Your argument makes no sense to me Youre wrong just what did you meant by a few pages some of the juan in Taiping Guangji dont span even over a page volume suggests something much bigger than these juan The volumes shown in your dictionary definitions that they are bound in the book  Yes some of the juan are less than a page which means they should not be called volumes because volume in English suggests a single bound book In any case when I left the word volume in as a compromise and put juan in parentheses for those who do know Chinese many dont means some do you left it out As for novels what is your reference for claiming that the sources were novels  As for Many of them were considered factual to HanSong readers see the reference  Other matters  Taiping guangji lowercase g is standard usage  and consists of the and is poor English style