendium of Illustrations and Texts. The work – published in 1613 – was co…

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