Wanyou Wenku (Chinese: 萬有文庫/万有文库, literally ''the encyclopaedic library'') is an extensive collectanea first published by the
Commercial Press
The Commercial Press () is the first modern publishing organisation in China.
History
In 1897, 26-year-old Xia Ruifang and three of his friends (including the Bao brothers Bao Xian'en and Bao Xianchang) founded The Commercial Press in Shang ...
at
Shanghai
Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flow ...
in 1929. The collection, edited by
Wang Yun-wu
Wang Yun-wu (; ; July 9, 1888 – August 14, 1979)http://m.blog.sina.com.tw/87951/article.php?pbgid=87951&entryid=644078 was an influential Chinese publisher, politician scholar of history and political science; He also invented the ''Shih Chi ...
, comprises 1,710 titles, totalling 4,000 volumes; among these, the first set comprises 1,010 books with a total of 2,000 volumes, and the second set composed of 700 titles in another 2,000 volumes. As noted by Wang, the purpose of this collection is to make important texts, both traditional and modern, available for public perusal at an affordable price.
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Commercial Press
Chinese encyclopedias