An invaluable reference tool originally published by Garland Publishing now available in microfiche format at a reduced price. With over 900,000 cards reproduced from the extensive holdings in Harvard University's Yenching Library prior to 1989, both collections provide primary sources for Chinese and Japanese history, language and literature, philosophy and religion, fine arts, bibliography, and general reference works. The Chinese Collection boasts references to Confucian classics, philosophy, Buddhism, Taoism, government, economics, and sociology. The Japanese Collection contains many Sinological studies and primary sources on Japan's modern and post-war political, social, and economic development. Also contains 6,500-volume Petzold Buddhist Collection, including a number of books published in the Tokugawa period and manuscripts dating from the 13th and 14th centuries.
Individual volumes are also available.
Each Vol. approx. The 39 Chin. It took 50 eminent scholars 12 years to complete this compilation of biographical sketches of over 800 Chinese, Manchurian, and Mongolian men and women of the Ch ing period. Entries are arranged alphabetically and each is supplied with an excellent bibliography. This comprehensive encyclopedia gives in a single work information only available by consulting several thousand other works.