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IV.A.3.b. Encyclopedias of LiteratureThe following, an international collaborative effort, is the most extensive encyclopedia of Chinese literature in English.
The following authoritative Chinese encyclopedia of Chinese literature is arrranged by stroke count. There is also a subject index and an alphabetical index.
The following five-volume work covers in separate sections writers and literary groups, writings, literary styles, famous lines, etc.
The following one-volume work has 5700 entries on major writers, writings, literary schools, styles, allusions, famous lines, etc. It is arranged by stroke count; there is an alphabetical index to the entry headings.
The Dictionary of Chinese Traditional Fiction covers different genres of fiction (zhiguai 志怪, yishi 佚史, chuanqi 傳奇 and other forms). It includes short title descriptions of extant vernacular and classical stories. It is divided into two sections on vernacular and classical stories. The first part listing vernacular stories is further subdivided into short and long stories. The classical stories are listed in chronological order.
For shih poetry the following is useful. Most of the work is devoted to separate essays on 1253 poems by 253 Sung authors. The bibliographies, chronology, and indexes to titles and lines make this a reference work as well.
The following is also important for shih poetry. Included are an index to the titles of the poems discussed; maps of the peregrinations of Su Shih, Huang T'ing-chien, Lu Yu, and Fan Ch'eng-ta; a list of Sung anthologies; an index to Sung literary collections; a listing of biographical sources, shih-hua, Japanese translations and modern Chinese annotated editions; a table of rhymes; and an account with charts of the bureaucratic system before and after 1082.
This encyclopedia of T'ang and Sung tz'u is somewhat typical of the many literary encyclopedias that have appeared. A description of its contents follows.
Detailed table of contents (167 p.) listing all items in each of the sixteen sections. 1. Terms (yü-tz'u 語詞): pp. 1-280. Ordered alphabetically. 2. Allusions (tien-ku典故), pp. 281-551. Ordered alphabetically. 3. Domestic research, pp 552-634, covering researchers and scholarly studies, arranged chronologically, and academic debates. 4. Foreign research, pp. 635-733, covering general studies, studies of tz'u poets, methodology, and specialists. 5. Texts (tien-chi 典籍), pp. 734-813, listing individual collections and anthologies. 6. Criticism (mei-hsueh 美學), pp. 814-851, covering critics in chronological order, works of criticism in chronological order, and critical terminology. 7. Selected tz'u criticism (tz'u-hua chi-chin 詞話集錦) , pp. 852-943. General comment on each poet and criticism of specific tz'u. 8. Anecdotes (tz'u-t'an i-shih 詞壇軼事), pp. 944-964. 9. Music (yin-yueh 音樂), pp. 965-1010. On the classifications of music, temperament, musical scores, styles and composition methods, and forms of performance. 10. Religion (tsung-chiao 宗教), pp. 1011-1034.Religious figures and terms in tz'u. 11. Customs (min-su 民俗), pp. 1035-1110. References to material culture in tz'u. 12. Official titles, pp. 1111-1136. 13. General knowledge, pp. 1137-1188. Common tz'u tunes titles. 14. T'ang and Sung tz'u poets (T'ang-Sung tz'u-jen 唐宋詞人), pp. 1189-1233. Biographies. 15. Analyses of some entire tz'u (tz'u-tso p'ing-tien 詞作評點), pp. 1234-1324. Detailed analyses of famous lines (ming-chü ching-hsi 名句精析), pp. 1325-1342. There is also a series of indexes: to prefaces and postscripts of T'ang-Sung tz'u collections, to books of essays on tz'u and tools for studying tz'u published on the mainland, and to articles in Chinese about T'ang-Sung tz'u studies. A select bibliography of foreign studies is appended. There is a stroke-count index to topic headings in sections 1-6 and 9-14. The following has essays on 700 tz'u poems by 213 authors, a chronology, bibliographies, indexes, and a full set of tz'u patterns.
Of similar scope are the following:
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