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Should it be mentioned that, according to Zhang Longxi- Borges also mentioned the Yongle Dadian in one of his stories ("The Forking Paths")? Have yet to verify it to provide proper referencing, but I thought it might be of interest. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.206.196.109 ( talk) 22:26, 16 March 2016 (UTC)
During Mongol occupation of China, Yuan empire developed kind of encyclopedia called Yuan Empirial Book (Mongolian: Yuan Gurnii Sudar) isnt Yongle actually that encyclopedia? And the Yuan Empirial Book has over 100 volumes. 71.191.21.18 ( talk) 03:51, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
Does anyone know the ratio of content in the Yongle Encyclopedia compared to Wikipedia?
Any sources for either 1407 or 1408? -- Jeandré, 2007-01-28 t13:58z
Changed the link to the image of one page of the encyclopedia as the previous linked page is no longer online.,2007-11-24
Do we have an article on "tomb complex of Yongling"? Yongling doesn't link. RJFJR ( talk) 19:45, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
It doesn't sound right, but even if it's true, it's a bit vague, without any citation so I banged a citation needed onto it
There is a factual discrepancy in the English and the Chinese version of this article. The English version claims there be 50M Chinese characters, the Chinese version of this article claims there be 370M. I Google searched "yongle dadian", many other sources on the Internet tend to show 370M. 64.229.196.34 ( talk) 00:36, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
Any idea what the English-language equivalent number of words would be? Is there a rough conversion factor, like 1.5 Chinese characters is (on average) equivalent to 1 English word? —DIV ( 1.129.104.2 ( talk) 01:24, 21 April 2019 (UTC))
The factor seems to be around 1.4 to 1.7, although that would be based on modern Chinese.
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So this would make 370 million Chinese characters equivalent to about 240 million English words.
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Obviously this was a huge encyclopaedia — indeed the biggest ever. But it might help to compare it to:
Obviously the latter is printed rather than hand-written, so I think comparison on the basis of (equivalent) words would be fairest. Contrast could also be made on pages, volumes, number of topic entries (perhaps not known for this), etc.. —DIV ( 1.129.104.2 ( talk) 01:41, 21 April 2019 (UTC))
The Encyclopædia Brittanica article states: "Over 70 years, the size of the Britannica has remained steady, with about 40 million words on half a million topics." [emphasis added]. Thus the Yongle Encyclopedia is around six times bigger by (equivalent) word count. —DIV ( 1.129.104.2 ( talk) 01:47, 21 April 2019 (UTC))
I have reinstated " — the equivalent of about a quarter of a [[billion]] English words (around six times as many as the ''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]'').", which was removed by User:Atlan without justification. —DIV ( 1.129.105.93 ( talk) 06:36, 11 July 2019 (UTC))
How was it organised or indexed - by subject hierarchy or 'alphabetical' ? - Rod57 ( talk) 03:44, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
It sounds like there was no new content and it was 'only' a collation of copies of existing documents. How much of what survives is not otherwise known ? - Rod57 ( talk) 03:44, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
Can anyone add more on the locations and contents of the surviving books eg the 41 in the US LOC and the 51 somewhere in the UK ? - Rod57 ( talk) 04:18, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
Is there an online version of the Yongle Encyclopedia. I tried to find one to add as an external link, but I couldn't find one. Is there one and if so where is it. Emmette Hernandez Coleman ( talk) 03:41, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
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you should not put encyclopedia after the word dadian because the word dadian means "great encyclopedia" some body chage the caption in the clip art |
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Any credible source to suggest that the encyclopedia was not printed for the public because the Ming had "run out of funds"?
The Ming was in the middle of a golden age (1402-1424) and was able to continue other projects, including the expedition to South China sea and Indian ocean and expansion to the western and north east territories. It is unbelievable that "run out of funds" can be the real reason for not doing anything at that time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yihuaeyang ( talk • contribs) 16:47, 4 June 2017 (UTC)
Minor point: A lot of sources ( see) capitalize "Yongle" but not "dadian". Thoughts?-- Gen. Quon [Talk] 13:31, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
I am not sure this claim is true -- the Siku Quanshu is usually quoted as being longer than the Yongle encyclopedia -- https://historyofinformation.com/detail.php?entryid=2762 137.205.72.7 ( talk) 13:35, 26 October 2023 (UTC)